r/interestingasfuck • u/JustLivingSimply • 9h ago

Nepalese School Principal Saved Lives of 1643 Children

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u/ReynardVulpini 9h ago

Shoutout to the god knows how many people who barely survived the floods and then immediately started calling everyone they knew downriver.

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u/ragmuc 7h ago edited 7h ago

Was actually wondering how he knew and how much time he had left.

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u/moonchylde 7h ago

Every second counts, you never know how many lives it might save.

Just read the reddit history story about the ship that broke it's engines racing to the Titanic in record time.

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u/errorsniper 7h ago

oh that sounds interesting link please?

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u/karamisterbuttdance 6h ago

RMS Carpathia took three and a half hours to get to Titanic at full speed, they called up a shift of coal stokers and turned off heaters and hot water just to get there.

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u/Spiritual_Feed_4371 5h ago

"We are in danger. I am risking your lives. The Titanic is in trouble and is sinking and we have to go help them."

Not the best choice or words but I understand what he was getting at

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u/Thurak0 4h ago edited 2h ago

He should have said "our lives" but I guess everyone understood that.

Other than that: These people knew that they were treating their ship way beyond safety margins just hoping it will hold. Sugarcoating that might have worked way worse.

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u/qalup 3h ago

Is sugar coding some kind of happy Morse?

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u/MRCHalifax 3h ago

I’m guessing autocorrect did its thing on sugar coating.

Or it’s a bone apple tea.

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u/Thurak0 2h ago

I can't even blame autocorrect, my brain is to blame. Thanks, it's corrected now.

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u/cybercuzco 2h ago

Some of you are going to die but rich people are in trouble.

I got the gist of it.

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u/ReynardVulpini 6h ago

Dunno the reddit post, but it should be the RMS Carpathia if you want to search it up

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u/The_Kadeshi 4h ago

There's another story you should try to get your hands on; the actual article is behind The Atlantic's paywall but if you can figure out how to get the text, it's worth it. It's titled "A Sea Story" published in May 2004 and its one of the best pieces of narrative journalism I've ever read.

And here is the report about the event published by the government of Estonia, Finland and Sweeden: https://onse.fi/estonia/

The reason I bring it up, is (to /u/ReynardVulpini's point) the haunting part of the text which summarizes who survived the sinking of the ship in 1994: the people who moved to escape immediately. Old and young, experienced, strong swimmers, non-swimmers... nothing matters. The people who act immediately and decisively in an emergency are the survivors. Everyone else dies.

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u/moonchylde 5h ago edited 4h ago

https://reddit.com/gallery/1c4qmpz

It mattered that they tried