Chris wrote
>
> I think that they got quite a lot wrong in Titanic, Ken.
>
> But, as an aside, the reasons for the Titanic's accident, holing and
> sinking with so much loss of life are very interesting. I undertook a
> Human Factors Facilitators' course earlier in the year and one of the case
> studies was Titanic:
>
> Too few lifeboats
> Inconsistent use of riveting techniques and materials
> Relationships among the officers
> Ambiguity of the contracts for the radio operators
> etc . . .
This is interesting .... a couple of years ago I heard a radio programme
locally (NZ) which reported the interview of (somebody such as) the sister of
the brother of the chief engineer.
In this, the woman said he had never mentioned any of this until not long
before his death, BUT the reasons the Titanic went down included:-
(1) The operating officers either didn't want to get the ship owners a bad
reputation or were under orders not to, so
(2) although the boat was still fully waterproof, they insisted in running it
at
full speed after the puncture, and the water force broke open the waterproof
bulkheads, thus flooding the boat.
(3) if they had run at reduced speed they could have made it safely to port
(4) there WAS another fully capable vessel nearby, but due to (1) they did
not avail themselves of the potential help
(5) I think there were some other equally culpable details but I don't
remember them
After hearing this I fully expected it to be news headlines, but I never heard
it
again..
Which doesn't prove anything, necessarily - I am not news monitor ...
Brian Swale.
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