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Originally posted by wj
The titanic is one of the Great tragedys of poor planning. It was designed to be un-sinkable but they were over confident.
It's actually being going about now that one of the main reasons that the ship sank was due to the fact that it was
too strong.
Now that may sound stupid, and I'm not quite sure of the physics behind it, but aparently the metal was stressed and tore more easily under the tension.
If the metal hadn't been as tense only two or three of the five compartments would have flooded. Four compartments were the maximum that the ship could hold without sinking.
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