Waiting to be Rescued
Although these photos were not taken while they were waiting to be rescued but while they were being rescued, this exactly what they were doing while they were waiting to be rescured. Sitting. That is it.
Once the Titanic was fully sunk, there was not complete silence as you may have thought. No, there was screaming, praying, crying, and begging coming from the people in the below 30 degrees Fahrenheit water. People in the water were in "survival instincts mode" and were willing to do anything to stay alive. This included using other living human beings as floating devices. Yes, people were willing to hold a living person down in the water in order to stay afloat. People were begging the passengers in the lifeboats to let them come in. But the people in the lifeboats could not, for fear that they may be capsized by the frightened people in the water pulling the boat upside down. People in the water were crying out of fear, loss, and complete horror. They were also praying. Some were praying for god to keep them alive until they were saved while others were praying for god to let them die now because they were in too much pain.
For twenty minutes straight, passengers in the lifeboats plugged their ears or even sang loudly with other people so that they could not hear the screaming and crying. People were freezing to death right infront of them. People in lifeboats were crying, not only because of the loss of their loved ones, but also because they did not want to be there watching people die. Some people knew that their loved ones were one of the people in the water screaming for help. Other people in the lifeboats were literally slowly freezing to death. There were a couple of people that wanted to go back and try to save people. One of those people, the "Unsinkable Molly Brown" earned her nickname by threatening to throw an officer overboard when he refused to go back and look for survivors.
Twenty minutes after the Titanic sunk, the screaming stopped for good. Everyone was dead or too frozen to speak. It was truely the silence of death. Out of 18 lifeboats, two lifeboats went back to look for survivors. They found only nine people who were still alive. After rescuing them, three of them died of Hypothermia. In all, six people were saved. For almost two hours, the Survivors waited for the Carpathia to arrive. Suddenly they noticed distress rockets firing off in the distance. The Carpathia was there to rescue them!
For twenty minutes straight, passengers in the lifeboats plugged their ears or even sang loudly with other people so that they could not hear the screaming and crying. People were freezing to death right infront of them. People in lifeboats were crying, not only because of the loss of their loved ones, but also because they did not want to be there watching people die. Some people knew that their loved ones were one of the people in the water screaming for help. Other people in the lifeboats were literally slowly freezing to death. There were a couple of people that wanted to go back and try to save people. One of those people, the "Unsinkable Molly Brown" earned her nickname by threatening to throw an officer overboard when he refused to go back and look for survivors.
Twenty minutes after the Titanic sunk, the screaming stopped for good. Everyone was dead or too frozen to speak. It was truely the silence of death. Out of 18 lifeboats, two lifeboats went back to look for survivors. They found only nine people who were still alive. After rescuing them, three of them died of Hypothermia. In all, six people were saved. For almost two hours, the Survivors waited for the Carpathia to arrive. Suddenly they noticed distress rockets firing off in the distance. The Carpathia was there to rescue them!