It's been bugging me for a month...[question about sinking boats]

[hogarth]

@ralph124c

There seems to be a persistent belief that a sinking ship will somehow drag down lifeboats (nearby) with it. In the movie “Titanic”, a seaman commanding a lifeboat tells the people to row away from the ship, because he fears that the lifeboat will be pulled down.
Is this true? Are seamen told to move away from a sinking ship?

They tried this on Mythbusters and there was no sucking in their small-scale experiment.

http://mythbustersresults.com/episode11