Talk:Titanic

It's funny, there was actually a documentary on the other day about the Titanic, which stated that there were several myths about it's sinking. One, is that topping off the compartments would have only slowed it's sinking. Two, is that the rudders for the ship would be considered within standards even today. Three, the flaw of the lifeboats was due to a ship's lifeboat count being related to it's weight at the time, rather than it's max passenger number and it actually had MORE than that legal standard (lifeboats by ship weight.) Four is that the coalfire in it's storage had little if anything to do with how fast it sank. Just bits of info I managed to pick up from said documentary. (In short the documentary said that none of the designs flaws within the Titanic if fixed would have prevented it from sinking.)

Matthew Lenz --- 2008 03 2nd