On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:04:48 -0700, Oren wrote:

On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:59:40 -0400, Home Guy wrote:

Oren wrote:

I always found it strange that there wasn't enough wood or other
light-weight materials onboard that could have been scavanged to
make ad-hoc rafts or other floatation aids.

Almost all of those in the water died of hypothermia or cardiac
arrest within minutes or drowned"

A floatation aid wouldn't help....

Have you seen what the inside of that ship looked like?


Only in the movie.

They must have used several forests worth of wood.

Last I heard, wood floats...

Some wood floats better than others.

None floats very well. To survive in that environment one has to stay *dry*.

Have you been in rough 8 foot seas in the North Atlantic?

Floating on a pile of garbage?

Maybe they could get some hammers, nails and duct tape in the ship's
gift shop?

You don't build a raft like Huck Finn's in a short time.

....and sail it in the N. Atlantic in April. ...but that's a Canuckistani, for
ya, eh?