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Kimberley Dayle Edwards
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Hi everybody!
I watched a Titanic documentary some time ago, where they showed this experiment that they did. They built a 'to - scale' model of the Titanic and sank it, to see the passage of the ship as it travelled to the ocean floor. They found out that it went down in a 'rocking' motion, which probably accounts for it being upright on the ocean floor. They missed one vital point though! The model that they built was in one piece, not in 2 pieces like the original. I am sure that this would have affected the way it sank, surely! Another thing is that the ship would have been hollow to a certain extent, with all those corridors etc. I can't belive that they overlooked this, it seems so simple, but I also can't believe it would have made any difference.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated!
Kimberley
I watched a Titanic documentary some time ago, where they showed this experiment that they did. They built a 'to - scale' model of the Titanic and sank it, to see the passage of the ship as it travelled to the ocean floor. They found out that it went down in a 'rocking' motion, which probably accounts for it being upright on the ocean floor. They missed one vital point though! The model that they built was in one piece, not in 2 pieces like the original. I am sure that this would have affected the way it sank, surely! Another thing is that the ship would have been hollow to a certain extent, with all those corridors etc. I can't belive that they overlooked this, it seems so simple, but I also can't believe it would have made any difference.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated!
Kimberley