- [i] [[5 Maritime Disasters You Might Not Know About by Elizabeth Nix#q2 selfish sailors abandoned passengers to die and were not punished]] - [b] [captains and crew are more likely to survive maritime disasters than passengers or women and children](https://www.thelocal.se/20120412/40216/). * ["] scientists found that on the ships where the captain gave the order “women and children first”, the difference in survival rates between men and women was lower. * ["] women survived to a higher extent than men only when this order was enforced by the threat of violence, the researchers found.