WHERE IS THE TITANIC?

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1058, 18 June 1912, Page 4

WHERE IS THE TITANIC?

Much speculation has been engaged in as to whether the Titanic has gone to the bottom or is floating somewhere down below. The Scientific American holds that the vessel has gone to the bottom. Other.opinions are different, and are mainly based upon the writings of those who have been engaged in deep-sea soundings. The journal referred to says that pressure is contused with density, the pressure at the depth of 2000 fathoms, in which the Titanic went down, being three-quarters of a million pounds per square foot. It is added that it is almost impossible to compress water. At a depth of a mile the density of sea water is only one one-hundred and thirtieth greater than at the surface. “Any air-filled chambers or compressible matter in the vessel,” says the Scientific American, “would be crushed in by the enormous pressure of the water, so that the displacement of the wreck would be growing less as it went down, and it would be falling through the water at a corresponding acceleration. Steel is more compressible than water, and consequently a solid block of it would actually weigh more at the bottom of the sea than at the top.”