After having just viewed the film, I'm now catching up with what berdie so aptly described as surreal.
Maybe they've dropped off the scroll of these "virtual tweets" but I can't help but wonder what Captain Stanley Lord's (of the Californian) messages would have said. That may be the biggest "what if" of all regarding the Titanic. What if Lord's ship had responded to the distress signal?
I have read many different accounts of why there was no response. One account even speculated that the Californian wasn't the “mystery ship” at all. But I think that theory was shot down during the inquiry. Whatever the truth was, there is no doubt in my mind that Captain Lord had to have carried guilt with him to his grave. I don't know what maritime protocol was, but if I were in sight of another ship shooting off flares in the middle of the night..I'd have to check it out.
She just went down so quickly. Totally amazes me.
(BTW, I sat down tonight to watch a Night To Remember...and realized that I don't get TCM! Shows how much tv I watch. I was disappointed since I hadn't seen it is a long while.)