you can’t have had much more of a twist around from a bad story to a good one than that!

Nice job…

It all makes so much sense! Seems like this particular Captain made the decision pretty darn quick using some basic sailing knowledge.

Wonder what really happened out there.

Good job! I like it!

What really happened is that first officer murdoch tried to do both. If he had just gone straight, reversed engins and hit the iceberg, the first water tight compartment or two would have flooded. Titanic could float with the first four compartments flooded. She would be damaged but survive. If he had just turned, she would have missed the berg.

As it was, he tried to do both. Not enought water flowed past the rudder when the engines were reversed, so the ship was slow to turn. The glancing blow flooded the first six watertight compartments. From that moment she had only about two hours before she sank.

About 1500 people drowned or died of hypothermia in the cold waters of the North Atlantic that night.

If Murdoch had taken either slowed down or turned, instead of trying to do both…

Well that would be a different story than the one we know.

Oh, and if someone had not stolen the binoculars for the lookouts when they were at their last stop in Ireland, there might have been enough warning to turn before striking the berg.

Or if the sea were a little choppier, the lookouts might have seen the water splashing against the berg earlier than on the calm waters.

Or if the California had turned to investigate the white rockets fired off from the Titanic, instead of assuming only red rockets would be used for distress.

There are a lot of “what if’s” asssociated with that night.

But did you know that one woman who survived the Titanic sinking also was on her sister ship the Olympic, as a nurse, when it was sunk during WWI.

I rather like this one. My father is a bit of a Tianic buff, and I suppose some of his enthusiasm has been passed on to me.

Don’t forget that it was a moonless night. If there had been a full moon in the cloudless sky, different outcome.

As a little girl, I was obsessed with the Titanic story. After I watched the movie, I investigated what really happened and such. It was the first thing I remember being interested in. So everytime I read something about the ship, it brings me back to my childhood. This is an interesting take. It would have changed so much today if Titanic didn’t hit that ice burg. Nice job on this.