I have not seen the new documentary, but this is what I think:

So much has been made about the poor quality of Titanic's skin that I want to really know if these inperfections were corrected if it would really stop the theoried 12 square feet of damage the iceberg caused.


This is what I would like to see done:

1. Stop testing Titanics rivits and steel for a while

2. Test some steel and rivits made to correct specifications of the time period (1912), and make it without ecessive slag or whatever Titanic's flaws were.

3. Test steel and rivits made to today (2006) specifications.

I'm not talking about a similation of hitting a piece of steel the size of a french fry with a big hammer as other experiments have done. I mean steel plates rivited together or computer similations.

This is what causes me to question the relevence of this topic. Everyone says it was the poor steel that caused the catosraphic flooding.

But it was only about 12 square feet of damage!!! Edward Wilding figured that out. It seems that even a glancing blow by a berg would cause more than that, especially if the steel is bad.

As Scientist Charles Pellegrino stated: The berg hit the ship with enough force to lift the Washington Monument 10 times. And with that force, modern day titanium could not hold up to that.