"Ben was hit by a moving wall of wind and water that sucked the breath out of his lungs and lifted him off his feet and flung him through the door of the cabin" (Ibbitson, The Landing pg 138).
The paragraphs that follow this excerpt continue to explain the storm and the boat capsizing. It may not look like it from the one sentence I posted, but the entire paragraph has a striking resemblence to the Titanic. Although the boat doesn't hit an iceberg, it does break and rotates to a 90 degree angle, almost exactly like the famous scenes from Titanic. The strange thing is that Ben and his uncle weren't on a massive oceanliner, they were on a small boat with a capacity of only a couple of people. I'm no boat expert, but I wasn't aware that tiny ships like these could sink Titanic style.
Either way, the scene from The Landing was very Titanic-esque, and was one of the few scenes that I instantly made a connection to while reading the novel.
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