Re: Titanic sunk by steering mistake, author says

"Keith Willshaw" <keithnos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes I have seen the article before. While the rivets would certainly
not meet modern standards the fact remains that when ship
hits an iceberg the results are rarely pretty.

The MS Explorer, a Canadian cruise ship found that out the hard
way when she hit submerged ice and sank in Nov 2007

The real cause of the Titanic sinking was the action of the captain in
recklessly transiting a known ice area at full speed in the dark.

The ships of rival lines either hove to or proceeded at
dead slow.

When 46,000 tons of steamship hits a in iceberg with a mass at least
3 times its own at a speed of 18 knots very bad things will happen.

What it the world possessed him and his staff to proceed so
recklessly?
.

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