A professor at downtown Brooklyns City Tech is trying to vindicate survivors of the Titanic whose testimony was discredited after its sinking a century ago Fifteen eyewitnesses told investigators the mighty ship broke in two before its death plunge into the icy North Atlantic Politicians in the United States and Great Britain who led disaster probes did not believe them and sided with the Titanics highestranking surviving officer who said it slid into the sea in one piece Its like seeing someone in trouble and being able to help New York City College of Technology Prof Rich Woytowich 61 said about his hightech defense of the nowdead witnesses