"Tony Hwang" wrote in message
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Mark wrote:

One hundred years ago today, the Titanic was launched in Belfast at
the Harland and Wolff shipyard.



I've always wondered,

after the collision, if the captian had elected to keep the ship
alongside the iceberg, if the passangers could have climbed onto the
iceberg and used it as a life boat.

Mark
Hi,
His only concern was keeping the schedule arriving on time at NYC.
If he slowed down or altered the course to avoid the iceberg disaster
could be averted. Sad history. Mother nature is merciless.

IIRC, the course took it into an "iceberg field", or an area where multiple
icebergs had been reported. As you say, a small alteration in course would
have taken it south of the "field", and things may have turned out
different.

Of course, corporate would not have been pleased, and I'm sure the captain
would not have made the return voyage.

It was one of the most avoidable accidents in history.

Steve