Including that the ship's steel plates were excessively weak for the waters of the Atlantic solidifying nearby, that the effect caused the bolts to burst and that the expansion joints fizzled, among other things. Aside from the technological aspects of the calamity, the fall of the Titanic was met with a deeper, practically mythical catastrophe. Many view the disaster as a fine play on the threats of human hubris: the Titanic's creators believed they had made a resilient ship that could not be crushed by the laws of nature. The shock was caused largely by the survivors themselves; Even while aboard the Carpathia en route to New York, Beesley and other survivors decided to raise a popular conclusion in defense of later sea travel and wrote an open letter to the Times encouraging changes in the maritime safety laws. In places near the Titanic, the feeling of misery was