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discrepancy on the depth and wreck not located

There's a discrepancy in that the intro states that the wreck is in 320 feet of water and is on the national historic register, whereas later it's stated that no one has been able to find or salvage the wreck. Anyone know enough to clear this up? Dwarfyperson (talk) 08:09, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dwarfyperson, that has been fixed now that the wreck has been located. In the Sinking section it still had that she sank in 320 feet (98 m) of water. I'm assuming the location of where she started to go under was either known or estimated. Initially, I left that 320-foot mention in place because the sinking apparently happened during ebb tide meaning the vessel would have been carried further out to sea as she fell to the bottom. I assume the water depth at the estimated spot where she went under is 320 feet though the depth at the spot where she's now resting is 287 feet.

Unfortunately, I did not see a clean way to fix that in the article. We only have a hint that it was at ebb tide in the Salvage section which has "It has also been suggested that the currents may have pushed the ship out to sea as she sank" which is sourced to an article behind a paywall. It also would be WP:OR on our part to add to the article that explains the 320 vs. 287 feet the way I did on this talk thread.

I decided to get around the issue by updating the article body to say the ship sank in 287 of water. I suspect that'll work out as the 320 foot number was never sourced. --Marc Kupper|talk 04:19, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Discrepancy of death toll

The lede states Of the approximately 220 passengers and crew on board, fewer than 85 people survived the sinking, while 135 others were killed in the catastrophe, while the body reports slightly different totals, of the 210 people aboard, 82 were rescued and approximately 130 people lost their lives.. Since neither statement is cited properly, it's difficult to determine which numbers are correct. If accurate numbers can't be obtained, a note should be made to indicate the sources of error. Hadron137 (talk) 04:39, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]