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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>How do sunken ships like the titanic not get crushed under the pressure?
By filling with water.
There is no pressure difference between the inside and the outside of the ship, so there’s nothing to crush.
What’s left is the pressure on one side of a metal hull plate being equal to the pressure on the other side of the same metal hull plate.
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