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How many of these compartments could be filled with water and the titanic still afloat?
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Olympic Class Ocean liners can stay afloat with the first 3 or 6 separate compartments
flooded but only to the top of the bulkhead.
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How many water tight compartments could be filled with water and the titanic stay afloat?
Four. But they filled five.
How many of these 16 compartments could be filled with water and the titanic still stay afloat?
Only four
How many of the Titanic's water tight compartments could be full and the ship still stay afloat?
Titanic's master builder, Thomas Andrews, had taken courses in naval architecture and ensured that Titanic could stay afloat with up to four compartments flooded.
On the titanic how large was the damage caused by the iceburg?
wwell titanic had 16 water tight compartments if it cut 2 and 5 filled up it could stay afloat and be rescued and toed back to southhampton shipyard to be mended but the iceberg cut in 5 compartments so the titanic was doomed
How many compartments could be filled with water and the titanc would stay afloat?
Four.
Why did the tianic sink?
titanic sank because she hit the iceberg on her starboard side causing 5 compartments to flood. titanic could stay afloat with 4 compartments but not 5
How many of these compartments could be filled in titanic?
4. When it struck the iceberg, 6 filled.
How many compartments of the Titanic were filled with water?
RMS Titanic's first five compartments filled with water following a brush-by collision with an iceberg. The ship probably could have floated with as many as four compartments flooded, but with the loss of the fifth, the ship's head (or bow) was pulled down to a point where the rising water was able to spill over the tops of the following bulkheads one after the other, dooming the ship.
The iceberg ruptered how many of the Titanic's watertight comepartments?
5 compartments were ruptered by the iceberg, which is one more that the Titanic could stand
How many of the titanic's watertight compartments did the iceburg ruptured?
Five. It could stay afloat with the first four flooded, but the fifth one was her death sentence.
What caused Titanic to happen?
An iceberg struck the starboard side of the Titanic on April 14th, around midnight. The iceberg flooded 5 watertight compartments, while she could only stay afloat with 4 flooded.
What were the two safety features that were built into the design of the titanic?
The titanic carried 20 lifeboats, enough for 1175 people. But, the titanic wa overloaded and carried over 2000 passengers on board! It also claimed that the titanic was 'unsinkable', with 16 water tight compartments. They said that it could stay afloat with 4 of these 16 compartments flooded! No consideration or planning had been given to emergency situations. It is also agrued that safety was sacrificed for entertainent. A swimming pool, sports deck, and elevators too up valuable space that could have been used for lifeboats and storage. They rushed the builiding of it, and Bruce Ismay, the managing director of the Titanic, thought that too many lifeboats ruining the appearance of the boat.
