Titanic: The Disaster, Which Should not Have Happened. On April 14, 1912 one of the great disasters in the history of the world occurred, the sinking of the Titanic. The press had dubbed her unsinkable, but history has proven that to be untrue. Why did the Titanic sink with so many lives lost? Some say because of the iceberg, some the engineering, but I say it was due to greed and the human desire for prestige. The …showed first 75 words of 1320 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1320 total…to the destruction of a great ship and a massive loss of life that could have been avoided. What would have happened had just one of the things above been changed? The Titanic did not have to sink and those people did not have to die. All it would have taken to save all of those lives was the expense of a more safely built ship with enough lifeboat space for all of the passengers.