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The Alarmist Sneak Peek 3

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The Alarmist

Comedy, History, Society & Culture

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2019

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Why were there no binoculars on the Titanic?

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So here's another passenger and this relates to who's to blame.

0:07.2

Frederick Fleet.

0:08.5

Okay, Fred.

0:09.5

So Fred was the first of two to spot the iceberg.

0:14.4

Wow.

0:14.8

He's along with a guy named Reginald.

0:16.4

Great.

0:16.8

Another great name.

0:17.4

Fred and Reggie.

0:18.1

He was the lookout on duty at the moment that it hit.

0:21.0

And later he testified that had he had binoculars he thinks that he

0:27.5

would have been able to see the iceberg sooner when someone asked how much sooner he said enough to get out of the way

0:34.8

and here's my question why did they not have binoculars it's

0:40.8

it's 1912 folks.

0:43.0

Erios.

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