Possible Causes Of The Sinking Of The Titanic

Let’s just put one thing out there, there were so many things that could have caused the White Star Line RMS Titanic not to sink. There were many reasons why the “Unsinkable” ship sank, and there were many ways it could have been prevented. They always said, 'God himself couldn’t sink this ship.' Well, guess what, he did. Maybe it wasn’t intentional, considering it wasn’t even stormy outside. The water was a sheet of glass, which was quite the problem. That was God's choice, but the rest wasn’t. If the water wasn’t so flat and there were some sort of waves, the water would have bounced of the iceberg, making it a bit easier to see. Their problem in the lookout tower was they forgot their binoculars, making them not see anything at all until it was too late.

The watertight compartments were useless to countering the damage done by the collision with the iceberg. Some scientists studying the disaster have concluded that the watertight compartments contributed to the disaster by keeping the floodwaters in the bow of the ship. If there had been no compartments at all, incoming water would have spread out, and the Titanic would have remained horizontal. Soon, the ship would have sunk, but it would have remained afloat for another six hours before sinking. This amount of time would have been most likely enough time for nearby ships to reach the Titanic's location so all of her passengers and crew could have been saved. (Gannon, Robert, 'What Really Sank the Titanic,')

Another thing that helped sink the Titanic was the cheaper material and metal they used. The gash in the side of the RMS Titanic was 1.1 square metres. The total area of these six gashes in the Titanic's hull was about 1.1 square metres. The Titanic sank because of the location of these gashes, not their size. After doing a series of impact tests based on their steel sample, they were able to determine that the steel used to build the ship was “much more inferior to modern steel'. About 10 times more brittle in fact compared to the steel used to make today’s ships. Test results showed high concentrations of sulfur, oxygen, and phosphorous, and low concentrations of manganese, nitrogen, and silicon. ”  This was mainly a result of producing the steel using open-health furnaces. Pieces of steel from the hull have also appeared almost shattered, with no evidence of bending or deformation.

A lifeboat’s a very important part of a big ship. If there were ever to be an accident or perhaps I don’t know an iceberg and people would need to escape or get off, there needs to be enough aboard the ship so everybody can get off safely. The Titanic had 20 lifeboats, 2 wooden cutters, 14 standard wooden lifeboats, and 4 collapsible canvas lifeboats. This was far too few for the number of people aboard, this was technically legal; the law at that time based the number of lifeboats required on the gross register tonnage of a ship, not her passenger capacity.

The 20 lifeboats that she did carry could only accommodate 1,178 people, despite the fact that there were approximately 2,208 on board. RMS Titanic had a maximum capacity of 3,327 passengers and crew. They were going to have enough lifeboats but the designer of the ship Thomas Andrews was overruled for it. So, more lifeboats, less panic, a better system of getting people on the boats, fewer deaths. Did you know the first lifeboat that left only carried 19 people out of 65?

There were so many was the White Star line RMS Titanic sinking could have been prevented. The things I have listed are just some. Lifeboats, metals, panic, even how they reacted to the situation could have been better. The things that happened with the Titanic has made the making of ships today bigger, better, and more prepared. I guess what they say is true, “you learn from your and other's mistakes.”