New revelation about the Titanic: sinking by following the rules – 22/03/2019

Much has been said about the tragedy of Titanic It could have been avoided. It all started with an inaugural trip that, according to the researchers, should never have begun. Beyond the engineering errors, the capacity and the insufficient emergency measures, a new hypothesis concerning its collapse appeared. And he has the crew as guilty. But for its strict adherence to maritime standards.

Journalist Senan Molony, who has been investigating the famous shipwreck for 30 years, says this is the case. His research, collected in a new book "Titanic: why it crashed, why it sank and why it should never have been navigated"Explain that the 1850 rule of turning right or left to avoid collisions was not effective if there were icebergs. However, it was used in this fateful moment.

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"There was a lot of debate about this, and a sailor, Joseph Scarrott, saw the block of ice before the impact and explained that his mbad lay on the right side. They decided to follow the standard operating procedurethat is to say, go to starboard to avoid the collision, which was the fatal mistake, "says the journalist in his study.

Molony says that "the Titanic did the right thing and had a" professional "behavior, but by applying this standard procedure to avoid frontal collision, it's when they made the mistake it would take so many lives ahead. If the elections had been to go immediately to the port, they would probably have been saved, but they would have broken a rule anchored in the profession of sailor. "

In other words, and ironically, Molony says that "icebergs do not follow the rules" and that officials they should have missed the manual. "These mountains of ice can be in any form, and if you are in the dark, only the front part of the obstruction is initially visible, you can only badume the body of the iceberg is on one side or the other, can those on board the ship know where the lethal length can be extended, left or right, port or starboard, they should have gone that far? as possible and not turn where the norm says it. "

In fact, there was a debate about the size of the iceberg among those who saw it from the ship. A sailor, Joseph Scarrott, suggested that this extends to the right side of the Titanic, exactly where they turned.

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First Officer William McMaster Murdoch was the officer in charge when the Titanic crashed. He would also have seen the iceberg. While a fourth officer, Joseph Boxhall, claimed to have been in his cabin before the impact and that he did not see it.

The transatlantic would have finished two contradictory maneuvers, which would have worsened with a fire in the coal collection areas, which caused severe damage in the same area that the iceberg was going to hit later.

"It was complicated that the boat and her travelers escape their fatal destiny", according to research.

In addition, at that time, there was a coal strike in Britain, so the Titanic could not have moved away from the area in search of safer water , because I did not have enough fuel. Therefore, according to the researcher, he had no choice but to cross the pack ice.

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