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Every once in awhile some silly twit will tell me, "Oh Tabs you are always so full of doom and gloom but you never ever present any solutions?" I nod my head politely and think back to that starry North Atlantic night in April 1912 when that ship hit the berg.

After the ship hit the berg the builder of the ship Thomas Andrews went below to assess the damage. Coming back a few minutes later he told Captain Smith that the ship was going to sink in an hour and forty five minutes as the damage was too great. At that time the President of the White Star Lines Bruce Ismay came up to Captain Smith and asked him, "What solutions did he have to save the ship." Captain Smith looked at him dumbfounded and said, "You stupid fk the ship is going to sink, THERE ARE NO SOLUTIONS!" Bruce Ismay with disbelief at what he had just heard said, "But, but surely there is something that you can do to save the ship?" Captain Smith looked at him squarely in the eyes and said, "Learn how to swim."

The only thing that could be done was to turn on the pumps full blast and pray to God that a miracle would happen, that a ship would sail over the horizon to pick them up before their feet got wet. But as we know no miracle happened and some 1500 people died that night..