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The back of the ship went underwater first. As the back of the ship went underwater, the weight of the water made the ship stand vertically in the water, with the back part underwater and the front part sticking straight up into the air. Then the ship broke in half, and the front part of it sank, following the back part to the bottom of the ocean.

In the original Titanic movie (1953), the ship sinks whole, without breaking in half. This was a mistake on the moviemakers' part. In James Cameron's Titanic (1997), the sinking of the ship is depicted the way it really happened.

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The stern of Titanic did not go down until the vessel cracked amidships.

As the bow filled with water, the vessel see-sawed upwards (the fulcrum would have been the surface of the sea) and the back of Titanic went up.

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The Titanic sank on its first (maiden) voyage.

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Water breached between plates in the hull near the bow, causing the stern to rise out of the water, like a seesaw.

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