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Perhaps, but the real tragedy of the Titanic is ego and bad safety procedures, in my opinion. The conception of the ship being "unsinkable" led to the lack of l

• Retric 8y ago
  The Titanic made history in large part because rich people where impacted and survived to talk about it. By comparison many slave ships with 800+ people sank with little impact.
• boomlinde 8y ago
  It certainly is notable and probably ironic that the Titanic was touted as unsinkable, but in my opinion that doesn't really detract or add to the magnitude of the tragedy. I see what you mean with the bad safety procedures, but now that much better safety procedures are mandated by law and we have radar and real-time weather reports, you could turn that around and say that a disaster with a comparable death toll is even more tragic, given that it's much more easily preventable.
• goodcanadian 8y ago
  My understanding is that the "unsinkable" claim was never really made. Also, it had more lifeboats and other safety features than were typical of the time.