watertight doors

What do u think if they should made the hull wider so they can put 2 watertight doors side by side?

We know that the watertight doors were electronically controlled from the bridge. Were they closed before or after the collision? This admitted movie-viewer has seen one version where they were closed immediately after the "Iceberg, right ahead" warning, and one where they were closed after...

Can anyone say with absolute certainty where the switch to close the watertight doors was located? I have found a number of sources that say it was in the wheelhouse. Others indicate that the switch was on the bridge. For example, Hitchens states in the British hearing that Murdoch...

In that book in which i posted on the Images thread, there was also an interesting piece that claimed Thomas Andrews conducted a test of the watertight doors complete with ringing bells while the ship was making its hour plus crossing across the English Channel. This was done so that Andrews...

Hi there, I was looking to some original Titanic deckplans and again I saw something what is still strange to me. There are two watertight doors in the galley area. They are exactly above the engine casing of E deck in the area called "first-second class galley". These two doors could lock...