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Friday, April 20, 2012
 
Continuing Titanic theme: if you see salt water erupting from your toilet, grab your life preserver and run.
Continuing Titanic theme: if you see salt water erupting from your toilet, grab your life preserver and run. Lifeboats are not everything

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTS_Oceanos """
Realising the fate of the ship, the crew fled in panic.... No alarm was raised. Passengers remained ignorant of the events taking place until they themselves witnessed the first signs of flooding in the lower decks... many of the crew, including Captain Avranas, were already packed and ready to depart, seemingly unconcerned with the safety of the passengers
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PBS NOVA "Why Ships Sink"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/why-ships-sink.html
describes it like this:

A guitarist Moss Hills went to the bridge to see what's happening and found it abandoned. He grabbed the radio and called mayday. In reply to the question "what is your rank?" he said "I don't have a rank I am a guitarist on the ship", then "where are the officers?" he replied "I don't know".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTS_Oceanos

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