Question

Write 100 words about your perspective about sinking of a titanic

Answer 1

Answer:

At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before

Answer 2

Explanation:

On the 14th of April in the year 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic was on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York, United States when it collided with a massive iceberg. Of the 2200 passengers and crew that were aboard, only 705 survived. Despite the builders’ claims that—even under the worst possible conditions at sea—she was unsinkable, it took less than three hours for the Titanic to sink. The ship’s builders even made claims that it should stay afloat for a minimum of 2-3 days if tragedy struck. So why did the Titanic sink? Was it the material failure or bigger design flaws that went unnoticed? Let us analyze why the Titanic sank from an engineer’s perspective.

First, on that note, National Geographic made an interesting CGI on how the Titanic sank:At the time of her construction, the Titanic was the largest ship ever built. It was 230m long, 25 stories high and weighed 46,000,000 kg. The ship’s turn-of-the-century design and technology included sixteen major watertight compartments in her lower section that could easily be sealed off in the event of a punctured hull, and hence deemed her unsinkable.

On the night of April 14th, although the wireless operators had received several ice warnings from others ships in the area, the Titanic continued to rush through the darkness at nearly full steam. Unfortunately, by the time the lookouts spotted the massive iceberg, it was only less than a quarter of a mile off the bow (or front) of the ship, making the crash into the iceberg unavoidable.

Imagine trying to suddenly avoid a head-on collision in a car; that sounds hard, right? The Titanic was about 20,000 times heavier and had the full momentum of all that weight driving it forward. Though the engines were immediately thrown into reverse and the rudder turned hard left, slowing and turning took an incredible distance because of the tremendous weight (or mass) of the ship. Without enough distance to alter her course, the Titanic sideswiped the iceberg, damaging nearly 100 meters of the right side of the hull above and below the waterline [1].

The massive side impact caused enough damage to allow water to flood into six of the sixteen major watertight compartments. As water rushed into the starboard side of the ship’s bow, the ship began to tilt down in front and slightly to the right. However, the back (or stern) of the ship had three large and heavy propellers. Just like a lever, as shown as shown in Figure 1, if the board is not strong enough when one side becomes extremely heavy, and the other end is pushed down—the board breaks.This is almost exactly what happened on the Titanic, too. The front of the ship started to go into the water, leading to the lifting of the stern of the ship out of it. When the ship was almost at 45-degrees, the stresses in the ship’s midsection increased beyond material limits of steel (210 MPa). The Titanic almost split wide open in the middle! This is how the Titanic sank. [1]