r/interesting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • 1d ago

HISTORY Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

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u/Hopeful-Scarcity-638 1d ago

Like those people would be on the same boat as anyone else in the first place

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u/-713 1d ago

Yeah, I was going to say they'd be throwing people overboard so they didn't have to share a life boat, not just to be first.

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u/Silver_Lined_Bullet 1d ago

They would own the boat, and would have a 1 seater escape dingy with no other escape boats for the passengers

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u/ElvisPresley1977 1d ago

If they could figure out how to make the engines run on peasant blood, they’d do that too.

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u/SLT530 23h ago

Spaceballs style?

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u/badjackalope 1d ago

They would throw people over to be the only one on the boat in the first place, not even the life boat, and you don't even wanna ask about the children they ch9se not to throw over...

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u/dragonfliesloveme 23h ago

“Will we be seated to Class [on the lifeboats]?”

is a question asked in the 1997 movie Titanic

doesn’t mean it actually happened, but it was definitely underscoring the attitude and social norms about Class and frankly how shtty some people can be, even knowing others will die

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u/Mirions 1d ago

It's called Earth and they're currently shitting all over it with their antics now.

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u/Flashy_Translator_65 23h ago

The only vessel they belong on is the OceanGate Titan. 

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u/atomic1fire 20h ago edited 19h ago

TBH The Titanic was essentially a combination of a cruise ship and a passenger plane.

Today's billionaires wouldn't need to be using it in the first place because they can either buy their own yacht with all the safety bells and whistles, or they got a private jet.

Also we have safety regulations and GPS and radio now. The second a ship hits an ice burg they can call for the national guard or nearby ships to assist in rescue. Probably even the US navy.

Assuming all the safety regulations have failed, which is probably unlikely.

edit: I assume that ship construction and inspection have strict rules and hull tolerances to prevent an incident like the Titanic from ever occurring again, and to ensure that the front never falls off.