The Tragic Impact Of The Titanic

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How did the titanic impact the world as we know it? It’s a question that has been asked many times throughout the years since the incident happened. So many different interpretations on the answers given freely by survivors of the ship, there was a movie based on it and a documentary but there are still so many questions that are left with no explanations. One thing we do know for sure, it was the first global disaster for mankind. Victims from North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and even Africa, not even the plague in the middle Ages reached so many corners of the world. The Titanic’s tragic incident changed sea travel forever and for the better. For starters the lifeboats were taken more serious. The Titanic didn’t carry enough lifeboats for her passengers and crew. After the Titanic’s historic accident, ships were required to provide one seat for every passenger and crew member on a …show more content…
All of the passengers would’ve safely made it to their families in America and started a brand new life. As for the boat’s safety rules and regulations I doubt they would change because now all the passengers that survived believed that the titanic is indestructible. So along the years they would build more, but there’s a problem, those ships were huge and they moved at a progressive rate and they’re turning were too wide ranged. Now if you put it this way, there was 4 Titanic’s crossing each other going to their destination and all of a sudden there was an iceberg and as one of the captains tried to turn, they ended up colliding with one of the ships and cause a chain of events with the other 2 ships. A titanic can hold up to 3,000 passengers. Multiply that by 4 and you’re going to get 12,000 passengers sinking to their death. Those passengers could be our ancestors and if they died. We would cease to

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