What Seven Cascade Events Led to the Titanic Sinking?
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2. The ship was doomed and it was slowly sliding into its watery grave. But why did the largest, most
advanced ship of the century sink?
This was Captain E.J. Smith's
retirement trip. All he had to do
was get to New York in record
time. Captain E.J. Smith said
years before the Titanic's voyage,
"I cannot imagine any condition
which would cause a ship to
founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.” When the ship hit the iceberg, the force of
Captain Smith ignored seven iceberg the impact caused the heads of the rivets
warnings from his crew and other ships. If to break and the sections of the Titanic to
he had called for the ship to slow down then come apart. If good quality iron rivets had
maybe the Titanic disaster would not have been used the sections may have stayed
happened. together and the ship may not have sunk.
To meet this schedule the Titanic could not
afford to slow down. It is believed that Ismay
put pressure on Captain Smith to maintain the
speed of the ship.
America and Britain held inquiries into the disaster. Both reached the almost identical conclusions.
The American inquiry concluded that Captain Smith should have slowed the speed of the boat given
the icy weather conditions.
The British inquiry, on the other hand, concluded that maintaining speed in icy weather conditions
was common practice.
Both inquiries agreed on who was most at fault - Captain Stanley Lord of the Californian. The
inquiries stated that if Lord had gone to Titanic's assistance when the first rocket was seen then
everyone would have been saved.
Both inquiries made recommendations:
