On May 2, 5:24*pm, "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:
On Tue, 01 May 2012 18:21:39 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:
BTW - death or no death impending, I would not have wanted to be near
the furnace rooms when they flooded! I'll take drowing and/or
hypothermia over being steamed to death...

I'd assume that they would vent the steam and douse the fires before
that stage. Certainly Jack Phillips, the Titanics radio operator, was
sending messages that he couldn't read other stations due to steam
and air noise.



How exactly does one do that?
It's on a par with "opening the seacocks"