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Why could the titanic not stay afloat?

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becauuse it sunck and hit a ice burg

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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.


How many of these 16 compartments could be filled with water and the titanic still stay afloat?

Only four


How many water tight compartments could be filled with water and the titanic stay afloat?

Four. But they filled five.


How does the titanic stay afloat although it is heavy?

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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 with water and the titanic still afloat?

Olympic Class Ocean liners can stay afloat with the first 3 or 6 separate compartmentsflooded but only to the top of the bulkhead.


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.


How many compartments on the Titanic were flooded?

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.


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.


The iceberg ruptered how many of the Titanic's watertight comepartments?

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Could the Titanic have stayed afloat by not closing the watertight doors?

No because even if the doors was open the water would have come in too fast and where would the water go


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