Titanic Disaster: How more lives could have been saved

How could more lives have been preserved on the Titanic’s Maiden voyage? Although many people believe that the lack of lifeboats was the main reason that over 1500 people died, we are exposing a few more factors that explain why the Titanic was such an awful tragedy. First launched on May 31st , 1911, the Titanic was the largest ship of its time and housed cutting edge, state of the art technology. This 52, 310 ton, 269 meter long ship held a whopping 2228 people. Rising 32 meters above the ocean and up to 28 meters wide, this steam boat was a monster but it had major flaws that ended up costing many lives that easily could have been saved. It is quite clear that, through more communication, increased safety procedures, and better construction, the terrifying disaster of the Titanic could have been reduced or even prevented from happening all together.

Using better communication the Titanic could have been able to work with the damaged ship better and maybe save numerous lives. Only 3, of the many iceberg warnings, were actually acted upon and taken to the bridge. Maybe if all 7 of the iceberg warnings were taken to Captain Smith, and were considered seriously, it could have made the ship’s sailors more cautious and they might have been able to avoid any icebergs that were in their path. Having a general awareness of the dire situation, the crew could have acted accordingly to the icebergs. Even though the Titanic had new, expensive emergency technology such as the recently introduced SOS signal, the radio operators did not use them to the full potential they could’ve. Utilizing all of the Titanic’s emergency technology, the operators could have relayed the message that they were sinking to other ships in the area quicker and even more efficiently sending the message around the ship. Because of the lack of attentiveness from the radio operators, the crew had very short notice that they went into an ice field and had hit an iceberg. Due to the belief that the Titanic was unsinkable and the unwillingness of the crew to take the situation seriously, many of the passengers were unaware that it was sinking or just did not care they had hit the iceberg. Many people got lost or stayed where they were and eventually died because the crew did not instruct them to get to the deck so they can evacuate. A majority of the third class passengers did not know how to get to the deck and were not even given the chance to survive. Although there were various flaws with the communication, many of them were because of the absence of security measures