I'd be hard pressed to locate it but somewhere around here I have a book
titled something like "Engineering Disasters". It discusses many such
cases and their causes which include, of course, both ignorance and
overconfidence.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/25/2011 3:29 AM, Chris Barker 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 . . .
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 24 Aug 2011, at 19:31, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>> In the movie Titannic, they got that little detail wrong when they
>> were trying to avoid the iceberg.
>
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