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When large ships sink they create intense vortexes that suck everything down with them.
The Lusitania was a ‘four stack” passenger ship that was sunk by a German U boat during WWI and it is major reason why the US entered WWI.
The ship sank 18 minutes after it was torpedoed.
Here is the interesting parts.
It sank in relatively shallow water so as it was sinking it sort of settled/stopped so a number of passengers thought it was safe to stay on the side of hull of the ship. Unfortunately it ended up completely sinking.
A women on the Lusitania jumped off the ship as the ship sank and she was sucked into one of the exhaust stacks. As she was getting sucked under the ocean a boiler inside the ship exploded and she was shot out of the stack very much like a circus clown cannon and was thrown clear of the wreckage. She was one of the few who survived!
Jesus, number 2 is a rollercoaster.
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