When the Titanic sank why didn't they put people on the iceberg. That didn't sink?
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yep I have often wondered this. To be honest people standing on the iceberg would have a much higher survival rate than freezing to death in the water. The icebergs at this stage of their life are quite unstable but this one was huge so that wouldn't have been a problem.
The only reason why they didn't do this was probably beacuse the iceberg was several miles behind them , as a ship that size would have taken ages to stop, mind you they did put the engines into reverse just before impact, so not sure how far away it was. But in any case with 5 or 6 strong crew members they could have ferried people to the iceberg and returned to get more passengers. It likely that many of the upper class may have not been interested in the idea however.
ADD: please correct me if i am wrong but I think there is a photo of the titanic iceberg somewhere and I dion't think it had all vertical sides.
The iceberg didn't sink but u could freeze to death on the iceberg. its that cold
How? It's not like the ship stopped dead on impact.
Are you suggesting they put it in reverse and backed it up?
By the time that it was apparent that the Titanic would sink, the iceberg was miles behind the ship.
You can't really stay on an ice berg. Its damn slipery, cold and small on the top side of the water. Adding to this its not flat. And once you put people on it it might sink..
first of all-----it would have been colder than the water.. and you would have died quicker
second of all----you probably couldnt get on it. from the water, it owuld have been very slippery. impossible to get on it.
For starters, the iceberg that took out the Titanic was huge. Most icebergs are not just flat topped plateaus begging for some stranded soul to hop aboard. This iceberg looked like a floating cliff. Unless you have the appropriate equipment, it would have been impossible - and then they would have frozen to death on the iceberg instead.
The Titanic was travelling when it struck the iceberg, so by the time the ship had started to sink and people were getting off the ship it would have been too far away. Also I imangine that trying to climb from freezing water onto steep ice would have been impossible.
That's the best question I've read so far. Polar bears can do it after all!
Guess they just didn't think about it.
DUH. it's called "displacement". That's why the iceberg didn't (and doesn't) sink.
95% of it was submerged, and the part that was not had nearly vertical sides. Also, it was the middle of the night, so finding it would be a problem too.
The ice berge is terribly cold and floated away, while melting at the same time. The ice berge is not stable.
steward when I said scotch on the rocks you didn´t have to take it literally
cause an ice berg at night, is scarier than a sinking ship
Because they did what was natural and put them in the lifeboats to save lives. Recent thoughts are that using the boats as a platform from the boat to the berg would have enabled passengers to climb onto it. It would have been cold but the survival rate would have been much higher than being left i te freezing atlantic.
because they would have frozen to death very quick,and the boat carried on moving all the time when it went down the iceburge wasnt about,
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