re: What would have happened if the Titanic hadn't turned?

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Phat Phil

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Maybe if Fulmer was standing at the back of the boat it would've slowed it down enough to where it could've come to a complete stop before collision.

I think a bunch of people would have been injured from the impact but don't believe it would have sunk. If I recall correctly, it wouldn't have sunk even as it did if the area affected would have been just 15 ft shorter. It would have stayed afloat if only 4 compartments filled with water.

Many think the iceberg took a gash out of the side but it did not. The impact caused rivets along a 250 ft long seam to pop out that created a 12 sqft total area of leakage. That 12 sqft area allowed water to pour in at a rate of a ton per second....more than the pumps could handle.

Plus, the bulkheads past compartment 2 only went to E deck. Had the bulkheads gone as high as in the first 2 compartments, it could have been contained in the first four compartments as that was the extent of the linear damage to the hull. (Ships built later were designed to have them the same height due to the disaster). It reached its tipping point, however, when the 5th compartment filled up and water went over the top of the bulkhead to the 6th.

At worst case, the 1st compartment would have filled up in a head on collision. Would have been a heck of a jolt for sure that required them to turn around for passenger safety purposes and emergency medical help but it wouldn't have sunk.

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Navtiger1

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nice, thanks.

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I would say it all depends on the shape of the ice burg, would the seams stil pop due to substandard rivets, angle of impact and subsequent reaction of moving ship. I would bet there is a small likely hood of a direct T-Bone impact. Thus the same result with a glancing blow.

One of the things that always sends chills up my spine is that passengers reportedly saw another ship around 10 miles away (The California, I believe) and the ship would have been able to see the lights of the Titanic and flare's shooting up but they didn't do anything and kept going on their route.

I remember some ship design expert saying that if it hit head on, it probably would not have sunk.

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I believe newtons third law would come into play on a direct hit. The titanic would have been hit back with as much pressure as it put on the iceberg. F= mass x acc. So a ship that heavy moving 20 knots would put a hella amount of pressure on the front. Thus causing the ship to crush like an accordian

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plenty of documentation of smaller ships and even subs ramming larger ships in WWII, and not sinking, hard to say what the mass of the berg was though, probably bigger then because of no global warming