Titanic's Mistakes

Mistakes that caused the tragedy and the loss of too many lives:

• The Titanic's speed was far too high because of the several warnings for icebergs.
• The Titanic's should have slowed down her speed at least during the night.
• The lookouts in the crowsnest did not have binoculars.
• The outer British regulation required ships over 10,000 tons to have lifeboats for 962 people. The Titanic exceeded this regulation by carrying enough lifeboats for 1,178 people, however this was not enough for her 2,228 people aboard.
• Religiously... People shouldn't have said things such as "Not even GOD Himself could sink the Titanic."
• When the Titanic hit the iceberg, Captain Smith and the crew waited for a kind of long time, to start preparing the lifeboats and giving lifejackets to the passengers.
• Some passengers didn't believe that the Titanic was sinking.
• The radio operators aboard the Titanic ignored the 'Californian's' (and other ships) warnings about icebergs in the area.
• The lifeboats were not filled to the max. Lifeboat #1 only had 12 women and children aboard. Even if there was no more women and children in that area, and the lifeboat wasn't full, they didn't let men get on; and they would let the lifeboat go just like that. Passengers believed that it was safer to stay on the Titanic.
• The 'Californian's' radio operator was asleep and the equipment was turned off when the Titanic sent "CQD Titanic 41.44 N  50.24 W".
• The people aboard the 'Californian' thought the passengers were partying on the Titanic because of the flares... They didn't realize they were distress calls.
• The lifeboats would not return to the crying people to get more people aboard (only one actually did ! ! !).
• The crew had the Third-Class passengers ("Steerage") trapped, until all the women and children of First-Class and Second-Class left in the lifeboats.

  Two components of the geography of the Titanic defeated the efforts of many of the Third-Class passengers to reach the Boat-Deck.

  The first was the design of the Titanic. There were only a handful of exits available to get to the upper decks - 7 to be exact. All of them by law had to be kept locked.

  Third-Class passengers were required by British Law to be kept separated completely from Second-Class and First-Class passengers.

  The second was the layout of the Titanic. The Third-Class passengers' cabins were in an area that abounded with dead ends and circuitous passages.

• The Titanic had 16 watertight compartments. If 4 were filled, it would be OK but 5 were filled, one too many.
• It has been said that if the Titanic would have hit the iceberg dead center, it would only have only filled the first water compartments. But because the Titanic turned, the iceberg destroyed the whole starboard side.
• The watertight compartments at the bottom of the ship did not go all the way to the top. If one filled up, the water would just flow into the next one.
• There never has been a lifeboat drill for the passengers. It was postponed because of a Church Service.

41°44' North; 49°57' West

Final resting place of the Titanic:

• Location: 1,000 miles due east of Boston, Massachusetts, and 375 miles southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland.
• Depth: 12,500 feet.
• Bow Section: 41°43'57" N, 49°56'49" W.
• Stern Section: 41°43'35" N, 49°56'54" W.
• Boilers: 41°43'32" N, 49°56'49" W.

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This website is dedicated to the eternal legacy of the RMS Titanic and to all of those who needlessly died one cold night in April, 1912...

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