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las61918 t1_j5jipdv wrote

Reply to comment by First-Butterscotch-3 in TIL that Titanic crewman Herbert Pitman made an attempt to row his lifeboat over to rescue people in the water, but was overruled by the other occupants of the boat, who were worried about people swarming them and duly complied. Pitman said that this haunted him throughout his life. by ChadExtra

No they wouldn’t. They’d have at most 5-10 minutes after hitting the water to even live yet alone “swarm” the boat.

You understand that an iceberg requires freezing temperatures to stay an ice berg ya?

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Dakkaboy123 t1_j5k11u1 wrote

This is hindsight, the people at the time didn’t know how truly cold the water was. They probably knew it was cold but not kill you in 15 minutes cold.

Furthermore, a lot of the lifeboats didn’t have many sailors or WSL crew members.

Even officer Lowe who was one of the titanic officers who wanted to go back. Waited a bit and only took experienced men from other lifeboats.

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First-Butterscotch-3 t1_j5jix75 wrote

Really? Shocking that

Who would of thought ice needed freezing temperatures to remain ice

Then his actions would of made no difference, other than prehaps shove some dead people about

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First-Butterscotch-3 t1_j5k2pon wrote

The occupants were right

Getting closer served 0 purpose they were dead

If someone was alive they may of pulled the boat over

Bumping so many dead people and debries could of damaged or sunk the boat

There is 0 reward and some risk

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First-Butterscotch-3 t1_j5k4118 wrote

And in every scenario risk vs reward comes up with more risk to survivors than there is reward in finding others

The search would of being pointless as every one would be dead in 5 minutes - it would be a pointless exercise in emotion

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