Titanic disaster

To practice searching for and choosing source material, find three recent works on your essay topic available in your library. If you don t have an essay topic yet, pick a subject that interests you, one that is likely to appear in both print and electronic sources (Baseball Hall of Fame, stamp collecting, the Titanic disaster, king cobras, etc.). If possible, try to find three different kinds of sources, such as a book, a journal article, and a Web site. After you have recorded bibliographic information for each source, locate and evaluate the works. Does each of these sources provide relevant, reliable information In a few sentences explain why you believe each one would or would not be an appropriate source for your research essay. 

Echo sounders were originally developed as an echo-ranging device immediately prior to World War I in 1913 to locate icebergs after the Titanic disaster. During the war, an effort was made to adapt the device to locate submarines. After World War 1, the device was adapted to measure ocean depths. This technology permitted accurate depth determination from a moving ship. This allowed for large areas to be surveyed quickly and with a minimal cost. 

The paper The Titanic Disaster An Enduring Example of Money Management vs. Risk Management (Brander, 1995) that was referenced in Chapter 1 discusses cost-cutting pressures. The following is a quotation from that paper. 

What gets far less comment is that most of the problems all came from a larger, systemic problem the owners and operators of steamships had for five decades taken larger and larger risks to save money—risks to which they had methodically blinded themselves. The Titanic disaster suddenly ripped away the blindfolds and changed dozens of attitudes, practices, and standards almost literally overnight. 

The discussion concerning Titanic disaster in Chapter 2 provides the following quotation (Brander 1995) ... 

The Titanic disaster suddenly ripped away the blindfolds and changed dozens of attitudes, practices, and standards almost literally overnight. 

Table 2.2 lists the elements of SEMS. The elements that are pertinent to the Titanic disaster are itahcized. 

Brander, R., 1995. The Titanic Disaster An enduring example of money management vs. risk management. Essay on Risj Management. Calgary Unix Users Group, Canada. Available online at www.cuug.ab.ca/ branderr/risk essay/titanic.html (accessed 20... 

The IntematioDal Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) is an international maritime safety treaty. The first version of the treaty was passed as a result of the Titanic disaster in 1912. SOLAS requires flag states to ensure that their ships comply with minimum safety standards in constraction, equipment, and operation. Many of the SOLAS requirements have been adopted into the laws of various nations. 

Smith, WA. Rayner, 1.1912. Titanic Disaster Report Washington Committe on Commerce United States Senate. 

Brander, Roy. 1995. The Titanic Disaster An Enduring Example of Money Management vs. Risk Management. 

Although accidents of these types occur infrequently, they may present a greater potential for loss titan fires, explosions, or spills. Since natural disasters are difficult to predict and prevent, one is obliged to rely more heavily on precautions designed to minimize tlie impact of an occurrence of a natural disaster, such as emergency plamting. 

The Hindenburg Disaster Titanic of the Sky. Vidicom Media Productions. Available online. URL http //www.vidicom-tv. com/tohiburg.htm. Accessed Dec. 17, 2006. 

Vidicom Media Productions. Titanic of the Sky The Hindenburg Disaster. Available online. URL www.vidicom-tv.com/tohiburg. htm. Accessed June 30, 2008. This Web site provides a comprehensive review of the Hindenburg tragedy with links to a slideshow and a video. 

Watt defined a related phenomenon he called the Titanic effect to explain the fact that major accidents are often preceded by a belief that they cannot happen. The Titanic effect says that the magnitude of disasters decreases to the extent that people beheve that disasters are possible and plan to prevent them or to minimize their effects [204]. 

In this connection, another sad event, which long ago entered the annals of big technological disasters, comes to mind the sinking of the Titanic. 

The Chernobyl reactor, like the Titanic, was a technological masterpiece, but both had inherent and serious flaws in their design. Another technologically advanced design that failed disastrously was the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger. Other technological disasters, such as at Bhopal and Seveso, were more related to simple carelessness in design and operation. 

Infrequent losses do not necessarily mean low or controlled risk, as evidenced by catastrophic events such as the space shuttle losses, the 2010 BP Gulf Deep Water Horizon oil spill (Deep Water, The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling, 2011), refinery explosions, and (Blast at BP Texas Refinery, 2005) and even disasters such as the sinking of the Titanic (Haverin, 2012). 

The US loss of life in the Sultana accident was greater than in the Titanic, Lusitania, the USS Arizona (at Pearl Harbor) or the USS Indianapolis (in 1945), and it remains the greatest-ever US loss of life in a maritime disaster. Despite the scale of the loss, the Philadelphia Inquirer dealt with the event in less than 200 words in its April 29 edition (Fig. 7.2). 

Cook, R. L. 2003. Code of Silence Ethics of Disasters. Jefferson City, MO Trojan Publishing Company. The author is a professional engineer who taught engineering and technology, and in this volume asks, How safe are we He covers the moral and ethical aspects of manmade disasters, from the Titanic to the World Trade Center. 

Contemporary novelists distrnst modern utopias in both their scientific and their social forms. The two world wars, the Holocaust, ecological disasters like Chernobyl, the terror of the communist systems - all this is reflected in the contemporary novel. In his epic poem Der Untergang der Titanic (1978 The Sinking of the Titanic, 1981) Enzensberger lets this dinosaur of a... 

The Californian was the nearest ship to the Titanic when it sank on the day of the disaster. The lookouts of the Californian saw several rockets from the Titanic and reported them to the Captain. 

The energy-barrier model is related to all causes of the disaster of the Titanic, but it cannot explain the reason why those causes had occurred. Details of each cause can be supported by other perspectives. For instance, lack of lifeboats weakened the barrier of evacuation with lifeboats but the energy-barrier model carmot explain why there were not enough lifeboats on the Titanic. With MMD model, we can find that there was an insufficient information flow in rule making process, and conflicting objectives perspective can point out that enough lifeboats were not equipped because the owner wanted much more free space. 

The paper has investigated the accident of the Titanic and applied six accident perspectives to the causes. It has been found that there were a total of 23 contributed to the disaster. Some of them were related to all of the six perspectives, while the others were relevant to only small part of them. It is concluded that a single accident perspective cannot explain entire accident causes and sequences, but combination of the perspectives can help overall understanding of the accident of the Titanic. Based on this result, the paper has suggested a concept of... 

Eaton, J.P. Haas, C.A. 1996. Titanic Destination Disaster the Legends and the Reality, Norton. 

This new edition of a well received and popular book contains a general update of historical data, more material concerning road and rail accidents and, most importantly, a new chapter on the human factor. The author provides a broad survey of the accidents to which engineering structures and vehicles may be subject. Historical records are analysed to determine how loss and fatality rates vary with time and these results are displayed in numerous graphs and tables. Notable catastrophes such as the sinking of the Titanic and the Estonia ferry disaster are described. Natural disasters are considered generally, with more detail in this edition on the role that humans play in disasters. 

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