If the mysterie ship ,thought to be the Californian ,would have came to the Titanic's aid maybe Titanic herself could have been saved.

Would it not have helped if Smith transferred some of the passangers onto an iceberg of relative stable size? If you are on the ice and dry you should survive give or take a few frost bitten toes... But ending up in the water was a deathsentence for sure. They should have tried to ferry passangers to some field-ice by means of using the lifeboats and some makeshift ladders....Just a thought.

In the movie it was portrayed more as an act of hatred of lower class. In real life, that was done at first, to preserve order for a small amount of time so they could prepare the boats and figure out a game plan. Once panick started to take hold, it's sad, but they were simply forgotten about. The men up top who gave out orders got preoccupied with other things, which I think is understandable, and the men below were simply waiting for the order which never came. They were trained to do only what was ordered of them, so to be truthful, they thought they were doing things exactly by the book.

I don't know if they really did this in real life but they did on the movie so, the officers could have unlocked the gates in the hull of the ship so people could of at least had a chance to get on the lifeboats, which weren't being filled, instead of drowning helplessly in the ship's hull.

Hey dudes and dudettes! I want to hear everyone's opinion on how more people could have survived the sinking. Apart from more lifeboats. Or else. *Shakes fist* Lol.

Killian,