The Length of Time the Royal Mail Ship Titanic Stayed Afloat Post Colliding With an Iceberg in 1912, How Rivets Were Installed During the Early 20th Century, the Reason Water Was Able to Flood the Titanic Post Impact With an Iceberg, the Reason Ships Do Not Utilize Rivets During the Modern Day, the Difficulty of Constructing a Ship Which Can Withstand Icebergs and Rocks, How Icebergs and Rock are Avoided by Ships During the Modern Day, the Reason Oil Tankers Have Double Hulls and the Reason Most Ships Have Single Hulls or Modified Double Hulls, the Category Most Commercial Ships Focus Resources Upon, the Tallest Ship in the World, the Reason Cruise Ships Have High Centers of Gravity and the Maximum Deviation Cruise Ships Can Heel (Lean/Tip/Tilt), the Reason the Majority of Ships Possess Holes Within the Bottom of Their Hull, the Period When the Captain of a Ship Can Abandon the Vessel, the Captain of a Ship Possessing No Responsibility to Safely Extricate All Passengers in the Event of an Emergency, the Maximum Number of Persons Which Can Fit Within a Lifeboat, and the Underutilization of Lifeboats During the Sinking of the Titanic and the Consequences of This

After hitting an iceberg during it's maiden voyage, the Titanic stayed afloat for less than 3 hours. Rivets used during the time of the manufacturing of the Titanic and many of America's modern megastructures were fit using a technique which heats the rivet and hammered through holes which then cooled and contracted, pulling together anything it was attached to. As the rivets popped out on the Titanic after impact, it allowed for a zipper like opening of the ship which allowed water to flush inw...


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