单项选择题

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