Speaker 2
But why? Why have 16? I guess that they're in different areas, I'm assuming, because you initially, my thought was you have 16. If a quarter or more get flooded, that's it. Are you saying add more walls? Like add more? No, it's just like, why wouldn't it be built for to house 16 out of the 16 with water
Speaker 1
and be well, I don't think any boat
Speaker 2
can. Right. Right. Exactly. And I'm thinking that's 16 because then like it's placed in different areas or, you know, I mean, so like it all floods into. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1
Well, it's not like a grid system. It's like it's literally the back segment, the next segment, the next. So it's like just a bunch of segments from front to back. Oh, okay. If you will. Yeah. Interesting. We'll post a schematic of what those look like on our socials at Red Web pod in case you're still missing what I'm trying to describe. But the Olympic and the Titanic's promotional material, and this is where I'm really happy we're diving into this detail because advertisement is a magical thing that rides the line of lie and truth. Yes, it does. And in this case, oh yeah. And I think in this case, it definitely did that whether they meant to or not. And it definitely maintains that pseudo lie. I'll say that to this day, right? The unsinkable idea because we know it's sank. But here's what the promotional material said, quote, as far as it is possible to do so, these two wonderful vessels are designed to be unsinkable. Of course, the traveler wants to hear unsinkable.
Speaker 2
But the company is saying as far as it's possible to do so. Right, because at the end, they're still going to cover themselves.
Speaker 1
So all this is to say, many believed, of course, it must be fact unsinkable period, right? Though the white star line only ever described the ship in this way with heavy qualifiers, a lot of little asterisks, right? Of course. So with context, it's like, no, no, no, any ship could sink. But we attempted to design this one so well that you could have strong peace of mind confidence in the ship. Right. So after picking up more passengers in France and Ireland, the Titanic set off for New York, crossing the Atlantic on April 11th. There were about 2,200 people in total on board the Titanic. Remember, you asked this 2,400. It was the capacity of the passengers. But when the ship left that day on the 11th, it had 1,317 passengers. So fully crude, picked up like a little more than half of its passenger capacity. Yeah, so picked up like 900 people,
Speaker 2
like 2,200. By the time it
Speaker 1
said sail, it like picked up some people along the way down. 2,200 total, including the crew. Oh, okay. Sorry, I should have clarified. Oh, good. So a little around 900-ish just shy of on the crew side, 1317 for the passengers. Okay. Yeah. It was scheduled to arrive in New York on April 17th, a nice week journey across the Atlantic Ocean. And suddenly you're in a totally different place. That's for the time, right? Yep. Throughout the journey, the Titanic received radio communications that icebergs were prevalent in the area that they were sailing. On April 14th, the captain sent Titanic slightly south in order to avoid an area that was known to have the presence of icebergs. At 9.40 p.m., a nearby ship, the Mesuba, sent radio warnings of an ice field. The bridge of the Titanic never received this particular message because at the time, wireless messages did not have a thorough priority system developed yet. For example, a master service gram, which could be placed in front of the message with an MSG because it's all like, why am
Speaker 2
I blanking on it?