RMS Titanic "SOS"

Too bad the no code ops won't appreciate this...

Ditto..... I'm kinda ok with tech no code... After that .. .NO

Its almost kind of creepy.

The 2nd Officer tries to rally the fleeing skipper of a sinking ship as he embarrasingly rushes into the first lifeboat....
- What are you doing Captain??? You can't abandon the ship like that - there's plenty of women aboard yet!!
- I see... but no time for "that" now Perkins, I'm getting the f*ck outta here NOW!!!!

During the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912, its radio operator Jack Phillips initially sent "CQD", still commonly used by British ships. Harold Bride, the junior radio operator, jokingly suggested the new code "SOS" be used, thinking it might be the only time he would get to use it; Phillips began to alternate.

You know your history!  Good Job!!

"Help us ... the chicks are going crazy .. screwing us to get our lifejackets ... someone save us!"

DE MGY CQD SOS CQD

"This is Titanic. Calling all stations, distress. Save Our Ship. Calling all stations, distress. "

Aside from the zippy fast way they've done it; is the sound basically accurate?

I'm dying to know how it would've actually sounded for the people listening from other ships. I've heard a lot of different versions and frankly I dunno who to believe.

Actually, they called it "glass arm" or "telegrapher's paralysis." Was common by the time of the American Civil War.

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