Following the Titanic disaster, ships were refitted for increased safety. For example, the double bottoms of many existing ships, including the RMS Olympic,[5] were extended up the sides of their hulls, their waterlines, to give them double hulls. Another refit that many ships underwent were changes to the height of the bulkheads. The bulkheads on Titanic extended 10 feet (3 m) above the water line. After the Titanic sank, the bulkheads on other ships were extended higher to make the compartments fully watertight.
There were many other improvements that may have been made eventually, but were forced on to shipowners as direct result of the sinking.The Titanic disaster led to the convening of the first International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) in London, on 12 November 1913. On 30 January 1914, a treaty was signed by the conference that resulted in the formation and international funding of the International Ice Patrol, an agency of the United States Coast Guard that to the present day monitors and reports on the location of North Atlantic Ocean icebergs that could pose a threat to transatlantic sea traffic.
Well, Brexit hasn't gone any way has it? So pretty much a non - "What if" is it.
Must admit Nereus, I was looking at another side - i.e. people/engineers/inventors surviving and having an influence on the future, but you make a very good point - how long would it have taken for the safety to be implemented. What effect did that have - how many lives (and who's) were saved?
That's a huge one. Good, bad or ugly, it's nature.lindosfan1 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2019 12:22 am What if Mosquitos had never existed what would the world population be today.
OK, fair enough. Don't want to argue the "Brexit" point as there's another thread on that - "Brexit" has still not been decided. BUT if there was never the referendum where would the Conservatives, Labour and the "Brexit Party" etc. be..... not to mention the pound?
TBO I was not sure just what you had in mind? There were several well known people lost, maybe Millionaire John Jacob Astoras he was also known as an inventor.pharvey wrote:Must admit Nereus, I was looking at another side - i.e. people/engineers/inventors surviving and having an influence on the future,
Millionaire John Jacob Astor was a member of the prominent Astor family and helped build the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. He was also an inventor, a science fiction novelist, and served in the Spanish-American War.
