The captain goes down with the ship The captain goes down with the ship "The captain goes down with the ship" is an idiom and maritime tradition that a sea captain holds ultimate responsibility for both his ship and everyone embarked on it, and that in an emergency, he will either save them or die trying. Although often connected to the sinking of RMS "Titanic" in 1912 and its captain, Edward J. Smith, the phrase precedes "Titanic" by at least 11 years. In most instances, the captain of the ship forgoes his own rapid departure of a ship in distress, and concentrates instead on saving other people.
Wreck of the RMS Titanic because he saw "original anti-fouling paint on the ship's hull, which was still working even after 74 years on the seabed" when he visited the "Titanic" in 1986. The location of the wreck is a considerable distance from the location transmitted by the ship's wireless operators before she went down. The initial location was given as , from the wreck. A corrected location was later transmitted as , but this too was inaccurate, by . "Titanic" is in two main pieces south-east of Mistaken Point, Newfoundland. The bow is located at and the stern is about to the south at