6 watertight compartments
There are SIXTEEN watertight compartments on the titanic
The Titanic can stay afloat if four of the watertight compartments were flooded. Unfortunately, five of those compartments were flooded, and the ocean water was spilling over each compartment, accelerating her sinking.
Five. It could stay afloat with the first four flooded, but the fifth one was her death sentence.
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The Titanic possessed 15 bulkheads, which divided the ship into 16 watertight compartments. The Titanic was designed to still stay afloat even if 4 compartments were breached, but upon impact 5 of them were breached, and eventually they all flooded as the ship sank.
5 watertight compartments. She could stay a flote for 4 but not 5. Hope it helps
People thought the titanic was 'unsinkable' because the ship had a double bottomed hull that was divided into 16 presumably watertight compartments. Four of these could be flooded without endangering the liner's bouyancy, so the titanic was considered unsinkable. When the ship collided with the iceberg however, five of the compartments flooded, and the boat couldn't hold the weight of the flooded hull (body of the boat), and this made it heavier and more likely to sink.
16 watertight compartments divided by 15 bulkheads that went from the bottom of the ship up to E-Deck
it would have had many other people on it the just the men
The reason why Titanic was deemed as unsinkable was that it was built to stay afloat with 4 watertight compartments breached, but when the Titanic hit the iceberg, 5 compartments were breached, which was one too many
5 compartments were flooded, which was one too many, for the Titanic was designed to stay afloat with only 4 compartments breached