The effects of this disaster were devastating to hundreds of families. In order to prevent more cases like the Titanic, the Harland and Wolff of Belfast company improved and fixed several of the ships that they had made. The changes were based on the failures that engineers overlooked while building the Titanic. In 1948, during the Convention of Safety of Life at Sea, new safety regulations were put into play that both the British and American government agreed upon. The safety regulations would (hopefully) prevent any more cases of accidents similar to the sinking of the Titanic. During the Convention on Safety of Life at Sea, it was implemented that ships will have to use wireless technology, application of ice-patrol, and increased lifeboat
The new technology that's being used are Norcross Depth Sounder, GPS, Power Cells, Creature Comforts, Radio, and Outboard Engines. Ships today have bolt-on deep and shoal draft keels with bulbs and wings and deep spade rudders which kept the boat upright and tracking these days and Sat Phones as well as wifi technology for today's sailors came in very handy the navigation isn't the only thing that has benefited from accessible satellites. The long distance communications have open up plus cruising and added safety and convenience. The sat phones are the type of devices that can send emails, so the days of world sailing and waiting until the next port to get in touch with your family are just plain gone. Let's not forget the proliferation of widely-available, reliable and often free Wifi you can send emails from most harbors around the world, which means Bluewater sailing has become less daunting and more appealing to those who don’t want to drop out the society when sailing to distant horizons.
The hearings took place from April 19 through May 25, 1912 and questioned some surviving passengers and the crew members from the Titanic and the Carpathia. The results of these hearings include the revisions of safety on ships and brought to light to the problems that increased the intensity of this international
Despite being deemed unsinkable, the ship sank on its maiden voyage, even though “It was a luxurious passenger liner, which was considered to be unsinkable, due to its double-bottomed hull with sixteen watertight compartments'' (Kaufman, 2002, p. 898). One of the theories suggests that the Titanic never sank, and someone switched it with another White Star Line ship, the R.M.S. Olympic, to reap insurance money. However, there are a lot of holes in this theory, one of the biggest is that the Titanic’s insurance wasn’t enough to cover the Olympics loss. As J. Kent Layton writes in Conspiracies at Sea, “the switch conspiracy founders—quite literally—on its financial merits alone” (Little, 2018, para. 10).
Introduction: Today, I want to share about Maria Beasley who was a housewife, dressmaker, and inventor. We can all imagine the scene at the end of the Titanic movie where Rose is slowly letting go of Jacks hand saying, “I’ll never let go, Jack. I promise.” (www.rottentomatoes.com/m/titanic/quotes) One of Maria Beasley’s inventions, that I will talk about soon, helped save many lives on the Titanic. Not much information is found about Maria’s life, but that she was born in Philadelphia and held many jobs including a dressmaker.
On the USS Indianapolis, a tragic incident happened on the sinking. Soldiers lost their lives in many ways. The torpedo, drowning, sharks, dehydration, starvation, and drinking saltwater. Only three hundred and seventeen men survived the catastrophe. Today I am writing an essay about Why they died and how they could have prevented it.
There are few things more exciting to many kids than getting to go on a boat. Not only is it a great way to have fun and enjoy the outdoors, it can be a great way to teach kids about safety, teamwork and responsibility. When kids are introduced to safe boating at an early age, they are much more likely to become safe boaters for life. Whatever the age, all children and adults should wear age-appropriate life jackets – no exceptions.
“Walter lord brings up during the novel that the reason why most passengers aboard the ship died was due to them not having access to the lifeboats on the Titanic. It mentions, “Especially when everyone realized there weren't enough boats for everyone.” If the Titanic never took this “risk” and experimented with not adding enough lifeboats, we wouldn't know nowadays that boats would need so many lifeboats in case of emergencies. With this, Walter Lord describes the cause and effect of this risk that led to a tragedy. He mentions, “Third officer Pitman…heard the cries…pitman was toned by the dilemma.”
Being a record-breaking passenger liner towering 175 feet and stretching 882 feet and 9 inches, it is surprising that mistakes were made so far ahead of the crash (TitanicFacts.net Quick Reference). So far that even the manufacturing of the Titanic had flaws. During the assembly of the of the ship, different manufacturing errors were made. Specifically, the rivets used on the Titanic were inadequately made. Although there was a proper amount of rivets on the ship, the material was a low-grade iron that would fail in the event of a collision (NBC News, “How could the sinking...”).
Titanic Crossing Genre: Historic Fiction Barbara Williams Copyright: 1995 Pages: 163 Grade: 4-5 Summary: Barbara Williams, novel the Titanic Crossing depicts the story of main character, Albert and his family as they aboard the Titanic in April of 1912 in hopes of returning back to America. Although Alberts family, are not excited about the new adventure, Albert is excited about going back home and the opportunity to explore the enormous ship, the Titanic. The night of the sinking of the Titanic, Albert locates his sister Ginny onto one of the lifeboats that are for women and children. When loading on the lifeboat, Albert is shocked to be informed by the crewmen that his age of thirteen qualifies him as a man, and he is forced to separate
The Titanic’s maiden voyage was a disaster because the people didn’t prepare for things like this. Most ships go over a safety procedures, but the Titanic didn’t do such a thing. They only rescued wealthy people, which I felt was wrong. Some passengers jumped off the ship in desperation. Whoever drove the ship couldn’t have been paying attention.
Titanic was deemed unsinkable because it had 15 watertight bulkheads and a double bottom. The problem with this though was that “the watertight compartment design contained a flaw that was a critical factor in Titanic’s sinking: While the individual bulkheads were indeed watertight, the walls separating the bulkheads extended only a few feet above the waterline, so water could pour from one compartment into another, especially if the ship began to list or pitch forward.” Many people say that the ship was doomed from the start. On April 10th 1912, The Titanic set sail for Cherbourg, France and then to Queenstown, Ireland.
1- Introduction. It was the night between the 14th and the 15th of April 1912. The British ocean liner Titanic, described as " unsinkable " by the builders and the ship-owners, sank due to a collision with an iceberg in the Atlantic ocean , ending with a tragedy that cost the lives of 1517 people ( 2223 in total ) [1]. What went wrong ?
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Unsinkable boat, if there is someone says this, I really believe that most of people will imagine to the story of luxurious big boat that became one of tragic history. The story of Titanic was revealed pass through the movie ‘Titanic’ which directed by James Cameron, full quality director in Hollywood. It is the movie that James got inspiration from real situation that happened to this boat in 1912. Titanic is the name of white boat which travelled from England to New York City. The characteristics that make Titanic different from other boat in that period are capaciousness and luxury of it.
In 1912, the Titanic took off for New York City, but sadly it never reached land. Instead the “unsinkable” ship, crashed and sank. How did the “unsinkable” Titanic crashing and sinking affect the people? Through the horrific and tragic accident of the Titanic, lives were changed, rules were changed, and the way boats and ships were made changed, all because of how the Titanic impacted them. It took five years to plan and build the beautiful, unsinkable ship that would be called the Titanic.