Titanic Factoid

I ended up watching some National Geographic TV specials about the world’s most interesting subject, the Sinking of the Titanic. I learned a factoid I hadn’t even thought about before. Even though it took 2 hours and 40 minutes after striking the iceberg for Titanic to break into two halves and vanish below the waves, it took only five or ten minutes for the wreckage to reach the ocean bottom more than two miles deep. A waterlogged steel boat doesn’t float, it sinks, and fast too, with the stern in particular shredding into pieces as it raced through the cold, dark water. For some reason, 108 years later, that speedy death plunge really bothers me.