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The Atlantic'a piece about the sinking of the ferry Estonia contains some interesting pieces of information for anybody who might like to survive a sinking in the future. It might also put you off getting on ships. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/a-sea-s...
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I love vivid, harrowing writing like this. Despite seeing James Cameron's Titanic, I never pictured the ships themselves as being such an obstacle to survival. This makes it feel so real. It's haunting. Do you have anything more like this?
If you can accept Planes instead of Ships, Mayday is a good show that guides on through the accident investigations of plane crashes (from a short video of the crash with details removed, through the investigation process and then finally a short section on the recommendations issued)
Drowning is not a pleasant way to die. I drowned as a child and lived to tell the tale, but it's not an experience I would not recommend. At all. If you've determined that you won't survive your shipwreck, you might want to consider a faster way to die.
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Yes, in that one specific shipwreck, you were better off being female. Almost every other shipwreck went the other way[1]. [1] https://www.history.com/news/women-and-children-first-on-sin...
Without knowing how representative the 18 shipwrecks they picked are, it’s hard to know whether their conclusions are widely applicable. Also, from their research paper, some of the ships they mentioned had been torpedoed or ran aground, SIX collisions, etc. A first guess would be that men sometimes survive more than women and children simply because they were more physically able to overcome the dangerous environmen…
Is that true? I believe women survive longer in cold water, because on average they have a higher body fat proportion.
Step 1. Don't be a man Step 2. Don't be poor. 97% of First Class women and 87% of female crew members survived the sinking of the Titanic. https://www.anesi.com/titanic.htm
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It is the same show, but it has different names: Air Crash Investigation Also (according to Wikipedia): Air Emergency (National Geographic Channel, U.S.) Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel, U.S.) Mayday: Air Disaster (Weather Channel, U.S.)
My TV Organizer names it Mayday, hence I use that name.
Somewhat tongue in cheek, but still some good advice here: -- Know your surroundings, specifically where your exits are. The nearest exit may be behind you. -- Break the rules. Officials may try to deter you from using passages, ladders or stairwells. Ignore them. If you need to kick open a door or pick a lock, do it. -- Be where the well-connected people are, and look/act the part. Try to blend into the tribe, be a…
> They won't be able to do it if you still have your briefcase, or haven't taken off your shoes as requested. I strongly believe the training to get the plane evacuated in 90 seconds includes a bunch of people doing exactly this.
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Step 1 don’t be poor. (Most poor died by default.) Step 2 don’t be a man.
According to the resource linked to, third class women had a higher survival rate than first class men. Not that it would necessarily turn out that way now.
I doubt it would, and that is a good thing. The whole “women and children” thing was part of the whole “women are weak creatures that need to be looked after and protected like children” mentality.