A Titanic Story
In his diary, All My Road Before Me, 22 December, C.S. Lewis wrote:
We talked of the wreck of the Titanic. He said when the Captain saw the berg ahead, he should have kept straight on: in that case he would have smashed his bows, but as the impact lessened he would have come up against the first watertight bulkhead and the rest of the ship would have been safe. As it was, he put his helm hard down in a hopeless effort to get round the berg, and so got his whole side ripped up...
I'm not sure if Lewis is right about this, since I have no engineering background, but it makes for a good metaphor.
We talked of the wreck of the Titanic. He said when the Captain saw the berg ahead, he should have kept straight on: in that case he would have smashed his bows, but as the impact lessened he would have come up against the first watertight bulkhead and the rest of the ship would have been safe. As it was, he put his helm hard down in a hopeless effort to get round the berg, and so got his whole side ripped up...
I'm not sure if Lewis is right about this, since I have no engineering background, but it makes for a good metaphor.
posted by Mad Jurist at 11:55 AM
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