Oh there were MANY more sins than that. Like not planning ahead with the ship's engineering, such as building bulkheads that didn't go up to the boat deck. Or not having ships keep their radios on no matter what.
Are you aware that there was a ship just a few miles away called the Californian, who could have saved Titanic, but the head radio operator got mad that night and shut the radio off because people kept bothering him? Then, when they saw the flares going up from Titanic, they did nothing. They thought it was some unusual light phenomena in the night. Titanic's captain also ignored ice warnings and let two corporate CEO's dictate to him how fast to drive the ship, even though navigating the north Atlantic was dangerous in early April. There was also the issue of lack of communication within the ship's staff, technology involving spotting icebergs and operating the lifeboats being too slow, and other problems. There was also the competition factor.
Titanic was an example of letting corporate competition show just how far people would go to ignore the human factor when it came to safety.
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Otter (24464)
6 years ago
Lots of "sins", lots of carelessness, lots of bad decisions, but really - I think the single worst thing anyone did was to dismiss the need for lifeboats. Everything else was ordinary everyday carelessness and stupidity, but a failure to place lifeboats was flat-out criminal negligence if not mass murder.
People complain about rules and regulations, but the fact is that almost every annoying rule or regulation happened because somebody fucked up and harm was done.
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