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Among the survivors of the Titanic were mostly women and children, most other maritime disasters that have been studied and compared showed different results.

Researchers studied 18 different maritime disasters, including 16 previously unstudied shipwrecks, between 1850 and 2011. The data included 15,000 passengers and crew members of more than 30 different nationalities.

They found that in most other disasters, men on board had a higher survival rate than women, and children had the worst chance of getting off the boat alive. In addition, crew members tended to look out for their own safety above all. Nine of 16 captains went down with their ships. “It seems as if it is the policy of the captain, rather than the moral sentiments of men, that determines whether women are given preferential treatment in shipwrecks,"