The last one tho 💀 Like, the ship is already DECEASED at the bottom of the ocean, ya’ll did not need to cast Vicious Mockery on its corpse 😭 old timey gallows humor was ruthless but GOD it was funny
EDIT: Hey guys, I found the original thread, there’s even more roasts in there!
Disasters like the Titanic weren’t particularly weird events 100 years ago. People were living the Cambrian Explosion of mechanics, crazy shit, died all sorts of horrific ways, like drowning in hot molasses. A dozen people die in a UPS plane crash or in a single Russian attack; Front page news. In the day; “Heard a dozen men were buried alive in the local coal mine today. Shame that. What’s for dinner?”
Guess what made this event stick out was the braggadocio. Unsinkable my ass. Also, wasn’t that a ship of unusual size? “I don’t believe they exist.” Also, lots of prominent people went down, and there were plenty of survivors to tell the tale. Imagine an over-hyped space plane exploding with Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, et al. onboard.
I’ll never understand why they didn’t make the compartment bulkheads go all the way to the ceiling.
i can see why. they didn’t expect the boat to actually use them.
One thing to consider is that it was an incredibly unlucky and unlikely bit of damage. It wasn’t a smash, like the Olympic-HMS Hawke incident, causing a large but localised hole. It was instead the lightest of grazes, with the ship bouncing off the berg as it passed.
Though the total area exposed to the sea was only around 12 sq ft, it was spread along 250ft of the hull. But that wasn’t fatal. What it came down to was less than 1.5 sq ft of the damage extended into Boiler Room 6. If this hadn’t happened, the waterline would have never reached the top of the forward bulkheads.
With all safety measures, a limit has to be reached based on reasonable expectations. On the other end of things was Brunel’s massive Great Eastern of 1859, which had not only cross bulkheads like Titanic, but also two longitudinal ones running the length of the ship, and a double skinned hull. This was a bit impractical for passengers and crew who had to go up to the top and back down again to get anywhere. It also bankrupted the company which built it.