Why did Titanic sink?

Answer 1

the captain got sick of that damn celine dion song

Answer 2

The Titanic was built as compartments, and it was designed to withstand flooding of one compartment. At that time, it was called 'unsinkable' since earlier ships would sink if they had a hole in the hull.
When it hit the iceberg, the iceberg ripped open 2 compartments which flooded more than what the Titanic could withstand. Hence, the ship first tilted forward completely (the first 2 compartments were flooded) and then sank, due to that weight.
Since then, ships are designed to float with about as much as 40% of the body flooded, and modern day naval architecture has greatly improved, learning from this disaster!

Answer 3

There are many reasons why the Titanic sank. The lookouts in the crow's nest had no binoculars with them at the time of the collision. Without them, they cannot spot the iceberg in time. Officers of the Titanic never recieved all of the iceberg warnings. If they have, they would most likely reduced her speed. Titanic's watertight compartments were not capped off which allowed the water to spill into the next compartment. If the compartments were caped off, it would most likely would have given the ship more time to stay afloat.

Answer 4

Titanic

Titanic may refer to:

RMS Titanic, the British ocean liner that sank in 1912
Films titled Titanic, based upon the sinking:
Titanic (1943 film), a German film directed by Terrence Torsello and Herbert Selpin
Titanic (1953 film), directed by Jean Negulesco
S.O.S. Titanic, a 1979 television movie
Titanic (TV miniseries), a 1996 television miniseries
Titanic (1997 film), a blockbuster film directed by James Cameron and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
Titanic (musical), a musical about the sinking that ran on Broadway from 1998 to 2000
Titanic (play), an absurd play written by Christopher Durang, first staged in 1974
, a 1996 computer game that takes place on the Titanic
"The Titanic" (song), a folk song about the Titanic
"Dance Band on the Titanic", a funky upbeat Harry Chapin song with a driving bass line, written from the perspective of a front man in the Titanic dance band: "Dance band on the Titanic / Singing Nearer my God to Thee / The iceberg’s on the starboard bow / Won't you dance with me?"

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• RMS Titanic

RMS Titanic was the second of a trio of superliners intended to dominate the transatlantic travel business. Read this book on Google PrintHer older sister was RMS Olympic. After Titanic's sinking, her younger sister HMHS Britannic (originally RMS Gigantic) was built. Owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, United Kingdom, Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of her launching. During Titanic's maiden voyage (from Southampton to New York), she struck an iceberg at 11:40 PM (ship's time) on Sunday evening April 14, 1912, and sank two hours and forty minutes later at 2:20 AM Monday morning.

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Answer 5

A suitcases discovered from TITANIC, and the address written in Arabic! The luggage owner was an Algerian! Must be Al Qaida was related with TITANIC Sink!

Answer 6

the titanic sank because of the captains lack of thinkin he thought theyre wouldnt be any problems he avoided thinking sumthing could happened and he even added speed, i was a clear night and now waves.When there are no waves u cant see the ice bergs because the waves would hit against the ice berg making it visible, and they didnt even have binoculars the ice berg hit very hard and the bottom was tremendeously damaged so it took like and hour to flood the whole thing, since it started from the front the water built in the front and caused the ship to rise then broke in half raised bak up and the pressure pulled it straight in.

Answer 7

The Titanic was designed to be unsinkable. An ice berg caused a gash in its hull, through five water-tight compartments. It started sinking bow first, snapped in half, and then descended vertically into the sea.

Basically the water-tight compartments couldn't contain the flooding and water filled the ship, dragging it down.

Answer 8

To many of fat people lol jk

No because the captian said go faster to try to brake a record and prove that the titanic was fast when they were in this one part of the pacific ocean with ice bergs forming and they hit an ice berge and it made a hole in the ship so they started to sink....

Answer 9

because the metal it was consructed from (though it was supposed to be the strongest at the time) was too brittle. they gave it all hardness but no elastisty which is flexibility. which is how much something can bend before it breaks. so when it hit the ice burg the reason why it sank so fast was because the metal just snapped. causing massive damage to the ship. also the system they put in the ship so that if something did happen it would sink much slower. well most of it was destroyed(because of the crappy metal) and the part that wasnt was faulty

Answer 10

Hull was punctured by ice berg, The inner hull cells that were to stop ship from flooding did not have top covers so were not able to be sealed. With so many cells punctured ship sank so low in water and water over flowed cells, so flooding whole of ship. Ship sinks.There are many reasons as to why the ship hit the ice in the first place, but the lack of tops on the cells was the physical reason the ship sank

Answer 11

The Titanic wasn't suppose to sink...it was call the unsinkable...but due to the inpact it took when it hit the ice berg casue the "unsinkable" ship to sink...the unsinkable ship experienced a hull failure at the surface and broke into pieces before it went down...due to the inpact of the ice berg.