Titanic sunk by steering blunder

The latest, in a long line, of documentaries I've seen on the subject put the main blame on the quality of the rivets used on the hull. Although the programme was sensible enough to concede that a combination of chance and human error led to the tragedy.

Yea it sounds to me like someone just wanting to sell a book. All of her real creditable witnesses are dead and now she thinks is a good time to make a profit off a family secret. Well keep it and give all the money you make from your book to charity then I might buy into the idea.

There's some credibility here. For one thing, an error like this is very reasonable, given the deion of the reason. It's not something you would expect to be made up by an inexperienced navigator, and it's not a theory I've heard before ... not to say someone hasn't mentioned it, someplace. Second, and perhaps most important is the ten minutes makes perfect sense, regardless of blame, because they assumed that they could still navigate, even if they had some damage. I would expect more marvelous tales if this were just someone wanting to sell a book. It's not much to make a book out of, really... [More]

"Oh turn away from the iceberg. My bad."

Well, at least it wasn't some stupid consipracy theory saying that the United States government blew a hole in the side of the ship and the rivets were coated with thermite or something.

"Oh turn away from the iceberg. My bad." Well, at least it wasn't some stupid consipracy theory saying that the United States government blew a hole in the side of the ship and the rivets were coated with thermite or something. OK THOSE where hilarious. Now, I mentioned this article in chat and someone said "Maybe it is a stir to make money" well Maybe it is a stir to make money, but at the expense of a war hero? That's bullsh*t. And where are all her witnesses? No one in the family is alive who witnessed it. In fact, I don't think there are any survivors of the Titanic left alive period, thou... [More]

there are so many theorys like the men in the crows nest didn't have binoculars, or the rivits i don't think we will ever know for sure what really all went wrong that caused it to sink

Well, at least it wasn't some stupid consipracy theory saying that the United States government blew a hole in the side of the ship and the rivets were coated with thermite or something. your talking hindenburg, and that was supposedly accidently coated with thermite. they didnt know what thermite was then. so they put the ingredents for it when they painted it. but mythbusters disproved it.

Just bad luck thats all.