Subject: Imagine you'd been on the Titanic....
Posted by: ElusiveDream
Date: Jul 04 12
Imagine you'd been a passenger on the Titanic's maiden voyage. Do you think you would have survived?
Posted by: ElusiveDream
Date: Jul 04 12
Imagine you'd been a passenger on the Titanic's maiden voyage. Do you think you would have survived?
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Mommakat 
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No I wouldn't as can't swim. You would not even get me into a small boat on the river. I keep well away from the water, but having said that, the irony is that I live in an oceanside resort LOL Reply #1. Jul 04 12, 7:10 PM |
jabb5076
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I imagine it would largely depend on whether I was a First Class passenger or was down in the lower levels in Third Class. Reply #2. Jul 04 12, 7:57 PM |
Greatguggly
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You'll need more than a big ice cube to sink this bad boy. Reply #3. Jul 04 12, 8:55 PM |
boxjaw
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I guess back in my crazier days I would've liked to have survived like Charles Joughin, the chief baker on RMS Titanic. Played brilliantly I must say by George Rose in the 1958 film 'A Night to Remember'. I think that could be you too GG. Back in the day. :^) Reply #4. Jul 06 12, 12:15 PM |
rayven80
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I wouldn't have. I'd probably have been in 3rd class and locked away. Reply #5. Jul 06 12, 12:36 PM |
| Greatguggly
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Drowning like that is one of the worst ways to die I can imagine. One time I got stuck trying to swim underwater between two boulders. Debris had blocked the way ahead and the current was too strong and there was not enough room to turn around. Luckily there were people around and after the scariest two minutes of my life a guy noticed my feet kicking frantically under the water and he pulled me out by my legs. I truly thought I was going to die. Reply #6. Jul 07 12, 2:33 AM |
| Greatguggly
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That's where showing off for girls gets you. Reply #7. Jul 07 12, 2:38 AM |
lesley153
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Glad he was there, Rick! Perhaps I don't have to imagine - perhaps I was there. It would certainly explain why I've been scared of water for longer than I can remember. Reply #8. Jul 07 12, 10:30 AM |
| boxjaw
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I had a scare somewhat like that Rick. When I was stationed in Germany, a girlfriend and I travelled to the Italian Riviera. I went for a swim while she stayed on the beach reading. I kept swimming farther and farther out. I realized after awhile that I was pretty far from shore and I saw a little figure on the beach jumping up and down waving towards me and I assumed whistling at the same time. I attempted to swim back but I wasn't getting anywhere! Remembering the thing about swimming parallel to the beach I tried that. Then there it was. My lifesaver. There was a float line that was attached to the beach coming my way as I swam parallel. I grabbed it and basically pulled my self back to the beach. It took me what seemed like half an hour to get back. Great idea though that float line. I wish more places used them. I was a nervous wreck when I planted my feet on the ground again. :^) Reply #9. Jul 07 12, 12:59 PM |
| Greatguggly
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Thanks, Lesley. If you'd been on the Titanic I doubt the captain would have taken any chances with the iceberg. You don't play games with the life of a princess! That's a scary one too, Bernard. I thought that was happening to me a time or two so now I make sure in the ocean that my toes are in the sand while my lips are kissing the sky! You might be asking yourselves why the girls I was trying to impress didn't help me or alert someone else. Believe me, I asked the same question only to find out that they were so busy chatting and gossiping with each other they hadn't even noticed me submerge! I almost killed myself and they didn't even see it! That is, until I was rescued. I think I coughed and choked and played it up for sympathy points as much as I could if you know what I mean. And the guy that saved me (God bless you, Randy), how he saw me I still don't understand. At the shallowest (my feet)I was at least five feet under. Naturally I thanked him many times but you can never repay someone for saving your life. Randy was very humble about the whole thing. Later on I heard him and some of his crowd lamenting the fact that they were almost out of beer so I offered to go get them some. They asked me to get a case (24 beers). I went to the nearest supermarket and bought them two cases, some snacks, a couple bags of ice and one of those big coolers on wheels. Reply #10. Jul 07 12, 2:51 PM |
