and the shortage of lifeboats should have clued people in about how to run a ship safely but of course no one takes any notice of these things until it's too late the male steamer all right moving on from a book that may have predicted the sinking of the titanic to another book that may have predicted the sinking of the titanic this one is a slightly different one though as it was specifically written as a cautionary tale for lifeboat shortages on ships and even directly flagged up the issue at the end not that it helps of course it took a real-life disaster and a huge loss of life before shipping companies thought it might be a good idea to have enough room for everybody in case of an emergency this story by journalist and editor w.t stead was originally published he's a famous journalist uh or publisher right didn't he start a bunch of newspapers i feel like i know his maybe i've made a video about him i've got a channel called biographics where i do biographies of famous people i think i might have done one about him and it's worrying that i remember very little about him it's just like sometimes it's in the eyes and out the mouth you know i make a lot of videos it was originally published in the palm our gazette in NUMBER_TOKEN and casually titled how the male steamer went down in the middle atlantic by a survivor in it a character on board a packed ship suddenly has a thought about lifeboat safety and goes to check on the situation his conclusions are as follows at the finish i calculated that by loading all the eight boats down to the water's edge and packing the children along the bottom boards we might accommodate NUMBER_TOKEN people we were carrying NUMBER_TOKEN altogether in the story the ship which is again going fast in bad conditions collides with another vessel and starts sinking almost straight away there's pandemonium everywhere with people fighting to get into the limited boats the boats not being easy to release guns being fired and even the main character shoving a baby away that a mother is trying to give to him to take to safety holy sh this book sounds intense dead it's every man for themselves with the crew jumping to get into the boats before any passengers lifeboats going off half full and even being destroyed by people throwing themselves overboard into them in the end there's one boat left for the NUMBER_TOKEN people remaining on the steamer they plunge into the water with the main character managing to grab onto a lifeboat as it passes by oh my god back in the day i'll be like let's just take an inflator but let's just take you know just pack it in the luggage we'll take an inflatable boat just in case um i mean i guess they didn't have like did their plastics and back in the day that you could like they probably didn't did they so you couldn't or modern day lifeboats though are amazing they come in these like uh they're like these big plastic boxes and you just throw them in the ocean and they explode into lifeboats i'm like that's pretty sick i'm glad we have that nowadays they plunge into the water with the main character managing to grab onto a lifeboat as it passes by charitably this exchange occurs shelley hit his fingers said a man no let him come and then i was laid sick and dizzy
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN i feel like i know his maybe i've made a video about him i've got a channel called biographics where i do biographies of famous people i think i might have done one about him and it's worrying that i remember very little about him it's just like sometimes it's in the eyes and out the mouth you know END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN