Because of this incident, International Maritime regulations require commercial ships to have radios manned 24/7.
The Titanic disaster was not attributable to any one thing, but to a combination of many factors from the type of steel used in her construction to the poor command of her skipper. If any of those factors had not taken place, the disaster would not have happened.
The greatest lesson is that of overweening human pride and sense of self-importance that tells us we can build an “unsinkable” ship. It’s that same hubris that tells us we are so powerful that we can change the climate.
The Titanic was thought to be the safest ship imaginable, just about immune from any potential disaster at sea. Did overconfidence cause the crew to be less vigilent and less prepared than would normally be the case?
“The greatest lesson is that of overweening human pride and sense of self-importance that tells us we can build an “unsinkable” ship. It’s that same hubris that tells us we are so powerful that we can change the climate.”
“..overweening human pride and sense of self-importance that tells us we can build an “unsinkable” ship.”
In the aftermath of the sinking, the world’s pulpits rang with sermons denouncing pride, hubris, and arrogance as the qualities which built the Titanic and so moved the Lord to righteously smite the vessel as He smote the tower of Babel.
Preachers in 1912 obviously didn’t anticipate the outbreak of world war in 1914.
Yeah. I've heard about studies that show that if Titanic had just rammed the iceberg head-on that it probably would have survived. But...it's human nature to react in a way to try to avoid a collision.