WHAT WOULD U HAVE DONE ON THE TITANIC?

by Mary 44 Replies latest jw friends

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  LyinEyes

  LMAO @ Megadude............ I bet you would have........... Remember in the end the preacher is quoting , Rev. 21:4, before that the Psalms. LOL it gave me the creeps when I heard that , I was a dubbie back then.

  But darn , those ladies should have taken off some of the layers of those clothes they wore back then,,,,,,, they might could have swam to some kind of floating object. But I have no idea, I probably would have died of a heart attack , panic attack and froze in free, same way I will if Armeggedon really does come!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  Big Tex

  The captain was on the bridge at the time of the accident. He had gone below to his cabin to go to bed and had left the first officer (Murdoch?) in charge. One reason they were traveling so fast was they wanted to impress the New York press with Titantic's speed; this is also the reason they chose the northerly (and shorter) route. They didn't see the iceberg because of they were in an ice flow, traveling too fast, with no binoculars, it was a moonless night, no waves and the iceberg had just turned over so the berg looked dark.

  And now you know.
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  Waygooder64

  Mary, your theory is just that.. a theory. My "theory" as you call it is based upon science and many years of belonging to search and rescue unit. I know what I am talking about because I have seen it first hand. Please look into hypothermia on a search engine and then maybe you will see the facts. A person with alot of bodyfat have more insulating qualities than those with less, which will help to a degree when faced with a cold water dunking. Being able to retain your bodies core temperature is the # 1 key to survival. I have seen portly type people pulled out of cold water that are barely shivering and smaller framed people with little bodyfat shivering so hard they could barely speak. Shivering is the bodies way of creating heat which it does to protect vital organs. Having excess bodyfat is by no means the only thing that will help save you but it is a factor . All booze does is lower inhibitions and hastens the effects of hypothermia. You give the example of hard liquor not freezing? So what? I`m not sure how much alcohol you would have to mix with blood for it not to freeze but I`m guessing its quite a bit. As far as the baker living that long in the water, well, I don`t think we will ever know the TRUE story. Many other factors had to have come into play for him to have lasted that long all I know is that the booze had nothing to do with his survival. Find me some scientific evidence and not armchair lore and I will believe it.
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  ashitaka

  WG64,

  The story of the Baker was recorded in A Night to Remember by Walter Lord. Apparently, 28 men standing in a boat that was filled to the gunwales with water saw him, and let him hold onto the boat, and that's where he hung on until the Carpathia arrived. The guy survived. Unless 28 guys and all of the crew in the Carpathia were lying.

  Now, it could've been the way he was dressed, perhaps he had something on that kept out the water for a time, but I've read the story in several places.

  ash
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  Waygooder64

  Ashitaka,I`m not disputing the fact the baker lasted a long time in the water, or the eyewitness accounts of the mans survival, what I am disputing is the REASON why he lasted as long as he did. I mentioned in one of my posts that bodyfat is one factor that could help or hinder a persons chance of survival in a cold water dunking. Mary has a hard time believing this and counters with the argument that there were probably lots of overweight people and many of them died within the 1st 1/2 hour so the bodyfat factor is not believable.Well, in the same line of reasoning, out of the 1500 people that did die I`m sure MANY of them WERE drunk as can be, with 'natural antifreeze' running through their veins , tell me why then we have only heard of one miracle survival story ( That being the baker.) I would counter that if more people laid off the booze during those key final moments then maybe the death toll would not have been as high as it was. If any of us happen to be in a situation where we are faced with a cold water dunking PLEASE empty the hard liquor in the waters around you NOT down your gullet, it won`t help.