This month marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the cruise ship, Titanic, with the loss of 1,517 lives (April 15, 2012). Apart from the memory of a high-seas disaster, what remains forever steadfast is the law that surfaced from the casualty.
The Unthinkable Happens
The majestic British steamship, hailed as ‘unsinkable’ by its owners, sailed from Southampton, England, on her maiden voyage bound for New York. The ship collided with a massive iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank on April 15, 1912, with many lives of passengers, crew and cargo lost. Everything disappeared under the surface except 14 lifeboats.
