Why did the titanic go sideways instead of straight?

Answer 1

The crew tried to avoid the iceberg entirely, but ships of that size can't make quick course changes.

At the speed they were travelling, and at the distance the iceberg was spotted at, all they managed to do was to turn a head-on collision into a sideswipe.

Answer

The Titanic did not hit head on because the boat crew knew that the Titanic was designed to hit boats head on, but not icebergs; the iceberg was many times bigger then the titanic. The crew took evasive action.

The size of the iceberg was so enormous that almost all experts in engineering agree that the force of a head on collision would have been so great the Titanic would have sunk within minuets instead of two hours. The force would have a rippling effect and would have traveled from the tip of the ship all across its bulkhead breaking rivets from bow to stern causing catostophic damage killing many more people then it did. I got no bae at least for todday! ;)

Answer 2

Remarkably, Titanic is the only major vessel to sink directly forward. Virtually every other sinking ship has listed to either port or starboard. Like the Andrea Doria, the Normandie in New York, and in more recent memory, the Costa Concordia.

Answer 3

The fate of Titanic would have been different if she hit the iceberg straight on but not for the better. She would have sunk in minutes, not hours.

Many people look at the 1879 photo of the SS Arizona after her head-on collision and logically assume that Titanic would have had the same fate but this would not be true.

A vessel of 46,000 tons traveling at about 22 knots colliding head-on into a much larger iceberg would have telescoped inward at the expansion joints and would have been catastrophically damaged and nobody would have survived.

Answer 4

Because they hit a large iceburg that punctured the ship and they should have gone through it instead of going around it, because think about it, and iceburg is huge.
what happened was they were in the alantic ocean and the captin ran in to a HUGE iceburg and flooded the boat witch has been under water for 103 years going on to 2015 104

Answer 5

because the ice berg was stupid liker the titanic

Answer 6

Titanic hit the iceberg sideways instead of head-on at 11:40 on the evening of April 14th, 1912.

Answer 7

because the boat wasn't sturdy enough to go straight

Answer 8

Because when captain Edward john Smith tried the steer away in time so he couldn't hit the iceberg, but sadly the iceberg just scratched into the Titanic and caused the airtight containers to burst and sink.