I really don't know what to say. Is there some new info here? Yes, but is it valuable, or even accurate? THAT is the question. My first doubts came early on at the premise that a retired airline flight attendant would have a new and break through perspective because she assumed that how she and her co-workers were trained to handle emergencies on a commercial airliner in the 50's/60's were at all comparable to the training of ships crews in 1912!
Then, as I watch, it becomes increasingly evident that those involved in this project don't even know the difference between port and starboard... a key element of ship handling! They have the office on deck sighting the iceberg to starboard and ordering "hard to starboard" only to see the helmsman turning the wheel counter-clockwise (to port). In almost every scene where port and starboard directions are used, they are opposite of reality! For those who are unaware, "port" is left and "starboard" is right, so if you are approaching an iceberg to your right, "hard to starboard" is hardly the correct command!
Key conversations are manufactured with no recorded evidence to support the statements made and with the participants either dead or in no position to substantiate them. Most of the key evidence comes from a "survivor" who was not even on the manifest for reasons that may be credible, but still raises questions. Then despite all of the dialogue they created to show that Lord Ismay was largely responsible for the disaster they suddenly reverse history's condemnation of his taking a seat on a life boat to save his own skin as somehow virtuous?
Then come conclusions that are utterly nonsense when they claim that because the Californian (by their calculations) could not have reached Titanic before it had already sunk, that they could not, therefore have rendered aid is patently false. It assumes that survivors not in life boats would've died immediately upon entering the water and while survival time would not have been long, it was certainly possible.
We live in an age where "fake news" is a common label. For those of us who are truly interested in learning from history it's a very challenging time. We must remain constantly alert to anything that fails to ring true. If it doesn't make sense, we need to question it... not just accept and repeat it. In the end result, I have to call BS on this.
Then, as I watch, it becomes increasingly evident that those involved in this project don't even know the difference between port and starboard... a key element of ship handling! They have the office on deck sighting the iceberg to starboard and ordering "hard to starboard" only to see the helmsman turning the wheel counter-clockwise (to port). In almost every scene where port and starboard directions are used, they are opposite of reality! For those who are unaware, "port" is left and "starboard" is right, so if you are approaching an iceberg to your right, "hard to starboard" is hardly the correct command!
Key conversations are manufactured with no recorded evidence to support the statements made and with the participants either dead or in no position to substantiate them. Most of the key evidence comes from a "survivor" who was not even on the manifest for reasons that may be credible, but still raises questions. Then despite all of the dialogue they created to show that Lord Ismay was largely responsible for the disaster they suddenly reverse history's condemnation of his taking a seat on a life boat to save his own skin as somehow virtuous?
Then come conclusions that are utterly nonsense when they claim that because the Californian (by their calculations) could not have reached Titanic before it had already sunk, that they could not, therefore have rendered aid is patently false. It assumes that survivors not in life boats would've died immediately upon entering the water and while survival time would not have been long, it was certainly possible.
We live in an age where "fake news" is a common label. For those of us who are truly interested in learning from history it's a very challenging time. We must remain constantly alert to anything that fails to ring true. If it doesn't make sense, we need to question it... not just accept and repeat it. In the end result, I have to call BS on this.