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

Question

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

In: Physics

Answer 1

Try to break through a piece of aluminum foil with an ice cube. Iceberg big, doesn’t move much. Metal thin, pushing hard against a big thing that won’t move, and it probably had some pointy parts that concentrated the pressure.