Titanic
One of the most important ships sinking was the on of the Titanic. There were a lot of deaths, and it was considered a disaster for the American ship industry. There are many studies that tell about the causes of the rapid sinking of the Titanic, but it is also important to know that there were a lot of effects of the sinking of the Titanic. This sinking was a very important national event that had effects in the American society, the way ships were built, and safety controls.
The day in which the Titanic sank a lot of people died, and some of them were very important people in American society. These deaths were one of the effects of the sinking of the Titanic. The sinking of the Titanic was on April 14, 1912. The ship sank in just three hours and as it did not have enough lifeboats, many people died that day. There were two 2002 people on board and only 705 survived the accident. According to the author of “The effects of the Titanic,”[1] these deaths were a huge loss in American society. In addition, there were two important men in the American society that died that day, and their deaths caused an important and big impression on the Americans. The names of the men were Mr. Isidor Straus and Colonel John Jacob Astor IV. The first one, Mr. Isidor Straus, was the owner of a company that hindered the business of the confederate states during the American Civil War, so his death was a huge shock for the American society. The second one, Colonel Astor IV was a very renowned scientist, so his death was considered a huge loss. The death of these two men and, in general, the death of all the people that died in the Titanic sinking caused a very huge impact on the American society.
Another effect of the sinking of the Titanic was that since the accident, the way ships were built changed. According to Vicki Basset, the author of “Causes and effects of the rapid sinking of the Titanic,”[2] as a result of the sinking of the Titanic, ships starting to be made with bigger lower sides and harder hulls, and the specifications of the walls of the compartments of the ships were changed. In a “Convention on Safety of Life at Sea” in 1948, it was decided that the walls must be horizontal or across the width of the ship and that it has to be watertight on both sides. These decisions were made due to the sinking of the Titanic. The decisions of change some technical specifications in the ship construction were effects of the huge impact that cause the sinking of the Titanic.
According to Basset, safety controls also changed because of the sinking of the ship that everybody thought was invincible, the Titanic. Now it is required that all ships that have more than 1600 tons carry wireless machines aboard. This rule was made so the ships could communicate with land, check their position, be informed of the weather conditions and ask for help in case of an emergency. Another safe rule that was established after this historical sinking was that the life boats must have the capacity for all of passengers plus the work team. This rule is especially important because one of the most fatal errors in the tragedy of the Titanic was that in the ship there were not enough life boats for all the people who were on the Titanic. As result of the tragedy a group of scientist to check the weather was also created. This group was called the “ice-patrol.” They are aware of the weather and ice conditions in the
The sinking of the Titanic was stunning for American society not just for the deaths that this tragedy caused, but for the errors that revealed in the way of build ships and in the lack of security on the sea. There were a lot of changes in the way of people thought and the way of the experts built ships and uses the security in order to avoid another disaster of this dimension.
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