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On its maiden voyage in 1912, the British ocean liner the Titanic sank after ramming an iceberg in the North Atlantic ocean. The nearest ship, California, did not get the SOS message because the radio operator had gone to bed and turned off his radio. The Titanic’s captain, Edward J. Smith, knew that there were only enough lifeboats for half the 2100 people on board, in the panic, even those were not filled. Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer from Philadelphia was not fortunate enough to get into the icy waters. Coming upon an upturned lifeboat he hung on until the Carpathia came to his recuse at dawn, more than 1500 other people were not very lucky.
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