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Message: [QUOTE="Michael H. Standart, post: 33802, member: 79064"] >>How many could really have fitted in the boat safely?<< It depends a lot on just how big they are. The assumption was that each passenger would take up something like 10 cubic feet of volumn. The problem with this one is that people come in all shapes and sizes from the petite to the very large so it's entirely possible for a single person to take up the space that two average sized people could fit in. The numbers quoted were the [i]ideal[/i] condition, but the real world is anything but ideal. Had the people on the Titanic been the anorexic wonders who you see working as models these days, the rated capacities might have been realistic. They weren't and they're not. [/QUOTE]