Comments by "" (@davinp) on "Weird History" channel.

  1. The last survivor of the TItanic sinking passed away in 2009, 3 years before the 100th anniversary of the sinking
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  2. Also, one of the officers misinterpreted Captain Smith's of women and children FIRST as women and children ONLY. As a result, more men lost their lives since the officer wouldn't allow men on the lifeboats
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  3. The British Board of Trade failed to update the lifeboat law as ships became bigger. It measured the number of lifeboats based on gross tonnage not the number of passengers aboard. Also, J Bruse Ismay decided to remove the extra lifeboats saying the deck looked to clutter and that we wouldn't be needing them. Back then lifeboats were not seen as lifesavers, but to transport people from a distressed ship to a rescue ship
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  4. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong for Titanic. Several bad decisions and mistakes led to the disaster
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  5. The scientists researching Titanic, found that they ordered weaker rivets then what was originally specified in the design
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  6. Correct. They may have said practically unsinkable, but then the media dropped the word "practically" and just said unsinkable
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  7. The problem with the wireless operators is that put passenger messages as priority not iceberg warnings because they were paid to send passenger messages. So, they just put some iceberg warning aside and didn't take it to the bridge
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  8. Since the gates were locked as Titanic sank, third class passengers were trapped down below.
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  9. One officer mis-interpreted Captain Smith's order of women and children FIRST as women and children ONLY. As a result, he refused to allow men on lifeboats
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  10. The poop deck was where dogs pooped! All jokes aside, most of the dogs went down with the ship. Only a few survive the sinking
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  11. The Radio act of 1912 was passed after Titanic sank because the SS California who could have rescued Titanic turned its radio off for the night, not getting Titanic's distress signal after Phillips was very rude to them to after they sent an iceberg warning. He didn't care about iceberg warning since he was busy sending passenger messages
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  12. Alcatraz was closed the year after a prisoner escaped, though we don't know if they survived
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  13. The 3rd class only access to one bathroom, so they showered only once a week
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  14. Interesting that they were not concerned that 1st and 2nd class passengers were healthy or not
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