What sank the Titanic? New documentary claims fire weakened hull

abc7chicago.com ^ | Thursday, January 05, 2017 12:41PM | Staff

[Red Badger]

Video at link................

[humblegunner]

None of that was in the movie.. didn’t happen.

[stylin19a]

Jews sank the Titanic. Hello, IceBerg ?

[Yo-Yo]

My issue with this theory is that the iceberg struck below the waterline, and the damage was below the waterline. A bunker fire may have reached 1,000°C, but the outside hull steel plates that were in contact with the water never could have reached temperatures high enough to compromise their strength.

Ever boil water in a paper cup on a campfire as a scout?

[Red Badger]

Was a rapper, eh?...........

[Red Badger]

Forensic testing of rivets from the bow plats indicate that they were substandard and not up to specs, so somebody was cheating the company. There were many things that added up to a disaster.................

[Ciaphas Cain]

Many years ago a team of researchers retrieved a piece of the Titanic's hull from the ocean floor. It was subsequently put through an extensive series of metallurgical tests. In addition to the sample itself, the son of one of the workmen in the shipyard provided a divot: a slug of steel punched out of the hull plates for the rivets. It proved useful in comparing Titanic's steel prior to launch with whatever eighty-plus years of frigid seawater had done to it (it was determined that there had been no change in the metal's composition).

What they found was rather intriguing. Titanic's hull plating had a higher than normal sulfur content. In fact, it wouldn't have even made for good rebar. As a result Titanic's hull steel was EXCEPTIONALLY brittle already. Figure in the cold temperature acting upon it and it made it even worse. Instead of bending inward, the hull had pieces of it break off.

The Titanic was a disaster of materials as much as human hubris.

[jbrown7.62x39]

Wilhelm Gustloff was a WAY worse disaster. Several times over.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Dang, beat me to it! :-)

[Red Badger]

See post #6...............

[dfwgator]

Iceberg....Goldberg....Greenberg....what’s the difference?

[Red Badger]

I’ve often wondered, even as a child, why they did not collect every mattress on that ship to use as life boats?.....................

[dfwgator]

Titanic in Five Seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuSdU8tbcHY

[onedoug]

Had decrapio lost that poker hand, the ship would have left the pier those few seconds earlier, and would have missed that berg.

[dfwgator]

Had decrapio lost that poker hand, the ship would have left the pier those few seconds earlier, and would have missed that berg.

Someone should tell Leo, that if only they had Global Warming, there wouldn't have been any icebergs and the Titanic wouldn't have sunk.

[jbrown7.62x39]

Too much panic. Hundreds were trampled. Nearly 500 killed outright when the first Russian torpedo that slammed into her port side, struck a deck that had a drained swimming pool. All that tile came loose and acted as an enormous fragmentation grenade and killed everyone on the deck but 3 people. Almost 10,000 German civilians died. 9,400 and some change, I think

[tet68]

May have multiplied the effect of the collision
but what sank the Titanic was the fact that the
water tight bulkheads did not completely seal
being open at the top. Once enough water came in
to put that compartment underwater the next would begin
to fill especially starting from forward.
It is possible that had the iceberg struck amidships
the remaining buoyancy would have been enough to
keep the bulkheads above water level.

Bunker fires were not that uncommon in the age of steam.

[jbrown7.62x39]

Also, only one lifeboat cleared the davits, but it fell and capsized. The rest weren’t dropped due to the unimaginable chaos

[ealgeone]

I thought the Russians did it??

[politicianslie]

Figure in the cold temperature acting upon it and it made it even worse. Instead of bending inward, the hull had pieces of it break off.

that's what I remember from my metal training back in my navy nuclear power training. The Titanic was VERY BRITTLE, just waiting for a disaster. IT broke instead of bending.