Could The Titanic Have Been Prevented

One thousand five hundred and three people died in the sinking of the Titanic, but was it avoidable? The behemoth of a ship was supposed to be unsinkable; however, due to the Captain’s negligence, the speed of the ship, and not listening to multiple warnings it was sunk. Miss Jessie Allis Mary Goodwin, a twelve year old girl, lost her life due to the tragic sinking of the Titanic. Unfortunately, she died because she was a third class passenger so she was sealed in by the watertight doors.

The maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic will always be a day marked in history as a night to remember. Why did the Titanic not make it to her port in New York City from her trek across the Atlantic Ocean? The Titanic was designed to take passengers from England, France and Ireland to North America (Gunner). What happened that night the Titanic sank down to her cold watery grave to the bottom North Atlantic? Was it from the design of the ship or perhaps from poor building materials, human naivety and error; or simply a combination of all of these things? The Titanic’s sinking was a combination of all these things but mostly from human naivety and error with their belief of the ship to be unsinkable.

The sinking of the Titanic is one most well-known shipwreck in modern day history and it's still being written and told about even a century later. The causation of the sinking has been debated heavily since the crash in 1912 and many so-called experts of the titanic disagree with another on this issue. There has been new development when the ship was discovered in 1985 and examined by experts. Leading people that the sinking was caused by three major turning points. The first being the failures of White Star Line who manufacture the ship starting in 1909. The second being the crew of the ship that had some very serve flaws in the plan of action leading up to the disaster. Lastly the passengers who had enough time to prepare before the

The "watertight" compartments of the Titanic's hull were not actually watertight: they were open at the tops. This is one main factor that aided in her demise. The ship could have actually stayed afloat had only four compartments flooded; sadly, five became flooded. One witness, Colonel Archibald Gracie, stated the collision was “a sudden shock and noise forward on the starboard side.” Other passengers might not have heard or felt anything, that is, until the boat started sinking.

During the time of her construction, Titanic was designed to be the largest, grandest, safest, and most technologically advanced ship during her time. Her designers and engineers set out to build a class of ocean liners that could compete against White Star Line’s rival company, Cunard. However, when Titanic, the second of her sister ships sunk on her maiden voyage, it shook the world and it had a major impact on the world and its people. One of the main effects was the effect on safety regulations. Titanic only carried enough lifeboats to sustain roughly half of the passengers and crew on board. At the time, Titanic actually exceeded the amount of the lifeboats required by the British Board of Trade regulations by 10 percent.

“Out on the decks, most passengers now began to move toward the stern area, which was slowly lifting out of the water.” confirms author Robert D. Ballard in Exploring the Titanic. But, why were these conditions crucial, and why did people have to take charge during the dreadful night of the Titanic's sinking. Who was to blame for the sinking. It could’ve perhaps been the messenger, the ship's builder, or maybe the captain. It could've just been one of them or it could’ve all three of them. The designer was experienced but maybe just not enough.

The RMS Titanic is a passenger liner that sunk in the North Atlantic in 1912 after hitting an iceberg. About 1,500 of the estimated 2,224 passengers died. The ship sailed full speed despite ice warnings, preventing it from stopping or steering away from the berg. Watertight compartments flooded, causing Titanic to go under. These details are supported by accounts and physical evidence, and therefore, widely accepted as truth. However, there's a few alternative conspiracy and architectural theories.

Passengers on board the Titanic are asleep. The day is April 15, 1912 the time is 12:30 am and the Titanic just hit an iceberg. Nobody knows this, but in two hours less than half of the people on board are going to live while the other half will perish in the deathly cold sea and the Titanic will descend to her grave at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. The people involved with Titanic got arrogant by not adding enough lifeboats, ignoring the iceberg warnings, and not leaving the ship until it was too late.

People were shocked at the news of the "unsinkable" Titanic sinking and this disbelief was due to the 19th Century’s reliance on science and industry to solve problems. When people set eyes on the most luxurious and biggest ship ever, they easily presumed it unsinkable. The Titanic, along with it’s size, had watertight

The RMS Titanic got its name from Greek Mythology, meaning gigantic, and RMS is an acronym for Royal Mail Ship (“Home | National Museum of American History”). In 1907, The Titanic was built through White Star Line by Harland and Wolff Shipbuilders

When people look outside, people may see trees, a blue sky and green grass but there is a test going on between human creations and the long standing creator, mother nature. The Titanic is a marvelous example of one of our tried, and failed ideas to survive mother nature. The Titanic was killed not because of a flaw in her building, but a flaw in the humans that were supposed to keep her and her passengers safe. The Titanic was special from the blueprints, to the changes she made and how we are all safer for it.

On April 14, 1912, with 1316 passengers and 891 crew members, the Titanic left on it’s Maiden Voyage for New York City. Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee were on duty in the crow's nest and being the “lookouts” they did see an iceberg, but seeing that the ship was “unsinkable” they felt that there was no need to sound an alarm. Some passengers aboard were still wide awake; playing cards or enjoying the gorgeous scenery. While many others were already sound asleep. Around 11:40 that night some people heard a grinding noise coming from the inside of the ship. Then word got around that they had hit an iceberg! But not very many seemed worried and soon, everyone carried on. Soon they realized that the collision was a lot worse than had been anticipated, Captain Smith and some crew members went to check the damage, as they did the crew came to find out that the iceberg had caused a gash in the side of boiler room! This forced the boat to be evacuated. But the Titanic only had enough row boats for a fraction of the passengers. People went back into their rooms and took things that were most valuable to them. At 12:15 A.M. the first wireless call for help was made. The crew would have to act fast otherwise, the Titanic would soon be under the Atlantic,

After Titanic’s disaster, the new safety regulations required all ships to carry enough lifeboats to sustain all of the passengers and crew aboard the ship. Moreover, the regulations also specify that the lifeboats had to carry items such as oars, food, drinks, compasses, etc. Following the increase in lifeboats, a mandatory use of wireless

When the Titanic was built, there was an intense competition between the shipbuilders White Star Line and Cunard. J. Bruce Ismay, the chief executive of White Star Line, talked about the construction of three ships when Cunard presented two “standout” ships. The two ships that Cunard came out with were called Mauretania and Lusitania. These ships were among the most luxurious and sophisticated. J. Bruce Ismay of the White Star Line said that the three new ships were to be part of a new “Olympic” class of ships. Of the “Olympic” ships, there were the Titanic, the Olympic, and the Britannic. This “Olympic” class of ships were produced to compete against Cunard and its ships. White Star Line’s three ships were built to be the largest ships of their time and were made to have more comfort than speed.

The Titanic was the most engineerically advanced ship of it’s time. As many know it was even dubbed ‘Unsinkable’ (Cole 7). The ship was theoretically invincible. However, it was designed so that if the sinking of the ship were inevitable, there would be ideally be twenty-four to seventy-two hours before it was devoured by the sea. That amount of time would have been sufficient for rescue efforts (Gannon). Her voyage began on April 10, 1912 and was set to be from Southampton, England to New York with the grand total of two thousand two hundred twenty-seven souls aboard on the evening of the ship’s misfortune (Gannon). This tragic voyage included many people boarded with their sights on casting away into the abyss in hopes of coming up on a beautiful horizon that aired new freedoms and opportunities; for many, that was not the case. The devastating sinking of the Titanic brought to light the lack of ship organization and brought about safer and more efficient protocols and regulations.