Hi all,
Just had a thought, and maybe someone with more knowledge would care to comment on this:
as we all know, the watertight doors in the bowels of the ship were closed by Murdoch before the collision. Some of the after most compartments were opened some time later to allow easy ingress/egress by the crew and also to help rig the pumps up.
However, in boiler room 4, there was a strange pattern of sub-floor flooding. I know that watertight doors were rigged to close if water entered a compartment, so did the doors between boiler room 3 and 3 close automatically? And if not, were the doors to all the compartments aft of boiler room 5 allowed to remain open?
I'm just having some ideas about potential effects on the flooding of the compartments....
Happy Christmas to all, my friends!
Paul