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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.

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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! ;)

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