What sank the RMS Titanic?
Since that fateful night in April 1912, there has been incredibly sustained interest in determining what really happened to the unsinkable Titanic. After her discovery in 1985 under 12,000 feet of water, it became possible to conduct a detailed scientific and forensic analysis of the details of the sinking. This seminar will detail the findings of the panel assembled to perform the first detailed scientific investigation the wreck. Results will be presented on the structural, architectural and particularly the metallurgical analysis of Titanic. Evidence currently points away from the theory that brittle hull steel allowed the ship to shatter on impact with the iceberg. Rather, it appears that a very unlucky set of circumstances involving collision dynamics, ship design and riveting may have led to the most famous maritime disaster in history.
