smoke, ash from the boilers and soot all mixed with a little steam from water filling the boiler rooms. Another thing to take into account is that the ship was more or less stationary, it was just going to drift above the ship. I don't know that it really was anything more than that and don't really consider it to be the same as the escaping air, it was coming up through the funnels. That is not to say that the remaining air in the bow did not escape during the break, it had to. But I always thought there was a difference in air pressure inside the ship as it was sinking, but do not know that it could have cause a break, port holes were open, doors were open, etc. so their should have been enough room for the air to escape if the pressure had been too great. I'm not sure, but weren't pipes running just below the boat deck that ran to the winches on deck? We know air was escaping from the peak tank, but I can't see why so much air would be running through the expansion joint as to make it almost impossible to hear, I would expect some, maybe an almost "stiff breeze", but that alone should not have made that much sound unless the pressure really was that high; but then shouldn't people below decks ear's have been "popping" from the pressure? Survivors saw the smoke but Frank Osman was the