What Was The Reason For The Titanic Sinking

The Titanic Tragedy On the night of April 14th, 1912, a disaster occurred exterminating over a thousand people's lives and scarring many others (How Did the “Unsinkable” Titanic Sink). It all started by the Titanic hitting an iceberg ripping open six compartments on the ship. Water started gushing in the boat, rapidly flooding it. In a matter of 160 minutes (2 hours and 40 minutes), the Titanic had sank, bringing many people down with her. As a consequence of the iceberg and more small reasons, the Titanic sank, causing many casualties and changes in maritime regulations (Fahey 22-23). The Titanic sinking was essentially the iceberg but other reasons could have led to the speedy sinking and casualties. Those other reasons include, a shortage of binoculars, lifeboat shortage, and a missed iceberg warning (Waxman). The Titanic was four days into her first voyage from Southampton to New york, and there were 2,222 people aboard the ship (Basset). There were ice warnings sent to the captain but he waved them off, not slowing the ship at all. The lookouts for ice on top of the ship didn’t have binoculars, so by the time they saw the iceberg, it was too late to turn around, and they were not able to go around it. The Titanic could only withstand four compartments on the starboard flooding and the iceberg tore open six
The binoculars could have helped the lookouts to see the iceberg. Only seven hundred and five people got on a lifeboat and survived. Everyone else went down with the sinking ship. The Carpathia came and rescued the survivors that were in the life boat two hours after the sinking (Bishop). This sinking was greatly significant to society. Even one hundred years later people are still talking about the disaster, giving their symphony to the ones who lost someone that day. It impacted society greatly. This was a very shocking and devastating calamity. Even today it is still known as one of the worst maritime