Reply #12: The Titanic didn't really have independently sealed bulkheads

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The doors sealed but the bulkhead walls only went a little over 3/4 of the way to the top in the belief that the ship was too massive to ever dip enough for water to overflow the wall. Once the water was over the first wall everyone knew they were cooked. There were no backups and not enough lifeboats.

All of this was, just like BP, done to save money because they believed there was no way they needed the extra safety measures.

The only safety measure that I believe in is a well organized and really independent regulatory agency with a bunch of rules in place that they can actually enforce. The MMS was pretty much sleeping with the industries for decades. Unless they can be completely gutted and restaffed with new rules in place there are no safety standards.

on edit: Fixing my inevitable typos