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The Pros And Cons Of Rethinking Of The Titanic

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The Titanic, advertised as “unsinkable”, sunk into the chilly Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of April 15th, 1912 when it collided with an iceberg. For just over 106 years, people have been fascinated by the idea that what was thought to be a modern engineering marvel at the time could fail so quickly. The sinking of the Titanic should be explored more thoroughly in a World History class because there was a great loss of life that occurred as a result of it, it was one of the first disasters that impacted people from all corners of the Earth and all walks of life, and it resulted in many changes in shipping and other naval vessels. “It was possibly the first truly global disaster for mankind. With victims from North and South America, …show more content…

Images from this time taken outside the White Star Line offices in New York show upset and angry people wanting to know how such a tragic event had happened and who was responsible for it (Bain News Service “Crowd Gathered”). Following the tragedy, the British and United States governments opened an investigation into the ship’s functions at the time of the crash and what could have been done to prevent it (“Titanic Disaster”). One thing they wanted to know was why the ship had been traveling at such a fast pace when they had already been warned of the risk of icebergs (Gavin and Zarr). The United States sent the Navy, and later established the International Ice Patrol, to monitor the oceans and report locations of hazardous sailing conditions (Bitette). A large problem that passengers on the Titanic encountered when attempting to flee the ship was the lack of lifeboats. Now, all ships are required to have enough lifeboats for all passengers on board (Bitette). The lifeboats that were cast into the sea weren’t completely full and most lifeboats didn’t return to the ship after it sank to pick up more passengers from the frigid water (Barczewski). Even though there weren’t enough lifeboats, more lives still could have been saved if a ship had been there to rescue them. However, there was a ship in the vicinity that could have rescued them. The Californian was close enough to help and some witnesses even recall seeing the ship’s lights in the distance, but the Californian’s radio operator had already gone to bed and didn’t receive the Titanic’s calls for help (Don). As a result of the sinking and the investigation into it, all ships are now required to have some kind of radio system manned 24 hours a day (Lane). In addition to all of these changes, something had to be done about the reports that the third class passengers had been locked in the bottom of the ship and hadn’t been

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He also thought that the ship was unsinkable due to the 16 water compartments. However the compartments didn’t reach that high, Andrews reduced the amount of water compartments to make more space for the first-class cabins. If only there were enough water compartments, the Titanic wouldn’t have sunk. Stanley Lord, Captain of the “Californian” ship. He was only sailing 30km away from the Titanic, although he was aware about the ship sinking he didn’t try to help them.

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The Titanic, most definitely man’s greatest accomplishment, is made in Belfast, Ireland, where it is then set off into the open ocean, and set for Southampton, England. From there, on April 11, 1912, 2:00 p.m., the Titanic sets sail for New York. All seems well, and it looks for the first time, that man has built the “unsinkable ship.” However, the hopes, lives, ship and all are cut down by an iceberg and now rest at the bottom of the Atlantic. This horrendous fact was shown in both the book and the movie, “A Night to Remember,” along with many other facts and stories.

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Fifteen or twenty minutes after the collision Captain Smith finally ordered the Titanic’s wireless operator to send out a distress message. If he would have used the iceberg warnings, and sent out a distress signal as soon as it happened then help could have gotten there sooner, and they would have had more time to get everyone safe. But since he didn’t do that, he didn’t have as much time to start getting people on the

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Who remembers the fateful night of the Titanic? All of these people sure do whether they survived or not, they all remember the night the luxurious Titanic was turned into scrap metal by an iceberg, and how only a fraction of the third-class passengers lived to tell the tale while almost every first-class passenger sailed safely home. It was the Edwardian Era and there was much going on. There was only a small minority of wealthy, but they took about a third of the country's national income. They dined fine with almost twenty-seven plates of food all on porcelain.

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On April 15, 1912 the world learned that the big Titanic ship had crashed and hit a large iceberg. Less than one third of the ship’s passengers was still alive. A bunch of questions was being asked about the Titanic. How did the huge Titanic ship sink? Why did only 711 passengers and crew members survived, when there were at least 1,200 lifeboats?

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According to “A History In Numbers” by Dave Fowler, only 706 people aboard the Titanic survived the terrible accident, while the other 1,529 were taken down with the ship. Many people believed the iceberg was to blame for the sinking of the ship; however, the problems surrounding the ship began long before the ship set sail. “R.M.S Titanic” by Hanson W. Baldwin revealed that the crew was so confident in the ship’s inability to sink that they did not even pack enough lifeboats in case of an emergency. Furthermore, the captain and crew neglected to practice many safety drills that could have possibly saved many lives. The Titanic was doomed once the captain and crew set foot on the ship because of the arrogant aura they carried which resulted in the confusion and lack of resources that were obtainable during the sinking to many of the passengers including Master Harold Victor Goodwin and his family.

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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.

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