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A combination of bad luck and substandard building materials. Titanic was too big to respond fast enough to commands to change course by the time the iceberg was spotted, and hence the ship sideswiped the berg. Add to that, the rivets that were lower quality steel than they should have been, and possibly even steel plate that fell into the same category. Six compartments were ripped open. The ship was designed to stay afloat if as many as four were ripped open - not six. And so on, and so on . . .

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