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Thanks for this. As a mariner now, I appreciate these stories all the more. We all depend on each other out there.

My 5th grade teacher brought in a box of old NGs for us to cut up for projects. Being the little info packrat I was, I dug down in the box until I saw one that grabbed me. I didn’t do the project because I was so entranced by the Pompeii casts. Mrs. Tanaka let me take that NG home.

This is so good and it’s only 12 minutes! Worth your time!

similarly, when the worst industrial disaster in history happened in Bhopal, India, railway men nearby stayed behind to send off a passenger train early and wave incoming trains through or have them stop short so they wouldn’t stop in the toxic cloud, saving hundreds. one died, one was disabled

Coleman gets recognition for his heroism in the song Fire & Flame by The Longest Johns, though it's only part of their longer tribute to the day: youtu.be/T_5PHU7vQu4?...

'Heroism' is often portrayed as extraordinary people doing extraordinary things. But most of the time it's really just ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances... abcnews.com/GMA/News/27-...

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I was just thinking about that Tumblr post 15 minutes ago, thank you.

I knew about the disaster, but did not know about her. Pleased to see she has a Wikipedia page since 2021.

I was obsessed. I don't get rid of books so I still have my shelf of Titanic lore. When I went to see the Cameron movie, I hated the made up tragic story (whyyyyy???) but I burst into tears when CGI turned wreckage into a brand new liner zooming through the sea.

I think about things like this when someone tries to tell me how terrible the human race is.

This screenshot looks suspiciously like a thread @garius.eurosky.social wrote

I'm so frustrated by humans but damn it we are the best sometimes. Thank you for sharing this.

This is one of my favourite bits of writing ever on Tumblr, up there with ‘what resembles the grave’. It’s a great telling of an incredible story.

You might be interested in bsky.app/profile/beyo... it’s a podcast mostly about maritime disasters

Can also recommend Erik Larson, Nathaniel Philbrick, Jim Carrier…and Gary Kinder’s “Ship of Gold” is…sea disaster gold.

they weren't being cowards, they weren't being dismissive, they weighed the numbers slightly differently. I'm pretty sure it's not a thing I could do more than once, so I greatly admire the people who do this multiple times.

8! seems to be the age

Given that OP follows me, I assume yes. :P

I will always read this, and I will always sob.

It’s like the meme about what to do if you see someone shoplifting baby formula. “Did you see that red lining gauge?” Nope. I was distracted…

this ship now has one speed

"is this chewing gum holding down the temperature needle?!"

POV on the Carpathia after putting all the coal in the steam boiler at once:

Gonna just get me crying at lunch time like this?

Have you listened to the After Titanic podcast? It tells a bunch of stories about what happened after the disaster.

There's a new possible explanation I first heard about this year: mirage caused by the same air conditions that stilled the waves around the lifeboats. It hid the iceberg in haze until it was too close to react to and then it made the Titanic look smaller, closer, and radio-less.

This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing.

also icymi there's a song abt the Carpathia and it bangs!!

Doing pretty great, all things considered! Summer was ROUUUGH but rn we're thrivin^^

Same is true of Carpathia even if it had teleported. Both were vastly smaller ships and there wasn't any way they could have rigged up alongside while it was sinking. Would have come down to the boats just the same and Titanic didn't even manage to launch all the ones it had. Same lethal bottleneck.

See also the Edmund Fitzgerald. The Arthur M Anderson reached Whitefish Bay, after fighting through the storm just behind the Fitz, turned around, headed back into it to go look for survivors. 9 other ships did the same, including one that was already anchored. Because “they would do it for us.” 😭

You might enjoy The Other Side of the Night by Daniel Allen Butler. My library has it on both Hoopla and Cloud Library (we do not have Libby anymore)

"We are in danger. I am risking your lives. The Titanic is in trouble and is sinking and we have to go help them."

We're heading there next Thursday