Titanic Disaster Revisited
There are many stories and myths about the sinking of the Titanic.
We recently compiled the data on the lifeboats (721 passengers who entered a lifeboat) and a nice pattern came out in the fluctuation diagram of “launch sequence no.” against “class”.
(female passengers highlighted)
The “fate” of the lifeboats is listed under http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/lifeboats/
What can be learned from the fluctuation diagram?
- 1st class was served with the first 6 boats
- The next 4 boats were mainly 2nd class
- Boats 11-14 had many 3rd class passengers
- Boats 3 and 12 were less filled and almost no men entered these boats
- Boats 18-20 are not well filled
- …
There is more to see, when reading the story and the graphics side by side.
