Why Jubilee party should take its foot off the gas pedal now

Captain Edward Smith went down in history as the man at the helm of the Titanic luxury cruise ship when it sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean on that fateful morning of April 15, 1912.

It was unacceptable that the ship could hit an iceberg and disintegrate, all because the inebriated captain neglected to heed weather warnings. If the number of lifeboats, at 1,178, indicated the ship's capacity, it was gross dereliction of duty that allowed it to set sail from Southampton headed for New York City with 2,224 people on board. Historical accounts place the death toll at 1,500.