sink titanic

How cold the titanic sink?

I mean it was considerd unsinkable!!!

The Titanic is a perfect example of man’s tendency to think he’s invincible and can conquer anything, even Mother Nature. At the time the Titanic was built, the builders thought that the ship was so technically advanced – and so big! – that it was virtually unsinkable. Events proved them wrong in a big way.

The reasons the ship sank are many….the obvious one is that it struck an iceberg which punched a hole in it, and it sank. But it’s more complicated than that.

The builders used inferior quality steel, and when exposed to the frigid waters of the North Atlantic, the steel became very brittle. Rather than bend under the impact as they should have done, when the ship struck the iceberg the plates simply snapped.

Another reason is that the ship was constructed with rivets instead of welded steel plates. Every rivet hole is a structural weak point, as any steel worker or construction worker will tell you. Combine this with the cold and the inferior steel, and what you’ve got is a ship that will rip apart at the rivet line under impact, which is just what the Titanic did.

When the ship struck the iceberg, it didn’t sustain a single hole as many people think; rather, the berg ripped a long gash down the side of the ship, compromising many more “watertight” compartments than the builders ever thought would be possible. On top of that, the watertight compartments did not run the entire height of the ship; rather, they only went up from the keel to about three or four decks. As the watertight compartments filled up, the water overflowed into the rest of the “non-watertight” ship much as was explained previously using the example of an ice cube tray. That’s exactly how the ship filled up – on compartment overflowing into another.

Combine all of that with the fact that the ship was running at full speed – 24 knots – through a known and reported iceberg field, and that the ship was carrying enough lifeboats for only 900 people – less than half of the ship’s capacity for passengers – and what you have is the greatest maritime disaster in history.

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