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In times of disaster most people fail to do the important work that can save their lives.

But why does this happen? While searching for the answer, one should pay attention to the incident of September 27, 1994 in which 852 people drowned at sea.

At seven in the morning that day, the ship MS Estonia departed from Tallinn port with 989 passengers. He had to cross the Baltic Sea to Stockholm. But the ship never got there.

Six hours after leaving port, the ship was caught in a severe storm, its front door shattered and water began to seep in.

Within an hour, the ship sank, along with 852 passengers and crew.

Why 852 people drowned?

The pace of the tragedy, the hurricane, the declaration of emergency half an hour after the sinking and the time for the rescue team to reach the affected people ... Despite all these, the relief experts were stunned by the death of so many people. It seems that many people drowned simply because they made no attempt to escape.

An official report says that, "It always seems that some people has lost abilities to think, understand and take necessary action due to the fear.

Many people were so frightened that they could not even be forcibly evicted. Many people were so shocked that when other passengers tried to show them the way, they could not move, they could not take any action, not even when they were shouted at. "

What happened in the end?

One person who can answer this is John Leach.

He is researching the behavior of people in difficult situations at the University of Portsmouth.

He has studied over a dozen tragedies around the world over several decades. He was present at a similar accident on November 18, 1987 when a fire broke out at King's Cross Metro Station in London.

The fire killed 31 people. Leach found that about 75% of people in fatal situations can neither think properly nor find a way to save their lives.

Only 15 percent of people are calm enough to think properly to find a way to escape. Ten per cent of people become so dangerous in such a crisis that they reduce the chances of other people escaping.

Whose life is saved?

After all, what is the merit of those 15 percent of people who can think and understand properly in a time of deadly crisis and escape by taking necessary action.

Leach says the question is wrong. The question arises as to why those who could have survived are killed when all means of escape exist.

The question is also why so many people cannot adapt to the changing situation in times of crisis and why do they accept defeat?

Leach said that, "It does not take the much skills to save the life. You just have to know what to do.

My job as an expert that how we can avoid fighting to teach people and how we can avoid death,  he says.

Delay in action in case of emergency.It is not clear what people actually do in an emergency.When designing rescue procedures, engineers assume that people move immediately.They believe that people will react immediately after hearing the alarm or sniffing the smoke or shaking the boat.The reality is that the events that have taken place over the decades have shown that the real challenge is to bring people to the brink soon.

On August 22, 1985, a Boeing 737 en route to Corfu was about to take off at Manchester Airport when its engine malfunctioned.

The British government's Air Accident Investigation Branch said in its report, "The most important thing is that the plane did not even take off, it was stopped and every effort was made to extinguish the fire. Yet 55 people died. The big question is why the passengers could not get out in a hurry. ”

The real danger to people was not to show madness or run away like animals to get out, but to be reluctant to hurry.

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The most accurate example of public inaction was seen during the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York.

You may be wondering if the survivors of the first plane crash have fled to the nearest exit as soon as possible.

The truth is that most people did the opposite, as if they were looking for excuses not to get out of the building.

According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA, survivors took an average of six minutes to reach the stairs.

Some people were in a dilemma for half an hour as to what to do. They kept thinking, see what happens next and wait for others to come first.

The study found that survivors continued to make phone calls, keep things in drawers, or lock their offices. Many people even emailed, turned off the computer, changed shoes. Many people even went to the toilet. One woman who came to the office on a bicycle even went back to the office and before going out she went to her office and put on a tracksuit.

There is a psychological explanation for this kind of inactivity, sluggishness or even normal working behavior in times of crisis - to fail to adapt to a rapidly changing situation or to set a life-saving goal and behave that way.

Mutual help mentality

Take another example. A July 7, 2005 attack on the London Underground killed 52 people and injured 700. John Drury of Sussex University and Steve Rickher of St Andrews University gave a report after talking to survivors.

According to him, the people trapped in the smoke-filled tunnel for several hours did not know if anyone would come to their rescue. Little did they know that there would be no more explosions.

But in the midst of this chaos, the attitude of most people was to cooperate and help. Psychologists have interpreted this to mean that people have a mindset of helping each other in times of danger.

Not everyone's response is the same

The British-Irish Atlantic Odyssey sailors planned to cross the entire ocean in 30 days, moving from east to west in January 2012.

28 days later when they were about 800 kilometers from their destination Barbados, the boat capsized and sank in a wave.

According to broadcaster Mark Beaumont, who was with the crew, they would all have drowned if several crew members had not dived and pulled out lifeboards, emergency lights, satellite phones, GPS trackers, food and drink.

According to Mark Beaumont, the two men on the team were shocked and one of them fell silent and not a word came out of his mouth.

Ask yourself a question

It is possible that you will not get into any fatal trouble. But it is better to imagine that you may be in trouble.

In that case you can be ready in advance without panic.

Psychologist John Leach says, "All you have to do is ask yourself a simple question - 'What would be my first reaction if something happened?' If you have the answer to that question, everything else will be fine. "

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