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Before the break, three readers looked at the same facts about Bruce Ismay and judged him differently. Today two men who survived on the same overturned lifeboat tell different stories about how the ship went down, and seventy-three years later the sea floor answers back.
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Drawings of the Titanic's last hours, made on the Carpathia by Lewis Skidmore from Jack Thayer's sketches and description, April 1912 (Wikimedia Commons, public domain). Source
If our senses are sometimes unreliable, does this mean that eyewitness testimony is an unreliable source of evidence?
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