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Originally Posted by Gargamel
I was like, slow down and turn left. There, done.
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That's exactly what they did! 
Murdoch ordered the rudder to hard starboard and engines to full astern in an attempt to 'port around' the iceberg by swinging the ship to the left but the speed was too high and the distance too short for the ship to avoid the iceberg.
There's another school of thought that says that if the Titanic had hit the iceberg head on that it might not have caused as much damage as the glancing blow to the starboard side of the ship did.