tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024771680506727521.post7405535159790694572..comments2024-03-21T11:39:29.478-07:00Comments on Titanic Station: April 14, 1912 Ice-warnings...Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03407654772361090579noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024771680506727521.post-7272044730030606812014-06-25T21:56:01.540-07:002014-06-25T21:56:01.540-07:00I disagree. The number one responsibility or job ...I disagree. The number one responsibility or job for a wireless operator should be to relay messages from other ships to the Captain and from the Captain to other ships. Neither the 9:40pm or the 11:00pm messages from two different ships were given to Captain Smith. Titanic hit the iceberg at 11:40pm. If those messages were given to the bridge in a timely fashion, Titanic could have easily slowed speed or even stopped for the night. The proximity of the messages from the other two ships should have impressed upon Jack Phillips that Titanic was rapidly approaching an area of ice fields and icebergs. Unfortunately, like many young people today, Jack Phillips was more focused on his own financial gain. From some other articles that I have read, wireless operators during that time period were not employees of White Star but contractors from another company who was paying the wireless operator for the number of words he transmitted for social reasons to Cape Race. Therefor, Jack's priorities or lack there of directly impacted every person on board of Titanic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024771680506727521.post-22981737527038305392009-03-15T09:02:00.000-07:002009-03-15T09:02:00.000-07:00Interesting site, thanks.1912 was part of a period...Interesting site, thanks.<BR/>1912 was part of a period of few sunspots; some solar physicists and climatologists claim lack of sunspots correlates with decreasing world temperature (www.colo-earthfriends.org/climate_forecast.htm). Niagara Falls also froze over in 1911. We're presently again in a period of very few or no sunspots. I surmise that the colder weather in 1912 allowed the icebargs to travel farther South before melting. Any evidence of that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024771680506727521.post-200759065601117372007-04-14T20:02:00.000-07:002007-04-14T20:02:00.000-07:00We should all learn a lesson, no matter what the r...We should all learn a lesson, no matter what the reason for ignoring a warning,a warning is given for a reason and if we heed it we will be saved but if ignored it can and will mean death for most. It is such a terrible thing that most of the people did not even realize or know that a warning had been given. I can't help but apply this to our christian life. There are many out there who don't even know about the warning must less about the one who has warned and how can they know except we tell them. We may have many reason for not telling but I don't think they will hold up when we give an account to the Lord for the things we did and did not do in this life. Just as the ones who did not pass on the warning for the Titanic was not excused. Sorry Daniel, but sometimes thing touch my heart in something I read as your post has and It makes me sad that we don't heed the warnings in our own lives. GrandmaTO BECOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01358989235076877037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024771680506727521.post-38548237200118587872007-04-14T17:57:00.000-07:002007-04-14T17:57:00.000-07:00I don't hold it against Bride or Phillips either, ...I don't hold it against Bride or Phillips either, they were just doing what they had done hundreds of times. How were they to know that this time it would be different!?Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03407654772361090579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024771680506727521.post-67070972459993459072007-04-14T17:39:00.000-07:002007-04-14T17:39:00.000-07:00I don't so much hold it against Bride and Phillips...I don't so much hold it against Bride and Phillips. They followed the protocol of the day. All that would change afterward, with simple things such as 24-hour radio communication, and the importance of giving emergency calls the highest priority.<BR/><BR/>But it's like when a traffic report comes over the radio that there is a large mattress that has fallen on the highway that you normally travel. If you are fortunate to hear that warning, you can opt to take another route. If you can't, you take it VERY easy so you won't get into a bad accident. So the saddest thing is that they didn't just slow down or even stop for the night. It would have meant being late getting into New York, but still, one wonders what if...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com