Piguarak

Piguarak t1_j5k4wz9 wrote

The main lifeboats on the Titanic were 30 feet long and had a capacity of 65 people each. That is far too big a boat for a single person to capsize. It would probably take at least a dozen people grabbing onto a single side to flip a boat like that. Many survivors reported that the screams of the people in the water only lasted a couple of minutes, and then there was silence as most were incapacitated by the freezing water.

I think that by the time the lifeboats rowed back to get survivors, most would either be dead or too weak to swamp the boat.

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