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  1. Apr 2021
    1. In terms of the how it affects the body, bringing the mountain down is exactly what extra oxygen does. Some hardcore climbers consider it cheating.

      I think that this shows how people take this too seriously and

    1. On average, the captain was more likely to survive than the passengers.

      This develops the central idea that the captain was usually more self-centered if there was a higher rate for the captain to survive rather than the people on board.

    2. only have data on children for a limited number of shipwrecks, but it is evident that they have really bad survival prospects: just 15 per cent. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('mpu-mid-article'); }); googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('video-mid-article'); });

      why would children have less of a fee if they are to live onto the legacy, they would have to survive. So they would then need to be taken better care of which cost more rather than the parents that need a higher fee

    3. in 1912. The captain explicitly issued an order for women and children to be saved first. As a result, the survival rate for women was three times higher than for men.

      This makes me think differently about this incident because of the survival rate. This makes me wonder why more women survived was it better instinct or people wanted to help women more

    1. The bulkheads could be sealed to keep the ship afloat even if all four forward compartments were flooded. Unfortunately, as additional compartments flooded, the extra weight pulled Titanic low into the water.

      This helps me see how the titanic had more than one reason for it sinking. This helps develop a central idea that there are more than just one reason to one thing than just wat you read from one place

    2. On April 15, 1912, RMS Titanic, with 2,200 persons aboard, struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. In 1985, the ship’s wreckage was discovered, more than 12,000 feet (3,700 meters) below the surface.  Analysis of the ship’s remains has given us a clearer picture of the many separate events that combined to doom Titanic.

      Background info for what happened

    1. The family had just retired on the night of April 14 when they were awakened by the scraping sound on the side of the ship. The seriousness of the situation was not realized until a steward came around thirty minutes later. The group reached deck as the last of the distress rockets were fired and the last lifeboat was being loaded. Rhoda refused to enter the lifeboat, realizing her sons would not be allowed. All three of them were swept off of the deck and her motherly instinct fought to keep her sons near her. Rhoda resurfaced but her sons did not. Someone reached out and pulled her into Collapsible boat A from the water. Rhoda and the other occupants stayed in the swamped, water filled boat until Officer Lowe arrived later with Lifeboat 14. Rhoda struggled to comprehend her loss and suffered with health problems due to the cold water for the rest of her life. She later remarried but was unable to have more children. She died in 1946.

      This part really shows that a lot more than just losing family was a affect of the titanic. This shows a centeral idea of thinking more about someone than just the basics of what you know about them. Because they could've experienced more than you expected and it's really important to help that person.

    2. “third class passengers were unfamiliar with indoor plumbing and may not remember {or understand} the need to flush the toilets themselves”.

      I think that this demonstrates that the classes of people are very defined because they know no better than to just leave the toilet unflushed, that's why they have electric toilets. So this shows the classes levels

    3. Stella, reached a lifeboat but got out when the rest of her family could not join her. The entire family of eleven perished.

      This really shows me how tragic the titanic incident was and how many people were effected

    4. The family were moving to New York, where Frederick’s brother procured him a job in a power station. The entire family was lost.

      were they lost from his job or from the titanic?

    5. Passengers ranged from those traveling alone, to single moms traveling with their children {most were going to join their husbands who were already settled in their new homeland} to large family groups.

      This shows importance to show how bad they needed to move that even these types of people also left even though there were some sacrafices.