If the titanic does sink...

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[shipfan55]

i hope its sinking is accurate,minus the breaking.if it does,they should make a 2-dimension model and set it in a water physics program and in it add a water pump that would fill it up to calculate the accuracy of the sinking.

[Stuart2007]

a TWO dimensional model? I think a 3d version would be best...

The problem is that even using a sophisticated maths analysis of the design, we still do not know 100% what damage occured and when/how. We don't really know what speed the impact was at.

If all of that was known then a pretty accurate sinking model could be developed, but there is simply too many unknowns.

I do know one fact for certain. Before the impact it was above the water. Some time after, it was below. That's a basic, but perfectly true analysis of the sinking

Stu

[Dev]

there ws a rumour lately that it may have hit an iceberg and this could have been a significant cause of the sinking.

[Al Bundy]

I think that misplaced water was the major factor of the sinking.

[clanky]

Pure conjecture

Can I just point out at this time that ships sinking is a bad thing, surely the idea is to keep them afloat guys

[Dev]

Or as insurance compaies put "a sudden and unintentional ingress of water" 

[shipfan55]

im sick of sarcasm,dev and Al Bundy.

[Stuart2007]

im sick of sarcasm,dev and Al Bundy.

Oh dear..

Look. It's time for brutal honesty... They got it right at the beginning of the titanic film... someone left the bath tap running.

Stu

[mvsmith]

Can I just point out at this time that ships sinking is a bad thing, surely the idea is to keep them afloat guys

All this obsession with sinking takes me back a few decades to a young Woody Allen explaining how immature his wife was:
“She was so immature that she would walk right in while I was in the bathtub and sink all my boats!”

[captseaton]

there ws a rumour lately that it may have hit an iceberg and this could have been a significant cause of the sinking.

It was definitely Leo DiCaprio's bad acting that sank that ship...

[greyhill]

i think the captain was trying to beat sadsid's fastest time on the new york mission

[captseaton]

i think the captain was trying to beat sadsid's fastest time on the new york mission

 
Oh, I'll go there...in due time. Thou shalt not run up the Titanic's engines to full speed on a maiden voyage.

[greyhill]

the engines would have been run in at full steam during her sea trials, before her maiden voyage, thus giving her her known maximum speed. one would think anyhow, im not a titanic buff, although i do wonder where she would be now if she never sank, probably would have been a victim of a german torpedo during the 1st world war instead 

[captseaton]

the engines would have been run in at full steam during her sea trials, before her maiden voyage, thus giving her her known maximum speed. one would think anyhow, im not a titanic buff, although i do wonder where she would be now if she never sank, probably would have been a victim of a german torpedo during the 1st world war instead 

Over the course of the Titanic's maiden voyage, it was customary to slowly increase speed with each passing day. If the weather was nice for her final day, they were going to open her up and possibly would have got her up to 24 knots. The day before the incident, they were only up to 21.6 knots.

With that brittle high-sulfur steel, she probably would have made it to the bottom eventually. RMS Olympic collided with a destroyer at around 15 knots and almost sank. The resulting repairs delayed Titanic's completion and maiden voyage. Queen Mary collided with a destroyer at nearly 34 knots, sliced the destroyer in half and kept going. Oh, what a difference a few years makes in shipbuilding technology.

[greyhill]

you learn something new every day , just out of interest, do know if she carried out sea trials before her maiden voyage, although she may have just ran through some testing on her way down to southampton from belfast ??

[clanky]

She certainly did have sea trials.

More information here http://www.titanic-titanic.com/titanic_sea_trials.shtml

[greyhill]

She certainly did have sea trials.

More information here http://www.titanic-titanic.com/titanic_sea_trials.shtml

cheers for that, very interesting, just noticed that your a stones throw across the water from me, i'm in stranraer, small world

[clanky]

Did a few weeks agency work on the European Highlander recently.

Was even less of a stones throw away.

[greyhill]

even less if you were on her during the storm, 2yrs ago i think, when she parked on the beach, have a great photo of her sitting next to the main road aground with a road sign stating that the port is 100metres ahead. 

[clanky]

I remember that being on the news, didn't realise that it was the highlander.

Was over in Glasgow on Saturday for the footie, flew though, don't like ships!

[greyhill]

i thought the footie fans prefered the boat, more drinking time, especially on the caledonia.    give us a shout if your across, we'll gan fur a pint 

[clanky]

I had the kids with me, so it is quicker and easier to fly, and like i said, i don't like ships!

Don't think the Caledonia would be such a good idea though

[greyhill]

like i said, i don't like ships!

i dont like water, people always used to ask why i went to sea then, had informed them that one of the first things you learn is that you never get off the boat unless you really have to, the ships your best lifeboat 
unless you were on the Titanic, (thought i'd better get back on topic  )

[shipfan55]

*off topic*

anyone like my sig?lawl(h)!!!!

[Stuart2007]

I've had to turn signatures off as all I get is half a page taken up by them.

Stu