e, including Paul Smith the captain of the boat. The crew and the builders of this ship had considered no worries about the Titanic, so they were not fully planned for this destruction (Ballard 11). The radio workers for the Titanic were not even on twenty-four hour surveillance. The workers of the ship thought that they did not need them there because they thought that nothing could go wrong. There was a “…planned preparation rescue effort”(The Titanic) that was meant for the crewmembers to go through many times. This preparation effort was only gone through one, the day before the maiden voyage. If the workers would of considered the massive Titanic as any other boat, they might have taken the correct precautions and more people might have survived the sinking.The Titanic received numerous warnings through out its voyage that there were ice burgs ahead and to be on the look out. Around 10:30 p.m. that evening, a ship heading the opposite direction of the Titanic was sighted. This ship, the Rappahannech, had emerged from an ice field and had sustained some damaged to its rudder (Quinn 8). The vessel signaled the Titanic about the ice and the Titanic replied that the message was received. Yet the ship carried on with no worries. The Titanic “assumed that horizon was open to their views and did not realize there were hidden masses of ice lurking in the darkness”(63). Around 11p.m. another warning was received by the Titanic from the Californian, who had passed through the same ice field. Like all of the other warnings, this warning never reached the bridge though it was known to both of the Titanic’s wireless operators. By the time the bridge realized the ship was about to hit the ice burg it was to late. The quartermaster was told to turn the wheel hard to the starboard. About twenty seconds later, he had an order, full speed astern but the ice burg was too close. The starboard side h...
