Why did the Titanic sink?

It has been determined that the steel had too much sulfur in it.

In the cold waters of the North atlantic, the iceberg caused the metal to basically shatter, causing a greater breech in the hull and the watertight bulkheads did not go up high enough, so as the ship sank, the water spilled over the top of them, sinking it

The main reason has to be the radio operators, who were employed by Marconi, considered iceberg warnings as a low priority, so although two independent reports of icebergs were received, these weren't passed on to the bridge.

The people who said the iceberg tore a hole in the side of the ship are incorrect. The iceberg buckled the metal plates and popped the rivets holding them in place causing water to leak over a 90 metre length. While the ship could have remained afloat with 4 flooded compartments, the water was flooding into 5 compartments. This extra weight caused the ship to sink to a point where the water was able to flood over the top of the water tight compartments to flood other compartments causing the demise of the ship.

Captain Smith did not want to slow down in icy weather conditions.

Both America and Britain held inquiries into the disaster. both reached the almost identical conclusions.

The American inquiry concluded that Captain Smith should have slowed the speed of the boat given the icy weather conditions.

The British inquiry, on the other hand, concluded that maintaining speed in icy weather conditions was common practice.

Both inquiries agreed on who was most at fault - Captain Stanley Lord of the Californian. The inquiries stated that if Lord had gone to Titanic's assistance when the first rocket was seen then everyone would have been saved.

Both inquiries made recommendations:

All ships must carry sufficient lifeboats for the number of passengers on board.

Ship radios should be manned 24 hours a day.

Regular lifeboat drills should be held.

Speed should be reduced in ice, fog or any other areas of possible danger.

It hit an iceberg and despite all the hoopla about it being the biggest, baddest ship ever, apparently it wasn't sufficiently strong enough to sustain such damage.

Because the large hole in the side let in enough water that its weight became greater than its boyancy.

It hit an iceberg, which tore a hole in the hull.

hit a ice berg it wasnt as srong as they thought it was

todays society, it was an act of terrorism, hehehe