Changes in safety practices after the sinking of the RMS Titanic (3 m) above the water line. After the "Titanic" sank, the bulkheads on other ships were extended higher to make the compartments fully watertight. Changes in safety practices after the sinking of the RMS Titanic The sinking of the RMS "Titanic" resulted in the following changes in maritime policy. Alexander Carlisle, Harland and Wolff's general manager and chairman of the managing directors, suggested that "Titanic" use a new, larger type of davit which could give the ship the potential to carry 48 lifeboats; this would have provided enough seats for everyone on board. However, the White Star Line decreed that
RMS Titanic in popular culture an album by the singer Kirsty MacColl. The Belgian dance company Plan K performed a work called "Titanic" at the 1994 Belfast Festival in which a flotilla of refrigerators – in real life part of the cargo aboard "Titanic" – stands in for the drifting mass of ice that ultimately destroys the ship. The British composer Gavin Bryars created a multimedia work called "The Sinking of the Titanic" (1969), based on the conceit that "sounds never completely die but merely grow fainter and fainter. What if the music of the "Titanic"s band might still be playing 2,500 fathoms under the