Animation and
Simulations/ Andrea Doria
The Andrea Doria was an Italian cruise ship built
in the early 1950's and had navigated her normal
route across the Atlantic to New York exactly 100
times before. On July 25, 1956 the Stockholm, a
Swedish liner bound for her homeland, collided with
the Andrea Doria in a dense fog off the island of
Nantucket.
The Discovery Channel asked JMS to recreate the
incident by performing a forensic engineering
analysis and illustrate the findings with
3D-computer simulations. In this way, JMS would
explain why the ships collided, describe the extent
of damage to both ships and how it may have caused
the Doria to sink the way that it did.
The damage to the Doria was very severe. Most of
the 51 passengers who lost their lives as a result
of the collision died almost instantly when the
ice-strengthened bow of the Stockholm penetrated 3
cabin decks to a depth of nearly 40 feet.
The damage to the Doria was so vast that it
caused a near instantaneous flood of seawater into
empty starboard fuel tanks. This sudden
non-symmetrical flooding forced the ship to list
more than 20degrees to starboard and caused
non-watertight upper decks, now exposed by the
damaged hole, to become submerged. This continual
flooding, listing and submerging of decks eventually
overwhelmed the vessel. In less than 10 hours after
the collision the Andrea Doria plunged to her grave
in nearly 300 feet of water.
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...the bow of the Stockholm falls away
when she pulls back from the Doria...
...the Andrea Doria completing
a turn to port...
...flooding into a starbord side, empty
fuel tank causes the Doria to list severely...
...the Andrea Doria in her final
moments...
...a typical First
Class cabin on the Doria...
..the ice-strengthened bow of the
Stockholm crushes 3 cabin decks
instantly.. |
