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.
Titanic: impact with berg opened a seam due to cold brittle cast iron rivets - two comparmets at bow flooded. Bow dragged ship down, stern went up, and ship broke in half at an expansion joint. The large section of bottom separated after that as ship reached perhaps 30-40 mph on the way down 2.5 mi to bottom. Ship is in two sections about 800 yards apart.
We have at least 3 different ideas about how this happened. Still.
I thought it was settled. Do you know what year the large section of the bottom was found, separate from the rest of the wreckage? I'm not finding it. I thought it was after 2012.
What I saw claimed the bottom was ripped off before she sank, and was the cause. What you're calling the cause would never sink that ship.
You should look up the detailed investigations. The initial holed secion was in the side of the ship near the bow. Brittle fractures of the plates and rivets, due to poor quality steel, and cold. Two forward compartments flooded, which should have been survivable. But the internal watertight bulkheads didn't go high enough inside the ship. A design flaw. With the ship down at the bow, water was able to start pouring through openings above the next sealed bulkhead. That compartent filled. Ship went down more at the bow. Water went over the next bulkhead. and so on.
As the bow went further down, the stern was lifted right up out of the water. Structurally the ship middle couldn't take the strain, and the ship broke in the middle. The keel still connected the halves, but the hull was totally breached in the middle. Massive flooding. Ship went down. Underwater, picking up speed, the hull bottom section still joining the halves peeled off.
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.
Titanic: impact with berg opened a seam due to cold brittle cast iron rivets - two comparmets at bow flooded. Bow dragged ship down, stern went up, and ship broke in half at an expansion joint. The large section of bottom separated after that as ship reached perhaps 30-40 mph on the way down 2.5 mi to bottom. Ship is in two sections about 800 yards apart.
We have at least 3 different ideas about how this happened. Still.
I thought it was settled. Do you know what year the large section of the bottom was found, separate from the rest of the wreckage? I'm not finding it. I thought it was after 2012.
What I saw claimed the bottom was ripped off before she sank, and was the cause. What you're calling the cause would never sink that ship.
You should look up the detailed investigations. The initial holed secion was in the side of the ship near the bow. Brittle fractures of the plates and rivets, due to poor quality steel, and cold. Two forward compartments flooded, which should have been survivable. But the internal watertight bulkheads didn't go high enough inside the ship. A design flaw. With the ship down at the bow, water was able to start pouring through openings above the next sealed bulkhead. That compartent filled. Ship went down more at the bow. Water went over the next bulkhead. and so on.
As the bow went further down, the stern was lifted right up out of the water. Structurally the ship middle couldn't take the strain, and the ship broke in the middle. The keel still connected the halves, but the hull was totally breached in the middle. Massive flooding. Ship went down. Underwater, picking up speed, the hull bottom section still joining the halves peeled off.