Is it true that Titanic hit an iceberg and sank? Then why did the ship break in two?

Mystery of Titanic's Sinking-19 12 On April 12, the British luxury passenger ship Titanic unfortunately sank on its maiden voyage to North America, causing 1523 people to die in the belly of fish, which is the biggest disaster in the history of human navigation. For many years, the real cause of the sinking of Titanic has been the focus of people's exploration. 1996, scientists conducted a field survey of the sunken ship and only found six small holes of 90 cm on the side of the ship.

Titanic collided with an iceberg. The iceberg hit the hull, causing the rivet of the hull to be damaged. At first, considering that the material of rivet is brittle, slag was added in the process of rivet manufacturing, but the slag was too dense, which made the rivet brittle when it could not bear the impact. After the nail broke, seawater flooded into the watertight compartment, but at that time, the maximum bearing limit of the Titanic watertight compartment was 4, and the intake part was 5, which exceeded the bearing limit.

At that time, some passengers and crew on board thought that they had encountered a big wave, some thought that they had hit the rocks, and some thought that the propeller had failed. But the passengers in the cabin below felt much stronger vibration. Some passengers saw milky white icebergs passing by outside the porthole. Some scraped ice fell into the cabin. The immigrant passengers on the first deck found that the sea water was overflowing the hatch. The ship stopped soon. After checking all watertight compartments, chief designer Andrews told Captain Smith that the ship was hopeless.

A luxury cruise ship with such a high configuration really shouldn't sink, but the 300-foot hull above and below the waterline of Titanic is welded by 10 30-foot-long brittle steel plates. The long weld was cracked when it hit an iceberg in ice water. The brittle weld was no different from a 300-foot zipper, which led to a long crack in the hull. With the influx of seawater, the ship quickly sank.