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Message: [QUOTE="Tom Pappas, post: 182141, member: 199955"] Timothy - "IF they had gotten 2200+ passengers and crew on deck immediately they would have quickly realized there wasn't enough room for them all." I don't think it's necessary to get all 2200 on deck. You tell the people who ARE present that the ship is sinking, and if they want to live, they'd better get in a boat. You then pass the word through the ship a deck or two at a time. "They were stalling for time to [get] as many people off as quietly as possible." No - that maximum is attained by informing enough people to fill the boats that their lives are in danger, not by telling them pretty lies. The stalling, it turns out, killed something on the order of 450 people. "All they would have to do is LOOK at the lifeboats to know there wasn't enough room." First of all, it would have been impossible to count the boats. The deck was too big, and too dark. The passengers probably didn't know their capacity, and they likely didn't know how many people were on board anyway. Only a fictional passenger could have figured out that the boats were insufficient. "If they had called for 'women and children first' then they would have known something was up....and not good news!" I don't see at all why this would be true. It was the convention of the day, and would have been issued even if there [i]had[/i] been adequate capacity. [/QUOTE]