I thought another problem was that the watertight compartments weren’t truly watertight—they were spillover compartments, so that when one filled, it cascaded into the next. There’s no mention in the article of whether the seam splitting attributed to the rivet failure extended into all of six of the compartments.
Yes that was the case...
That’s why it sank so quickly...
but remember it also broke in two BEFORE it hit the bottom and each part landed a good way from the other...
If low grade rivets broke off due to pressure etc...the force would be bad on really strong rivets but cheapies ???
My mother was 2 months old when this happened ...She wasnt on the Titanic but she knew a lot about it ..
That’s probably where I got my lifelong interest from ....