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Message: [QUOTE="Tim Brandsoy, post: 182142, member: 145544"] I think I see your point. You didn't intend to tell EVERYONE the ship was sinking. Just enough to fill the lifeboats, right? That's a valid point since so many didn't see the initial threat as real. They may have been overcautious. That caution and "only women and children" vs "women and children first" did cause an unnecessary amount of casualties. HAD they told everyone, 1st, 2nd and Steerage, it would have caused a panic and towards the end would have hindered the remaining lifeboats from leaving IMHO. As more and more people realized that fewer and fewer boats were available panic would have set in. In the darkness they wouldn't have to "see" it...they would know it, felt it, even in the dark. Even if there had been enough lifeboats panic could have been a problem if they saw it as eminently sinking. [/QUOTE]