Assume exactly same ship, all nearest vessels in the same positions etc and same amount of lifeboats - would everyone have got off the Titanic if it had struck that iceberg today,not 94 years ago.
Airlift perhaps?
2006-09-03 20:02:12 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
It would still have sunk if it used the same navigation system and quality of vessel. Another Jack would have died again. But as you've already mentioned, rescue operations may be faster with airlift and signal for help from the navy and coast guards would also be faster, so maybe the number of people saved would be higher.
Then again, times have changed....the poorer people used to stay in their bunks until the rich have evacuated. Now, there may not be a hierarchal system of evacuation...there might be a stampede!
2006-09-03 20:10:41 · answer #1 · answered by citrusy 6 · 44⤊ 11⤋
Today.....
Contrary to what has been said earlier there, modern cruise ships do not have Sonar, however Radar would have picked something up. Plus ships get Navtext messages warning them of things like this.
If the worst case happened, then you would fing that some cruise ships have marine evacuation systems on board, whereby they can evacuate the ship in minutes, providing everyone is mustered. If it was simply lifeboats, then you ind that they are much more easily deployed nowadays than in them days.
Like you say, there is the possibility of Helicopter evacuation, although this is only practical when close to the shore.
2006-09-04 01:15:14 · answer #2 · answered by Will M 3 · 6⤊ 4⤋
What ultimately did in the Titanic was the brittleness of the steel plates in the hull. Given the exact same ship, yes it still sinks as the plates shatter. Faster rescue vehicles would probably save a lot more passengers, but death due to ice cold water usually comes within about 20 minutes, so there would still be substantial loss. Remember there were roughly 2300 on board and enough life boat capacity for about 800.
The previous post was correct in that the sinking of the Titanic lead to many safety measures.
A point to consider: the Titanic was built by professionals, the Ark was built by amateurs. For those who are curious, in 1977 in the filming of a movie entitled "In Search of Noah's Ark", a scaled down version was built according to the dimensions given in the Book of Genesis.
Hit with waves in a test chamber, that were 200 feet tall in scale, the replica Ark did not sink. It was also found that if the ship was turned upside down, it would right itself.
2006-09-03 20:16:44 · answer #3 · answered by L96vette 5 · 22⤊ 2⤋
If the deliver had the comparable style of group and passengers and the comparable style of constrained existence boats i'm guessing numerous adult males will die. because of the fact the so referred to as "hero" Sullivan(or regardless of that pigs call is) confirmed, "women individuals first" continues to be very lots in result.
2016-11-06 09:31:04 · answer #4 · answered by shea 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think Titanic would strike the iceberg today. They no longer use lookouts in crows' nests to watch for large obstacles in shipping lanes--they have technology that does the looking for them and alerts them to any large masses from a great distance away.
Today, it wouldn't even matter if other ships in the area alerted Capt. Smith to the ice floes or not. Whoever had command of the bridge would just be notified that they were coming into a large berg field, and would automatically slow down and set a different course to go around them.
I really like your question, as I am always interested in the "What If?" types of questions. However, Titanic and her fate were so much a product of her specific time in history that you cannot pick and choose which technologies to use and which to leave out. If you posit the same ship and the same circumstances now, you either have to leave out the airlift (which, by the way, I do think might work) and all modern technology, or you have to include all of it. Without all the modern technology, the result would be the same; with all the modern resources we have now, Titanic would have just docked peacefully in New York, and her name would not be so well known.
2006-09-03 20:24:33 · answer #5 · answered by Bronwen 7 · 17⤊ 6⤋
they have recently found that the bottom of the ship was ripped off, so unless they had more lifeboats then no, not enough room for all those people
2006-09-03 20:09:01 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 11⤊ 0⤋
If all the circumstances were the SAME, then yes, it would have ended in the same results regardless if it happened then, now or 100 years from now.
The circumstances were the same... thats the key.
2006-09-03 20:40:27 · answer #7 · answered by Chris C 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Marine accidents will always happen.
However, modern navigational equipment and
increased safety devices makes a repeat of
this kind of accident less likely.
But look at the "ESTONIA" - an recent thing.
2006-09-03 20:35:38 · answer #8 · answered by swenson0 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Some probably would have still died but I don't think it would have been as many as then. Isn't it funny how we all remember this ship so well? There have been other sinkings but this one always stands out.
2006-09-04 00:22:38 · answer #9 · answered by DialM4Speed 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Hard to say. It was because of the Titanic that we got a lot of the safety standards that make something like that unlikely again. If it hadn't happened would we have them today? Something to ponder.
2006-09-03 20:05:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 8⤋