Engineering Disasters (17 of 28)

Unfortunately, they just glanced it and so the iceberg basically just rubbed along the edge.
And because the steel did not have any impact strength and was not able to absorb any energy, it just went through and, and went pop, pop, pop, pop along the ah, along every plate that it hit.
The iceberg scraped along the Titanic causing many small cracks, not one huge gash.
The cracks were only an inch or two wide, but ripped across a huge section of the hull.
The ship was basically ah, filled up.
Ah, the bow section, the first ah, five water tight compartments filled up.
And you have to realize, that the other ah, eleven to the stern, were still full of air.

The air-filled stern remained buoyant as the heavy bow sank.
The opposing forces began to tear the ship apart.
My great analogy is, is the loaf of French bread, because it is rather like the ship.
And, so it is, it is now at forty-five degrees, and it is being held here, and it is being held here.
It is being pulled and it is, just breaks.
And, and this is not doing exactly what it is supposed to do, but that is exactly how the vessel broke up.
In that it broke here and it broke here.
The ship ripped apart with a roar.
The bow sank quickly to the bottom.
And the stern settle two thousand feet away.