Why The USS Indianapolis Die?

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 Titanic tragedy was not a very happy event, but I am here to share my opinion on the causes of the sinking of it.

The dominance of wealthy gentlemen and their lack of "working man" survival skills and motivation to do the hard work took its toll rather quickly. By 1609, only two years after the crew's landing, food was scarce and the death toll was mounting.

ship was given an escort maybe they could have prevented the sinking from happening in the

impact and suffered many burns. Before the sinking, the ship had poor ventilation which means

The ship would have not sank if it had slowed down. As the ship was creeping up real fast to the iceberg, it it it. Which cause a big gash in the side of the boat. The boat, was supposed to be “unsinkable.” The water starting pouring in on the third class, which cause a bunch of those people to die faster.

Why mess with the dead? I think the Titanic should be left alone because it's dangerous. Someone could get hurt bringing it up. It could fall apart. It could fall on top of the submarine. If they do bring it up someone could get hurt or die while rebuilding it.

At the end of one century productive in rulemaking and novel technologies, the rate and severity of marine accidents did not meet the shipping expectations.

As the passengers were loading onto the ship, it began swaying from side to side. They were all oblivious to the imminent danger until things went wrong all at once. Dishes slipped off shelves, a piano slid across the floor, and a refrigerator fell over with a resounding crash that was heard throughout the ship. The passengers then realized that they were in danger, and they attempted to escape while in a state of panic. “Those that had gathered on the port side of the Eastland were the ones that were pretty much doomed to death. When the ship rolled into the river it rolled to the port side. All those people within seconds found themselves in the bottom of the ship being buried by hundreds of other people” (Eastland). While they did get help rather quickly, many of the passengers were already overboard and struggling to keep themselves above water. Many people either drowned immediately, or they suffocated in the middle of a myriad of bodies in the water. “The ship was only a few feet from the wharf, where a large crowd of horrified spectators watched, and it was in only 20 feet of water. That, however, was deep enough to drown 844 people who were trapped or trampled below decks”

The third reason for this disaster is that there were some problems in the ship that nobody seemed to care about before the ship started. many people were assuming that someday that this ship will sink and kill a lot of passengers because the boat had no keel so it was moving sideways by the wind and also there was nothing that keeps the boat right side up (Stranahan). Also the ship was relied on poor quality ballast tank which made it difficult for the ship to be balanced and stabile. However, the captain and all the people who used to work there knew about it but nobody tried to fix it before the ship

The explosions caused great damage. The Indianapolis took on a heavy water. Twelve minutes later, she rolled completely over, then her stern rose into the air, and she plunged straight down into the ocean. Some 300 of the 1,196 crewmen went down with the ship. With very scarce lifeboats and many without lifejackets, the remainder of the crew were set adrift. The navy blamed the sinking on the captain which was Butler McVay. They blamed this on him because he did not use a zig zagging maneuver. Which would have prevented this tragic

“Knowing how the men in the water died is not the same thing as knowing why they died” (101). The men of the USS Indianapolis were put through a very traumatic event that lasted for days and will haunt them for the rest of their lives. The men from the ship had so much going against them that made it harder to survive the horrid event. There are many reasons on why the men of the USS Indianapolis died and also for why the few survived.

I don’t know if you know it already, but it’s rough out on the ocean. Especially when a tropical storm hits you out of nowhere. We were on our ship, doing our job, when this storm just appeared. There was no warning, so we had no time to prepare for it. Resulting in, the ship sinking and killing well over half of our crew, including our captain. So we had probably, four five rescue boats tied in a line filled with the surviving crew members. After the days, or weeks, the rest of our crew, besides us, died.

Some people were left behind because there was not enough room on our lifeboats. The Titanic Sank that moment after we left, it survived 2 ½ hours when it was only mentioned to have about 1 ½. We watched it split in half and sink, the bow went first, then the stern sank. We watched in horror as the funnels collapsed and exploded, and underwater we even heard the explosions. The stern still floated but on fire, people were jumping off the ship and screaming. But I watched as we left in our crowded medium lifeboat. The Carpathia came by because of our warning signals and saved all of us on the lifeboat. We got pulled up and started telling the crew what

On that night April 14: 11:40 p.m. The lookouts spot an iceberg with their bare eyes straight ahead and they veered to the left to hope to miss the iceberg. Little did the passengers know that they hit the iceberg but up front there was a loud SKREECH! Down in the coal bunker the man was right there when the side of the boat busted open and after a while five compartments had filled but the ship could only float with four compartments filled that meant that they had only 2 hours to to get everyone off the boat. After the Titanic sank there was hundreds of people got locked in and some lived and got rescued while Captain Smith went down with the ship.