How did a piece of ice cut through the solid steel hull of the Titanic?
In: Physics
I’m a bit of a Titanic nerd. Common understood theory is not that it was a rip or a tear, but really a split. The ships hull was made of plates of overlapping iron, held together with rivets. When the ship hit the iceberg, the plates deformed and gaps opened between where the the plates used to overlap, allowing water to enter.
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