titanic vuk iceberg on her maiden voyage, seriously damaged and towed to haley fax or something. it would have survived. unfortunately, a lot of the firemen trimmerses and degreesers whose quarters were stationed up in that area of the ship would not have survived. but that's the price that would have been paid. but there is no ship handler in the world that would allow a ship to go head on. i think what murdoch had done was try to mitigate the damage by taking the action he did. i believe, first of all, somebody didn't ask, but why a 32nd delay. why not act sooner. turns out that if he would have -- in order to avoid the iceberg all together, further research shows that would he have had to have made a decision within 15 seconds of the warning for the ship to just clear the berg. anything less than that is correct the iceberg would have struck. and it turns out that if he would have waited 20 seconds, the iceberg instead of hitting the bow would have hit near the stern which would have caused more damage. if he waited 25 seconds, it would have hit about mid ship where the engine