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Jeffrey Beaudry
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Username: jbeaudry
Post Number: 50
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 7:06 pm: | 
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I have a question about the position of the wreck and the direction that the ship was heading when it sunk. The tank model in "Titanic: Answers from the Abyss" showed that the ship couldn't have spiraled down, and yet the wreck is pointing in a N NE heading. That would point it at more than a 90 degree angle to the right of where it was going (roughly west). I've heard accounts that the stern swiveled after it had separated, but the bow (as far as I know) never changed heading. The only thing I can figure is that the ship was steaming in this direction before the engines were stopped, which would help in the debate of a "port-around." |
Samuel Halpern
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Username: cmdrsam
Post Number: 691
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 7:13 pm: |
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Jeffery: This should answer your question.
17671. Do you mean her head was facing south? - [QM George Rowe] No, her head was facing north. She was coming round to starboard.
There are no Unsinkable Theories.
Sam Halpern
40° 23' 50'' N, 74° 13' 55'' W.
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