It should not have happened!...
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It should not have happened! The technology was the most advanced of the time. Its design was created by experience engineers with the best degrees. The safety features were extensive from top to bottom and yet the Olympic-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast sank shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912. The Titanic struck an iceberg and sank two hours and forty minutes later on April 15, 1912 resulting in the deaths of 1,517 of the 2,223 people on board making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
A number of unrelated causes contributed to the deaths of so many people that fateful night almost a hundred years ago. People failed to be alert to the items that later led to those deaths.
* The number of lifeboats was inadequate for the number of people on board. The total capacity for all the lifeboats was 1,178 and yet the Titantic could hold well over 3,000 people and on that dark evening there were 2,223 people on board. Additionally many of lifeboats were inadequately stowed.
* The ignoring of the "non-essential" message from the steamer Amerika that warned that large icebergs lay in the Titanic's path and also the failure to heed the warning from the Mesaba by the two wireless radio operators on board the Titanic.
* Though flares were shot off and Morse code lamps were used they were also ignored.
So many other items contributed to the sinking, but the number one reason for their sinking is that few were alert to the dangerous circumstances surrounding them.
If we are not alert spiritually and to the dangerous circumstances that surround us through temptation we too could sink. Let's keep alert!
A number of unrelated causes contributed to the deaths of so many people that fateful night almost a hundred years ago. People failed to be alert to the items that later led to those deaths.
* The number of lifeboats was inadequate for the number of people on board. The total capacity for all the lifeboats was 1,178 and yet the Titantic could hold well over 3,000 people and on that dark evening there were 2,223 people on board. Additionally many of lifeboats were inadequately stowed.
* The ignoring of the "non-essential" message from the steamer Amerika that warned that large icebergs lay in the Titanic's path and also the failure to heed the warning from the Mesaba by the two wireless radio operators on board the Titanic.
* Though flares were shot off and Morse code lamps were used they were also ignored.
So many other items contributed to the sinking, but the number one reason for their sinking is that few were alert to the dangerous circumstances surrounding them.
If we are not alert spiritually and to the dangerous circumstances that surround us through temptation we too could sink. Let's keep alert!
