This has always confused me until maybe now. I have given the following quote some thought:
"She seemed to raise once as though she was going to take a violent dive, but sort of checked, as though she had scooped the water up and had leveled herself. She then seemed to settle very, very quiet, until the last, when she rose up, and she seemed to stand 20 seconds, stern in that position [indicating], and then she went down with an awful grating, like a small boat running off a shingley beach."
— Bedroom Steward Henry Samuel Etches
The newest simulations show the stern violently being thrown over to port after the breakup which is consistent with survivor accounts. But what I've always wondered is if water was really seen on the port side of the poop and well deck as seen in the 2012 rendering:
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Can Etches's account be interpreted as a pool of water formed in the well as the stern settled, water crashed onto the decks and was scooped up as the stern rose for a second time? I'm sorry if this is difficult to understand.
"She seemed to raise once as though she was going to take a violent dive, but sort of checked, as though she had scooped the water up and had leveled herself. She then seemed to settle very, very quiet, until the last, when she rose up, and she seemed to stand 20 seconds, stern in that position [indicating], and then she went down with an awful grating, like a small boat running off a shingley beach."
— Bedroom Steward Henry Samuel Etches
The newest simulations show the stern violently being thrown over to port after the breakup which is consistent with survivor accounts. But what I've always wondered is if water was really seen on the port side of the poop and well deck as seen in the 2012 rendering:
Can Etches's account be interpreted as a pool of water formed in the well as the stern settled, water crashed onto the decks and was scooped up as the stern rose for a second time? I'm sorry if this is difficult to understand.