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2007-03-08 12:37:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The ship was designed with several compartments that,when the watertight doors were closed, were supposed to keep the water from spreading to other compartments and therefore, keep the ship from sinking. Supposedly 5 compartments could flood without danger of Titanic sinking. Unfortunately, the walls of these compartments did not reach to the upper decks of the ship, allowing water that entered to flow over the tops of the compartment walls and flood the next compartment. This, combined with the fact that this design was contingent on the ship striking something head-on,and not sustaining a gash along the length of the side of the ship, and plain old human arrogance sank the "unsinkable" Titanic.
2007-03-08 13:03:33 · answer #1 · answered by rick m 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Titanic Unsinkable
2016-10-05 09:59:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone THOUGHT the Titanic was unsinkable. It was the biggest and grandest ship of its time.
Mostly, people were arrogant. They felt that anything that could possibly take out such a huge ship would be seen in time, and thus would be avoided.
Obviously, they were gravely mistaken. It's the classic David vs. Goliath story. Just when they think the giant is unstopable, it's taken down by a rock.
2007-03-08 12:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because they thought it was. Not only because it was huge, but also because it had a new security technology that was revolutionary at the time:
The ship had thick double walls with chambers between them. The idea was that if the outer wall was damaged, the water would flow into the chamber between the first and second wall, and be pumped out by emergency pumps, so the ship wouldn't think.
However, the iceberg ripped open the entire side of the ship. It was more than the pumps could handle. So the walls, and then the whole ship, started running full of water, the ship started leaning more and more, and... we all know what happened.
2007-03-08 12:42:24 · answer #4 · answered by Ms. S 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No one ever claimed that the Titanic was "unsinkable". The quote, "practically unsinkable" was taken out of context. In 1911, Shipbuilder magazine published an article describing the construction of the Titanic. The article stated that when the watertight doors were closed, the ship would be "practically unsinkable".
2007-03-08 12:47:45 · answer #5 · answered by Jocelyn 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The White Star Line NEVER made that claim! They said the ship was VIRTUALLY unsinkable, and any claim to the contrary was unsubstantiated. Jack and Rose never existed - they were invented solely for the movie. Moreover, the Titanic was NOT the worst disaster in history, in terms of loss of life. In 1945, the German liner Wilhelm Gustloff left Gdynia, Poland, headed for Germany loaded with refugees. Shortly after departing, she was torpedoed by the Soviet submarine S-13. As many as 10,000 lives were lost in that disaster - mostly women, children, elderly refugees and wounded soldiers from the Eastern Front.
2016-03-19 01:45:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2015-08-15 00:12:27 · answer #7 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was simply a case where man thought that he could overpower mother nature. The Titanic was a huge ship, built to withstand whatever mother nature could throw at her, at least according to the ships desingers. The underwater compartments of the ship could be sealed as to stop flooding if punctures of the hull took place. Mother nature is all powerful, and one iceberg sliced the ship open below the waterline and the damage was too great even for human engineering to overcome.
2007-03-08 12:44:06 · answer #8 · answered by lwjksu89 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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read a real history book and you will find it was NEVER said it was unsinkable the movie was just a story about a historical event you think it was sad read about what happen to the sailors on the USS Indianapolis that was a horible what those men went through
2016-04-03 11:58:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it was designed with a honeycombed lower deck with doors that would shut if the ship began to take on water and prevent the water from spreading throughout the ship. Theoretically, even if several of these chambers were filled with water, the ship wouldn't sink
2007-03-08 12:45:28 · answer #10 · answered by Bigfoot 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