ive seen loads of that on diffrent white star vessesl as the pain goes all flaked and tatey i have an advertisement bored of the mejestic and the paint on her bow is all tatey. and i agree about murdock he did waht he was trained to do and whiyte star line would not want there luxury liner coming back to harbour with huge dents and scraches it would be bad for publicity

murdock was only doing what he thought was safe as in the 19 centuary ship captains and officers were to steam as fast throw a ice field as the longer your in side a ice field the more danger you are in the quicker you get out the shorter your vessel is in danger.
1st officer macmaster murdock was only using the ic berg as an apex in which he was trying to reverse the titanic round the iceberg but using a 46,000 ton ocean liner dosent turn on a dime andaswell by reversing the engines the central purpelor cant be reveresed so murdock counciled out the turn with the prop wash from the shaft by full astern to port and reversing the engines. murdock deserves credit like the captain and secound in commmand

I agree that if he had hit face on it would've like avioded a lot. but uhm, the thing is you know it happened so fast, and the lookouts didn't have the proper equipment, so that was a bust =/

he coulda done things differently to avoid the berg or to try to cause the least possible damage.

Yes, after we review things and other alternatives, NOW we see what could or should have been done. He was taught to AVOID the ice, not crash into it head on.

I think he did the best he could he didnt have enough time to do much more

Titanic-as with any disaster people want to place blame on someone. This is what is so facinating about Titanic...we still are trying to discover why the ship went down...could people have done a better job???I don't think so, the human body can only react in a disaster instinctively...doing the best for survival. I think everyone on that ship...that night as it was sinking was doing their very best for all who were suffering. Do you know that they are looking into Titanic as an engineering problem...could it have been built better...it's never ending.
But Murdoch seemed to have been judge and jury for himself, as it is said he committed suicide..I guess whether he did a good enough job or not...really isn't the issue.

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