Had the wireless radio been on they would have known the Titanic was sinking Cyril Evans the radio operator of another ship had tried to relay a message to Jack Phillips the radio operator on the Titanic mdash letting him know they had encountered an ice field But Phillips was busy relaying passengers rsquo messages and rudely told Evans to be quiet So Evans reluctantly turned off his radio and went to be bed Ten minutes later the Titanic struck an iceberg Their distress signals went unanswered because no one was listening In Samuel we read that the priests of [... more]