Why Did People Think the Titanic Was Unsinkable?

Answer 1

Titanic was built with a steel hull, many watertight bulkheads, and huge pumps to deal with leaks. While the general public viewed such a ship as unsinkable, the builders and operators of the ship had no such foolish view. They knew that the ship had bulkheads that did not create fully sealed chambers, so that when water filled one it would spill over into the next.

Answer 2

Because the Titanic was built to be able to still stay afloat if 4 compartments were breached. But when the Titanichit an iceberg, 5 compartments were breached and the ship immediately began to gradually sink.

Answer 3

Older ships had a hull with vast open spaces. The Titanic's hull was comprised of many smaller compartments - each with its own water-tight door. In theory, the ship should have withstood up to four compartments being damaged. However - the damage caused by striking the ice-berg was much worse. If the ship had struck the iceberg 'head-on' it would have survived. Unfortunately, it struck the iceberg a glancing blow, as the ship was turning - tearing a long gash in its hull below the waterline, that was far too severe for the water-tight doors to cope with.

Answer 4

It was designed with a very extensive system of watertight compartmentments that could contain the water from any reasonable hull breach. Most other ships of the time had no compartments and simply flooded and sank when their hull was breached, if pumps could not remove the water faster than it entered.

Given this, it was very reasonable to assume the Titanic would be unsinkable, even if the engine room flooded and there was no power to run pumps to remove the water.

But there were two unanticipated problems:

• the design did not extend the walls of the water tight compartments all the way to the deck. If the ship tilted (as Titanic did) the water could flood over the top of one compartment into the next eventually filing all the compartments
• the iceberg damaged the hull in a large enough area that several compartments were filling with water from the beginning (this was NOT a reasonable hull breach! it exceeded Titanic's design assumptions)

Answer 5

Because of the water tight compartments in the bottom.

Answer 6

Yes people thought the Titanic was Unsinkable, even when the passengers were told it was sinking, some didn't believe.

Answer 7

That was from reviews unaffiliated with the ship's owners.

They suggested it but never actually said it.