Comments by "SeanBZA" (@SeanBZA) on "Titanic in 2007? How it Almost Happened Again" video.

  1. You could assign much more blame on yje ship owners though, for failing to both provide lifeboats actually rated for the cold regions, and also for the lack of maintenance of them, very likely a few years of them using the lowest cost bidder for service, and thus for them being pencil whipped at service time, possibly with only one being done, and the rest sort of being done, and of course the same one each time being selected for checking. Also the failure to check the watertight doors properly, and a design flaw where the plumbing going through those doors did not have isolating valves, which would have prevented the water from spreading via the plumbing, a known flaw, and one which has sunk a good number of ships as well. A set of valves at each door, gate valves or knife valves, will have stopped the water ingress greatly, even with leaking doors, to the point the bilge and fire pumps could have kept the ship afloat long enough to make port. The valves would have been mechanically linked to the doors, so that they close with the doors, though you can always close them manually, but they will not open with the doors, needing a manual reset. A safety feature that ensures they get checked with each test, and simple to add remote flags to show status as well in engineering.
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