The analysis of historic marine accidents is both easier and harder because so much has been written about them already. If you choose to look at an historic case study, you will have more information available, but also more other-people's-analysis to contend with, which can make it harder to come to your own conclusions.
Just a small sampling of the many print books we have on the Titanic:
The loss of the SS Titanic : a centennial reappraisal
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Titanic: a fresh look at the evidence by a former Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents
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Titanic Ships, Titanic Disasters: an analysis of early Cunard and White Star superliners
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Titanic: the Ship Magnificent (2 vols.)
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The Olympic-Class Ships
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The Titanic: historiography and annotated bibliography
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Much of the ink spilled on the Halifax explosion has been about the devastation in the town and the response to the disaster, with less focus on the navigational choices that led to it in the first place. Nevertheless, it may be worthwhile exploring some of these resources:
The following websites themselves have interesting accounts of the explosion, but also include links to additional sources, if you scroll to the bottom:
We have these books in the MMA collection, including a reprint of a Nova Scotia Admiralty Court case about the incident:
Curse of the Narrows
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Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals
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Graveyard of the Lakes
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Mighty Fitz
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For Whom the Bells Toll: : the unexplained losses of S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, M.V. Derbyshire, and other vessels of the bulk-cargo silent service
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Library of Congress subject headings to explore in other library catalogs:
