No one thing sent the Titanic to the bottom of the North Atlantic, Richard Corfield writes in a Physics World retrospective on the disaster that caused 1,514 deaths on April 14-15, 1912. Rather, the ship was ensnared by a perfect storm of circumstances that conspired her to her doom.
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10 causes of the Titanic tragedy. The unsinkable Titanic was sunk by an iceberg, but there are other reasons why the tragedy that occurred 100 years ago this month was as tragic as it was.
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This suggested that, instead of just causing gashes to the Titanic’s side, the iceberg may have ripped open the bottom of the hull. Another expedition in 2005 revealed these to be a large portion of the hull, which had been torn away from the ship as it sank.
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Computer calculations, help reveal the detailed stages: When the Titanic struck the iceberg, six of its 16 watertight compartments were damaged. The ship started taking on water in the bow through openings about 20 feet below the water line.
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Image: Shutterstock. It wasn’t a single factor that sent Titanic to the bottom of the ocean, it was a chain of them. One hundred years ago, the ship that had been called ‘virtually unsinkable’ struck an iceberg and sank within three hours, taking many of her passengers and crew with her. History is clear enough on this point, but a mystery follows- how did the Titanic strike the iceberg in the first place?
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1 When the Titanic struck the iceberg, six of its 16 watertight compartments were damaged. The ship started taking on water in the bow through openings about 20 feet below the water line.  As the liner nosed down, water flooded compartments one after another and the ship's stern began rising out of the water.
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The iceberg that the Titanic struck on its way from Southampton to New York is No. 1 on a top-10 list of circumstances. Here are nine other suggested circumstances from Corfield's article and other sources:
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The steersman took a wrong turn: Did the Titanic's steersman turn the ship toward the iceberg, dooming the ship? That's the claim made in 2010 by Louise Patten, who said the story was passed down from her grandfather, the most senior ship officer to survive the disaster.
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1 The ship started taking on water in the bow through openings about 20 feet below the water line. 2  As the liner nosed down, water flooded compartments one after another and the ship's stern began rising out of the water.  As the stern rose ever higher, the stress amidships was more than the vessel could bear.
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1 As the liner nosed down, water flooded compartments one after another and the ship's stern began rising out of the water.  As the stern rose ever higher, the stress amidships was more than the vessel could bear. It broke apart just forward of the third funnel. The bow began to sink.
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