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Question: How does fate 'conspire' to sink the Titanic!?
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It was not fate, The Titanic had many factors that played into its sinking and great loss of life!.

The rivets during construction were replaced with iron rivets instead of steel because Iron was easier to maneuver!.

The Titanic only had enough lifeboats for half the people aboard, 16 regular (the minimum requirement) and four collapsible boats!. Andrew Hale wanted double the lifeboats but his superiors shut his plan down!. Andrew Hale went down with the doomed ship that night, while the man who personally shut down his plan climbed aboard a lifeboat!.

The Iceberg warnings, they received numerous Iceberg sightings and warnings but they didn't even listen, they sailed right on, right into an iceberg!.

The compartments in the Boiler rooms, when Titanic Struck the iceberg, the wound was 300ft long, flooding five compartments!. The titanic was only meant to be able to stay afloat with 4 compartments flooded!. also, the staircases for the firearm men, the water rose up that and went to the next compartment, and so on, until the bow was submerged and the stern rose until it Split nearly at a 90 degree angle, dropping the stern back at where it was, then barley connected to the bow stood strait up again and sunk!.

The rudder, the rudder was so small that they couldn't make such a dramatic turn away from the iceberg in time!. The ship was massive and unable to turn so dramatically with a rudder so small!.

When Titanic was struck, there was not much panic by the passengers because they were unaware of what was yet to come!. Lifeboats began to be filled with only half the people it could hold!. Each lifeboat could hold 65 people roughly, one boat only had 12 poeple in it!. that is one reason why 3/4 of titanics passenger/ crew died!.

The turn itself, if Titanic Struck the iceberg head on, it would have been able to stay afloat long enough for the Carpathia or any other ship to arrive and save passengers and crew members!. It only would have hit one compartment, Keeping it afloat!.

There are many other reasons for the titanic Sinking but these are some main reasons for its sinking!.

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Fate called her best friend, Hubris, and they got together and swam out into the sea!. When the time was right, they pushed the iceberg into the Titanic's path, and the "unsinkable" happened!.

Sorry, just couldn't resist!.

Serious answer: the ship was hailed as "unsinkable" and was supposed to be a crowning achievement of the engineers who designed and built her!. People in power had funded the construction of Titanic, and people in power sailed on her maiden voyage!. People in power die just the same as people who don't have power!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

1!. The binoculars for the lookouts, no one knew what happened to them after Southampton

2!. The sailing time, the Titanic was not supposed to sail on April 10th, it was supposed to be February, then March, it's sailing got pushed back after the Olympic lost a propeller blade and they took it from the Titanic which was still being finished to get the Olympic back in service quicker!. also in 1991 when the Olympic collided with the HMS Hawke making a giant gash in it's side, it was taken back to Belfast and work stopped on the Titanic to get the Olympic back in service quicker

3!. Ice warnings, the last ice warning recieved at about 9 that night from the SS Mesaba got lost in a pile of paper and never made it to the bridge and described icebergs in the very close proximity to where the Titanic struck one

4!. Turning the corner, it's an old phrase how from going from England to New York, ships basically follow a south-west line until they "turn the corner" where it's basically due west to New York, Captain Smith ordered the ship to turn the corner a 1/2 hour later then normal to put it further south of the ice

5!. An unusually warm winter that year in the arctic cause alot of ice to melt and break off

6!. The Titanic could float with it's first 4 compartments filled, so of course 5 get water pouring into them!.(it was actually 6, but the damage in the last one was small enough to keep the water out with pumps till about an hour afterwards when the bulkhead wall between it and the other compartment collapsed)Www@QuestionHome@Com

It is a figure of speech!. You are right that fate (an abstract inanimate concept) can't "conspire"!.

What people mean by the phrase though is that for Titanic to sink in the way she did lots of things had to happen in just the right order, at just the right time!.

If the weather had been a bit different there may not have been an ice field that far south!.!.!.or if the sea had not been so calm the lookout could have seen the berg sooner!.!.!.or if Titanic had left a couple of days sooner (or later) there could have been more moonlight so the lookout could have seen the berg, or if Ismay hadn't been on board if the weather had been worse Capt!. Smith might not have been going so fast!. If the lookout had seen the berg just a few seconds sooner they might have dodged it!.!.!.or if he had seen it just a little later they might have hit it head on!.

Hitting the berg head on would, ironically, have been a good thing!.!.!.it would have heavily damaged the first couple of compartments, but she was designed to take that sort of damage and wouldn't have sunk!. A little less damage and she wouldn't have sunk, just flooded forward!.

If the Californian hadn't turned off her radio she would have heard the SOS and been at Titanic's postion in time to rescue people!.!.!.maybe not everybody but certianly a majority of the passengers and crew!. If the officers on the Californian had paid attention to Titanic's distress rockets the same could have been said!.

There were lots of individual events that, had they gone differently, either Titanic would not have sunk or would not have lost as many people!.!.!.but at each and every turn Titanic did not get the lucky break she needed to survive!. That is why they say "fate conspired against her"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It took a long time for us to build so of course we would think that the natural world took just as long to plan on destroying it!.

"Biological basis of Teleological Concepts" by henry barnswinger (something like that)Www@QuestionHome@Com

The ship owner said, "God Himself couldn't sink this ship!."
Yet it was a force of nature that was the tool which sank the ship!.

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Fate had nothing to do with it, it hit an ice burg it sank, Poorly built as well!. Www@QuestionHome@Com