The Titanic sunk 99 years ago today around 3 a.m. The liner was the best of the best and presumed unsinkable. But as history has reclaimed information about that fateful crossing it seems it was the little things that added up for disaster. Modern day scientist and metallurgy experts tend to point to the rivets on the ship that lead to the disaster that took 1523 lives.
3,000,000 rivets held the ship together like glue. The ship builders had much faith in the rivets as they toiled to build a historical ship. But, the company ordered No. 3 bar rivets, known as “best” and not the normal No. 4 bar rivet, known as “best best” which ship builders normally used at that time for anchors, chains and rivets. Scientists have discovered the fateful decision to save money with a rivet that was readily available may have led to the rapid sinking of the ship as the rivets could no longer withhold the pressure once the Titanic hit the iceberg.
The total cost of building The Titanic in 1910 -1912 was $7.5 million. But, it was the smallest thing that brought it down. Isn’t that just life? It’s the little things that add to the misery. It’s never the big decisions nor the big accounts nor the big events that hit us in the gut. It’s the little things. It’s the single car stalled in traffic at rush hour. It’s a blister on the heel. It’s the cell battery going dead during an important phone call.
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