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The sinking of the Titanic was a catastrophic event that could have been easily prevented with a little attention to detail. For instance, a couple of things were ignored. Ice warnings were one of them as well as the distress rockets fired from the Titanic. The rockets were ignorantly disregarded by the Californian. Another factor working against the vitality of the ship was the ideology of an unsinkable object. In the time period in which the Titanic sailed, a new technology called wireless was still an erratic novelty. Wireless was the basic tool used between ships and other vessels to communicate. With this being the new technology of the day, people were fascinated with how it worked. They would often bribe wireless operators to send messages to relatives or friends on other ships. The operators were more than willing to receive these bribes and send the messages without a second thought.
A lack of lifeboats was an effect of this ideology. There were only 16 lifeboats and 4 collapsibles designed to accompany the Titanic. They could only hold 1,178 passengers out of the 2,207 passengers present. Even as the Titanic sunk people didn't fill the lifeboats to capacity and only 675 passengers survived. If people had thought that the Titanic had the slightest possibility of sinking, more safety precautions would have been taken. No one on the Titanic thought the collision with the iceberg was a serious situation. This was all due to the ideology of an unsinkable ship. People put so much faith into this magnificent object that they thought nothing adverse could ever happen to it. For example, first class passengers ignored servants' request to put on lifejackets. One man even cut his lifejacket with a knife to show his wife what it was made out of. "Another couple locked themselves in their room, not wanting
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