I missed the gorilla the first time. I was so focused on the balls and passes, I missed the gorilla. After watching again, I noticed a white shirt pass goes to the far left of the screen just as the gorilla enters on the right. My eye went left and when it came back to the right, the gorilla just blended in with the black shirts. That said, I don’t think it’s a great test of emergency performance.
Upon reflection, I think I would return to the ship’s bar, and begin drinking heavily. Ifigure death in the icy water would come quickly, if I had had 10-12 whiskeys.
Dead in the water.
I had also read that once in the water, the lifeboats made a fervent effort to get as clear of the sinking boat as possible (out of fear of getting sucked in with it as it sank), so between the effort made to gain some distance, the cold/wet of all aboard, and the prospect of covering that same distance going back only to get inundated by people, it was just easier to wait it out.
I would do everything imaginable to get my wife on the boat. As for me, I’d do my best to survive an almost unsurvivable situation from there.
Honestly this makes sense to me. What’s the alternative, everyone make a mad dash for the lifeboats, trampling those in their way, cramming on and possibly swamping the boats when they’re lowered. In retrospect we know the Titanic was a death trap and the people in charge were clueless, but it makes much more sense to assume that the people who run the boat know what’s going on and have some sort of plan or proceedure for whatevers going on, and that by following instructions in an orderly way we’ll all get off the ship.
Of course, the people in charge didn’t have a clue, but I think in that postion I’d probably assume they knew what they were doing.
I always wondered why they brought half the lifeboats needed to evacuate the ship. Bringing zero would make sense, and bringing enough to get everyone off would’ve obviously been ideal, but bringing 50% seems to simultaneously acknowledge the fact that you might need to evacuate, but simultaneously show that you’re OK loosing killing half the people on board if that’s what happens.
Generally speaking, it’s much safer on the big boat than on the little boats. Most nautical accidents are nowhere near as catastrophic as what sank the Titanic, or, say, the Indianapolis. When I took a schooner sailing class in Maine, the skipper told us that once every couple of years the Coast Guard finds a perfectly seaworthy vessel floating around out there by itself, and no people. They panic and abandon ship and the ship wasn’t going down, but the lifeboats did.
Before ships had wireless radio, if a ship sank, you were most likely going to die even if you were in a lifeboat. Good luck surviving out in the middle of open water in a little boat with no way to contact help. I’ve heard the situation back then made a sinking ship equivalent to being on a crashing plane today. The Titanic disaster highlighted that measures could be taken to save people in sinking ships that couldn’t have been in the past.
But then why bring enough rafts for half the people? I can see bringing none if they thought they wouldn’t help, or enough for everyone if they think they will, but having enough for half of the people seems perverse.
Yes and things changed real quickly afterward. The Titantic actually was not breaking any rules as far as life boats go. For some reason the rules weren’t “enough for everybody” but based off something like displacement I believe. Somebody believed that the boats made the deck looked cluttered.
Nope, I just hop in the TARDIS with Martha Jones and Rose Tyler and dematerialize the frak out of there, maybe take a side trip to Risa, nudge, nudge, knowhatimean, say no more…
Oh, you mean the other Titanic, then yes, well, after all the Women, Children, Red Indians, Spacemen, and Sort-of of idealized Versions of Complete Renaissance Men get on board first
They actually started out with a lot more boats on her sister ships, IIRC, but there turned out to be too many boats obscuring the view on the Boat Deck. No, really.
I mean, she was supposed to be unsinkable! The funny thing is, there were ships at the time that really were “unsinkable” - in other words, they actually had the safety features the Titanic boasted, bulkheads and such. They were giant pains in the ass to get around on and they sucked the goat ass, but one of them did get holed below the water line and was perfectly fine. Essentially, it’s the difference between a Holland America cruise liner and a US Navy vessel - the Navy ship is a hell of a lot safer, but it’s also horrible. And people are always painting it.
If I were on the Titanic it wouldn’t have sunk.
I’ve very alert, always looking forward. 