The sinking of Titanic - peak oil and climate disaster

A study of the sinking of the Titanic shows staggering parallelism with our current situation with peak oil and climate change.

Titanic: speed is important
  Factor: Sister ship ''Olympic'' and maiden voyage record The Titanic shall cross the Atlantic faster than the sister ship ''Olympic'' one year before.


Titanic disaster: Ignore warnings
  Factor: Private telegrams - overloaded radio operators - the officers are laughing at the ice warnings of other ships


Titanic: Factor: Full speed despite the icefield
  Despite of all warnings the speed of the Titanic is not reduced. Thereby the Titanic is amidst the icefield already and the officers know about it.


Last warning to the Titanic
  Factor: Also the last ice warning from the ship ''California'' is not passed to the bridge - the captain goes sleeping...


Titanic full ahead in dark night
  Factor: Missing binoculars - dark night - and full speed ahead yet. On the bridge of the Titanic two officers are looking for icebergs, without binoculars, because they do not know where they are.


The collision of the Titanic
  1912-4-14, [23:40] The logic consequence: Confrontation with an iceberg The two officers detect an iceberg ahead, much too late.


Demage report of the Titanic
  Factor investigation: One whole hour is needed to have the whole damage reported



The sinking of the Titanic commented by Michael Palomino.
The Compare to our current situation by Roland Mösl.
index: 2008 2008 


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