The Titanic disasterWhy did the Titanic sink in three hours if it was deemed unsinkable? Unsinkable ships don't sink that fast. From the survivors' accounts, everyone says that it sank in less than three hours and that it split in two. I'm pretty sure unsinkable ships don't sink that fast and break in two, so if it was truly unsinkable, why did this happen? The Titanic's hull was strengthened after her sister had a similar accident. Before the Titanic hit the iceberg, it had received several warnings about the presence of icebergs, none of them reached the deck. When the iceberg hit, its hull cracked easily and this is ice against steel, apparently ice is stronger. But the simple fact is that it hit its side, icebergs have more mass underwater, but it only pierced the side and not the double bottom, you would think that the bottom would have been damaged too, but according to the survivors it was not it was like that. When the Titanic hit the iceberg it began to take on tons of water per second and this happened in one of the first boiler rooms near the front of the ship, among all the perforated compartments there was the boiler room, the mail room and the storage compartment. When it began to take on water, the passengers did not worry because they had heard that it was unsinkable. It was only when they began to hear it capsizing and a crew member telling them to get on the decks that they began to worry whether or not they would survive. In the confusion, the band on board decided to play to keep the other passengers calm, who never managed to escape alive. Most of the third class passengers couldn't make it because they were so low in the ship that they had to travel even further to reach the upper deck. A few minutes after the Titanic hit the iceberg and began to tip over on its front was when the cre...... middle of paper ......etroit: St. James Press, 2000. 661-663.Student Resources in Context. Network. December 5, 2013Harry Senior. “The Titanic: A Fireman's Story, April 15, 1912.” Gale World history in context. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Student Resources in Context. Network. December 5, 2013. "National Geographic." www.nationalgeographic.com. History and Web. 5 December 2013.." Remains of the RMS Titanic discovered." Science and its times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Student Resources in Context. Network. December 5, 2013"Titanic disaster". UXL Encyclopedia of United States History. Sonia Benson, Daniel E. Brannen, Jr. and Rebecca Valentino. vol. 8. Detroit: UXL, 2009. 1561-1564. StudentResources inContext. Network. December 5, 2013. "Titanic Facts." www.titanicfacts.net. Np Web. 5 December 2013.facts.net/the-titanic.html>.