Too easy. Titanic was sailed into upper latitudes meaning known ice fields to speed up her arrival in New York. She was sailing at 22 1/2 knots, above her normal cruising speed.
The lookouts who spotted the iceberg too late had no binoculars because these were locked in a chest in the crow’s nest. The holder of the key had missed sailing on the Titanic.
That key just sold at auction for $500,000.
Oh yes, and the loss of all those influential plutocrats hastened the passing of the Federal income tax just a year later.
And the lookouts’ alarm was delayed because they were too busy ogling Kate Winslet.
;^)
No rational posts allowed on this thread.
Oh yes...and Kate...