Could Flooding Make Titanic Too Rigid & Break Her?

[Michael H. Standart]

>>The latest analysis of the debris field I saw indicated the ship was still intact when it sank.<<


Sorry but no: it doesn't do anything of the kind. The debris field tells some of the story of what happened when the hull girder failed under stress and as well as how the pieces sank. The fact of the break up was reported by plenty of witnesses back in 1912 but they were simply disbelieved.

 

[Samuel Halpern]

If one basis an analysis on just limited evidence (e.g., the distribution of debris on the ocean floor) then they are likely to come to a few wrong conclusions. A true analysis takes into account all available information and then tries to find an explanation, if possible, that makes the pieces fit. And then there are still no guarantees.

 

[coal eater]

bow was little damaged while going down into seabed,stern was completly ripped apart

would it make some difference if there was broken parts separaton after stern was under water? lets say stern is still attached to bow and they go under together,during further sinking stern finally frees from bow and starts going spiral while bow act as bulet and go straight down..

by looking at boilers from br1 if we take vertical line to surface,it will lead to spot where they started to fall from ship,maybe the stern glided to port and boilers from boiler room 1 encountered two forces? one to pull the boilers to left and second to pull them down,boilers might been torn off their beds when breakup zone reached the beds itself and freed boilers rolled out of hull throught broken port shell plating?