There have been may articles written on "the rockets". Were they properly displayed as distress signals as accordance for the law, were they more aparently "company signals"?

I can agree that due to the shady laws on what a distress rocket should be and look like (you can read about them at the Titanic Historical Society online), it is reasonable for Stone, Gibson, or Lord to almost dismiss them as possibly being company signals or such.

The problem I have is their lack of brainstorming in regards to thinking about the number of rockets fired. Oh Lord, what was it? 6 or 8 rockets?

Here is how I look at it. If they believed that a ship was signalling another vessel, OK, after one or two rockets fired.

Maybe it is because I know what happened today (in hindsight), but it seems to me like more thaught could have been put on the amount of rockets fired.

I wonder if even the slightest of small thoughts ever crossed their minds that the number of rockets fired could have meant that the ship in question was in fact trying to call for assistance.

Rockets were used for company signals, but they were also used for distress, and I think both uses of them should have been thought about more that night (if they were indeed not).