That very well may be true. From what I've read the Californian was very aware of the icebergs in the area and stopped around 10 miles shy of that area. Titanic however, sailed full speed right into the iceberg zone and hitting one, as we know. Aparently the Californian saw the flare rockets being shot off by the Titanic, but the captain dismissed them as friendly greetings, I guess it was customary for ships of the same line to do this, but I refuse to believe that anyone on the Californian thought the rockets were friendly; this is apparently the same ship that sent Titanic the iceberg warings, so they had to know that this was indeed a real plea for help. The Californian was also less than ten miles away from the Titanic, unlike the Caparthia, who was about 58 miles away. It makes mad everytime I think about it. Anyways that what I know about the Californian, which was captained by Stanley Lord.