{"id":627,"date":"2012-04-13T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2012-04-13T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T17:14:07","slug":"what-weve-learned-from-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"What We&#8217;ve Learned From Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Titanic has always fascinated me, as it has most of America, I think. After its tragedy we as a people quickly leaped into action demanding answers and requiring regulations from our government so catastrophes like this can&#8217;t happen again.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the lessons we learned from Titanic and regulations we put in place:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have lifeboat drills<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that there are enough lifeboats for all aboard<\/li>\n<li>Always have a wireless operator on duty 24\/7<\/li>\n<li>A special patrol was set up to look out for icebergs and report them<\/li>\n<li>Other safety regulations managed through SOLAS<\/li>\n<li>Man is fallible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also think about the Triangle fire that happened a little over a hundred years ago and the lessons we learned from that.<\/p>\n<p>I have to wonder about other incidents that occurred somewhat recently like Virginia Tech and the 2011 Tuscan shootings. What lessons did we learn from them? I&#8217;m sure we learned something but the problem is regulations were not put in place to prevent anything like that happening again.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the great thing about what came from Titanic. All those lives were lost but because of their sacrifice, so many more have been saved.<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t we always learn from our mistakes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Titanic has always fascinated me, as it has most of America, I think. After its tragedy we as a people quickly leaped into action demanding answers and requiring regulations from our government so catastrophes like this can&#8217;t happen again. Here are some of the lessons we learned from Titanic and regulations we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}