The cold truth of the Titanic’s dead is far more unsettling than the story everyone knows. People picture frozen bodies drifting through black water or lying intact on the seabed like relics suspended in time. But the ocean doesn’t work like that—not at 12,000 feet, not in a place where light never reaches and the water is cold enough to stop a heart instantly. More than 1,500 souls went into the Atlantic that night. Clothes survived. Shoes survived. The steel bones of the ship survived. But the people did not—and the reason why is equal parts science and sorrow.
