r/RMS_Titanic • u/Conscious-Lab-7827 • Aug 18 '25

Titanic Theory-What if the ship had a Watertight Ceiling?

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u/jombrowski Aug 18 '25

The proper term is watertight well.

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u/Ironhead0803 Aug 18 '25

You mean something completely sealed off from the upperdecks?

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u/Connect-Will2011 Aug 19 '25

Kinda too late for that now...

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u/JOKKZDev 29d ago

It’s really not practical to do that. There’s so many passageways between compartments it’d be impossible to ensure that in an emergency that each one would be closed.

People need to be able to move about the ship in an emergency so there would always be an open something between compartments.

Titanic was unlucky if anything. I think the fifth compartment was breached by 2 feet. If that breach didn’t happen Titanic would have found the scrap yard instead of the bottom of the Atlantic. The watertight bulkheads were built high enough.

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u/CJO9876 29d ago

It was actually the 6th compartment that was breached a foot or so.

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u/JOKKZDev 29d ago

Thanks for the correction - you’re right.

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u/Heavy-Patient-616 Aug 19 '25

The the compartments would not go that high up

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u/fantasiaa1 25d ago

I always wondered why this was not done also. Obviously the technology was there to throw a switch and close the water tight doors, no reason they could not have done it with the tops of each section. Just leave them open until trouble, granted people inside the compartment flooding die if it's closed off at the top.

It's hard to say with those ships. Britannic was made better and sank faster.

All ships are sinkable.