the Niagara that ran into the same iceberg three nights before that made port,
I want to know how the vessel managed to damage five compartments with enough damage to fill them quick enough to get the Titanic to flood deep enough such that water would spill over the tops of the compartments. Five of them needed to be "holed". The ship only had 160 minutes to sink, therefore all of these 5 forward "damaged" compartments had to have a good sized hole. The chances of this happening is virtually zero.
Here's a picture of the model that represents Titanic's starboard bow. This is where the original damage was supposedly done. This is where there needs to be a 250-300 foot long "gash" or "split seam". I say "needs to be" since this scenario was written into the disaster hearings held in both the United States and Great Britain as the official cause of the Titanic to flood five compartments. !
Simple physics, David.Something so obvious that it's never been commented upon, or not anywhere that I've seen. Notice there are large portions of Titanic's skin plating that seem to hang down almost like a theatrical drape being lowered to the stage. It's particularly noticeable in views of the port side of the stern section.
This drape effect is easily explained if the steel side of the ship was actually removed from the underlying structure. It would behave very much like the world's stiffest curtain. But, how could it have peeled awayf from the frames which supported it? Is that possible?
I'll hazard and answer to my question...just a guess, mind you...not fact...but, what if impact with the bottom jammed the sides upward. Movement of as little as a quarter inch can result in a plate shearing off a rivet head. And, if one sheared, then the resulting weakness would make it easier for the next, and that easier for the next until the skin was flayed from the frames, allowing it to sag like a curtain.
-- David G. Brown
Hello Aaron.Are there any photos of other shipwrecks that show similar damage to their hull plating being stripped away from the bottom? My understanding is that survivors saw water coming from underneath the foot plates and this was possibly caused by the Titanic grounding heavily over a ledge of the iceberg which compressed the bottom upwards and cracked open the starboard side, and during the evacuation this length of stripped seams continued to pop open as the ship flooded and began to bend which led to more seams popping open until the sides tore away from the bottom and broke the ship in two.
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