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[quote=Anonymous]At the time people were absolutely shocked. Brand new ship going down on a maiden voyage was unthinkable. The ship had already received significant media coverage for the launch so the update that it sank was a huge story. The other thing is everyone just assumed the Atlantic was busy enough they wouldn't need to load all the passengers onto the lifeboats, but rather ferry them to another ship. There were some controversial stories like Ismay's survival and some very tone deaf statements by people like the Duff-Gordons. There was a microcosm of society playing out as the wealthy had a higher survival rate than the poor (more than half of first class lived, a quarter of third class did). Also imagine also if a bunch of prominent billionaires died (Astor, who again had been in the media due to his recent divorce and remarried to a much younger woman)[/quote]
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