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Remember those watertight doors?
They only went up to a certain point, so if the water rose too high, it could spill over the top like an overflowing ice tray.
Good news, the Titanic could stay afloat, with four of its lower compartments flooded.
Bad news, by 12.20am, five of them had been breached.
I assure you, Rose, she can't sink.
Doing some seriously quick maths, the ship's architect, Thomas Andrews, came to a grim conclusion.
The Titanic would sink in about two hours.
The ship was going down, and fast.
They were tested in Belfast with a weight of 70 men.
When was the last time you watched this film?
So let's start with how things would likely go for those lucky ducks in first class.
Firstly, you'd have geography on your side.
From your lofty cabin, you wouldn't have far to travel to get where the first lifeboats were being launched from, which was the highest deck.
And as intel trickled through the ship about the true extent of the emergency, you would definitely be the first to know.