From Titanic To Costa Concordia Paper

From Titanic to Costa Concordia – a century of lessons not learned is a paper written by Schröder-Hinrichs, J., Hollnnagell, E. and Baldauf, M. that describes both the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and the sinking of the Costa Concordia in 2012. The Piece was written to highlight how two cruise ship disasters that happened almost exactly a century apart had the same underlying human and organizational factors; thus illuminating the fact that though many thing in the shipping industry have changed in regards to safety regulations, we have still yet to learn from the disaster that was the Titanic. In this paper it is very easy to see the two levels of the argument posed. In terms of the historical component of the argument, the paper outlines …show more content…
The paper starts out with a short abstract that tells you exactly what the main point of the paper is, followed a very well written introduction that give you background about the evolution of marine technology and marine regulations, laying part of the foundation for the rest of the essay. The piece then goes on to give the background information of both the Titanic and Costa Concordia disaster, with the Costa Concordia lacking in some information because the paper was written the year the ship sank; therefore the investigation on the disaster was yet to be completed. The paper then moves into a discussion of the human factors and organizational factors which were common to both ship wreaks. This section is by far my favorite section as each factor they discuss is its own section of the paper and contains many reference to other ship wreaks that had said factor as a player in it destruction. By breaking up these factor, it makes the paper easy to read and digest because instead of a very large section you have many smaller ones which is a lot less intimidating. This also helps when writing papers such as this because you know exactly where to look for the information you want. The paper is then lead into why these problems are still present today and why no one has yet to do anything about them. The paper is then summarized and concluded where there argument is clearly and precisely outlined than it was in the beginning and throughout the paper as a