Well obviously we’ve all seen the famous movie Titanic, directed by James Cameron and also written by him in 1997 based on the original history of The Sunken Titanic. Casting stars from Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as the heroin in this film. James Cameron actually succeeded in remaking the history by doing this amazing film. Showing the audience how the Titanic had sunk in 1912.
Out of this, came up a question on why did the Titanic hit the iceberg? Well, In my personal opinion, there can be a few reasons and possibilities to why did the Titanic hit the iceberg.
#1 Physically, the size of the Titanic ship was too gigantic for the small rotors at the back of this iron beast. When the ship was heading straight for the iceberg at high speed, it was too late to navigate the ship evading the huge iceberg that was about to bring this giant monster ship down. And why is that? It’s because the ship was too big, and too heavy as it was made of steel plates and iron rivets. And the rotors wasn’t enough to budge the ship away at that level of speed. So it still hit the iceberg even when they managed to turn it away a little to the side. The inertia of the ship was too heavy for it to stop nor getting away quickly from hitting the iceberg.
#2 Scientifically, through some research, the Titanic was built out of steel plates and iron rivets. The pieces of steel were found to have very high content of phosphorus and sulphur (4x and 2x respectively, compared to modern steel), with manganese-sulphur ratio of 6.8:1 (compare with over 200:1 ratio for modern steels). In theory tested and experimented by scientists, at about 550° C (1,000° F) Steel is at 50% Strength and at about 800° C (1472° F) structural steel loses 90% of its strength. The steel from the Titanic was about 10 times more brittle than modern steel when tested at freezing temperature, the estimated temperature of the water at the time the Titanic struck the iceberg. Tests of the steel's chemical composition also showed a high content of sulfur, oxygen and phosphorus. High levels of those elements cause steel to be more brittle. The ship was sailing over the freezing water of the North Atlantic Ocean which cause the steel plates and iron rivets on the ship's body to drop temperature and froze causing them to be brittle, fragile and easily breaks in strong impact with the iceberg at high speed.
#3 Spiritually, there might be ghosts hanging out on the rotors at the back of the giant beast Titanic, causing them to not function properly as they should. Or some people said that it could also be that the iceberg was pushed in front of the Titanic’s way by the mythical greek god of the sea Poseiden because he was jealous that those people got to sail the ocean on a giant cruise ship leaving him out of the group. LOL….
By: Muhammad Tamim Faruq Bin Khairul 'Azmi. (1122702918)
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