I saw a story about Titanic on MSN the other day, probably because this is the anniversary of it's sinking. It would not have changed anything if Fredrick Fleet had binoculars. The problem wasn't being able to see, it's that they were in the wrong place. There was no moon and the sea was like glass. The crow's nest was 140ft. above the water, there was no moon to reflect off the top of the iceberg and the sea was like glass, so there was no waves around the base of the iceberg to see, which means they were looking for a black hole in a black hole, binoculars wouldn't have made much difference. They should have been down on the bow where they would have been able to see icebergs against the stars at the horizon.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.You're correct about that much. Speaking of Titanic documentaries, did you ever see a two part series on A&E that aired back in the early-mid 1990's? I think it was called Titanic: Death Of A Dream? That was one excellent documentary, they don't make them like that anymore. I think it has been uploaded to YouTube now. @MikeFlora
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I have watched or read everything I have found about titanic. To me this is the real tragedy of Titanic. there were 14 life boats and 2 skimmers on b deck and 4 collapsible on the promenade deck 2 on top of the state rooms and 2 on top of the officers quarters. Capacity was 1176 on all 20 boats. The ocean was like glass so you could have put more people in them. 5 extra people in each one is another 100 people. Carpathia pulled 703 people out of the ocean. Life boat 1 on the port side only had 12 people in it. Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon and Lady Duff Gordon and a couple of women and 7 crew members in a boat that had a capacity of 65 people. All toll they pulled only 4 or 5 people out of the water. 19 boats in the water(Collapsible d was upside down) and 4 or 5 people was all they pulled out of the water, 473 people died that shouldn't have, and that was just capacity they might have put maybe another 100 or so since the ocean was so calm. That is the real tragedy of titanic. They were only in the boats a couple of hours, titanic sank at around 2:20 and Carphatia started picking up survivors around 4:30 that morning.