Comments on: Top 10 Worst Engineering Disasters

By: 12jdearle

12jdearle — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:34:22 +0000

Actually Martin L, as of recently scientist have explored the time of the Titanic and looked at the weather patterns of the time. It is now said that an unusually cold winter caused the iceberg to float farther south than they would normally because the ocean currents in the place were the Titanic went down should have been too warm for that great of migration. Plus the engineering disaplien includes so many areas of study so the likely hood of and engineering problem is great.

By: ceroSoomell

ceroSoomell — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:52:09 +0000

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By: Kyle Nicolet

Kyle Nicolet — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:47:41 +0000

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By: George

George — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:16:44 +0000

this list is old as hell and i came across it by chance but i have to clear up some of the falsehoods about the titanic you have posted. it looks like you know very little about the titanic and just posted things you may have heard once and then instantly believed as true. first the speed they were traveling. it was common practice back then to go at a normal speed until icebergs were actually spotted. the first one they actually seen, they ended up hitting. they werent doing anything out of the normal.

2nd the titanic could have never broke the speed record. it wasnt designed to go nearly the speed capable to break the record. its top speed was only 24 knots going all out for short periods and a cruising speed of 21.5 knots. the record at the time was an average speed of 26.06 knots held by the mauretania which stood for 20 years.

3rd the problem with the watertight doors is that the compartments had no top to them and the engineers couldn’t envision more then two compartments being flooded at the same time. water just lapped over the top of an compartment and flooded into the next one. that was an engineering mistake or a lack of foresight. also the titanic didnt have a double hull. it had a double bottom. useful in case of grounding on a reef or a sandbar. not so useful in a collision.

4th while the number of lifeboats was what doomed people to die having more of them wouldnt have made much of a difference. they were literally launching the last ones minutes before the ship sank. protocol was more to blame with them waiting so long before they started loading them and sending some out with less then 20 people when they were designed for 65. the reasons for not having enough for everyone had to do with them not wanting to clutter the decks with lifeboats and the reasoning that anything big enough to sink the ship would be big enough for them to see in time to get out of the way. no one associated with the titanic ever called it unsinkable. that was a magazine article describing the ship and they called it “practically unsinkable”. most of the accounts of it being unsinkable actually came out after she sank. not before. all of those by reporters with no quotes coming from the owners or builders of the titanic. however i do love your quote from the 1997 movie “titanic”.

i feel you are confusing what was in the movie and what actually happened. i have studied the titanic in depth since 1985 and was actually well on my way to memorizing the first class passenger list when life got in the way and then abandoned due to the uselessness of it.

By: How to Be Humble

How to Be Humble — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:10:52 +0000

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By: ssrsbe singleton

ssrsbe singleton — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:25:36 +0000

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By: Dalek6450

Dalek6450 — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:21:59 +0000

Pieces of Skylab landed in Esperance, Western Australia (where I live) and you can see them in the Museum (crap museum though).

By: noah

noah — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:55:24 +0000

There’s no need to even update this list. The worst ever disaster of all time and will be in all of time is chernobyl and thats that until WW3 comes and something even worse happens.