单选题 If the Titanic had hit the iceberg head on, its watertight compartments might have saved it from ______ , but it swerved to avoid the iceberg, and in the collision so many compartments were opened to the sea that disaster was ______.

• (A) foundering...inevitable
• (B) sinking...escaped
• (C) damage...limited
• (D) buoyancy...unavoidable
• (E) collapse...averted