How did a piece of ice cut through the solid steel hull of the Titanic?

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How did a piece of ice cut through the solid steel hull of the Titanic?

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It didn’t, it tore and bent and popped rivets between the myriad of steel plates that made up the hull. At the scale of a million ton chunk of ice versus a much lighter ship this is akin to stabbing an aluminum can with a screwdriver.

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