Titanic
The Disaster, Which Should not Have Happened. On April 14, 1912 one of the great disasters in the history of the world occurred, the sinking of the Titanic. The press had dubbed her unsinkable, but history has proven that to be untrue. Why did the Titanic sink with so many lives lost? Some say because of the iceberg, some the engineering, but I say it was due to greed and the human desire for prestige. When the Titanic was constructed, the minimum safety requirements of the time were followed. Since the committee that made the regulations for lifeboats for the British Board of Trade was dominated by shipbuilders, there was a complex formula that called for so many cubic feet of boat space per thousand tons of ship the Titanic was only required to have enough lifeboat space for 926 passengers (Brander). The Titanic actually had more lifeboats that technically required for a ship of her size. Her lifeboat davits (the lifting and lowering devices for the lifeboats) were designed for up to four full size lifeboats each. The original design for the Titanic included this many, but was later changed to only include one per davit with the exception of station 1 and 2 that also had
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Approximate Word count = 1390
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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