This is the Titanic, the foreward promenade deck is enclosed, which it was'nt on the Olympic.
Quantic said:
There would have been unthinkable damage to the ship. The whole front would crumple in. HOWEVER, only one or two of the watertight bulkheads would have been ruptured. Remember, the Titanic could survive would FOUR even FIVE of it's bulkheads ruptured. The Titanic would stay afloat indefinitly - enough time for the passengers to be offloaded to another ship and the Titanic towed to New York for repairs.
What actually happened, as we all know, the ship hit the iceberg on the right side, puncturing six? bulkheads. Titanic sank.
The Titanic sank due to stress inflicted on the hull by the sheer weight of water that had entered it, causing it to sheer apart before the ship had flooded to the point of losing bouyancy and actually sinking. Sure it would have sank anyway, but, supposedly a good while after it actually broke up.
Bulkheads failed during the sinking (reported as loud "booms" by survivors, as any submariner who's listened to a sinking ship after he's torpedoed it would tell you ) therefore the ship in all likelyhood would have still sank had fewer compartments been opened to the sea. The design of the ship was flawed and it simply was'nt strong enough to cope with serious flooding.
Had the ship flooded more than 3 compartments, simulations have revealed the hull would still have broken up as it did back in 1912.
The "Olympic" class of ships of which Titanic was one, were simply massively scaled up designs of much smaller vessels, Titanics designers simply did not understand the structural requirements of such massive ships to make them strong enough to deal with the stresses (i.e. weight) of flooding.
Titanic started to break up, on the surface, about an hour before she actually split in two.
Many scientific expeditions have found proof of this, its hardly surprising, the ship was literally plates & rivets, little welding, combined with the brittle quality of early steels, the ship stood no chance.
As for the simulator, has anybody tried
"Virtual Sailor" ? Very good imo.
Includes the Titanic.
