And as the bow dipped farther into the ocean, the water flowed over the bulkheads, flooding the watertight compartments one at a time.

随着船首进一步沉入海洋中，水流过舱壁，一个一个地淹没水密舱室。

Everybody does one job in a watertight compartment.

每个人都在水密隔间里做一份工作。

Below, the captain realized to his horror that the Titanic was sinking rapidly, for five of her sixteen watertight compartments had already been flooded!

在下面，船长惊恐地发现“泰坦尼克”号正在急速下沉，16个密封舱已有5个进水。

At the time, however, she was not only the largest ship that had ever been built, but was regarded as unsinkable, for she had sixteen watertight compartments.

当时，这艘轮船不仅是造船史上建造的最大的一艘船，而且也被认为是不会沉没的。