> The peril came from being led into dangerous waters.
Eh? No it didn't; operating in water with icebergs was entirely standard for ocean liners of that era. Titanic was operator error, coupled with some questionable design, and extremely poor safety regulations around lifeboats (Titanic actually had more boat space per capita than was common at the time; the lifeboats were largely envisaged for ferrying people from a stricken ship to an assisting ship, and weren't really planned around a ship _rapidly_ sinking. It wasn't until after the accident that regulators required enough boat space for the entire complement.)
But mostly operator error. The captain _should_ have hit the iceberg head-on, and indeed this was standard procedure if you couldn't stop in time. This would certainly have damaged the ship, but would not have sunk it.
Eh? No it didn't; operating in water with icebergs was entirely standard for ocean liners of that era. Titanic was operator error, coupled with some questionable design, and extremely poor safety regulations around lifeboats (Titanic actually had more boat space per capita than was common at the time; the lifeboats were largely envisaged for ferrying people from a stricken ship to an assisting ship, and weren't really planned around a ship _rapidly_ sinking. It wasn't until after the accident that regulators required enough boat space for the entire complement.)
But mostly operator error. The captain _should_ have hit the iceberg head-on, and indeed this was standard procedure if you couldn't stop in time. This would certainly have damaged the ship, but would not have sunk it.