If you were the Captain of the Titanic, what would you have done differently.?

Answer 1

I woulda wore a life vest the whole trip.

Answer 2

before the ship went down:i would have slowed my ship way down. they ran into that iceberg because the captain was trying to rush the ship to get to new york(right place?)slow and steady and maybe the ship would never have run into that iceberg.its a new ship, they were testing it out but they pushed it to the limits. you buy a new car, you take it easy at first and once broken in,you go as fast as you can. same thing should have been done with the Titanic. think safety, not impressing people by how fast your ship can go. also,once it was night time, i would have stopped the ship cause you cant see icebergs, other boats,etc, at night very well.

after the ship went down:not much i could do cause the ship was already going down..I would try to get as many people on the small boats as possible. they had extra space on those boats but wasted the space cause only women and children first..try to calm the people down and tell them that there are enough boats for everyone if they will just chill out and work with us..at the end of the movie, the crew members of the boat refused to go back and save the people who jumped from the boat. i know that the people would probably try to swarm the boats but how can you just sit there and watch someone die? if you can save someone, you should. maybe try to attach some pieces of wood to the side of the small boats to use as a sort of flotation device to save others. the rest would be in God's hands cause that's about all i could do if i was captain..

Answer 3

I watched a show about the Titanic a long time ago. They said that if the captain hadn't slowed down or turned, the ship would have made it. He should have hit it straight on, so I would do that. But the smartest thing would have been not to travel at night when it's hard to see the icebergs.

Answer 4

I'd have kept going, apparently the ship only sank because the Captain tried to turn and the iceberg made a huge gash in the side. The ship would have survived a head-on collision, and everyone would arrive in New York with one hell of a story.

Answer 5

Run the engines full speed forward (not reverse) while turning to avoid the iceberg. Ships like the Titanic turn better when there is thrust from the propellers against the rudder. (Kind of like a jet ski - you have to floor it to turn fast.)

Answer 6

Not listened to the pressure of the boat's designer to keep increasing speed to try to break some record. All he had to do was the normal, steady speed that he wanted to use given the knowledge of icebergs in the vicinity and they'd have had plenty of time to see the bergs and avoid them. Instead he caved, they were going too fast to avoid the berg once they saw it, and the rest is literally history.

Answer 7

Taken a extra southerly course. bogged down. saved a pay attention for the icebergs that have been pronounced. it is only for starters. After that we'd could desire to circulate over the evacuation and the loading of the lifeboats to potential, yet this could get somewhat long, if i attempted to maximum appropriate all the guy's errors.

Answer 8

wear a life jacket and secretly get onto one of the spare boats and row out of there as fast as my geezer hands can paddle.if people notice and yell over at me to ask where i'm going,i'll just say the boat is too crowded and stuffy...i need some fresh air:) besides i'm an old captain.the young people can swim faster and survive longer in the freezing cold water than me.fair enough.

Answer 9

Listened to the First Mate and not gone so fast through the ice fields. Also, I would've made sure I had secured enough lifeboats before embarking on the venture to begin with.

Answer 10

I would have turned off the engines and coasted right into it. Icebergs are larger underwater - a slow boat will climb slightly onto the submerged berg, but a fast boat will jump up and flip.

Answer 11

Obviously I would have avoided the iceberg if possible. If the impact was inevitable, I would have hit it straight on as opposed to swerving and ripping the entire side of the ship.