Subj : Re: Submarine Deaths
To   : Blue White
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Jun 26 2023 06:40:00

-=> Blue White wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 BW> I saw that also.  Interesting hypothesis.  I don't know about the bow
 BW> of the Titanic, but I think the bows of some ships are designed to be
 BW> more sturdy than other parts of he hull.

The titanic had watertight compartments, and so flooding on a head-on
collision would have been much less than the glancing blow that opened
several compartments to the sea. Makes sense theoretically.

They had examples of boats that had survived during similar head-on
collisions, but you need to be aware of survivorship bias.

There's a story about bomber designers looking at damage patterns of US
bombers during WW II. There were definite patterns of bullet holes in
surviving airplanes that they wanted to go ahead and re-inforce. One of
the engineers said they needed to look at the areas that *didn't* get
hit, hypothesizing that the ones that were hit in those areas didn't
make it back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias



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