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But accept what you wish.
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semmern: Interesting theory. I'm a little dubious, as the California only ten miles from the Titanic's last position spotted the pack ice and halted in time. It must have been a very "local" phenomena. But, as pointed out in the movie, the Titanic was just entering the Labrador Current and temperatures were falling, so there may be some truth to it.

Also, something else I just found out recently: shipboard wireless operators at that time weren't employed by the respective ship lines, but instead by the Marconi company, which may partially explain why California's operator wasn't at his station that night, especially as the ship had decided to wait in the ice field for the night before braving the ice field in the morning.

some bloody maniac running about with a Colt .45 M1911A1. Incidentally, it would have been extremely unlikely that he would have possessed an M1911 at that time and certainly not the improved version he was toting which didn't appear until 1926.

I don`t think Titanic was all that bad (minus the love story and Celine singing).

A few days ago I watched one interesting documentary, "The heroes of the Titanic" dealing with the crew of the engine rooms and the electricians. A very different perspective.

This is something that I've often thought about myself, and had a few conversations with my old Navy buddies about, since if the unthinkable ever happened to the carrier we would have been called upon to do the same. The electrical generators were all the way aft, which was why the lights were able to stay on for so long, but I can't imagine what it must have been like down there, knowing you were going to die, either from the cold, drowning, or electrocution when the water level finally got to the switchboards and generators. True heroes indeed.