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00:00The sinking of the Titanic is one of the worst maritime disasters in history.

00:11Four hours after setting sail, the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean.

00:17Within two hours and 40 minutes, it was sunk, gone beneath the ice-cold waves.

00:23Most of the passengers and crew on board perished in the tragedy.

00:28And if not for a couple of heroes, it may have been much, much worse.

00:32Who are these heroes?

00:34The Titanic's two telegraphists, Jack Phillips and his junior operator, Harold Bride.

00:41Telegraphist was quite the important job aboard the ship.

00:45They were responsible for all the wireless communication from the Titanic to other ships and hubs on the mainland.

00:52This meant they were sending plenty of important navigational notes from ship to ship,

00:57but they were sending even more messages from wealthy passengers to friends and family back home.

01:03Why?

01:04Well, back in those days, wireless radio was a new and popular way to communicate.

01:10Think of it kind of like the text message of the early 1900s.

01:14But unlike today, people didn't have devices in their pocket that could shoot messages back and forth.

01:20So it was up to the ship's wireless radio operators to handle every single one.

01:26As you might imagine, it was hectic work.

01:29Phillips and Bride spent almost all of their time hastily transmitting messages back and forth for the richest passengers,

01:37while also keeping their eyes out for messages from other ships.

01:41On the night of the disaster that would prove to be a problem of, well, titanic proportions,

01:47less than an hour before the accident, a nearby ship named the SS Californian radioed to say they'd encountered thick fields of ice.

01:57But with so many passengers sending and receiving messages that night,

02:02Jack Phillips actually got annoyed with the Californian's message and sent back a now infamous response.

02:09Shut up!

02:11Whoops!

02:12Now it's easy to blame Jack for ignoring the call, but it's not all his fault.

02:18The Californian didn't start the message with MSG or Master's Servicegram.

02:24It was code that marked the message as urgent.

02:28It meant that the ship's captain had to respond themselves directly.

02:32Since it wasn't marked as high priority, it wasn't unreasonable for Jack Phillips to disregard it

02:39and focus on the endless stream of incoming and outgoing notes rather than the Californian's call that was jamming up his radio.

02:47The rest is history.

02:49At 11.40pm, the iceberg scraped along the starboard side of the Titanic's hull below the waterline, slicing it open.

02:59It quickly became clear that the colossal cruise liner was going to sink within a matter of hours.

03:05Yet, without blinking, both Phillips and Bride sprung into action,

03:10working nonstop to send out SOS messages and Morse code to any vessel that might be nearby.

03:16As the crew scrambled to get people into vests and lifeboats on the up top,

03:22below deck, Phillips and Bride were hard at work.

03:25Eventually, they were able to make contact with another ship,

03:28the RMS Carpathia, who headed straight for the scene.

03:32By around 2 a.m., the ship was almost completely out of power.

03:37The ship's captain arrived, telling the brave men they were relieved of duty.

03:42It was every man for themselves.

03:44But Jack Phillips and Harold Bride didn't go anywhere.

03:48They stayed and continued to try and send messages to anyone who might be out there.

03:53As things went from bad to worse, Bride headed for the top deck to help out the crew.

03:59Phillips remained until the very last moment, sending distress calls until the power went out.

04:05He eventually died in the Arctic waters.

04:08Amazingly, Bride managed to survive.

04:11He was washed off deck and wound up underneath an overturned lifeboat.

04:15He swam out from underneath and clung to the slowly sinking boat along with the other survivors.

04:21Eventually, the RMS Carpathia, the ship that got Phillips and Bride's signal, arrived and rescued everyone they could find that was alive.

04:31If not for Jack Phillips and Harold Bride's heroic actions, RMS Carpathia would never have come.

04:38And the 705 passengers and crew in the lifeboats and water would have been left for dead.

04:44True heroes.

04:46And as for the wonky wireless radio system, well, that got sorted out too.

04:53Ships today send emergency signals back and forth automatically.

04:58And in the age of texting, well, now every passenger can send their own telegram to shore and with a lot more flair.

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