T-Rex: Remember how the Titanic sank, and one of the issues with that was not enough lifeboats? After the disaster they tried to prevent THAT from ever happening again!
T-Rex: So they made a law that ships had to carry a full set of lifeboats!
T-Rex: Except this wasn't a great solution on some ships: the SS Eastland in particular was already a pretty top-heavy ship, and the new lifeboats kinda made the problem critical. And on the 24th of July 1915, when the Eastland was docked and taking on passengers - all Western Electric employees on their way to a company picnic - she rolled over and sank!
Utahraptor: What happened?
T-Rex: A canoe race passed by the ship!
T-Rex: People crowded to one side to see it, and that was it. The boat rolled and sank in 20 feet of water, 20 feet from the wharf. The new lifeboats had made her impossibly top-heavy, unstable AND unseaworthy!
Utahraptor: Wow. That's textbook irony, huh?
T-Rex: Yep! The moral of the story is, "sometimes no matter how much we prepare, boats will sink and that is terrible."
T-Rex: It's -
T-Rex: It's probably not the cheeriest moral I have ever encountered
