Dolphins?From what I hear, there were dolphins in place, the ship just happend to hit in a way it avoided them.
Dolphins?From what I hear, there were dolphins in place, the ship just happend to hit in a way it avoided them.
I...I mean, is this rhetorical? Because the answer is how numerous things were dismissed as 'conspiracy theories' over the last few years which ended up being correct, most of which involved or featured key figures in government.Why must so many people on the right be fucking retards who try to make every event into some sort of conspiracy these days.
Protective structures around the pillars of the bridge that would stop/slow boats from hitting them.Dolphins?
There is a fine line between reasonable suspicions when things are looking fishy, and deciding every fucking breaking news event/evolving news story is part of some grand conspiracy of some sort as a kneejerk reaction.I...I mean, is this rhetorical? Because the answer is how numerous things were dismissed as 'conspiracy theories' over the last few years which ended up being correct, most of which involved or featured key figures in government.
Shattering confidence in a system leads to more questioning of anything told by that system--especially when its the pretty extreme set of circumstances which had to occur for this. Malice or incompetence begins to look more likely under the microscope when repeated unlikely oopsies all had to come together at the right time to produce the bridge collapse.
Dolphin lives matter. A LOT. Dey endangered species - and opressed and underrepresented - so you must swerve ship aside as not to harm the cute [SQUEE!SQUEE1] darlings.Dolphins?
in what way?He mostly focuses on the lack of tugs.
That, And we lived through covid, Where being skeptical conspiracy theorists about everything ended up with the right being right about a whole lot of shit. For years our conspiracy theories were proven right, over and over again. It broke ANY of the very little trust people had in our governments.I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by all the conspiracy theories popping up about this. Much the same happened with the RMS Titanic (which was a freak accident as well. Yes mistakes were made that night, but it should have been impossible for them all to interlock together; one wonders if calling her "unsinkable" angered Poseidon). Human beings don't like the idea that life is pure chaos and I think the thought of puppet masters operating in the shadows is something of a coping mechanism.
Oh they built the ship Titanic,I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by all the conspiracy theories popping up about this. Much the same happened with the RMS Titanic (which was a freak accident as well. Yes mistakes were made that night, but it should have been impossible for them all to interlock together; one wonders if calling her "unsinkable" angered Poseidon). Human beings don't like the idea that life is pure chaos and I think the thought of puppet masters operating in the shadows is something of a coping mechanism.
Lights aren't power.
However, black smoke from the engine compartment? That's something else. And, at this point? We don't know what.
in what way?
Once the tugs move a vessel from berthing, and the vessel begins to operate under its own power, tugs become unnecessary.
Once the mayday went out, tugs started to respond from every direction. They just weren't close enough to intervene before the Dali struck the piers of the bridge.
The Captain stood where a Captain should
For the Law of the Sea is grim;
The Owner romped while the ship was swamped
And no law bothered him.
The Captain stood where the Captain should
When a Captain's ship goes down
But the Owner led when the women fled,
For an Owner must not drown.
The Captain sank as a man of Rank,
While his Owner turned away;
The Captain's grave was his bridge and brave,
He earned his seaman's pay.
To hold your place in the ghastly face
Of Death on the Sea at Night
Is a Seaman's job, but to flee with the mob
Is an Owner's Noble Right.
— Ben Hecht, Man and Master
On the subject of Captain Smith's and Bruce Ismay's contrasting actions on the night of the sinking. Some things never change.
A famous and eloquent poem, to be sure, but also not a particularly accurate depiction of events. Smith did not do an exemplary job; while an experienced seaman, he appears to have been paralyzed by shock/denial throughout the disaster -- while he did remain calm and at his station, he failed to provide any meaningful leadership and had to be actively prompted by his subordinates for even basic decisions.
Ismay. . . was no more guilty for leaving the ship than any other first-class passenger, having no command role on the ship despite his position with White Star, and there were apparently no women and children left in the boarding area when he took a lifeboat seat.
To be fair, the poem *does* accurately reflect popular opinion in the years following the Titanic sinking. "Brute" Ismay was widely demonized and socially ostracized for being the senior surviving White Star Line official, forcing him to resign from his positions as chairman of White Star and president of the International Mercantile Marine.I stand corrected then; and thank you for pointing out my error.