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readthenotes1 ◴[] No.44566926[source]
Tldr: 'Davidson stripped off his nightshirt and swam away from the ship. The suction took him down, and when he came up, he swam into a frenzied crowd. “They tramped me under three times before I got through them. I swam on a little farther, but the water was fearfully cold, and I was out of practice swimming,” he said.

Davidson was picked up by a lifeboat and taken to the _Storstad_, which survived the collision.'

The article was apparently edited to increase prolixity.

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1. jolt42 ◴[] No.44572023[source]
I wondered about this suction. Is he talking about the ship sinking as suction. Mythbusters demonstrated IIRC that this "suction" doesn't happen.