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A radio telegram appears on display at the Titanic Historical Society's museum in Springfield, Mass., Saturday, Dec. 20, 1997. The document is one of many Titanic artifacts collected by the society at the museum. The contents of the message were telegraphed from the German ship the Amerika to the Titanic to warn her crew of the icebergs that they eventually rammed, but the telegram was never deciphered by the ship's telegram operator.
Life jackets were one of the leading causes of death on the Titanic. If a person jumped overboard from 10 feet up or higher, their necks would be broken upon impact with the water. (They may have been the lucky ones). This life jacket was cut from a body after being in the ocean for many days. Recovery workers did not want to touch the bodies, so the life jackets were removed by cutting the straps. The bodies were then weighted and the unidentifiable were returned to the sea.