"The Tulip"

"They tell me what happe ned here was not unusual, all around our world where the ocean meets land, people trying desperately to board whatever floated for a chance of survival at sea...I knew Alang was a shipyard, that's why I tried to make for it in the first place. I'd expected to find a construction site cranking out hull after hull to carry us all to safety. I had no idea it was just the opposite. Alang didn't build ships, it killed tThem...here were no dry docks, no slipways. Alang was not so much a yard as a long stretch of sand. Standard procedure was to ram the ships up onto the shore, stranding them like beached whales...The tulip literally split in two, the bow remaining on shore while the stern was pulled out to sea. There was nothin anyone could do, the Delmas was already at flank speed, dragging the tulips stern out into the deep water where it rolled over and sank within seconds. There must of been a thousand people aboard, packing every cabin and passageway and square inch of open deck space. Their cries were muffled by the thunder of escaping air" (70-71)

World War Z - Max Brooks
Biotechnology and genetics

The narrator in this section of the book is a white collar Indian man with a college degree and little knowledge of how to use his hands. He's scared and out of options. He didn't know where else to go so he tried the local shipyard because he assumed that people were leaving the country that way but in fact, it was the opposite. The shipyard was destroying all ships trying to leave and killing the thousands of people who were on board, hoping to escape the country and the infection. Boats were being beached, and destroyed. No one was permitted to leave the country. This was perhaps because the government didn't want the the infection spreading, or maybe they didn't want people to know that they were contaminated with the zombie apocalypse as well. They would rather kill their own people and destroy thousands of lives and not give anyone a chance for survival than look bad to the rest of the world, who is going through something very similar. This shows how petty humans are. They would rather die than ask for help. Humans are meant to make mistakes, we're not designed to be perfect however, when lives at at stake, most people won't rise to above and beyond the call of duty and do what they have to do to ensure survival for more than just themselves.