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...the Titanic would have hit the iceberg head on? Would it have sank, or just been a major inconvinience? Please vote and discuss...
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well no. if it was head on it would make a big dent and maybe shake up the ship giving whip lash to everyone.*lol* but since it had 10 compartments then no...even though it was going 70 miles per hour it wouldn't be that bad. after awhile if no one sued they would fix it up, sail, and be in a water mueseum by now as good as new.

Which makes me wonder... Why turn if they new they wouldn't make it...they would have known since they were to close. maybe the crew in the crows nest were suicidal...hmph...

Very good question
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It would of only sanked one compartment living the others empty. The ship would have never sanked and had to be towed away. I think it would of been fixed, inculding that it was the most luxurios ship in that time period and the biggest.
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If the ship hit the berg head on, it would have killed many of the crew, which had their quarters in the bow section.

It is possible that the ship could have survived a head on impact, that is, if there was no iceberg shelf underneath the ship to poke holes in compartments further back.

Remember, Titanic actually was leaking in boiler room (4 I think) from the floorplates (not the side), as if her double bottom was pierced from ice at or just above the keel.

So even though a head on collision would have stopped damage along the side of the lower hull, we might still have to worry about underneath the ship.
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I agree with that. I just think that when it's all said and done, the damage would have been minimal enough to sustain flotation. At least for another couple of hours. Also, the iceberg may have provided a place for people to wait it out until help arrived. It's a stretch, but I'm not the first to have wondered about that.

Some wondered why there were no other icebergs around to climb aboard since they were everywhere when morning broke.

Quite simply, do you think that she'd still be here today had they hit head on?
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dames wrote:
I agree with that. I just think that when it's all said and done, the damage would have been minimal enough to sustain flotation. At least for another couple of hours. Also, the iceberg may have provided a place for people to wait it out until help arrived. It's a stretch, but I'm not the first to have wondered about that.

Some wondered why there were no other icebergs around to climb aboard since they were everywhere when morning broke.

Quite simply, do you think that she'd still be here today had they hit head on?

I think the ship would still be here today, but in a museum.
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I think the ship would still be here today, but in a museum.


Thats what i said!!! no stealing!
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Titanic would still be gone. Perhaps sunk during WWI, Scrapped like the Olympic during the '30's, but still gone. If Titanic HAD survived the iceberg impact (head-on or otherwise), she'd have been repaired and continued serving the sea lanes until they were done with her. And since she WOULDN'T have sunk, taking 1,500 people with her, there wouldn't be even a quarter of the attention focused on her. She'd just be another ship that went through a bygone time.
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DANNYJ wrote:
I think the ship would still be here today, but in a museum.


Thats what i said!!! no stealing!

Calm down. Nobody stole your words.
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Posted on: 2007/3/13 23:30
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It's hard to say what would happen. If it didn't sank there maybe wouldn't be that much focus on Titanic today - it would just be remembered as the biggest ship of her time. Many new ships would take her place as time goes by.
But many of her victims would live on and get a longer life - and come to America.
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