If the Titanic sunk today.
Whoever made this must be so boring at parties
if the titanic sunk today you can bet your ass that almost everybody would’ve lived because there’d be enough life boats for everyone and the third class passengers wouldn’t be forced to stay in their rooms. also, with today’s technology, they most likely would’ve known about the iceberg and they wouldn’t have hit it–not to mention that the boat would’ve been able to move away from the icebergs because ships aren’t built the same way anymore.
in fact, most of these people would’ve been on a plane.
All right, not that you didn’t make some really great points there, but I’d like to point out ONE OTHER THING about this concept, the idea of the Titanic going down today.
If the Titanic sank today, and let’s suppose for the sake of argument that it went down much like it did in 1912 (crashed into an iceberg, insufficient lifeboats, many dead and dying as the ship went down, for whatever reason help can’t be reached), you know what would be different?
There wouldn’t be any confusion about who lived and who didn’t, no families desperately waiting for news, because people would be saying goodbye. They would be pulling out their phones and their tablets and they would call or message their families or friends. And they would say “the ship is going down, we’re going to die, and I wanted to make sure you knew.”
Can you imagine those messages?
“I gave up my seat for a young woman and her baby.”
“I don’t want you to be scared for me.”
“I’m sitting with a friend I made last week–her whole family is on board.”
“I just wanted to hear your voice.”
“I didn’t want you to be left wondering.”
“I’ll miss you.”
“I love you.”
So I sort of doubt that’s what this person was trying to get at (although can you imagine the murder that a historian would do to have concrete knowledge of how something like this happened rather than theorizing from evidence and scattered accounts), but like listen to me for one second: people would fucking know what happened to their loved ones. They would be able to say goodbye.