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Thomas Andrew was the designer of the Titanic. The reason why Titanic was thought of as unsinkable was because there were 16 watertight compartments. So even if a disaster occured with the Titanic it would have stayed afloat for some time - a couple more hours (in this time passengers could have been rescued by other ships). BUT Thomas Andrews reduced the height of the compartments to make more space in the first-class rooms so when it hit the iceberg it sunk a lot faster than it would have done.

Overall, if he wasn't so fussed about the first class passengers' accommodations the Titanic possibly WOULDN'T have sunk and even if it DID many more people would have survived.

Warning: This information might not be completely accurate so I'm sorry if I didn't give the appropriate piece of information that you were looking for..

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