I assume the metal and materials the boats are made of are strong but surely not to withstand the pressure of being 12,000 feet underwater? At the end of the day it’s not like the engineers had to consider holding up to that much pressure in their design right?
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Oh, they do, but not the way you think. All the rooms of the Titanic that might have held pressure were either breached – individually, one after the other – on the way down by the rising pressure or weren’t sealed enough from the beginning, so that water could flow in.
The individual pressure-holding rooms or voids (of which there aren’t that many in comparison) don’t all immediately implode at the same time in one giant event.
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