A newly auctioned photograph shows a third piece of ice never seen before - and is raising new doubts about the real culprit in the disaster that sank the famous Titanic.

The old capture by John Snow Jr (no, not the one from Game of Thrones, but a former undertaker from Nova Scotia) shows a large block of ice, propped up in the sea, with the caption wrongly labeled "Titantic". It was taken just two days after the giant vessel's fateful encounter with the alleged iceberg.

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On April 16, 1912, Snow was on the C.S. MacKay-Bennett to help recover the victims of the most famous shipwreck of all time. According to Popular Mechanics, he recovered more than 300 bodies from the water.

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"No one can say for sure" that the iceberg that appears in the recently revealed photograph was the one that sank the Titanic, auctioneer Andrew Aldridge told the Daily Mail. However, it is known that the MacKay-Bennett was one of the first to get close to the wreckage and that "the mortician on board decided to take a photograph of this iceberg", he says.

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"He must have had his reasons for taking a picture of this iceberg," said Aldridge: "He captioned it 'Titantic' and mounted it for posterity."

The new photograph, which belonged to the family of the undertaker Snow until it was bought by a collector in the 1990s, will be auctioned on April 27 and is expected to cost between 5,000 and 8,500 dollars.

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Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst and explorer who has studied the wreck for several years, says, according to the Mirror, that a new 3D scan could "answer the basic questions" about the wreck, revealing new clues about the tragedy that sank the most luxurious ship of its time.

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Based on the new information triggered by the images, Stephenson believes that the famous Titanic may not have hit an iceberg, as has been reported for the last 111 years.

"We really don't understand the nature of the collision with the iceberg. We don't even know if she [Titanic] hit the starboard side, as all the movies show - she could have run aground on the iceberg," he says.

"There's more and more evidence that the Titanic didn't hit the iceberg, as all the movies show," he says, stressing that, in fact, the famous ship "may actually have run aground on the submerged ice shelf."

Throughout history, the sinking of the Titanic has given rise to multiple conspiracy theories.