General Zod
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Kinda similar the titanic left port while it was on fire which weakened the hull and the arrogance that it was unsinkable with not enough life boats.
I can't recall ever reading that the coal fire weakened the hull...though I have seen it theorized that the steel used had some impurities in it that may have made it brittle at colder temperatures, which made the damage it took that much worse. Weren't the coal bunkers well back from the bow of the ship, near the engine rooms?
From what I recall reading, a coal fire on an ocean-going ship just wasn't that unusual back then. Titanic was doomed by the iceberg, which was further south than large icebergs were 'supposed' to be that time of year - otherwise it would've made it to New York just fine. The Titan submersible was doomed by shoddy design, a cavalier attitude toward safety and engineering, and being overseen by a complete moron and his ego. A catastrophic failure there was just a matter of time.