: About Me

The unthinkable sinking of the Titanic was a combination of bad luck and poor construction. The design of the ship was not only just crafted by fate, but also crafted by the hands of human engineers. Built to dwarf every other ship ever built, the Titanic was nearly 900 feet long, towered 25 stories high, and tipped the scales with a weight of 46,000 tons. The causes of the infamous failure of the Titanic are small and intertwined - some reasonable and others unimaginable. For one, a boat this gigantic had a rudder slightly too small for its size. Though a large rudder would have created e...