How The Titanic Sank From The Iceberg?

Question

Does any 1 know how the Titanic sunk from the iceberg beside me!?

Answer 1

Are you saying that you already know the answer or are you asking how it happened?

In case it's the latter...

The Titanic noticed the iceberg to late to avoid it. However, when they attempted to, the iceberg created a gash along the side of the ship which allowed water to flood several areas of the ship at once, causing it to sink as quickly as it did.

Answer 2

The iceberg was certainly not tracked. There were not effective "tracking devices" in existence then, and the iceberg drifted away before rescue ships arrived. This means that there was never any effective means of determining which iceberg it was. Given the approximate location of the Titanic, the iceberg would have been near the confluence of the south-drifting Labrador Current and the north-east bound Gulf Stream. Assuming that it became caught in the Gulf Stream current, the surrounding water would have been a few degrees warmer, hastening the melting process. As it drifted northeast, the iceberg would have eventually come to the split in the Gulf Stream and then flowed either north into the Arctic Ocean or south into a Canary Island current. If it were carried south by the Canary Island current, it would melt quite soon. (Icebergs along the English coast or south are unheard of.) If it continued north, it might have been caught eventually in the east Greenland current and been carried around the North Atlantic again. However, through all of this, the iceberg would have been losing ice. When it collided with the Titanic, the iceberg was already rather far south. If it somehow drifted back into a truly Arctic current, it might have resisted final melting for many years, but scientific studies put the effective outer life of an iceberg at about fifty years. If it continued to drift into warmer waters, it would have been gone in a few months. So there is no realistic possibility that the iceberg on which the Titanic sank is still in existence.

Answer 3

The crew saw the iceburg to late and as they tried to turn the ship the part of the iceburg that was under water sliced the side like a razor. The ship was not designed for a slice open like this. The area it had hit had been built to contain .

taken from http://www.historyonthenet.com/Titanic/blame.htm

"When the ship hit the iceberg, the force of the impact caused the heads of the rivets to break and the sections of the Titanic to come apart. If good quality iron rivets had been used the sections may have stayed together and the ship may not have sunk. The belief that the ship was unsinkable was, in part, due to the fact that the Titanic had sixteen watertight compartments. However, the compartments did not reach as high as they should have done. The White Star Line did not want them to go all the way up because this would have reduced living space in first class. If Mr Andrews, the ship's architect, had insisted on making them the correct height then maybe the Titanic would not have sunk. "

Hope this helps :)

Answer 4

According to recent studies, the iceberg cut a very thin gash along the side of the ship below the water line and the rivets holding the steel plates together failed. These two things allowed enough water into the ship to fill the first "watertight" compartment (if I remember correctly, they only went up to E Deck). As the bow sank, water spilled over the bulkhead to the next "watertight" compartment filling it and causing it to spill into the next one. This continued until 5 of the "watertight" compartments were filled, causing the ship to sink bow first (the ship could have survived with 4 compartments flooded). Once the ship was tipped bow down, the strain on the weight on the beams along the length of the ship was too great, which caused the ship to eventually break in half.

Answer 5

The iceberg did not 'cut a gash' in the hull. It just popped out a line of rivets. Marine archaeology has confirmed this.
There is one interesting point, however. The ship was built at Harland and Wolff's shipyard in Belfast at a time of great political tension. The shipyard workers were red-hot Unionists, while the owners, the White Cross Line, had connectionw with Irish nationalists. There are stories that some of the riveting workers may have skimped the job ...

Answer 6

I think the iceberg split open the side ...then the water filled the titanic..then it started to sink from the rear...then when the titanic was vertical the middle snapped.

Answer 7

Ship hits an iceberg, tears into two and the water goes into the two parts and sinks them down. See the movie titanic for a visual effect.

Answer 8

yes the iceberg ripped a gash across all one side and let the water in

Answer 9

Yes. I know how it sank too. Sea water flooded the ship.

Answer 10

yeah but did you know if the titanic was to hit the ice burg head on it would have never sank?