Sod_James |
02-04-2009 06:29 PM |
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Originally posted by supernoodles!
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Originally posted by Sod_James
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Originally posted by supernoodles!
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I love Titanic! I hardly ever watch it though because it's too depressing.
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Just imagine being there.
it was the 9/11 of its day.
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It actually scares me
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Yeah i know.
Picture it.
Your on board a ship in the middle of the sea. a freezing cold night with nothing but the darkness in front of you.
You can feel the deck sloping under your feet and you know theres only two ways off the ship. But trying to get in a lifboat where there is only enough for less than half on board. or jumping into the freezing black sea where the longest you can survive is upto 20 minutes. what do you do?
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you know when there filling the lifeboats and in one case they only put 12 or something into a boat that held 60?Do you know if this is actually true?
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Yep that is true. The lifeboat were built to accomodate upto 70 men. However one lifeboat, number 1. was filled with only 12. no one is quite sure on the circumstance surrouding the loading of the lifeboat and why so little were placed into that boat.
Although what is known that 2 of the people on board the lifeboat supposedly bribed the crewman not to return to the sinking ship when captain smith signalled them to return to laod more people on board.
These 2 people were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. That bribary sealed the fate of around 50 more passengers that night.
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