MGY Friend--You may very well be correct. But how could you mistake a man shooting himself when it was still illuminated on top deck? Again, we'll never know 100%.

I think the issue with the ship breaking was it was very dark. Most people in the boats were looking away. And those near by saw the bow going down gradually with the stern behind it. Take a took at the new Titanic movie. After she breaks, the bow is still present as the stern lifts up. That is because the keel was connected. To some, whether they are referring to it breaking, or breaking into two separate pieces. I don't know. I would like to have heard Chief baker Charles Joughin's(sp) theory on the ship breaking seeing and he was on the railing. And the last person to actually leave Titanic.