Even today it´s a mystery for the science how the drunken master
Even today it´s a mystery for the science how the drunken master baker of the Titanic cruise ship Charles Joughin survived more than 2 hours in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. According to medicine he should be dead before the sober victims who die in about 10 minutes into the icy water. He was asleep in his cabin when he was awakened by the impact of the iceberg around 11:20 p.m. He goes out on deck and sees what's going on. He returns to his cabin and drinks 1 bottle of brandy in about an hour or two. The ship sank shortly after 2 am. Charles spent over 2 hours in the icy waters between some of the lifeboats where people prevented him from boarding pushing him back into the water. Finally, one boat pickes him up and he survives. but he wasn’t drunk, as is popularly believed. This myth arose because he did admit to having had half a tumbler of liqueur that night. when the upper limit survival time in water of that temperature is approximately 45 minutes, with disorientat...