Although there was not one single cause of the loss of life from the TITANIC?

Question

There was a number of situtaions which together contributed to these fatalities.

Do any of you know 3 factors which were instrummental to this catastrophe???

Answer 1

If you want to put a single label on it, you can put "human error", and blame it all on the captain.

1) Captain ordered the northern route, which is full of ice
2) Captain ordered fast speed, because he was under pressure to make up for the time, but he can choose
3) Captain ordered a turn when the iceberg was sighted, even though he KNEW he would never clear the the berg at his speed.

SUPPOSITION: had Titanic hit the iceberg head-on, a lot of people would have gotten hurt, but the ship likely would not have sunk, and may have been able to reverse all the way back to England. A frontal crash would have destroyed the bow and the forward compartment, but the rest of the bulkheads should have held, theoretically speaking, and flooding just one out of the 5 sections would not have sunk the Titanic. By turning, the iceberg instead cut a jagged hole across multiple sections along the side, causing a flood that can't be stopped.

Answer 2

1. the titanic hit an iceberg that was extremely big and was able to crack the hull and water went in this was what caused the opbvious sinking and thereofre the chief cause of death
2. the ship was designed under the false sense of security that is was unsinkable and there were not enough boats that could ferry away passangers so many had simply no place to go.
3. there were many rich people on board that caused a lot of strife between them and the poor immigrants going to america and like in the movie there is good eviidence to believe that there were many people who were blocked from entering the boats becuase of their social status and becuase the crew was incompetent to stop any of this bigotry from going on.

Answer 3

Excessive speed of the Titanic in conditions of poor visibility.

Poor communications with other ships.

Overconfidence in a flawed design resulted in too few lifeboats and personal flotation devices.

Answer 4

Not enough life boats on board
Excessive speed and a captain who apparently didn't know what he was doing
Rudders that "wouldn't corner worth a damn."

Answer 5

1. amount of lifeboats
2. rudder design out of date
3. lack of double hull