titanic did have a design flaw. if the walls seperating the lower sections of the ship would have actually went all the way to the ceiling, then water couldnt fill up and flow over into all the other sections, which is what took the titanic down. also, the captain wouldnt have been so careless with his decision to full throttle the thing just to make a record if he didnt think the ship was "unsinkable". that is partly the press' fault