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He said he had been helping with the rowing but this seems unlikely not only was he facing the wrong way but he was in no state to do anything physical When he left the sinking ship Ismay stepped into a bottomless well As I explain in How to Survive the Titanic the Sinking of J Bruce Ismay the presidents hair apparently turned white overnight and those on the rescue ship the Carpathia said that his body in the lifeboat was as stiff and lifeless as a marble statue