
Episode 32: Submerged
The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast
The Titanic Sinking
There weren't enough boats for passengers. This is famous. And as that line you hear over and over again that if we put more of them on the Titanic or clutter up the deck, but you suggested in your book that even if there had been three times as many boats, it wouldn't have changed much about the outcome. Why? That probably was one of the things that surprised me the most trials actually doing it. No matter how long I took the Titanic to sink, you know, they, I think the best case scenario you still would have been looking at about 1000 people dead.
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