Do Fish Drink Water? by Bill McLain

Author:Bill McLain [McLain, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-06-203136-5
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1999-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

What was the last song the musicians on the Titanic played? (The fall of a Titan.)

The eyewitness accounts of Titanic survivors disagree as to what the band was playing as the ship went under. Many said it was Nearer My God to Thee, while others said it was Autumn, a tune popular during that time but virtually unknown today. The producers of the most recent film probably chose Nearer My God to Thee because it is still a familiar melody.

As the ill-fated ship began to sink, the band moved to the deck and began playing in an effort to calm the passengers who were waiting to be rescued.

Although behavioral psychologists talk about how people panic during a disaster, they find it difficult to explain the reaction of the Titanic’s passengers in comparison to those of other maritime disasters. In typical panic situations, the individual completely disregards the lives of fellow passengers.

Yet the Titanic passengers reacted in the opposite way. Although everyone knew that the ship was sinking and that there were not enough lifeboats for everyone, there was little panic. In fact, many men refused to board the lifeboats until all of the women and children had been rescued first. The crew performed heroically before and after the ship sank. One man exchanged his life jacket for a sweater; he said that if he were about to die, he wanted to die like a gentleman.

But perhaps the most heroic action was that of a small band of musicians still playing melodious music as the ship sank beneath the waves.

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