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Lights, this question is for you...
In my "I Was a Stranger, and You took Me In" fanfic story, over on my board...
I have elevated your rank to the First Officer status aboard Titanic, and the question is...since it will be on your watch, how will you handle the iceberg situation when it occurs on the night of April 14, 1912? Also, will you stick to the same-ole' strict women and children only regimen, or will you allow men into the  if there aren't enough women around?
Here are your fellow cast of senior and junior officers:
Captain E.J. Smith
Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde
First Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller
Second Officer David Blair (he has "the" binoculars in his locker)
Third Officer Herbert Pitman
Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall
Fifth Officer Harold Godfrey Lowe
Sixth Officer James Moody
This time around, in my story, Will will be sitting it out with Tammy Anderson, his lady friend and fellow shipmate, in a nice cushioned seat of the cinema watching the 1997 TITANIC film. That is IF you manage not to sink the ship. april1912
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Re: Lights, this question is for you...
Well, MA, I have had a fair bit of time to think about this question and I believe that the orders I will gave are:
"Hard astarboard, full astern on port engines." This maneuver will give me the best chance of evading the iceberg. 
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Re: Lights, this question is for you...
Okay then, Will will completely miss his destiny with Titanic altogether, after he mysteriously arrives in modernday April 1997 (straight off his father's Iquique barque, to sail to...) New York aboard that mysterious steamship--PERIOD! Therefore--there will be no movie made about her...except for her doomed sister ship, Britannic.
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Re: Lights, this question is for you...
Greetings,
Interesting answer and the scenerio that follows, but you realize then that without Titanic sinking, the good things after the disaster wouldn't come about. Would you propose that the lifeboat requirement be with Brittanic? Also since Brittanic didn't sink in the North Atlantic, when would the international ice patrol come about? Also would Brittanic wouldn't have the name change to Brittanic, it would be the Gigantic and on top of that, I would also say that the double hull wouldn't be put on Olympic or Gigantic. So truly, although Titanic was a disaster, many good things came about. Think about it. Thanks for listening. TTYL, Laters.
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Re: Lights, this question is for you...
You're right on, Robert...our tinkering with history does tend to screw up things...things that are meant to happen then and now. That is why we try to correct the mistakes that were made in the past...so that they won't be repeated.
Like those ice troller ships are built specifically for plowing through fields of ice ahead of those . Wish they would make ALL ships' hulls ice-proof.
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Re: Lights, this question is for you...
Greetings,
Well, most ships are double hulls now. The only single hulled ship in the modern age I know about was the Exxon Valdez. They got charged heavy fines when the Valdez had that massive oil spill up in Alaska quite a few years ago and after the incident, they changed the name of that ship to the Exxon Pedro and put back into service, but even as the Exxon Pedro, the company didn't put a double hull in and currently the Exxon Pedro is sunk in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego. Single Hull ships are more prone to sinking than double hull, which I remember. Thanks for listening. TTYL, Laters.
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Re: Lights, this question is for you...
My above post, I know didn't make a lick o' sense, because I was being rushed. My brother, you see--had a bunch of packages for me to deliver down at our local post office.
Anyhow, what I was trying to say regarding your post about us tinkering with history by trying to change things...like maneuvering Titanic around the berg, hence allowing her to successfully complete her maiden voyage. We wouldn't be able to correct the wrongs we made by implimenting certain laws which to preventing such disasters to reoccur.
Therefore, Robert, you are right on the money there.
MA
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Greetings,
Ok. Sorry about coming down so hard, just been a  day. Thanks for listening. TTYL, Laters.
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Re: Lights, this question is for you...
See what happens when you cut corners building a ship lol (the EV).
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Re: Lights, this question is for you...
quote:
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See what happens when you cut corners building a ship lol (the EV).
Huh-huh. Titanic is such a prime example too....just look at her bulkheads. Why! She was a regular floating ice cube tray, wasn't she? 
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