"Home Guy" wrote in message ...
Kurt Ullman wrote:

I can't believe the number of people that don't understand the
concept of assembling a pile of floating junk to sit on during
the 3 to 6 hours that the survivors in lifeboats had to wait
until they were picked up

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I can't believe that you would think that would work given the
fact that it isn't fact that people were killed by drowning,
but rather by the cold. How is one supposed to get to the floating
junk but swim to it?

The ship was easing itself slowing into the water bow-first. There was
plenty of opportunity to assemble a crude raft on deck and then ease it
into the water with you sitting on it.

Even if you get wet, as long as you stay above the water you can easily
survive 3 to 6 hours.

Then if you could get past that hurdle, if you are sitting on a
whole bunch of flotsam and jetsam, how do you keep it from
sinking from just the addition of your weight?

That depends on what you can get for your raft. I don't know how much
cork, life-rings, life jackets, maybe even buoys they had on the ship.

The timelines don't indicate anywhere near enough to time
to do that after it became that apparent.

It took what - 2.5 hours between hitting the ice and going under.
Plenty of time to scavange the ship if you KNOW that you're not getting
into a life boat.

And the lights stayed on until about the last 2 minutes.

Always easy to be a Monday-Morning Quarterback.