Titanic and Social Media
I remember this text from my school book that described the sinking of the Titanic . From what little I remember, it seemed to be more about the human angle of the sinking (remember, this was before everyone knew the story thanks to Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet) than the why’s behind the sinking. The only “why” my school book mentioned was the obvious one: the collision with the iceberg. But as anyone who has watched Air Craft Investigations can tell you, such accidents never involve just one cause. It is usually a succession of multiple events, mistakes and bad luck that collectively results in disaster. Like this narrative . The events it mentions include there being more icebergs than usual; the ship going too fast since the captain wanted to beat the record; the ignoring of warnings that icebergs lay in the area; the steersman turned the ship in the wrong direction (the direction to turn the “rudder” is the opposite for sail ships and steam ships; and the world...