i think its great that they are still reporting on the titanic. i just read 3 great books on the subject. ghosts of the abyss by ken marshall and don lynch, the night lives on by walter loyd and titanic by charles pelligreno. check these out if you want interesting reads about titanic. its great to read about everyones different takes on this disaster.
FROM WHAT I HAVE READ OVER THE YEARS THE TITANIC SUNK BECAUSE THE COMPARTMENT WERE NOT WATER TIGHT. IT SEEMS THAT THERE WAS NO TOP ON THE COMPARTMENTS. SO WHEN ENOUGH WATER GOT INTO THE SHIP IT SUNK. REMEMBER WHEN THE TITANIC WAS FOUND ON THE OCEAN FLOOR IT WAS IN TWO PIECES SOME DISTANCE APART. SO THE PEOPLE THAT WERE SURVIVORS WERE RIGHT WHEN THEY SAID THE SHIP BROKE APART JUST BEFORE IT WENT DOWN. THAT WOULD SEEM TO INDICATE THAT THE SEAMS IN THE PLATES WERE NOT STRONG ENOUGH. WHETHER IT WAS FROM RIVET STRENGTH OR THERE BEING TWO INSTEAD OF THREE RIVETS AT EACH POINT. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT WHEN A BOLT OR RIVET IS UNDER A SHEAR CONDITION IT IS AS STRONG AS IT WOULD BE UNDER TENSION.
OK, it was almost a century ago and the ship and its passengers are gone, but that doesn''t mean we still can''t learn from it. To paraphrase Santayana, ignoring something because it''s "old news" makes it likely to become "new news" (!)
It''s surprising that no one mentioned the major reason for so many deaths: NOT ENOUGH LIFEBOATS. And why? The same cost-cutting, the same "it meets specs so that''s enough" mindset, the same antiquated rules that led to the use of substandard metal.
If death caused by technological hubris is "old news", please inform the families of the Challenger astronauts, the I-35 victims, the Meridian building firemen, and on and on.
P.S. "NAVAL" has to do with ships. "NAVEL" is your belly button. Sheesh.
...shipwreck beyond belief. The shipwreck Soul can be found at http colon slash slash www dot phuxjezus-lighted dot blogspot dot com. This site addresses the reason to look ahead in life.
Rivets were replaced by nuts and bolts in steel girder construction, specifically in the WTC maybe one of the first to exclusively use nuts and bolts. "Good better best never let it rest" till your good is better and your better is your best (seen on cast water tanks in Australia) leaves out the "best of best" rivets that went into the center section. I wonder if there was a grading of nuts? (and bolts). There''s a large nut factory "Star" on the NY State Thruway near Harriman that''s been bought by Kiryas Joel the Hasidim town mostly for the wells then the State has to put in a pipe to the aqueduct (Catch 23).
It''s been pretty well established, decades ago, that the combination of very cold water and an off-spec receipt of steel contributed to the disaster. But the main reason for the un-necessary tragedy was the idiocy of the ship''s owner pressuring the Captain to take un-necessary risk in waters known to be very dangerous. Vanity and stupidity, far more than steel and temperature, killed, nay murdered, those that perished.
Can we let this go? I''m so not interested in the Titanic - haven''t we played this out far beyond it''s use by date? Rivets smivets - it sunk - end of story.
The Titanic tragedy will always be remembered. The sinking of the titanic is the biggest lesson on what happens when we do not look ahead in life. Its a shipwreck beyond belief. The shipwreck Soul can be found at http colon slash slash www dot pilgrimswaylighted dot blogspot dot com. This site addresses the reason to look ahead in life.
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It''s surprising that no one mentioned the major reason for so many deaths: NOT ENOUGH LIFEBOATS. And why? The same cost-cutting, the same "it meets specs so that''s enough" mindset, the same antiquated rules that led to the use of substandard metal.
If death caused by technological hubris is "old news", please inform the families of the Challenger astronauts, the I-35 victims, the Meridian building firemen, and on and on.
P.S. "NAVAL" has to do with ships. "NAVEL" is your belly button. Sheesh.
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Still spamming with your gezus site I see RICK
I don''t believe this article.
of steel contributed to the disaster. But the main reason for the un-necessary tragedy was the idiocy of the ship''s owner pressuring the Captain to take un-necessary risk in waters known to be very dangerous. Vanity and stupidity, far more than steel and temperature, killed, nay murdered, those that perished.