[ko_kyi]

the poop deck where passengers gathered as the liner sank

I realize this was a terrible tragedy, but there is something funny about that sentence.

[Chad Fairbanks]

It wasn't the Poop Deck until after they hit the iceberg, I'm guessing

[lainie]

poop deck
n.
An exposed partial deck on the stern superstructure of a ship.

I don't even know what that is. I guess modern ships don't have them.