With the current ‘credit crunch’ crisis, I tend to read Peston’s Picks (mainly for the comments). Recently, one of the comments was very well done and I show it here. It is from someone called Whistling_Neil
As efforts to save the Titanic continued the captain updated the passengers on progress.
“We have installed a lot of extra pumps to pump water from the flooded sections. Some of these pumps have not been switched on because the Chief engineer informs us that we haven’t the power to run them. Some have been found to be discharging the flood water back into the flooded sections and they are now underwater and we cannot relocate them.