archvile93 said:
Macgyvercas said:
You forget, the water was 28 degrees that night. Even assuming they could get a raft like object, they would have had to hit the water first, unless they were very lucky, and due to the temperature of the water and the night air, hypothermia would have got them. From the time the Titanic sank at around 2:20 AM to the time the Carpathia arrived at around 4:00AM anyone in the water would have been dead. The only exception was Chief Baker Charles Joughin who had gone to his cabin twice to have a glass of brandy. Other than him, the only survivors were in lifeboats.
That's pretty impressive considering the brandy would've made him more likely to die. Alcohol brings blood and heat to the skin, diverting it from vital organs. It'll make you feel warmer, but actually makes you colder where it really matters.
OT: Other than finding an actual life raft, there really wasn't much hope for survival. They really shouldn't of let the whole "unsinkable ship" thing go to their heads and take unecessary risks. It also would have helped to prepare for such an event. The ship was originally designed to hold more life rafts, but they more removed because someone important thought it made the ship look kind of crowded.
I don't really get how he survived either. But he did, somehow. He also rode the stern down as it was sinking. You know that suction whirlpool they talk about in the moive? Bullshit. The stern section sank so slowly, that Joughin stepped off without even getting his hair wet. He later described it as riding an elevator.
As for the whole "unsinkable" bit, it was never advertised that way, but was more something the rich passengers thought. The Titanic was designed so that it could stay afloat with the first four watertight compartments flooded or any two of the middle compartments. Since it was thought that even the worst collision would damage no more than two compartments, they assumed the ship was "virtually unsinkable". However, as you know, the iceberg let water into the first five compartments (not by slashing the plates but by bending them and popping the rivet heads). Also, the bulkheads only went up to D deck, so the water spilled over the top of them and into the next compartment.
After the Titanic sank, the workers of her sister ship, the Olympic, went on strike until the number of lifeboats was increased, the ships double bottom was raised into a double skin, and the bulkheads were raised to B deck.
Sorry, I started yammering there. I used to be really big into the Titanic.
