These actions include: 1) alternating the thrust of the ship's wing screws and advancing the centerline screw to increase the turning response of the ship; 2) allowing the ship to ram the iceberg head- on; 3) counter-flood the aft end of the stricken ship to reduced the rate of water intake by 4.5 hours; 4) employing ...
If the Titanic had smashed into the iceberg with her bow section, it is believed the ship would have survived. "If it had crashed head-on into the iceberg it would've flattened her bow by 80 feet and it may have killed up to 80 firemen who were off duty at the time in the bow," said Maltin.
Although Lord had stopped his ship upon encountering ice, the British inquiry concluded that if Californian had acted upon the rockets and pushed through the ice, the Californian "might have saved many, if not all, of the lives that were lost".
If only four of the Titanic's watertight compartments had been breached, it would have stayed afloat. The iceberg sliced through six. 50. If the ship had hit the berg head on, Titanic probably would have survived because of the strength of its bulkheads.
The SS Mount Temple, a cargo steamship carrying 1,466 people, was the first vessel to pick up Titanic's distress signal at 12.15 a.m. Less than 50 miles away, it could have been alongside the Titanic in two hours, saving everyone.
If the centre propeller had been designed to keep working when in reverse, it's likely that the Titanic would have avoided the iceberg completely. The colossal cruise liner had been built with bulkheads in its bow in the event of a collision.
Answer: That's wrong – it would probably have survived. When a ship hits an iceberg head on, all the force would be transferred back to the ship, so it wouldn't have ripped open, but crumpled round, so only 2-3 compartments would have been breached. It was built to survive with 4 compartments breached.
Those changes, along with the advent of superior technologies for navigation and communication, have made the seas much safer since 1912. As such, it is unlikely that the specific circumstances leading to the sinking of the Titanic will recur. But the ocean remains an unpredictable place, fraught with hazards.
Had the Titanic sank in warm water, most of those in the water would have survived. Almost all had life jackets on, and the lifeboat passengers were rescued only a couple of hours after the ship sank. Passengers of sunken cruise ships can't survive indefinitely though unless the water is tropical.
If the Titanic hadn't sunk, it would likely have taken another similar disaster to put that lifesaving policy into effect. Besides: even if the Titanic's maiden voyage had been successful, its life as a passenger ship would likely have been interrupted in about two more years.
Titanic sank at approximately 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, claiming the lives of 1,500 passengers. With the Californian stopped in the ice before any SOS messages were sent from the Titanic, the ship didn't see the sinking liner's calls for help until dawn, hours after they'd been sent.
Lifeboats were not filled to capacity because senior officers did not know the boats had been tested and were strong enough.
There are no survivors of the Titanic alive today
The very longest-living person to have survived the Titanic died on the 31st of May 2009. Her name was Elizabeth Gladys 'Millvina' Dean, and she was just two months old when she boarded the Titanic with her family.
After several trips back to the drawing board, it turns out that raising the Titanic would be about as futile as rearranging the deck chairs on the doomed vessel. After a century on the ocean floor, the Titanic is apparently in such bad shape that it couldn't withstand such an endeavor for various reasons.
In point of fact, the Titanic would not have sunk but for 5-1/2 feet of plate buckling which extended into Coal Bunker No 9. That's how close it was to NOT sinking.
In the case of the Titanic, the victims had no option but to face these deathly temperatures: Water temperature: 28°F (in the dangerously low end) Survival time: A mere 30 - 90 minutes.
In all, from 44 to 48 were actually saved from the water while about 79 passengers and crew have have been found who said they had been in contact with the water.
Shortly before midnight on April 14 it struck an iceberg 1 300 miles (4 000 km.) northeast of New York and sank in just two hours and 40 minutes.
The head baker of the Titanic spent two hours in frigid water and emerged with only swollen feet! It is believed that upwards of 1500 people died in the sinking of the Titanic. However, amongst the survivors was the ship's head baker Charles Joughin.
The ship had been split into two pieces some 2,600ft apart, with the stern (the back of the hull) left largely unrecognisable but the bow (the front) remarkably intact.
The Titanic is sitting on the ocean floor, about 12,500 feet below sea level. The two broken parts of the ship – the bow and the stern — are more than 2,600 feet apart and are surrounded by debris. Several expeditions have captured images of the ship before.
“Instead of steering Titanic safely round to the left of the iceberg, once it had been spotted dead ahead, the steersman, Robert Hitchins, had panicked and turned it the wrong way.”
The ship carried at least twelve dogs, only three of which survived. First-class passengers often traveled with their pets. The Titanic was equipped with a first-rate kennel and the dogs were well-cared for, including daily exercise on deck.
The center propeller didn't work in reverse. The Titanic had three steam-driven propellers, with the outer two driven by piston engines and the center screw driven by a steam turbine.
Meanwhile, the closest ship, Californian, didn't receive Titanic's distress calls at all. Its wireless operator had switched off his receiver and gone to bed after Phillips told him to shut up. Amateur radio operators also interfered with messages, making it difficult for Titanic to communicate.