Titanic Persuasive Essay

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The Titanic The night the Titanic sank was a very tragic night. One question I have and oftenly ponder is if this disaster could have been avoided? Could extra precautions could have taken to save the lives of the people on the Titanic. I honestly believe that it could have been avoided and that some people were the cause of this disaster. I have reason to believe that the captain and the wireless operator are at fault. First of all, the lookouts did not see the iceberg before time because the captain did not provide them. Also, It states on page 18 that the captain didn’t take the iceberg warnings seriously and thought that the Titanic was unsinkable. And my last reason is that the wireless operator didn’t listen to the last iceberg

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