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Lex-the-Pikachu — Then and Now

Published: 2012-03-15 21:51:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 32267; Favourites: 226; Downloads: 135
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Description RMS Titanic as she was before she sank and how she is now.

The Bow Section of the wreck is pretty much intact as it sank completely filled with water. The breaking of the mast landing on the bridge along with the flow of water is what tore that apart leading to the ruined forward boat-deck as we see today. As of 2005 the bow mast that was lying straight on the boat-deck had now collapsed down to the b-deck rail and the crows nest has likely fallen from the mast down into one of the open cargo holds.

The Stern Section lies around 800 meters or 8 miles (not sure which right now) away from the bow with the stern facing the break area of the bow section. When the stern sank it was still full of air as it sank too quickly for all the air to come out like in the bow. As the stern sank deeper and deeper the air began to force its way out and at those depths the air pressure was destructive. A weak point was the open areas inside the ship around the aft well deck and under the poop-deck and so air blasted up the 3rd class stairs under the poop-deck causing half of the deck to fold back over onto itself. The deck of the well deck had also been ripped out from the escaping of air leading to the hull peeling away from the top there too.

The force of the water acting on the weakened hull around the break area began to tear the hull and decks apart, that is why the ship is missing a lot of the hull from where she broke. This tearing of the hull pulled the ship out of her vertical descent and so she turned to sink stern first and she hit the seabed propellers first. Upon impact with the sea floor the reaming air blasted out of the sides of the ship, tearing off the hull completely from the starboard side and blowing out the hull from the bottom on the port side.

There is only one thing left on what remains of the Boat-Deck and that's the Second Class Stairs which the roof as collapsed into. Around the break area the remaining decks have collapsed down onto each over the the first or second, they say the engines broke with the ship, are visible outside the wreck.
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Comments: 129

Lex-the-Pikachu In reply to ??? [2012-04-04 10:26:48 +0000 UTC]

its wrong as the weakest point of the ship at that stage would of been the aft expansion joint

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alotef In reply to Lex-the-Pikachu [2012-04-04 10:37:36 +0000 UTC]

The expansion joint only reached down to the top of C-Deck and was reinforced more than other parts of the ship. The place with the highest amount of pressure at that time during the sinking was between the second and third funnel at the first class lounge raised roof. The theory is that the titanic only reached an angle of about 30 degrees before splitting, and rather than tearing in half, the decks compressed down on one another until the two halves were only connected by the keel.

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Lex-the-Pikachu In reply to alotef [2012-04-04 11:10:13 +0000 UTC]

like bending several rulers together and they meet in the middle. I'll still hold the break between the 3rd and 4th until i see the new documentries. If they are available online i'd love to be directed to them. Otherwise i'm gonna have to weight until the 15th or after before i can see them

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Quarteon01 In reply to ??? [2012-04-02 16:10:05 +0000 UTC]

Huh, ok then. My bad.
Seeing from what the survitors of the ship said, I'm wondering why the majority of the survivors didn't see the ship broke apart while a few did. Could the weather at that time affect on what they saw that night?

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Lex-the-Pikachu In reply to Quarteon01 [2012-04-02 17:06:44 +0000 UTC]

would you even want to watch a ship with over a thousand people on it sink?

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Eugenius330 In reply to ??? [2012-03-30 00:45:55 +0000 UTC]

Very detailed work. Your level of detail is amazing in all of your Titanic related work.

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Lex-the-Pikachu In reply to Eugenius330 [2012-03-30 09:34:07 +0000 UTC]

thank you so much

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JustinTheSpider [2012-03-22 22:58:14 +0000 UTC]

so tragic
you know it sank because the ice scraped the bottom of it

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Lex-the-Pikachu In reply to JustinTheSpider [2012-03-22 23:10:23 +0000 UTC]

ha wrong

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Bruiser235 In reply to ??? [2012-03-16 23:26:14 +0000 UTC]

That's excellent and very informative.

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Lex-the-Pikachu In reply to Bruiser235 [2012-03-17 00:14:57 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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seth243 In reply to ??? [2012-03-16 15:19:17 +0000 UTC]

do you think its possible to drag the ship off the sea floor and bring it to land?

