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New book on disaster communication richly illustrated

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NEW DELHI, INDIA (Anupama Saxena & Malathi Subramanian for APCNews) -

: Disaster situations

All of us are aware of the biggest maritime disaster the world has known: the sinking of the ‘unsinkable’ HMS Titanic. But what many of us may not be aware of is that the wireless operators on the Titanic had, in fact, received alerts from other ships about massive icebergs in the vicinity. But the operators, overworked with transmitting private messages of the ship’s wealthy passengers, failed to pass that vital information onto the bridge.