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! ;)
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.
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.
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
because the ice berg was stupid liker the titanic
Titanic hit the iceberg sideways instead of head-on at 11:40 on the evening of April 14th, 1912.
because the boat wasn't sturdy enough to go straight
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.
no if you go on titanic 2 it probably will sink
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Technically yes. The Titanic ran into an iceberg. The Titanic was built to withstand a head-on collision with an iceberg however it ran into the berg from the side which tore a hole into the hull. . . It is speculated that the Titanic would not have sunk if she ran straight into the iceberg however this is merely a speculation because it is impossible to go back in time and change it. . .
It is on the FILM Titanic and therefore people associate it with the ship.
The theme song is called: "My heart will go on".
nope you go sideways
It does not go sideways!
stand straight forward and move one foot to the other, do this multiple times moving left or right as you go along.
the x-axis is horizontal (left to right/ sideways) and the y-axis is vertical (straight up and down)
The tilt of earths axis makes the equator appear to be sideways.
yes they can walk forward, backward and sideways,
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no if you go on titanic 2 it probably will sink
Jinx Titanic goes by Jinx Titanic.
The Titanic went to Southampton in 1912, the same year that the Titanic was actually built.
When you are about to go to the third floor instead of going there go straight. You will fight a dragon. There in a cage is the boss key.
No