the captain was captain arthur henry rostron. what we found out is what rostron thought he did that tight night and put into the historical record didn't actually happen. rostron thought because the sos was given out here, that he had to travel a distance of 58 miles. he reached the sos position -- he reached the first boat about 4:10 a.m. and when he did the math, he came up and said we must have ran about 17 1/2 knots. it turns out that he overestimated his speed. and he overestimated the distance he ran. the reason is that titanic did not sink over here, but it actually sank up there where the wreck site is. at the time they reached the first boat, all the boats and the wreckage had drifted down to this point and we find that the actual distance that carpathia had to run was only maybe something less than 50 miles. and she never reached more than 15 1/2, maybe 16 knots which is much more reasonable. it turns out that carpathia, it would be impossible for her to reach 17 1/2 knots. normally full-ahead speed was 14. people came