for those of you who haven't seen this remake, i found this clip available. Dont know if its been on here or not, all apologies if this is duplicate info.
http://www.tvguide.com/TV/HotList/default.htm?cmsRedir=true&rmDate=11202005&cmsGuid=%7B9C0C6672-B342-4C66-931B-3DAEAC08A586%7D
DON'T TAKE LIVE TOO SERIOUSLY, YOUR NOT GOING TO GET OUT ALIVE ANYWAY - Unknown
I saw this clip at the site you supplied. Thank you. It seems to me that the cause of the capsize was the explosion. No way in this world or the next such an explosion could capsize a ship. No matter how big an explosion. It would, at most, cause it to sink. Maybe there was a wave, but the clip showed no such suggestion. From what I saw, it was the explosion that capsized the ship, something well known by everyone that would never happen.
shareThe way I heard it described elsewhere, it wasn't one big explosion, it was several small ones all over the place on one side of the ship. Maybe the explosions happened in some sort of pre-arranged sequence, working their way up or down the hull, such that each one unbalanced the ship a little more, and a little bit more, in rapid succession, until finally the whole thing just capsised...
Okay, maybe not...
But, then... Hey! This is Hollywood rubber-science! :-) Who says it's GOTTA be realistic, so long as it looks cool! :-D
Actually, there was a ferry of some sort over in Europe that left it's bow doors open as it headed out to sea. (It was there that cars drove aboard for the crossing.)
Rather than sink, the flooding caused the ferry to capsize.
So a ship capsizing due to a whole blown in its side isn't too unfeasable. Especially if a ship is top heavy.