How did Titanic Sink? | The Complete Physics

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  @SabinMechanical · 2 years ago · pinned

  Hello everyone, let&apos;s understand the detailed physics behind the Titanic disaster. Before you leave, please don&apos;t forge to support us on Patreon - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/SabinsMechanical">https://www.patreon.com/SabinsMechanical </a><br>Cheers Sabin Mathew

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  @englishalan222 · 1 year ago

  The men in the boiler room were real heroes, very few survived.

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  @CesareVesdani · 1 year ago

  Pumping out water from the ship was a good idea and it kept it afloat for one extra hour, saving more people.

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  @Bezx11 · 5 months ago

  The real HEROS: the men in the boiler room!

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  @bunio3434 · 4 months ago (edited)

  If four compartments had flooded instead of five, those people would have survived.<br>One compartment decided the fate.

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  @forgodsoloved3888 · 1 year ago

  Fun fact: the captain saying “even God himself could not sink this ship” was probably not a good start

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  @insurecti · 2 years ago

  I can&apos;t start to imagine how much effort went into making this video, Sabin. Excelent job!

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  @nathanviebranz9111 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I really like your demonstration with flooding the scaled down model of the ship, and it’s something that I’ve been trying to explain to people within my circle. Titanic (and her sisters) was an extremely well-designed and well-built ship for her time. She was simply put into a scenario that overwhelmed her design capabilities, and all modes of transport, be it ship, train, plane, etc. have their Achilles’ heel no matter how well they are constructed, and that’s how we learn for the future.

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  @AtlasFlames97 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZF8MWkAO2w&amp;t=292">4:52</a> Don’t forget, there was a small breach in the coal bunker of Boiler room No.5, which fulled up slow but steady over the course of the sinking. (Coal bunkers were never designed to be watertight)

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  @DilbertMuc · 1 year ago

  &quot;Due to modern construction the modern ships are unsinkable!&quot; &nbsp;<br>&quot;Yeah, right!&quot; says the Costa Concordia &nbsp;:face-fuchsia-poop-shape:

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  @Fascinating_Facts_01 · 1 year ago

  We are all familiar with the story of the Titanic, but few have heard about the MS Hans Hedtoft. This Danish liner tragically sank in 1959 after striking an iceberg during its maiden voyage. The saddest part of the story is that all 95 passengers on board lost their lives.

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  @mikedicenso2778 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Quite a few mistakes or omissions here. Let me address a few of them: <br> <br><b>Titanic&apos;s designer:</b> Thomas Andrews wasn&apos;t the only designer of the Olympic-class ships, and he wasn&apos;t even originally in charge of the project. That honor fell to The Right Honorable Alexander Carlisle with Andrews and another naval architect, Edward Wilding, as his junior assistants. Andrews eventually took over about three years into the project and two years into the first two ships&apos; construction after Carlisle retired in June 1910. <br> <br><b>Titanic&apos;s Captain&apos;s Ideas:</b> Captain Smith was certainly a very smart and experienced man, but much of what he did was in consultation with Thomas Andrews who, along with several other Harland and Wolff shipyard employees who went on the maiden voyager as part of builder&apos;s &quot;Guarantee Group&quot;. <br> <br><b>Terminology:</b> The &quot;driver&quot; of a ship is a helmsman, and the wheel used to steer the ship was in a special room on the bridge called the &quot;wheelhouse&quot;. The helmsman that night was a man by the name of Robert Hitchens, who was one of seven quartermasters of the ship, and he would&apos;ve been the one to carry out First Officer William Murdoch&apos;s &quot;Hard a&apos; starboard&quot; order to avoid the iceberg. The wheelhouse itself was kept separate so that low-light conditions and comfortable temperatures maintained for the helmsman while providing him windows to view through the windows of the gangway shelter, but the windows usually had blinds drawn and the helmsman relied on the compass bearing and orders from the officers. When in port, the wheel in the gangway shelter would be used along with the order telegraphs. <br> <br><b>Left out crucial flaw of Titanic&apos;s engines:</b> Titanic and her two sisters&apos; single turbine engine did indeed make use of triple expansion engines&apos; exhaust steam, but there was no provision for the turbine engine to work in reverse. When the engines were ordered Full-astern and then Stop, the center propeller would not have functioned, and thus there would&apos;ve been no direct flow of water from it over the rudder which in turn would reduce its effectiveness slightly.<br><br><b>Titanic&apos;s steel quality:</b> Actual tests with samples taken from the wreck show that the steel on Titanic was actually fairly good for the day and the use of best-best quality rivets were used in the area where the ice would&apos;ve scraped along the hull. Further tests shows that even using modern steel would not have made much difference as the forces acting in the collision were simply too overwhelming.<br><br><b>Titanic and ice warnings:</b> The two wireless operators were not White Star Line employees, they were working for the Marconi Wireless Company and wireless was still a big novelty, mostly provided on ships for passengers to send messages or receive them for a fee. Ship-to-ship navigation messages were more of a courtesy rather than a requirement. Captain Smith did not ignore the ice messages he did get, steering Titanic on a course that added 200 nautical miles to the journey in order to avoid ice. Unfortunately, this wasn&apos;t far enough and the day before the sinking, the wireless set broke down. But rather than switch to the lower-power backup set as Marconi policy dictated, the two operators spent over 6 hours fixing the main set, and then had to deal with a backlog of message traffic. Some of the last ice warnings on the day of the sinking were lost in this backlog and never reached the bridge.

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