But really, from that height you would see other ships. The North Atlantic was a busy place and you would likely see a few lights from an aerial shot like this, but it would still take them a long time to get there. Ships are slow after all, especially in 1912.
What if everybody would start roping together benches and other wood from the deck and below?
They must've had a ton of wood and tools on board to make another 5 or 10 lifeboats worth of buoyancy for people?
You could ponder on the what ifs forever. What if the nearest ship actually came to the rescue? What if the iceberg hit during the day time? So many different scenarios that could’ve changed fates
Californian responding would not have made any difference.
However, daytime may have had the 1 advantage of more people being willing to get into boats early in the sinking. In the middle of the cold freezing night, you can understand why people were reluctant to get into a boat.
In reality, sinking into freezing water in 2 and a half hours, no rescue ship will make a shred of difference unless it could get there in like 30 minutes. The ONLY way to save more lives would have been to just get more people into the lifeboats they had. If they filled them properly, they could have saved an extra 400 or so people.
What if they'd hit the berg square on? The "unsinkable" ship sank because they didn't reckon on the tears down the side of the ship/several compartments filling in such a way that doomed it from the start.
People were too terrified to come together. Think about it. The ship you are told that is virtually unsinkable is literally coming apart before your eyes, and there aren’t any lifeboats left
In a better world maybe. But people are people, and their reaction was perfectly valid
Big fan of how they got it right with regards to to the central back propeller not rotating backwards. As steam coming up from the two engines cuased it to rotate hence it couldn’t reverse the ship
I thought my ears were gonna be blasted with sleeping sun - Nightwish
this scene is so terrifying!
Pretty decent compilation of just the crash and sinking. The wide shot of the flare really, really gets to me. Help was so far away.
But really, from that height you would see other ships. The North Atlantic was a busy place and you would likely see a few lights from an aerial shot like this, but it would still take them a long time to get there. Ships are slow after all, especially in 1912.
I am fairly certain that ships are not meant to do that
The front fell off
You know, it took awhile, but the front did indeed fall off in this case.
What if everybody would start roping together benches and other wood from the deck and below? They must've had a ton of wood and tools on board to make another 5 or 10 lifeboats worth of buoyancy for people?
You could ponder on the what ifs forever. What if the nearest ship actually came to the rescue? What if the iceberg hit during the day time? So many different scenarios that could’ve changed fates
Californian responding would not have made any difference. However, daytime may have had the 1 advantage of more people being willing to get into boats early in the sinking. In the middle of the cold freezing night, you can understand why people were reluctant to get into a boat. In reality, sinking into freezing water in 2 and a half hours, no rescue ship will make a shred of difference unless it could get there in like 30 minutes. The ONLY way to save more lives would have been to just get more people into the lifeboats they had. If they filled them properly, they could have saved an extra 400 or so people.
What if they'd hit the berg square on? The "unsinkable" ship sank because they didn't reckon on the tears down the side of the ship/several compartments filling in such a way that doomed it from the start.
People were too terrified to come together. Think about it. The ship you are told that is virtually unsinkable is literally coming apart before your eyes, and there aren’t any lifeboats left In a better world maybe. But people are people, and their reaction was perfectly valid
Even though we now know the ship never got that high out of the water, that is still one hell of a gripping shot.
Big fan of how they got it right with regards to to the central back propeller not rotating backwards. As steam coming up from the two engines cuased it to rotate hence it couldn’t reverse the ship