{"id":1659,"date":"2024-08-04T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T12:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2024-08-04T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T12:28:03","slug":"to-err-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/04\/to-err-is\/","title":{"rendered":"To err is…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Growing up, the fodder we were fed was ” to err is human<\/em><\/span>” and that gave us the opportunity to get away with serious, highly damaging, catastrophic, avoidable losses be it lives, money, reputation or any of that.<\/p>\n

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April 10, Circa 1912<\/em><\/span>. Probably, a Red Letter Day<\/em><\/span> in the history of passenger shipping. Among other things.\u00a0Red Ocean<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0would be a fitting metaphor.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Titanic<\/span><\/em>, launched on May 31, 1911, set sail on its maiden voyage from\u00a0Southampton, England to New York City<\/em><\/span>\u00a0on\u00a0April 10, 1912<\/b>, with\u00a02,240 passengers and crew<\/em>\u00a0on board. Nicknamed the \u201cMillionaire\u2019s Special<\/em><\/span>,\u201d the ship was fittingly captained by\u00a0Edward J. Smith<\/em><\/span>, who was known as the \u201cMillionaire\u2019s Captain<\/span><\/em>\u201d because of his popularity with \u2018 wealthy passengers \u2018.<\/p>\n

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Billed and marketed as the best, the greatest & the safest luxury ship ever built,\u00a02240 people<\/strong>\u00a0set sail from\u00a0Southampton<\/strong>\u00a0to create history. The first transatlantic crossing of the world\u2019s most celebrated ship. One can imagine how mammoth it was- The\u00a0Titanic<\/em>\u00a0was approximately\u00a0269 metres long<\/strong>\u00a0and about\u00a028.2 metres wide<\/strong>\u00a0at its widest point.<\/div>\n
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How many have you heard this line \u201d the LAW is an >>> \u201d I don\u2019t use three letter words..give me four letter words anytime- please don\u2019t get ideas..words like HOPE | LOVE | NICE..for that matter LIKE..<\/div>\n
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The British Board of Trade\u00a0<\/em><\/span>had a law at that time, which effectively was, in order to take sail, a ship should have a lifeboat inventory that is a minimum of 30% of the passenger capacity- the\u00a0Titanic<\/em>\u00a0had lifeboats that could be used by about 900 people at full capacity.\u00a0Mind you the ship was ferrying almost 2250 people.<\/em>\u00a0We all know what happened. More than 1500 people lost their lives in the tragedy.<\/div>\n
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Apparently,\u00a0British White Star Line<\/em><\/span>, the owners and operators of the\u00a0Titanic<\/em>\u00a0had complied<\/em><\/span> with the then existing regulations of having a lifeboat inventory of minimum 30% of the ships\u2019 total capacity. In the case of the rest, without lifeboats, they could be all at sea, forgive the pun.<\/div>\n
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In the early hours of\u00a0April 15th<\/sup>, 1912<\/em>,\u00a0over the course of 2 hours and 40 minutes<\/b>, the\u00a0RMS Titanic<\/em><\/span>\u00a0sunk in the icy\u00a0Atlantic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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In the end, an\u00a0U.S.\u00a0investigation<\/strong>\u00a0faulted the\u00a0British Board of Trade<\/strong>, \u201cto whose laxity of regulation and hasty inspection the world is largely indebted for this awful fatality\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Errors are preventable<\/em><\/span>. And the investment and planning to prevent them are worth it<\/em><\/span>, always<\/em><\/span>. And the one that we talked about above should never have happened. Imagine error in the manufacturing process of baby foods? Or life saving drugs? Or a high speed rail network?<\/p>\n

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A lot of us suffer from what we call the \u2018\u00a0Hero Trap<\/em><\/span> \u2018- an over reliance on our ability to handle something that becomes infuriatingly urgent which could have easily been avoided had it not been the temptation of the short term hack. So, if your pilot is diligently going through the pre-flight check list, thank your stars, you are in safe hands.<\/p>\n

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Errors are the conduit to way finding and as long as you are putting in the effort and hard yards to eliminate and minimise them, good for you, and good for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Growing up, the fodder we were fed was ” to err is human” and that gave us the opportunity to get away with serious, highly damaging, catastrophic, avoidable losses be it lives, money, reputation or any of that.   April 10, Circa 1912. Probably, a Red Letter Day in the history of passenger shipping. … Continue reading “To err is….”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}