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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
True enough! Nokia: It's like First Mate Elop shouting, "ICEBERG, RIGHT AHEAD!" and Captain Balmer, instead of steering away, streers right for it shouting, "FULL STEAM AHEAD!"
The Titanic actually sank because they steered away as this maneuver caused the ship to be damaged by the iceberg over its full length damaging several seperated chambers. Would they have hit the iceberg just full steam ahead then only the front chamber would have been damaged and the vessel would still have been able to float ...
 

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