All 35 ship engineers were lost that night. They’d relived the men in boiler room 2, and continued shoveling coal into the last boilers working. It’s the reason the power stayed on so long while the ship was sinking. The ship broke apart at boiler room 2, which is visible in the new National Geographic program “Titanic: The Digital Resurrection” that I watched last night.
I watched the “Mystery Solved” episode yesterday.
They recreated a section of the hull to test the rivets. They applied pressure to the recreation to see if the rivets “unzipped” therefore opening up the hull.
I see a flaw in the testing procedure. The pressure applied to the test piece was done slowly. I’m not a professional engineer (I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night) but I call BU££$}{!T !!! The ship didn’t slowly move up against the iceberg. That would be like putting your fist on a wall and pushing as hard as you could.
The Ship impacted the iceberg. That means that the impact would be like punching a wall with your hand.
I await Y’All to present an opinion on My analysis of the test.