Eric Paddon
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Clive Cussler thought of looking for the Californian wreck but the depth (5000 feet) ruled it out. He ended up finding the Carpathia instead.
Californian's wreck
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Ezekiel
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Which we know in hindsight. The ship had an enormous hole in the hull and a very worrying list to starboard - the rescuers had no way of knowing how long she would resist.
Mass panic, at least. Some passengers did panic, that's how Norma Di Sandro and Julia Greco died. Was there mass panic on Titanic at 2:00 AM? Debatable.
Some did send boats to the ship, which took passengers directly off her.
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Steven Christian
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It is odd that no one has sent down an rov given they know where she went down. But other than finding her final resting spot it wouldn't really add anything to the Titanic story. Not aware of any secrets regarding the S.S. Californian. But that aside I would still like to see someone go look for her. Given the area that has 3 to 4000 years of shipwrecks on the bottom who knows what they might find.
Michael H. Standart
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Ezekial, If you care to make a response to me, put the quotes in context instead of contriving an elaborate and misleading strawman.
I'm well aware of what shop had a panic (Principessa Mafalda) and which one did not (Andrea Doria). The Doria was able to launch it's half of it's lifeboats and the rescuers could see well enough know that the ship wasn't going to plunge like a stone in the immediate future.
Titanic, at two in the morning was visibly at the going-going part of going-going-gone, and going there damned fast.
Her own boats were trying to get away from her as fast as possible and the reason for that...the fear of suction...is a matter of record. They had no trouble figuring it out. Neither would anybody on the Californian.
It's one thing when you see you have some time on your side. (Andrea Doria the Principessa Mafalda) and quite another when you do not and you face being overwhelmed by a mob. Even if anybody on the Californian had been tempted to try it, by the time they could have got any boats in the water, the Titanic would have been on her way down fast enough and visibly enough that by the time even the first could have got there, the ship would at the point of breaking up.
I'm well aware of what shop had a panic (Principessa Mafalda) and which one did not (Andrea Doria). The Doria was able to launch it's half of it's lifeboats and the rescuers could see well enough know that the ship wasn't going to plunge like a stone in the immediate future.
Titanic, at two in the morning was visibly at the going-going part of going-going-gone, and going there damned fast.
Her own boats were trying to get away from her as fast as possible and the reason for that...the fear of suction...is a matter of record. They had no trouble figuring it out. Neither would anybody on the Californian.
It's one thing when you see you have some time on your side. (Andrea Doria the Principessa Mafalda) and quite another when you do not and you face being overwhelmed by a mob. Even if anybody on the Californian had been tempted to try it, by the time they could have got any boats in the water, the Titanic would have been on her way down fast enough and visibly enough that by the time even the first could have got there, the ship would at the point of breaking up.
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