Titanic AKA: "Failboat" It was a ship built with 16 water
tight compartments, and deemed to be unsinkable, however on Failboat's maiden voyage, she struck an ice burg, opening the first 5 compartments to the sea, besides striking along the side, the ship also ran aground over the ice burg, as
ice burgs are larger under water than the surface, this caused damage to the Failboat's double bottom. Causing flooding in areas of the ship 15
feet in from the hull, coming from below. Likely from the double bottom being severely damaged.
The Failboat's pumps were only able to pump out about 10% of the water that was coming in. And though the total damage was only about 12
feet square (4 meters
square) the ship was doomed, and sank 2 and a half hours later, killing more than
1,500
people, many of which froze to death in the freezing Atlantic.
To this
day, Titanic is refered to as RMS Failboat. Because of the legendary fail that happened on that
cold April night in 1912.
Partially to blame is humanity, believing that not even an act of god can sink a ship, too much trust in technology. That and the noobs that were in charge of writing laws up, instead of having enough life boats for each person on board, instead stated that lifeboat capacity was determined on the tonnage of a vessel.