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Lex-the-Pikachu In reply to seth243 [2012-03-16 15:35:03 +0000 UTC]

no i don't. Moving her now will result in her hull collapsing

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seth243 In reply to Lex-the-Pikachu [2012-03-16 15:38:16 +0000 UTC]

hmmm i wish there was a way to save her befor she rottes away..

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Lex-the-Pikachu In reply to seth243 [2012-03-16 15:41:17 +0000 UTC]

the most that can be done is to stop people landing on the wreck to take artifacts from her, Ballard and James Cameron commented on how repeated landing on the roofs of the Grand Stair Case and Gym have caused them to collapse in on themselves. thats about as much that can be done for her

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seth243 In reply to Lex-the-Pikachu [2012-03-16 15:43:48 +0000 UTC]

hmm why not try and reinforces whats left of her by putting somthing around her

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Lex-the-Pikachu In reply to seth243 [2012-03-16 15:49:21 +0000 UTC]

she's 2 and a half miles down, doing anything at that depth is dangerous

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seth243 In reply to Lex-the-Pikachu [2012-03-16 19:58:45 +0000 UTC]

hmm that's right i guess shes just to fare gone to save..

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Lapeer In reply to ??? [2012-03-15 22:15:28 +0000 UTC]

I don't think I ever commented on any of your works, but I find them rather remarkable. Really enjoying the skills and work you put into these, much respect ^^

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Lex-the-Pikachu In reply to Lapeer [2012-03-15 22:17:14 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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AnAspieInPoland In reply to ??? [2012-03-15 21:53:48 +0000 UTC]

Wow, the bow really fell apart that much over all those years?

And , well, it' interesting how the wreck looks like - the bow section had a pretty nice landing, while the stern hit so hard it pretty much disintegrated itself.

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Lex-the-Pikachu In reply to AnAspieInPoland [2012-03-15 21:55:01 +0000 UTC]

no, the stern was ripped apart on the way down, it was the air pressure inside that blew out the hull and ripped away decks

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NuclearAlchmist In reply to Lex-the-Pikachu [2020-02-23 19:38:40 +0000 UTC]

Alhough the front 1/3 of the stern survived in several large chunks: the deck housing surrounding the base of the 3rd funnel; the 3rd-class galley; the bulkhead that separated the 2 aft-most boiler rooms from each other and the coal bunkers surrounding it; and one cannot forget about the 2 massive slabs of keel/double-bottom located east of the bow and stern, which fit perfectly between them. 

Aside from that, yes, the stern itself got ripped up/crushed in by water pressure as it descended to the ocean floor.

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AnAspieInPoland In reply to Lex-the-Pikachu [2012-03-15 21:56:37 +0000 UTC]

Really? Then I must have had outdated information, or the programme I watched about it said it all wrong.

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Lex-the-Pikachu In reply to AnAspieInPoland [2012-03-15 21:59:04 +0000 UTC]

not much is know about the stern, everything so far has been focused on the bow section. but i watched a long time ago a program that explained how when the stern sank it was full of air still, as it sank deeper that air then forced its way out any way it could, thats why the poop-deck has been peeled back onto itself from the air blasting out of the 3rd class stairs and when she hit the sea bed the remaining air blew out the sides of the hull.

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AnAspieInPoland In reply to Lex-the-Pikachu [2012-03-15 22:01:28 +0000 UTC]

Well, the one I saw showed the stern going with propellers downwards, so many compressed air would be blown through the midsection rift. And when the stern hit the ocean floor, the force of the impact alone torn it apart.

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Lex-the-Pikachu In reply to AnAspieInPoland [2012-03-15 22:16:00 +0000 UTC]

for most of its descent it would of been going down vertically like when it sank, the force of the water would of torn away parts of the hull and super structure weakened by the break, as the air would of torn away more like the poop-deck, at some point it changed its way of sinking so it hit the sea bead propellors first

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AnAspieInPoland In reply to Lex-the-Pikachu [2012-03-15 22:18:41 +0000 UTC]

I guess so...

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