So basically titanic was filled to capacity with complete idiots. How did it scrap through the middle part anyway going sideways and not the part that sticks out (I don't know how it's called starboard probably) . Definitely not like it was featured in the movie.. Ice falling to Rose's feet. It must have scrapped on the underberg. What are the chances for that?! And would 30 seconds help avoiding that. And why the hell they didn't swim towards "the berg", it would be remembered as a destroyer and savior at the same time. When all you see around you is sinking, you don't grab a floating door, cause hundreds would do it too and you're all going down (in real life) you go to the biggest floating shit, even if it's really shit, I know they didn't have plastic bags but somehow you keep your clothes matches and alcohol dry and you live.
It's also said that the Titanic wouldn't actually sink if it crash trough the iceberg, but because they turned the ship, the force is a lot smaller, which caused the iceberg to break the ship.
Fact number 11 is incorrect. Titanic had 20 lifeboats where the majority of them could carry 65-70 fullgrown men. So lets calculate, 20*65=1300. So 1300 souls in total could've been saved. And there were 2200 passengers and around 840 personnel onboard, a total of 3000 circa. So even if they had filled the lifeboats to their full capacity, two thirds of the passengers were doomed to die either way.
Sure, had they been filled more than the calculated capacity more people may have survived. But that would also risk the lifeboats to sink due to the extra weight.
I don't know if this is true but according to my history professor the reason the titanic was scraped by the iceberg is because the ship was purposely done with unsuitable materials in order to make it cheaper
Titanic was made of iron plates which was held together by steel rivets. Now in 1912, the process of creating steel by merging iron and coal was a revolutionary way to create a stronger metal and building ships with it.
Now, today's steel is far more superior than the steel created in 1912, but I don't think it would be fair to call it unsuitable metal since it was the best material they could've used when building the Titanic.
Then I just want to add that they didn't go cheap when building the Titanic. They didn't spare a coin, wich will be understood should you delve a little more in Titanic history.
It's been well documented that the radio operator was notified about the iceberg in the area over an hour before it was hit. In fact he was notified several times by several different sources and chose to ignore them and even told them to shut up he was doing something important.
I have always been fascinated with the titanic idk why. Even before the movie when I read an article about it. I didn't know some these. However, there were not enough life boats. it is true they were not filled to capacity, and they could have saved more lives. But there were still not enough because they didn't care much about that since it was "unsinkable"
Now, today's steel is far more superior than the steel created in 1912, but I don't think it would be fair to call it unsuitable metal since it was the best material they could've used when building the Titanic.
Then I just want to add that they didn't go cheap when building the Titanic. They didn't spare a coin, wich will be understood should you delve a little more in Titanic history.
I dunno, this is a pretty dark secret, if you ask me...