96 years under the sea

[Etienne]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Agreed. I've also read that the reaction of captain and crew were the exact opposite of what they should have been.

It's probably the way they were trained to react. It's the way I've been trained to react, anyway - It would result in lesser damage if colliding with a ship, I think.

The whole height of the watertight bulkheads thing is one thing I've never fully understood (I'm not an architect). The last time I was on a passenger vessel, as far as I can remember, the bulkheads only extended to deck 1... About, what, a meter above the waterline. But then, she was double hulled, and had dry tanks (Tanks that are kept empty to provide extra flottation)

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

At the time of her construction, the Titanic was the largest ship ever built. She was nearly 900 feet long, stood 25 stories high, and weighed an incredible 46,000 tons [Division, 1997].

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Titanic had a Gross Registery Tonnage of 46328 tonnes; GRT is an administrative measure of the non-exempted enclosed space of a ship. It isn't a unit of mass. She displaced (IE, weighed) 52 310 tons, but I don't know what draft that is at.

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