Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic factors contributed to the lifeboats departing with only half capacity. 1,503 people did not make it on to a lifeboat and were aboard "Titanic" when she sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean at 2:20 a.m. on 15 April 1912. 705 people, mostly women and children, remained in the lifeboats until later that morning when they were rescued by RMS "Carpathia". Those aboard the lifeboats were picked up by "Carpathia" over the course of 4 hours and 30 minutes, from about 4 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., and 13 of the lifeboats were also taken aboard. The lifeboats were
RMS Titanic in popular culture wherein the world, as Western man has known and shaped it, is undermined from within, not overcome from without; and ends not in holocaust but with a quiet slip into oblivion.” Don Lynch's "Inside the Titanic" (1997) presents an overview of the ship and the disaster, illustrated by the artist Ken Marschall, whose pictures of "Titanic" and other lost ships have become famous. Susan Wels' book "Titanic: Legacy of the World's Greatest Ocean Liner" (1997) documents the salvage work of RMS "Titanic" Inc, while Daniel Allen Butler provides a scholarly examination of the "Titanic" story in his 1998 book "Unsinkable: