We must NEVER forget...Elkit... never...

At least there was that one ship that DID heed the titanic. I forgot the name of it. Titanium I think where the watchman was BORN on that fateful day and saved the ship from an iceberg. Also anyone find it creepy that there was a book published a couple years before with the same situation and the ships name was the Titan. Unsinkable ship sunk

'Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan' was published in 1898, fourteen years before. I tried reading it once (it's available online in various places, including Project Gutenberg), but I got bored. The ship sinks around the halfway point of the novel, and the rest is the main character having several adventures, including fighting a polar bear.

So true

Amen.

Should I fav this? Is that in poor taste?

I really would like to know why people keep comparing these two disasters.

If you compare the lists of mistakes leading up to and during each sinking, you will find how horrifically closely they match up.

I will say thought that the captain of the "Concordia" didn't exactly preform how a professional captain should have, as opposed to Captain Smith of "Titanic" who did the best that he could with what he had.

Very true. Despite a lack of resources and planning (on White Star's part), Capt. Smith and his crew did a remarkable job saving as many as they did (though evidence has been cited saying Capt Smith may not have been in actual operational command for this particular voyage, as Bruce Ismay may have pulled company rank on him). The Concordia's captain, on the other hand, had much more on hand. He and the liner's owners had completely failed to give his crew a fraction of the training to use the resources they had. Which is to say, they might as well not have had them at all.

no wonder why the captain left the ship, it was friday the 13th, the 13th that came later had the north korean rocket explode.

Because the Titanic was a tragedy that took away a lot of life's. The Costa Concordia was a tragedy too since a lot of people died on board. Not to mention the fool of a captain running off his vessel

That's a tad disrespectful to Captain Edward Smith of RMS Titanic seeing as it was the acting Captain at the time that made the wrong call to full a stern, but I digress. To tell the truth I'd be more incline to loosely compare The Costa Concordia to the SS Andrea Doria ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria)

I was referring to captain Schettino of the Costa Concordia

well lets not forget the other Titanic that Germany had 3X the loss

if you're referring to the William Gustloff, the difference would be that the Gustloff was torpedoed, not lost due to human error.

Too many things are unfortunately. Humans in general have a short memory if it comes to the lessons of history.

The captain of the Concordia is an absolute disgrace for his poor choice of going to the island which wasn't part of the route and for ditching his ship and lied by saying "he fell into a life boat". The poor girl didn't deserve such a fool of a captain and it was truly heart breaking seeing such a beautiful ship become decayed and rusted. Rest in peace Costa Concordia. You will always be the flag ship 🛳️