The Titanic Didn't Just Sink

There were plenty of life jackets to go around. Of the 2,208 passengers and almost 900 crew members, there was room for only 1,176 for them in the lifeboats. The stress reached around 3,500 pounds per square inch on the boat deck itself. That's 50% more stress than this whole ship was meant to take.

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