Roy Mengot to speak on Friday

 

Abstract for the Mengot lecture

RMS Titanic collided with an ice berg and sank on the morning of April 15th, 1912. Testimony at hearings on both sides of the Atlantic included conflicting stories of the ship breaking in two or sinking whole. The discovery of the wreck in 1985 confirmed that the ship did break near the surface. Recent evidence and analysis indicates that the initial point of hull failure was at or near the double bottom and the ship effectively broke bottom-up.

Bio:

Roy Mengot teaches systems engineering tools and process for Siemens Corporation and resides in Plano Texas. His research of the wreck at Woods Hole produced a model of the wreck that has earned national awards and is on display at the Woods Hole Visitor’s Center. Roy has contributed articles to Voyage and has given Titanic talks in St. Paul, Topeka, Dundee Scotland, the Queen Mary in Long beach, and co-authored a paper on the break-up of Titanic for the Marine Forensics Panel that was presented to the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.