The water-tight containers meant that the Titanic should have acted as her own lifeboat, floating until help arrived. Some of the answers, according to scientists, lie in the physics of her construction, the climatic conditions thousands of kilometres away and the iceberg itself.
Fabio Robert et al in his study about posterior fossa meningioma reported that headache (50%) and disturbance of gait (44%) were the most common presenting symptoms, and cranial neuropathies the most common neurological signs on admission.
Posterior fossa meningiomas include tentorial, clival, cerebellopontine angle and foramen magnum meningiomas. Tentorial meningiomas are those located under the surface of the tentorium cerebelli. Kabil M, Shahinian HK: Application of the Supraorbital Endoscopic Approach to Tumors of the Anterior Cranial Base.