Flaws Of The Titanic Essay

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As the turn of almost a century after the sinking of the Titanic mariologist and archaeologist go out to the sunken ship to find out reasons and the flaws of this giant beauty of the sea. As researchers looked into the ship it was said the stamina and size both has been boosted as it was the largest passenger steamship built until that time. “The ship can never sink,” (Gavin and Zarr) and that was another statement of the time that seemed as if it was true but looking into the material and design; scientists see all failures and flaws possible. However before getting to that there is a crucial note to be that the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization listed 29 categories in which questions asked from birthplace all the way to where they …show more content…
So after it returned to England major changes were made based on what happened with the Titanic. Due to the alarming sinking crew members refuse to sail if there weren’t going to be enough lifeboats to suffice for everyone on the ship, and because they could not fully replace the current crew members, they compromised the demands and also gained 168 new members to work on the renewed Olympic. When the Olympic came to the US for the first time after the Titanic sinking Senator William Alden Smith was in charge of making sure that the ship had all of the right safety features. After this was done every few years there would be a ship recall so that they could go back into her to make the technology more modern and up to date. In 1914 the ship was used for war, and in 1915 her job became to rescue and transport different countries. In 1919 after the war she got remodeled to become a transatlantic liner and in 1921 December 21 Captain Hayes was sailing her for her last

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