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Message: [QUOTE="Dan Cherry, post: 228752, member: 166043"] Tripp, well, yes in a way, both pancake effects were as a result of loss of structural integrity. Since the Titanic has been submerged for over 92 years, this structural integrity is being ever-more compromised. The gymnasium on the boat deck, on more or less an even plain when explored in 1985-86, is now at a heavy slant aft, its walls all but dissolved due to time. Other noticeable changes in the 19 years since the ship was photographed include the opening of holes in the boat deck plating, the falling away of the after portions of the A-deck enclosed screen, the collapse of the bridge bulkheads, the mast falling further into the well deck, among other things. Such is life when steel and 90+ years of salt water mix. [/QUOTE]