Titanic Safety

During the construction of the Titanic the planning team implemented several safety features in order to prevent any incidences from occurring. The first feature of the Titanic is the lifeboats which is the most important feature of the Titanic as the lifeboats would be the only escape route of the ship if a fire were to start or if it started sinking. The ship had been built to equip 64 lifeboats however there was only 20 lifeboats on the ship and each boat could carry up to 65 people [Titanicfacts.net, 2016] The reason for the minimal amount of boats aboard the ship was because other designers did not want the deck to be too cluttered and marine regulators stated that it was not necessary for everyone on the ship to have a seat. Another reason for the high level of deaths was because the boats had not been adequately filled …show more content…
Despite this state of the art technology of this time period it was discovered that there another factor for the infamous number of due to lack of communication between staff as when the warnings for the ice had come through the captain ignored the message but when he saw the ice caps he ordered his staff to reduce the speed almost instantaneously and this sudden reduction of speed made it hard for the ship to be controlled and this resulted in the ship crashing into iceberg. When the Titanic crashed an emergency message was sent out which was “CQD” which is an another form of the SOS code but because passengers also sent out messages this lead to the message being lost in immense confusion which lead to the coordinates of the ship being misunderstood and when it was believed that the correct coordinates were sent it was still incorrect and so the ship Californian appeared at the wrong coordinates [seeker.com,