Originally Posted by
lostandfound
Who likes watching documentaries on the Titanic? I work with the history channel and Titanic's Final Moments is a new documentary that premiers tomorrow Sunday, February 26 on the History channel. They discovered some new things and the break and sink was more complex than anyone thought. You can get more information at
www.history.com/titanic. If you watch it let me know what you think. Do you think that the ocean, waves, current, temperature (anything oceanography wise) could have been a factor in the sinking?
The ocean itself can only be blamed for being too calm that night making the bergs more difficult to detect for lack of wave breakers. Apart from that there were the following factors.
The ship was traveling at breakneck speed in order to impress.
The men assigned to search for icebergs had no binoculars.
The ship's rudder was too small to make it turn fast enough.
The angle at which the ship struck made the sinking inevitable.
It would have perhaps been better to hit the berg head on.
It seems to me that human error was the primary factor.