Who Is Responsible For Titanic Failure

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Titanic was the largest ship in the world. It was about 900 feet long and weighted 46000 tons. On April 14, 1912, the titanic collided with the iceberg and sank in three hours. The colliding caused the damage which was nearly 300 feet of the hull, the collision allowed water to flood six of sixteen major watertight compartments. However, the sixteen watertight did not work very well. There were about 2200 passengers and crew on the ship, and more than 1500 died. There are many reasons caused this accident: mistake of the manufacturer, mistake of the crew on board and mistake of the lifeboat placed. For this project, we will discuss the mistakes of the manufacturer. Failure Theory and analysis When the Titanic collided with the iceberg, the …show more content…

The lower part of the Titanic is divided into sixteen main watertight compartments, and if part of the hull is pierced and leaking, it can be easily closed. After the collision with the iceberg, the hull portion of six of these sixteen compartments was destroyed. The sealed off compartments were completed immediately after the damage was achieved, but when the bow of the ship began to pitch forward from the weight of the water in that area of the ship, the water in some of the compartments began to spill over into adjacent compartments. Although these compartments were called watertight, but in fact they were only watertight horizontally; their tops were open and the walls extended only a few feet above the waterline [4]. If the transverse bulkheads had been a few feet higher, the water would have been better contained within the damaged compartments. Consequently, the sinking would have been slowed, possibly allowing enough time for nearby ships to help. However, because of the extensive flooding of the bow compartments and the subsequent flooding of the entire ship, the Titanic was gradually pulled below the waterline [Figure

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