Does RMS Titanic has chance to survival

[Pawelk198604]

I wonder why Titanic sank, watertight bulkheads and it was cutting edge of technology of it's time, It was "unsinkable"

[Nibb31]

You wonder? It's been explained for decades.

The Titanic had compartments separated by "watertight" walls, but those compartments didn't have watertight ceilings. As several compartments filled, the water overflowed into the next compartments.

[Ben Kerman]

The Titanic was never said to be unsinkable by the manufacturers, they only said it was nearly unsinkable.

But really, no ship can survive a several meters long piece of hull being ripped away under the sea level.

[tek_604]

Sinking of the RMS Titanic

And Nat Geo did a nice docu from James Cameron, which explained why the ship broke up and so on. The bulkheads were not watertight, the water bypassed them as the ship flooded (someone will probably correct me on this, but that was my basic understanding).

[WhiteWeasel]

Wasn't it partially due to the metal they used for it being brittle or of poor quality?

[Grove]

It was a cold day, I think the water temperature was only 2 °C, the rivets which connected the steel plates weren't treated for the cold conditions, they broke apart and the ship sank, and the bulkhead thing of course.

[dharak1]

Some historians and other people say if they hit it head on they had a better chance of survival. I can't remember where I heard it though.

[Echostatic]

I heard that too, though there would have still been a large loss of life from many of the crew sleeping in the front of the ship.

Did they ever figure out the controversy of the ship lifting up to such a large angle before splitting in half? Eyewitnesses said the stern of the ship lifted high in the air before tearing in half, but the researchers said that should not have been possible last I heard.

[magnemoe]

Sinking of the RMS Titanic

And Nat Geo did a nice docu from James Cameron, which explained why the ship broke up and so on. The bulkheads were not watertight, the water bypassed them as the ship flooded (someone will probably correct me on this, but that was my basic understanding).

The bulkheads was watertight up to an some height, this is common also on modern passenger ships, hard to build otherwise.

Any ship is very vulnerable to glancing hits who create long rifts in the hull. Yes titanic had weak rivets who made this issue worse.

Some historians and other people say if they hit it head on they had a better chance of survival. I can't remember where I heard it though.

Sound plausible, it would not taken out so many bulkheads so the ship would not have sunken.

[SuperWeegee4000]

I saw a documentary on this last night, comparing the Titanic to the Costa Concordia. Titanic's hull was held together by rivets that were inevitably weaker, and when the iceberg hit, it ripped away rivets, turning the hull plating into construction paper. Modern ships aren't riveted, but rather welded, and some feature double hulls extending above the waterline. Still, a ship cannot survive hitting something solid and mostly immovable, even plated with the toughest alloys of today.

Additionally, the iceberg (and in the case of the Concordia, the rocky shoreline) scraped across the hull, rather than hitting it head on. More tanks ruptured, and both ships had no chance. Now somebody should make a Costa Concordia sprite in the parameters of this: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinking-simulator

[Nuke]

Wasn't it partially due to the metal they used for it being brittle or of poor quality?

apparently the titanic got its metal from the same foundry as hms hood. of course the titanic didnt need to be shot at by nazis to sink.

[The Jedi Master]

Sound plausible, it would not taken out so many bulkheads so the ship would not have sunken.

The problem? You are hitting a large object head-on at high speed, and EVEN IF YOU SURVIVE IMPACT, your not getting out. The Titanic was not an ice cutter, as some people seem to believe.

[Nuke]

i think the idea is you damage the forward compartment or two and they flood, but the rest of the ship remains intact. there have been head on collisions between ships where both ships managed to crawl their way to the nearest dry dock on their own power. a glancing blow on the other hand spread the damage out to enough compartments to flood the whole ship. but think about it, its your watch, you dont want to break your boss's new ship, so you try to evade (ignoring the fact that it was a new ship with a new crew who are unfamiliar with its performance), and excrement hits the ventilation apparatus.

[Echostatic]

Now somebody should make a Costa Concordia sprite in the parameters of this: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinking-simulator

Hey, I recognize the VAB music in the video on that page!