The Titanic

Good evening folks,, I am going to address you about the lesson that we can take from the Titanic which was the topic that I got in the last speaking class in this week.

To begin, the Titanic was the luxurious and the finest ship ever built in the world. The RMS Titanic left Southampton for New York on April 10, 1912. Some richest people and most famous had paid large sums of money to sail by using it. The Titanic was a huge ship which was larger at 269 metres than of the tallest buildings of the day. And with nine decks, she was as high as eleven storey building. She carried 2,224 passengers. They are 329 first class, 285 second class and 710 third class passengers with 899 crew members. To feed a small town for five day journey, she carried many foods including 40,000 eggs, 36,000 apples, 111,000 lbs of fresh meat and 2,220 lbs of coffee.

The Titanic's maiden voyage was in 1912, and did sink on April 14, 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, taking 1,517 of her passengers and crew with her. There are several causes of the disaster. Firstly, there was only one of six warnings of icebergs that was received by the Titanic wireless operators. So, she made the fatal collision with an iceberg at 11.40pm. Secondly, even though Captain Edward J. Smith knew that since the spring weather in Greenland cause huge chunks of ice. But, he still took a dangerous route by sailing the ship through that way. The impact that they faced was such a great loss of life. Many passenger drowned in that time. It was over 1,500 passenger and the other people were loaded into 20 lifeboats. Whereas, there were 473 empty seat available on lifeboats. 

Those problems arise the issues about the capacity of lifeboats. 

Why the lifeboats were not enough to accommodate all of the passengers, and why those were not full. Actually, when she made a collision with iceberg, the passenger did not realize that the Titanic would sink because they believed that the ship was strong enough to face the term of this, and was unsinkable. So, at the time, the crew did not wake up their radio operator to listen for a distress call. Also, There ware no one could be blame although the officers in charge of loading the boats for the sinking which had contributed to the miraculous loss of life.

So, for those reasons, the government make the regulations due to improve safety produces at sea such as covering 24 hours wireless operation, crew training, proper lifeboat drills, lifeboat capacity for all on board and creation of an international ice patrol.