Attention Weird
sailors – this is your captain speaking:
“Women and children first” was never the social norm on sinking ships,
nor was the self- sacrificing captain who gives the order before going down
with his vessel, a study of maritime disasters shows.
Seriously folks, according to the good people at Bloomberg crew
members had the highest survival rates in shipwrecks, followed by captains and
male passengers, according to the report today in the journal Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences. The research found that women’s survival rate
on 16 maritime disasters from 1852 to 2011 was half that of men’s, and children
had the worst chance of getting off the boat alive.
Men in general have better survival prospects, unless they
engage in self-sacrificing, helping behavior, the authors said. The exception
is the sinking of the RMS Titanic, in which the survival rate of women and
children was three times higher than men’s. In that instance, the captain
ordered a women-and- children-first evacuation, and officers reportedly shot
men who disobeyed, according to the study….
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