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The worst error made that day was the ship went too fast with ice in the vicinity. Even then, with the theory of a Cold Water mirage being in play, that makes the matter more difficult. Everything else? Everything that could go wrong indeed went wrong. Just enough water-tight compartments were...

I am surprised it is hard for a lot of people to believe “weird things happen.” Planning for freak accidents is difficult because they are freak accidents. So so many things had to go wrong in a particular order for it to happen that the likelihood of it happening is practically improbable…but...

Having read into it a little more…I’m not sure if a more well supported bridge would have had any luck either. The vessel that hit it was a fifty thousand tonner. She’s ten thousand tons heavier than a Bismarck class battleship, so enormous damage was going to be done either way. And by the...

Right wing media really is just as filled with drama queens as left wing media, isn't it?

Pretty sure it is a coincidence actually. Because unlike fiction, reality doesn't need to make sense.

A lot of people got rather unfairly maligned by the Titanic disaster. Yes mistakes were made. But everything went to Hell in a handbasket that night in ways not so easily foreseen.

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...

This is unfortunately a freak accident. Freak accidents happen, no matter how much you prepare for them, because a preposterous amount of things (to the point that it should be impossible) have to go wrong for them to happen. But sometimes the stars align, your dice roll badly, and...