Comments by "wheelmanstan" (@wheelmanstan) on "Oceanliner Designs" channel.

they were lucky with how the ship sank, level much of the time with a slight list, lowering boats was easy compared to how difficult it could have been, but there was just no rush to leave the ship until the last minute..and not enough boats but yeah, I'd rather freeze in the water than get trapped as it sank..possibly trapped in an air pocket miles down for hours or something..it's all a nightmare
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@ctg6734 I just remember that guy who survived 3 days in a sunken boat 100ft down. I'm guessing though the pressure put on Titanic probably made that impossible but..who knows, maybe some engineers got trapped in a void. I've seen Das Boot..and that's no way to go.
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@ctg6734 That's good to know. Thanks for doing all that math. I used to be pretty obsess with Titanic and dug kinda deeply into it..but that was years back and I was half-asleep trying to retain that information. There's people who know so much about it that it really blows my mind. I mean if a brings up that Titanic-Olympic switch theory they'll tear him apart. Incredible how that ocean water..along with it's own sheer weight ripped and peeled Titanic apart as it sank. A real shame Olympic was scrapped.
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It's such a shame the Olympic was scrapped..after all she'd been through and all her great service and the fact that she's basically identical to Titanic and Britannic. If that ship were around today...just imagine.
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