The damage was less than a few square feet in total. The first compartment had a hole a bit bigger than a quarter. The sheer water flow was enough to carve you in two.
That was the failing. The safety system couldn't react in time.
The entire bottom of the ship was found, side to side and a length spanning several compartments; it had been ripped off entirely and sunk down to the bottom miles away from the rest of the wreckage.
This is why it sank so fast.
What you describe would have never been able to sink that ship, which is why it remained a mystery for over 100 years.
The holes were on the starboard side where the iceberg hit. Edward Wilding was the Harland and Wolff engineer who predicted that uneven filling of the chambers would cause the ship to sink. A gash wouldn't do that.
In 1996 Robert Ballard's team photographed the damage which was made up mostly of long thin slits with the total combined area less than 15 square feet, so more than a few but not much compared to the size of the hull.
There was one slit that was more like a punched hole but I can't find the reference to that exact quote. It was in the documentary though by Ballard.
Paul Mattias is the guy who did the sonar work on this. You can look it up.
The iceberg that sunk the Titanic was only 50-100 feet high.
And our memes volume on a daily basis is much higher than that.
The damage was less than a few square feet in total. The first compartment had a hole a bit bigger than a quarter. The sheer water flow was enough to carve you in two.
That was the failing. The safety system couldn't react in time.
100% wrong.
The entire bottom of the ship was found, side to side and a length spanning several compartments; it had been ripped off entirely and sunk down to the bottom miles away from the rest of the wreckage.
This is why it sank so fast.
What you describe would have never been able to sink that ship, which is why it remained a mystery for over 100 years.
The holes were on the starboard side where the iceberg hit. Edward Wilding was the Harland and Wolff engineer who predicted that uneven filling of the chambers would cause the ship to sink. A gash wouldn't do that.
In 1996 Robert Ballard's team photographed the damage which was made up mostly of long thin slits with the total combined area less than 15 square feet, so more than a few but not much compared to the size of the hull.
There was one slit that was more like a punched hole but I can't find the reference to that exact quote. It was in the documentary though by Ballard.
Paul Mattias is the guy who did the sonar work on this. You can look it up.