Comments by "" (@davinp) on "Big Old Boats" channel.

  1. It was a series of mistakes and bad decisions that lead up to the disaster. Someone said "Everything that did could go wrong, did go wrong for Titanic"
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  2. Also, after the Titanic sinking, laws were passed to require enough lifeboats for all passengers and that lifeboat drills were mandatory. Captian Smith canceled the lifeboat drill that was scheduled for the morning on April 14, 1912.
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  3. The British Board of Trade failed to update the lifeboat law as ships grew bigger. They measured the number or lifeboats via the gross tonnage not the number of passengers aboard. Also, as you said, back then lifeboats were seen not as lifesavers but to transport people from a distressed ship to a rescue ship. There were many ships around so it was though a nearby ship would be able o rescue the passengers which is why they didn't think it would be necessary to have enough lifeboats for all passengers
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  4. The White Star Line lost allot of money after the RMS Titanic and HMHS Brittanic sank. They scrapped the RMS Olympics in 1935. They had to merge with their rival Cunard. After airplanes were invented, people stop taking these ships across the ocean to America and America's immigration laws had changed
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