2006-07-08 10:46:14 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
yep I have often wondered this. To be honest people standing on the iceberg would have a much higher survival rate than freezing to death in the water. The icebergs at this stage of their life are quite unstable but this one was huge so that wouldn't have been a problem.
The only reason why they didn't do this was probably beacuse the iceberg was several miles behind them , as a ship that size would have taken ages to stop, mind you they did put the engines into reverse just before impact, so not sure how far away it was. But in any case with 5 or 6 strong crew members they could have ferried people to the iceberg and returned to get more passengers. It likely that many of the upper class may have not been interested in the idea however.
ADD: please correct me if i am wrong but I think there is a photo of the titanic iceberg somewhere and I dion't think it had all vertical sides.
2006-07-08 10:57:56 · answer #1 · answered by wave 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Titanic was travelling when it struck the iceberg, so by the time the ship had started to sink and people were getting off the ship it would have been too far away. Also I imangine that trying to climb from freezing water onto steep ice would have been impossible.
2006-07-08 17:55:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For starters, the iceberg that took out the Titanic was huge. Most icebergs are not just flat topped plateaus begging for some stranded soul to hop aboard. This iceberg looked like a floating cliff. Unless you have the appropriate equipment, it would have been impossible - and then they would have frozen to death on the iceberg instead.
2006-07-08 17:51:30 · answer #3 · answered by my_inner_child_never_died 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the time that it was apparent that the Titanic would sink, the iceberg was miles behind the ship.
2006-07-08 17:50:15 · answer #4 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they did what was natural and put them in the lifeboats to save lives. Recent thoughts are that using the boats as a platform from the boat to the berg would have enabled passengers to climb onto it. It would have been cold but the survival rate would have been much higher than being left i te freezing atlantic.
2006-07-12 09:43:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The iceberg didn't sink but u could freeze to death on the iceberg. its that cold
2006-07-08 17:49:34 · answer #6 · answered by knockknock1234@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't really stay on an ice berg. Its damn slipery, cold and small on the top side of the water. Adding to this its not flat. And once you put people on it it might sink....
2006-07-08 17:50:51 · answer #7 · answered by c_moersheim 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ice berge is terribly cold and floated away, while melting at the same time. The ice berge is not stable.
2006-07-08 19:12:50 · answer #8 · answered by stephen duru 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause an ice berg at night, is scarier than a sinking ship
2006-07-09 05:08:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
95% of it was submerged, and the part that was not had nearly vertical sides. Also, it was the middle of the night, so finding it would be a problem too.
2006-07-08 18:15:42 · answer #10 · answered by Trump 2020 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