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The Titanic sinking left tragic “what if?” questions

Walter Lord summed up the chain of tragic—and avoidable—missteps that led to the disaster:

“If the Titanic had heeded any of the six ice messages on Sunday … if ice conditions had been normal … if the night had been rough or moonlit … if she had seen the berg 15 seconds sooner—or 15 seconds later … if she had hit the ice in any other way … if her watertight bulkheads had been one deck higher … if she had carried enough boats … if the Californian had only come. Had any one of these ‘ifs’ turned out right, every life might have been saved.”

7 Things You Might Not Have Known About the RMS ‘Titanic’

The Titanic sinking left tragic “what if?” questions