"Michael Askin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> A head-on collision would have broken open only the fore-most >> "watertight" compartment, which, even if full of water, would >> apparently not have caused the ship to sink. > >Ah, but would either of you choose to hit the iceberg (at the risk of >damaging millions of pounds (in todays money) of internal fittings and >the hull), and then explain to the captain you thought it would be >safer to hit the iceberg than go around it! :-) I'm sure the captain didn't see it as a choice between colliding head on or in a glancing blow. He surely saw it as a choice between colliding (if he didn't change course) and not colliding (if he did). Adrian . Adrian Stott 07956-299966
