WHY DID THE RMS TITANIC HIT THE ICEBERG?

On the night of April 14, 1912, a mighty ocean liner steamed straight into an iceberg in the south of Newfoundland. Passengers were thrown from their chairs and rushed in terror to the decks.

Oh wow, what a cliche intro. Why did I do that? ._.
Anyway, welcome to my blog and out first post will be discussing about Titanic's crash. Of course you knew what's Titanic. You don't? Oh, what a great life you have out there, keep it going.

Back to our topic.

So, why did the Titanic sank even though it was said to be the mightiest ship on earth at the time? Despite warnings of ice ahead, hit an iceberg herself, and why did she failed to survive the collision? Here are some of my theories:

1/ She was going too fast. Around 22-26 knots, which is quite fast for a big ship like her((you want proof? Calculate it yourself; 1knot=1.15mph )). The conclusion of the British inquiry remains self-evident. However far away the iceberg was when the lookouts saw it, there was too little time to avoid it. It had been said that Captain Smith was trying to get some sort of speed record, but this is just a speculation, there was no prove for this statement.

2/ The condition of the night. This has become quite a popular topic on Titanic's crash since IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. That night was moonless dark, flat-calm and tide less. It was weird since the sea condition in North Atlantic wasn't supposed to be like that in April. So it was a very, extremely rare condition in THAT MONTH. On almost any other night, the huge iceberg would have probably be seen by the lookouts and Titanic would have enough time to avoid it.

No wind, no waves, it was like Titanic had entered another realm. As I said, the night was dark, making it harder to see any obstacles in the distance. The ocean was flat-calm and tide-less. On such a night, any tides would make the iceberg more visible. Even small waves could cause a bright phosphorescent line around the base of the iceberg but, on that night, there was not even a gentle swell that could have caused phosphorescent line around the iceberg.

The image above was the first photo of the mountainous iceberg that destroyed the mighty RMS Titanic and sent her passengers to a watery grave in the frigid North Atlantic.
The picture was actually released a century after the sinking and was put on auction. The arrow pointed to iceberg supposedly less than 10 hours before the crash. If we think logically, the iceberg was totally a huge one if it can be seen 10 hours before. But as I said before, "supposedly" , so we really don't know the exact time of this shot and the person who took it.

Captain Edward Smith

Thomas Andrews

J.Bruce Ismay

3/ The crews' ego. Yes, that's right. As we all know, the Titanic, as her name, was supposed to be invincible, strong and it made the crew taking mother nature's law oh so lightly. Now that it sank, who's fault to blame? Captain Smith ignored the emergency telegram, the doubt of his crews. Even so, we cannot blame him. He was just a normal human being like us. The RMS Titanic was owned by the White Star Line, and it's director was actually on board, Joseph Bruce Ismay(J.Bruce Ismay) together with Thomas Andrews, one of the head of engineers who were responsible to built the ship. Captain Smith was, I can say, influenced by the fact that Titanic was invincible. And you'll probably know who had talked to him. Too bad for us, Thomas Andrews 'sank' along with Titanic and J.Bruce Ismay practically kept out of public's eyes probably due to the trauma. No one ever heard of his story ever since.

Also, did you know that the RMS Titanic received 6 ICE WARNINGS? But all of them were ignored by the wireless operator who was preoccupied with transmitting passenger's messages.

Please pardon the picture, the iceberg on the surface was
supposed to be smaller than that ((couldn't find the right picture :/))

4/ Underestimating the iceberg. We all know that mother nature has lots of secrets. The iceberg for example. Earlier in 1900's not many of scientists knew the true characteristics of icebergs. Due to the lack of information, Titanic's crews underestimated the ability of what an iceberg could do to the 'unsinkable' ship. On the surface, the iceberg was a lot smaller, not as big as the ship itself so it would be impossible for the Titanic to sink just from that. However, further studies indicated that the iceberg hides an ugly truth. The true size of the berg was larger. An iceberg usually exposes only 1/10th of it's mass above water. With the other 9/10ths of it's mass below water, it makes them impossible to budge. Even with a force of a ship like the Titanic.

Well, for now, that's all I have to say. The sinking of Titanic along it's history are very interesting. I even watched 2 documentaries from NatGeo for this assignment ._. 

As for the conclusion, I must say that the Titanic's sinking had teach us humans to never underestimate nature. The 'perfection' of Titanic made them(the people in the era) forgot who they really are, forgot the One that created mother Earth. Even though it's good that they got what they deserved, NO ONE should e ever die like that. Their sins even caused hundreds of innocent lives. This horrible accident had seriously brought human to their senses. And I hope that we won't have another 'Titanic' in the near future.

I've learned lots of thing from this. Thanks, Mr.Mustapha and my other lecturers :) 
Hope you had fun reading it ^^