Thanks For Replying Mr. Kent,
there's also this one question that I also wanted to ask there is a change in the breakup angle from the book and the animation that is being showed on YouTube. In The Book it shows an angle of about 26-30 which is different from what is shown in YouTube or the Animation rather, which is a 19-23 degree angle which seemed like it, any reason to as to why it is different from the book? will there be any changes made? or a revised version of the book with the new research? Break-up seems different too that it shows the "Forward Tower" or the area where the 3rd funnel stands is separate to the stern already.
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On A Sea of Glass: The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic; Tad Fitch, J Kent Layton, Bill Wormstedt et.al)
-Kiefer
Hi Kiefer! How're you?
If the Deckhouse debris supposedly encompasses the
A-Deck pantry, it couldn't have split at the surface-Joughin was in there at the Breakup.
(BOT Inquiry):
6039. Then, after having thrown these deck chairs overboard, did you go up to the boat deck again?
- I went to the deck pantry.
6040. Tell us what happened?
- I went to the deck pantry, and while I was in there I thought I would take a drink of water, and while I was getting the drink of water I heard a kind of a crash as if something had buckled, as if part of the ship had buckled, and then I heard a rush overhead.
6041. Do you mean a rush of people?
- Yes, a rush of people overhead on the deck.
6042. Is the deck pantry on A deck?
- Yes.
6043. So that the deck above would be the boat deck?
- Yes, I could hear it.
6044. You could hear it?
- Yes.
The ship, in my opinion, likely had a higher angle between 26-29 degrees. Olaus Abelseth testified in the US Inquiry that the angle was so steep, that people couldn't keep their balance.
"I was standing there, and I asked my brother-in-law if he could swim and he said no. I asked my cousin if he could swim and he said no. So we could see the water coming up, the bow of the ship was going down, and there was a kind of an explosion. We could hear the popping and cracking, and the deck raised up and got so steep that the people could not stand on their feet on the deck. So they fell down and slid on the deck into the water right on the ship."
Mrs. Ryerson's deposition/Affidavit describes the breakup:
"
I was in the bow of the boat with my daughter and turned to see the great ship take a plunge toward the bow, the two forward funnels seemed to lean and then she seemed to break in half as if cut with a knife, and as the bow went under the lights went out; the stern stood up for several minutes, black against the stars, and then that, too, plunged down, and there was no sound for what seemed like hours, and then began the cries for help of people drowning all around us, which seemed to go on forever."
IMO, the Book's angle is more accurate. What's more, Wilding calculated that an angle of more than 33 degrees would dislodge the Boilers and Engines, so a range between 25-30 degrees would be accurate.
And, what if the deckhouse debris section stayed with the Bow, or was carried along the Bow's slipstream, and that's why it was deposited Southeast of the Bow?
But that's just my two cents.