3 Fatal Mistakes That Led to the Sinking of the Titanic
It is just before midnight on April 14, 1912, and over 2,200 passengers and crew are sailing through the dark and frigid Atlantic waters on the largest ship the world’s ever seen.
Whether a passenger is just finishing up a lavish seven-course meal in first class or dancing an Irish jig with the likes of Jack and Rose Dawson down in third class, both passengers will soon have a similar fate — their life will be on the line.
It’s safe to say that anything and everything that could go wrong did go wrong the night of the Titanic’s fatal collision with the iceberg. But many of the mistakes made stemmed from ego and could have been avoided.
Perhaps if just one mistake hadn’t been made we wouldn’t still be talking about the Titanic over 100 years later, because there’d be nothing to talk about. It would never have sunk to the bottom of the ocean floor just 2.5 hours later and 1500 people wouldn’t have perished.
But here we are.
1. There weren’t enough lifeboats, to begin with.
It is a well-known fact that none of the Titanic’s sixteen lifeboats or four collapsibles were filled to capacity — and four were filled at…
