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Here's the position.

Andrews Reads the Damage · A Night to Remember (1958)

Here's the position.

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Water in the forepeak.

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1Here's the position.
2Water in the forepeak.
3Numbers one and two holds.
4The mail room and boiler rooms six and five.
5That means a gash 300 foot long...
6from there to there...
7below the waterline.
8- Do you agree? - Yes.
9Well?
10The pumps are keeping the water down in this boiler room...
11but the first five compartments are flooding.
12Well, what's the answer?
13She's going to sink, Captain.
14But she can't sink.
15- She's unsinkable. - She can't float.
16Look.
17She could float with any three of her first five watertight compartments flooded .
18She could even float with four of them gone .
19- But she can't float with all five full up. - Yes, but - These watertight bulkheads here only go as high as E Deck .
20The weight of water in the bow is going to pull her down by the head.
21So you're going to get the fifth watertight compartment overflowing into the sixth...
22the sixth into the seventh and so on as she gets lower.
23It's a mathematical certainty .
24With that amount of underwater damage, she can't stay afloat .

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