I just watched "Titanic" again, and Cameron does indeed show a massive amount of people dying of hypothermia in their lifejackets.
On Titanic anniversary, James Cameron says climate change is our menacing iceberg | Grist
You’ve got the starving millions who are going to be the ones most affected by the next iceberg that we hit, which is going to be climate change. We can see that iceberg ahead of us right now, but we can’t turn.
1,503 people total died, including passengers and crew...There were enough life-jackets for all 2,208 people, and most everyone was wearing one.
300 dead bodies were pulled from the sea the next morning. They were found floating in their life-jackets. Many other floating bodies were not found because they had drifted off.
Very few people actually went down with the ship. Most died and drifted away in their life-jackets.
The temperature of the Atlantic at the time of sinking was 31 degrees. This temperature was the biggest cause of death among the population.
Cause of death among passengers on the Titanic : The Lancet
The Titanic passengers were only exposed to hypothermia and not to cold-water inhalation into the lungs. Aspiration might have occurred after they became unconscious. Therefore, the primary cause of death was immersion hypothermia with its attendant consequences, and not drowning as recorded in the official report.
It is a night to remember | Enchanted Titanic
At 2:20 A.M. Monday, April 15, 1912. Over the Titanic’s grave hung a thin, smoky vapor, in the clear night. The glassy, bleak sea was littered with deck chairs, crates, planking, and pilasters. Cork like rubbish kept bobbing to the surface from somewhere far below the sea.
Hundreds of people thrashed in the freezing water, clinging to the wreckage and each other. The temperature of the water was 28 degrees-well below freezing. In water at this temperature, life belts did no good. Yet a few managed to keep both their wits and their stamina and reach the collapsible nearby. For those people, their hope of safety loomed in the littered water-collapsible nearby.
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