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The German sub included a Sears mini-refrigerator ... working in 3 8-hour shifts, the crew of the submarine placed ice cubes all over the sub ... working quickly, they covered the sub with 300,000 tons of ice ... amazingly the sub was able to not only stay upright, but catch up with and pass the Titanic, stopping silently ahead of her ... the Titanic was carrying 1,974,253 bagels to New York and the Kaiser, inventor of the now famous "Kaiser roll" feared the competition ... later it was proven that the Mossad and the OSS, even though they didn't exist, had plotted the whole thing ...

Seriously, the Titanic had a coal fire in her belly which had been burning long before she left Southampton ... also, the boilers were round and would have rolled through the ever-steeper tilting ship ... add in the 29 degree F water (salt water has a lower freezing point) and you've got the potential for wild steam explosions too ... though the power stayed on for a long time from the batteries and no doubt from some generators ...