[CW] SOS Prinsendam / PJTA
Patrick
[email protected]
Sat, 4 Oct 2003 20:49:18 -0700
"It was simple human error."
Well, I am no rivet counter, but you are much to kind to Captain Smith. It
is a good thing that Captain Smith went down with the Titanic. His "human
error," is what would have been called gross criminal negligence at trial.
73
Patrick Lynd
AC6YD
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Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 7:30 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CW] SOS Prinsendam / PJTA
In a message dated 10/4/03 8:10:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
In 1912 we had an idiot Captain,
who despite many warnings about icebergs, chose a route and speed that ended
up drowning over 1500 people and sending the Titanic to the bottom.
One tiny bit of correction, from a rivet-counter....
Most of Titanic's victims did not drown, even though that was the official
ruling. There were plenty of life jackets, people actually put them on, and
there was little suction when the ship sank.
Most of those lost died of hypothermia from the freezing water. Many of
their bodies, still in life jackets, were collected by ships other than
Carpathia, first on the scene. Most of those recovered were buried in
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Captain Smith had received at least six warnings of ice dead ahead. There
was no moon and the lookouts had no binoculars because no one could find
them on the new ship. The sea was unusually calm, and it had been an
unusually warm spring in the North Atlantic (which meant more icebergs).
Other ships had reported stopping or slowing down because of ice.
Smith knew all this and yet ordered no speed reduction, course change or
extra lookouts.
It wasn't a hostile act, technological failure or natural forces that sank
Titanic. It was simple human error.
73 de Jim, N2EY
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