rate of flooding

Hello all, One thing has puzzled me about Titanic's sinking process for a while now. That being, the rate of the sinking. For the first 40 minutes after the collision, Titanic experienced an incredible rate of flooding in the forward 5 compartments. The flooding was so fast, in fact, that AB...

While looking at the Titanic Explorer plans (the Beveridge plans, licensed by Discovery Channel) for another post, I noticed something about the nature of F deck (the highest deck with watertight doors throughout the ship) that seemed intriguing. I'm sure I'm not the first, but it was...

Just more ramblings from me: Nobody knows where Daniel Buckley's room was. All we know is that it was in the bow, in 3rd class, and in (at least) a 4 berth cabin (as there was him and three others in the room). When the collision occurred, he heard a noise, jumped out of bed, and his feet...

Let me start off by saying that I know the Titanic had watertight doors and bulkheads to slow or prevent flooding. But it seems to me that the ship was sinking incredibly fast to begin with, and then seems to have decreased in the rate of sinking, then increased greatly again. I would...