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To: markomalley

The Titanic met all established legal standards for safety at the time of its sinking. But it is true that those standards were out of date and wholly inadequate for ships of the time. Those standards were rewritten completely as result of the Titanic disaster.

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16 posted on 11/22/2015 6:15:20 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Celtic Conservative

True. People le also need to remember that bouncing a ship that size off of an iceberg at about 25 miles per hour is pretty much always a bad idea.


32 posted on 11/23/2015 3:08:38 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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