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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Funny thing if they had done that and the iceberg hit frontally like the engineers planned for it would probably not have sunken the ship.

What the engineers didn't foresee was an iceberg strafing the side and cutting open too many sections for the ship to stay afloat.