Who do you think is most responsible for the enormous loss of life in the wreck? I tend to blame the cruise line itself or either Captain Smith as he was the final authority on the ship.

People aren't alive from the Titanic, because of Bruce Ismay. He didn't want to move back the date that was set to sail the Titanic with a fire on board!The fir eon the inside, and the coldness on the outside weakened the metal, and made the rivets looser. When the ship hit the ice, it made the rivets come out, and made the hull cave in,and make the gash in hte boat longer. That let even more water into the ship.What stupid person would do that?

By:Stacie [/b][/i]

As it looks, the White Star Liner it to blame for such loss of life because they were the first liner to use bars to seperate 3rd class from 2nd and 1st class. If you look, 3rd class had the most loss of life on the Titanic because the bars blocked them from getting up to the deck and into the lifeboats. I'm sure one of the main causes for such loss of life were the bars.

Bruce Ismay is clearly the reason for so many people dying. He decided to cut back on the number of lifeboats that were to be put on the Titanic. He did this for the publicity of the Titanic being "unsinkable". This ensured that thousands would be dead.
-Kristiana

Bruce Ismay is to blame for the wreck.He didn't make sure that all sixtyfour boats were on the ship to help the passengers survive in case of a wreck.All he did is care about the ship's publisity.He should have checked to see that nothing wasn't wrong with the ship and everything was in the right place before they even left the dock. By:Jalissa

[quote:b392bb566c="LupoLA7"]People aren't alive from the Titanic, because of Bruce Ismay. He didn't want to move back the date that was set to sail the Titanic with a fire on board!The fir eon the inside, and the coldness on the outside weakened the metal, and made the rivets looser. When the ship hit the ice, it made the rivets come out, and made the hull cave in,and make the gash in hte boat longer. That let even more water into the ship.What stupid person would do that?

By:Stacie [/b][/i][/quote:b392bb566c]
the fire on board had nothing to do with the ship sinking. the fire was under control, and if sources are correct even put out before she sailed, some believe ismay was at fault, he did have power of certain aspects of the ship, but i dont think we can really blame anybody, well not entierly anyway.

even though titanic never had enough life boats to save everybody she had the minimum number required of lifeboats on board origionally there was to be 32, in the end just 20, and 2 of those didnt even get used...

I think the sinking of the Titanic was Captain Smiths fault because he didn't take messages seriously. He didn't pay attention to the messages that where sent in. If Captain Smith had payed more attention to the messages then they might of missed the iceburg instead of hitting it.I think that if Captain Smith didn't think that the Titanic was unsinkable,then maybe he would of payed more attention to the messages that where sent in.

smith didnt get many of the ice warnings sent, most didnt even reach the bridge, it was hard to see the iceburgs as for one the binoculars had been lost that the lookouts used, so Fleet didnt spot the iceburg in time, also there was no breaking at the water where the iceburgs sat making them harder to see.
the idea of the ship being unsinkable was dubbed by the press not the white star line or any of the crew,

Who's to Blame?
The wreck of the Titanic and the loss of many lives was Bruce Ismayfault.Why?He foeced the Captain to sail with with a fire burning in the hull(bottom)of the ship.The heat from the fire conversed with the icey cold water and lossened the rivets,so that when it hit the iceberg it had a gigantic (about a 300 foot) gash in the side causiung the water to fill up many water tight compartments.That is one reason why it sank.
Krysten