Could The Titanic Have Been Prevented

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The Titanic was thought to be the fastest and most remarkable ship of its time. Many considered the Titanic to be unsinkable, oh boy were they wrong! The disaster could have been stopped if all of the crew members and construction workers took matters in their own hands to see if they had a large quantity of life jackets, lifeboats, and made sure of the weather conditions throughout their journey. If the crew members on the ship would have did every bit of that the ship probably would be running to this day. The tragedy of the Titanic could have been prevented based on the mindset of the concept of the ship, the crew responsibility, and the design flaws.
The construction of the Titanic began on March 31, 1909. It took builders and construction
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The doors could be closed immediately if water were to be entered in the compartments. But the bulkheads high enough, the hulls were punctured, the compartments were sealed-off, the compartments destroyed the wooden floors, Because of the safety features, including mandatory use of electronic communication, the Titanic had minimum lifeboats for their passengers. That's already a bad sign when you only have 20 lifeboats on the ship and you have over 3,205 of human beings on board, the Titanic was not ready for all of those people to be on it they should have took a little more time to get the hang of the ship and to learn the ocean coordinates. Two years is not enough time build a ship that big, they should have tested it with fewer people on the …show more content…
The message said” watch out there a three large icebergs south from where you all are”. But the Titanic continued through in the dark knight, the temperature was one degree above freezing, at 10:00 p.m., there were no clouds in the air. At 11:30 p.m., after 30 minutes before they were told by the message they received, a blur had appeared, ahead of the ship. The crew rung the bell and it immediately reached across the ship's telephone, in the ship's compartment on the starboard side; the emergency bells rang urgently. At 11;40 p.m.; The ship hits the iceberg, the rudders were too small so the ship did not turn in time that's, another design flaw, the ship hit the iceberg, It left a small trail of small puncture hulls, after that gallons and gallons of water was pouring in every minute. The hole lower deck was filled with water, at 12:10 a.m., Captain Smith sent a message to the Marconi operators to send out a distress alert, that the Titanic ship was sinking. The very first ship to respond was a German ship a Frankfort, but the message did not get to them in time. All the passengers that was on the Titanic already known what was happening, people started to act crazy 1st they were acting proper , now they were acting like they had no discipline, many people prayed that they would make it to shore alive. Many people were very frightened, to think that they will never make

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