I was thinking about the Sail Barge explosion and how it could be made to look more like a maritme disaster.
Here's the bang we know so well :
But it might look more Titanic if the loss of power and the force of the explosion made it tip up into the pit (a bit like a sinking ship):
I tried to do a mock up of it snapping in half but I can't find enough photographic material to pull it off.