if Rose jumped to her demise then the ship would have stopped to look for her. the temporary delay would lead to warmer weather and the Titanic would have never hit the iceberg
The Titanic tragedy was
the perfect storm if ever there was one.
Any change of events by a few seconds
either way would have prevented the tragedy, much less the other variables such as a moonless night, lost binoculars, calm ocean, etc.
Years ago, I played an excellent video game by one of the companies that was involved in the CGI with the movie, and in the game, I snuck onto the bridge late at night and turned the ship one degree off it's heading for a minute, and then put it back on course and left the bridge unseen. I wanted to see if the game designers would have the Titanic miss the berg. Unfortunately, my dalliances on the bridge had no effect on the game.
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ghostrider38 (1034)
5 years ago
so they stopped the ship to look for rose, they would still hit the iceberg??
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strntz (10935)
5 years ago
In the real world, yes, stopping the ship would have changed everything assuming the berg was drifting, however slowly. Of course, they might have struck a different burg, had a boiler explosion upon restarting the engines, or been hit by a meteor for being in a different place at a different time...
In the game I played however, the programmers did not allow any change of course to have any effect on the ship's direction despite having a beautifully detailed bridge with what looked like and appeared to be working controls. In the real world, had I been able to sneak on the bridge, change course one degree, (undetectable by any of the crew) and put it back on course before sneaking off the bridge, the ship would have either not struck the berg or struck it in the exact same slicing manner that opened too much of the hull to the ocean.
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