Titanic Excuses?

Titanic Excuses?

The April 15th, 1912 sinking of the “unsinkable” RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic has become the stuff of legend, a tribute to man’s arrogance, testimony to man’s fallibility, and proof of man’s vulnerabilities.

The ultra-luxurious Titanic launched on her maiden voyage from Southhampton, England one hundred years ago today with some ten millionaires and scores of the wealthiest people on the planet on board as well as over 2,000 lesser human beings.

Three days later 1,514 would be dead–including many of the elite, First Class passengers–from drowning, exposure to frigid ocean waters, and various other catastrophic events.

The story of the Titanic tragedy has been told and re-told for a century.

The Titanic story has been replete with accounts of bravery and cowardice, with tales of First Class passengers given priority to board the woefully insufficient lifeboats and the pathetic souls in steerage largely left to die, with evidence the majestic ship had been poorly engineered and built and that its collision with an iceberg had been avoidable.

Two new studies have now virtually exonerated Titanic Captain Edward John Smith and his crew from responsibility in the tragedy.

One argues that nature was complicit . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=21357.)