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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Just thinking on the anniversary of the Titanic sinking would people still react the same way today? Would people still let the women and the children go first? Would the band play on? Have chivalry become less and are people all for themselves or do you think the same would happen in 2012 as did in 1912? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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According to this report, it's every man/women/child for themself.
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The tragedy of the wrecked cruise liner, the Costa Concordia, with its dreadful loss of life and hideous memories for the terror-stricken crew and passengers, has appalled all of us.
One of the features of the disaster that has provoked a great deal of comment is the stream of reports from angry survivors of how, in the chaos, men refused to put women and children first, and instead pushed themselves forward to escape; and how the Italian crew ignored passengers and reportedly shouldered their way past mothers and pregnant women to get into lifeboats.
...Course, I wasn't there so can't say how true it is. I guess though that women can't fight for equal rights and then demand they get first shot at the lifeboats.
The comment about the staff... I think what your job was might dictate if you are expected to be responsible for the passengers.. I'm guessing here.
I do remember recently though a ship captain being arrested for leaving his sinking ship before all the passengers where safe, might have been this same cruiser - not sure.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"They only let the women and children go first because most didn't believe it would really sink.... once it was obvious it was going down, it was a different matter."
I didn't know this, I thought the captains request had been adhered to strictly until all the women and children were safe. but then realistically once panic sets in....  too horrid to think about really. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"They only let the women and children go first because most didn't believe it would really sink.... once it was obvious it was going down, it was a different matter.
I didn't know this, I thought the captains request had been adhered to strictly until all the women and children were safe. but then realistically once panic sets in.... too horrid to think about really."
The numbers of those lost -v- those saved across the classes is quite alarming:
1st Class:
Children: Lost 1 - Saved 5
Women: Lost 4 - Saved 140
Men: Lost 118 - Saved 57
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2nd Class:
Children: Lost 0 - Saved 24
Women: Lost 13 - Saved 80
Men: Lost 154 - Saved 14
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3rd Class:
Children: Lost 52 - Saved 27
Women: Lost 89 - Saved 76
Men: Lost 387 - Saved 75
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Crew:
Women: Lost 3 - Saved 20
Men: Lost 693 - Saved 192 |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Just take a ride on a train or tube to see that perhaps 1 in 100 would give up their seat, not for a women but possibly a pregnant woman or oap.
It embarrasses me to be honest but not as much as when you do give up your seat and the woman refuses it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I like to believe that back in 1912 the gentlemen were astute enough to know what would happen in a free for all, and women were shielded from how low humanity can sink when faced with disaster.
Once most of the women & children were safely away from the ship I wouldn't be at all surprised if those barriers came crashing down as each man fought for his own survival. I know the films portray the men of the upper class as sitting down with a brandy to await their doom but I bet it wasn't like that at all in reality.
Even the Captain is reported to have lost all sense of reality in the last moments and retreated to the bridge, or his cabin, and made no sense from those who tried to speak to him, but how can that be corroborated with any degree of accuracy. |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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I don't expect to be first on the lifeboats, but I would expect the crew to stay on. What use would it be when the emergency services turn up and no-one with any idea of how the boat is run is left?
The Titanic was 100 years ago and things have changed, but according to reports the Captain of the Costa Concordia was off so fast even the coastguard was pissed off at him. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Just take a ride on a train or tube to see that perhaps 1 in 100 would give up their seat, not for a women but possibly a pregnant woman or oap.
It embarrasses me to be honest but not as much as when you do give up your seat and the woman refuses it. "
I'd offer my seat to a pregnant woman or an oap but not to a woman who wasn't pregnant. She paid the same price for her ticket as I did so if she didn't get there in time to get a seat that's her tough luck. |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"Just thinking on the anniversary of the Titanic sinking would people still react the same way today? Would people still let the women and the children go first? Would the band play on? Have chivalry become less and are people all for themselves or do you think the same would happen in 2012 as did in 1912?"
It was a huge tragedy borne from naivety from the powers that be...i would like to think there would be chivalry but i doubt in reality there would be |
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