Safety

SAFETY MEASURES IN SHIPS

Titanic making was completed around 1907 . The enormous ship captured attention globally due to its complexity . From the remains that were found on the wreck ground it was observed that the ship had Artistic completely nurtured , three-dimensional features and objects , witnesses say that the Titanic was more than describable , in fact the right phrase applicable would be , beyond words and pictures . Unfortunately , the Titanic met with a fatal disaster in 1912 . Titanic 's story has been narrated and re-narrated . Although it sank and got destroyed , the Titanic

remains a great historical source of legendary and curiosity (Young 1912 . To start the comparisons between safety measures in place then at the ones put in today it sounds appropriate to ask our selves why does it take for a disaster to happen , to change policies strategies or laws and regulations in regard to safety precautions Since that accident , ship owners and authorities have pushed for further measures to be installed in all major cargo and passenger ships ( Paine ,1919

To begin with , let us scrutinize safety measures in the Titanic by looking at the materials that had been used in its construction . From the wrecks , it is seen that the Titanic was made of steel plates that had been joined by iron rivets . A comprehensive survey indicated that the pieces of steel plating of this ship seemed to have metallurgy lose of elasticity which highly facilitated Titanic 's brittleness in water due to this reaction the Titanic was left vulnerable to and rupture (Winzy .com 2008 . Further analysis found out that the steel had higher phosphorus and sulfur contents . Higher amounts of the latter are said to result to fractures and likelihood of cracks respectively Research also noted that the steel lacked in manganese and this in turn might have caused the ship 's to loose on ductility (Eye witness to History .com , 1912 . This might have been one area that the manufactures of the Titanic failed . Although innovation and technology had not developed as such , it is likely or rather apparent that these firm could have used better quality material had they known . The content of these constituent minerals in the main steel have been checked . Only high quality steel with less of these chemical content is used only now as a safety precaution . Another most likely defect or amiss in Titanic 's making could be the riveting concept applied (Lawrence 1929 Investigations say that they were more fragile than expected . Slag residues found in them again could have led to the ship 's breakdown at that rate . In new ship building industries today only the best quality of rivet material is used . The number of rivets holding the steel plates together probably might have been smaller which in turn made the fracturing of the legendary Titanic even faster . Although , the building process might have seen small mishaps and setbacks , I believe more could have been done if proper studies and research had been done . Reports later...