C30
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Depends on how chivalrous I was............I mean many men COULD have survived had they not given up a place to a woman or child. I would most likely have been a member of the crew anyhow being of nautical origins. Reply #11. Jul 20 12, 1:41 PM |
supersal1
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From what I gather the 'women and children first' order was interpreted very literally, men were turned away from lifeboats that departed half-empty when there were no women and children to fill the spaces. My Granny was in service to a rich family in 1912, so assuming I was in the same line of work I'd have either stood a very good chance if I was travelling with the family, or no chance at all if I was in steerage. When I went to the Titanic exhibition we were all given tickets with a name on them and we could find out what happened to them at the end of the tour. I was Madelaine Astor, so I escaped as a young and rather wealthy widow! Reply #12. Jul 20 12, 4:32 PM |
mountaingoat
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Most didn't drown, they froze to death. I hate the cold so it would not be a nice way to go . Reply #13. Jul 21 12, 8:19 AM |
alexis722
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Drowning or freezing, nasty way to go. I'd have been in steerage and destined to go down with the ship, but might have been sorely tempted to use feminine wiles to chicken out of it as I nearly drowned being a jerk at Jones Beach in my teen years, got caught in the riptide and my girlfriend and I were rescued by two lifeguards. Been close enough to death a few times to make me a lot more cautious. To choose between fire, water and a fatal fall from a great height - nightmarish! As Woody Allen put it, "I'm not afraid of dying - I just don't wanna be there when it happens." Ditto! Reply #14. Aug 25 12, 7:25 PM |
Cupra
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Oh my! I would have been terrified. If I didn't manage to get on a lifeboat, I wouldn't have hung around waiting to drown or worse still, freeze to death. I would have taken a concotion of something and faded into oblivion. Horrible thought. Reply #15. Aug 28 12, 6:16 AM |
callie_ross
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I had a close call when I was 16 years old. I got pulled under by a strong current & my friend's boyfriend saved my life. I don't know how to swim very well so I avoid water whenever I can! As for me having been on the Titanic, my only hope for survival would've been getting into a lifeboat! Reply #16. Aug 28 12, 8:38 AM |
| Cupra
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How frightening for you callie_ross. Have you ever had swimming lessons, or are you way too scared now? I can swim although not very well, and even so, I doubt I would have survived the sinking of the Titanic. Reply #17. Aug 29 12, 11:02 AM |
ElusiveDream
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The following families had 3 things in common: they were all Titanic passengers, they were all travelling in Steerage (third class) & they all died. Imagine how their relatives must have felt, being told they'd just lost their entire families. The Andersson Family Mr. Anders Andersson (39 years) Mrs. Alfrida Andersson (39 years) Miss Sigrid Andersson (11 years) Miss Ingeborg Andersson (9 years) Miss Ebba Andersson (6 years) Master Sigvard Andersson (4 years) Miss Ellis Andersson (2 years) The Goodwin Family Mr. Frederick Goodwin (42 years) Mrs. Augusta Goodwin (43 years) Miss Lillian Goodwin (16 years) Mr. Charles Goodwin (14 years) Master William Goodwin (11 years) Miss Jessie Goodwin (10 years) Master Harold Goodwin (9 years) Master Sidney Goodwin (1 year) The Sage Family Mr. John Sage (44 years) Mrs. Annie Sage (44 years) Miss Stella Sage (20 years) Mr. George Sage (19 years) Mr. Douglas Sage (18 years) Mr. Frederick Sage (16 years) Miss Dorothy Sage (14 years) Master Anthony Sage (12 years) Miss Elizabeth Sage (10 years) Miss Constance Sage (7 years) Master Thomas Sage (4 years) Reply #18. Aug 29 12, 11:47 PM |
| C30
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I agree with mountaingoat......in those waters, very few would survive long, strong swimmers or not! Reply #19. Aug 30 12, 12:20 AM |
| Cupra
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So sad for all those families. Reply #20. Aug 30 12, 7:03 AM |
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