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Message: [QUOTE="Michael H. Standart, post: 87614, member: 79064"] >>didnt they say if you didnt close the water tight door she would be able to float to land<< Nope. Nobody ever said that. What was asserted at one time was that if the watertight doors had been left open, the ship would have floated more evenly and lasted longer. This bizzarr conclusion was finally put to rest when tank tests were done with engineers models which demonstrated that exactly the opposite would have happened. Lights would have been lost at around 12:40, leaving the ship in darkness and free surface action would have destabilized the ship to the point where she would have rolled over half an hour earlier then she actually did. Go to [url="http://home.flash.net/~rfm/WHYWHAT/whywhat.html"]http://home.flash.net/~rfm/WHYWHAT/whywhat.html[/url] for a discussion of "What If" scenerios and the problems with them. [/QUOTE]