Posted on 04/20/2016 9:06:52 PM PDT by beaversmom
Being a cold MF, I was thinking "cool haircut, dude!"
Who told you that nonsense? Read a book.
As amazing as it might sound, many passengers aboard the Titanic refused to get into the lifeboats, because they simply did not believe the ship was going to sink. It didn’t matter that they were told that it was absolutely necessary for them to board the lifeboats. It was a frightening prospect for them to think of leaving the luxury of the bright and comfortable ship to get into a rowboat and be lowered 60 feet to the dark and freezing ocean below. But the bottom line was that they simply did not believe the Titanic would sink. After all, many had claimed it was “unsinkable.” Had they believed the prediction of the ship’s engineer and captain that the ship was, indeed, going to sink within two hours, many if not most would have been more than willing to take a seat in a lifeboat. As it was, some of the women were literally forced into the lifeboats, kicking and screaming! Because of the passengers’ reluctance and the difficulty in getting them to enter the lifeboats, most of the boats were lowered with less than half of the people they were designed to carry, dooming many more to certain death in the cold waters of the Atlantic. For many, it was only as the bow (front) of the ship disappeared beneath the ocean that they realized the Titanic would, indeed, sink. But it was too late.
Many of the lifeboats didn’t have full capacity because people simply didn’t believe the ship would sink.
I misspoke on this, the lifeboats were lowered, but many weren’t filled to capacity. Many more could have been saved.
I was wrong about the life boats not being lowered, but there weren’t enough of them and many of them were not filled.
Sounds like someone should have been knocking heads to shut up the idiots and load them like cattle.
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Yes, but all the lifeboats were lowered. Some of the ones launched first had room for many more people, but there still wouldn’t have been enough for all passengers and crew. I always wondered why they didn’t build rafts when they realized there weren’t enough boats.
No, there was nothing high-brow about the movie. I just like movies with happy endings, where the bad guys get zonked ('against impossible odds').
And like you said, this movie had the added bonus of Tom Cruise getting 'terminated' many, many, times...
A tragic story indeed.
“It’s getting very cold, Jack.”
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Second Mate Charles Lightoller interpreted his orders for ‘Women and children first’ to mean ‘women and children only’ and so he stopped men getting on board even if there were no women and children left at the davits waiting to get in. (Lightoller survived the sinking btw).
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The Titanic second officer, Charles Lightoller, survived after being washed off ship and getting onboard an overturned collapsible lifeboat.
Lightoller would later survive being shipwrecked during WWI.
rescuing over 130 British soldiers off Dunkirk in his personal motorboat while being strafed!
This guy had more lives than a cat!
Thanks for that information!
“Sadly it is not know who the Oceanic passenger was who wrote the ghoullish accompanying statement, but on May 13th, 1912, he wrote:”I crossed the Atlantic one month after the Titanic catastrophe. We picked up one of the lifeboats with two n****r-like unrecognisable corpses of a passenger in evening dress and two firemen, wedged below the seats.”
Probably a good thing for him as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be shaking him down for some serious money right about now.
Interesting, for historical records are they “survivors” of the Titanic sinking, or “victims”? I mean the boat was found a month after the sinking, and apparently they were alive after the sinking.
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Reminded of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery in the early ‘70s. The episode was The Lone Survivor.
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