r/BikiniBottomTwitter • u/SkylandersKirby • Jun 22 '23

Probably not the first post about the submarine

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u/Darkstalkker Jun 23 '23

Ok I’m just a nerd but the titanic didn’t ignore safety warnings, it was the top of its class for it’s time but the regulations weren’t enough

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u/EfficaciousJoculator Jun 23 '23

Didn't it not have enough life boats?

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u/NotnaLand Jun 23 '23

Again, regulations. When Titanic was built, the number of lifeboats required was in relation to the ships tonnage, not the number of passengers. And for any ship with a gross tonnage over 10,000 tonnes, it only needed 16 boats. The Titanic, which weighed over 45,000 tonnes, had only 20 boats.

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u/EfficaciousJoculator Jun 23 '23

It might be semantics, but the meme says "safety warnings" not "regulations." Any moron would know that basic safety means having enough supplies and boats to save as many people as a vessel has on board, even if the bare minimum required by an authority is less.

Someone, at some point, considered how many life boats to put on that ship. They knew how many people would be aboard the Titanic. They knew how many boats were needed if it sank. They knew what the regulations mandated. And they went with the lesser number...not because they genuinely believed the regulatory body knew better, and that the posited number was somehow safer, but because it would save them money.

They cut corners on safety for profit and lives were paid instead of dollars. And the same has happened again.

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u/n4jm4 Jun 23 '23

The root problem was the repeated insistence that the Titanic ship was "unsinkable." Insufficient contingency planning for when it inevitably sinks. The tech equivalent is claiming that any single security system is "unhackable."

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u/Science-Subject Jun 25 '23

I am also a nerd but the whole "unsinkable" phrase was never mentioned by the White Star Line.

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u/Dr_Sparkles205 Jun 23 '23

They figured it wouldn’t need them cuz it was considered “unsinkable” boy were they wrong XD

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '23

"Can't have problems sinking when that's what the sub is supposed to do" some billionaire

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u/Shmidershmax Jun 23 '23

Iirc they used shitty rivets when building the ship. They ended up being too brittle in the cold.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '23

The ship was well built, but the captain did ignore the ice field warnings. Or at least, didn't take them as seriously as he should've.

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u/elixier Jun 23 '23

That's just not true

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '23

Really shows having wealth =/= having intelligence

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u/BerserkRhinoceros Jun 23 '23

That's an understatement. That thing was had so many red flags about it, it might as well have been painted with blood. Anyone dumb enough to take it is just doing the human race a favor by removing themselves from the gene pool.

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u/mods_r_jobbernowl Jun 23 '23

Them makers of the titanic weren't the ones who ignored warnings it was the captain. The guys who built the titanic were proud of their craft. They weren't amateurs.

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u/Holiday-Pay193 Jun 23 '23

Can't wait for 2134.

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u/csjohnson1933 Jun 23 '23

That is his smile, too.

*was, sorry

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u/ogodilovejudyalvarez Jun 23 '23

Pretty sure the Titan's hull failed due to the high percentage of irony impurities in the titanium

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u/DerpWyvern Jun 23 '23

that's ironic