00:00We've heard so much information about this terrible tragedy that happened on the night
00:06of April 14, 1912. What really caused the disaster? Could the Titanic passengers have
00:12been saved? Was the ship cursed? All these questions still remain unanswered. So this
00:19time, let's not focus on the tragic side of the event, but on the fantastic stories of
00:24people who miraculously managed to survive that day and what happened to them in the
00:29future. As you know, when Titanic crashed into the iceberg, the ship's crew first evacuated
00:36the women and children. But among the passengers, one woman remained on the sunken vessel and
00:42survived after it went underwater. Her name was Rhoda Abbott. She and her two sons lived
00:48in England and had been living there for two years before they decided to return home to
00:53Providence, Rhode Island. Rhoda bought three third-class tickets for the most modern and
00:58unsinkable ship of that time. The whole family slept in their cabin on that ominous night
01:03from April 14 to 15. They didn't feel the jolt and got up only after the steward knocked on
01:10the door. He asked them to wear life jackets and go to the upper deck. Then, along with
01:15other third-class passengers, they waited in line to board the lifeboats. The crew members
01:21allowed only women and little kids to go further. Still, the brothers negotiated with the team
01:27and walked their mother to the lifeboat. All three went to the last lifeboat, but the crew
01:32asked the sons to leave since not all the women had been evacuated. Rhoda didn't want to leave her
01:39sons, so she decided to stay with them. She left the boat and hugged the boys. By this time,
01:45the ship was sinking into a stern-up position. The deck tilted. Rhoda tried to hold her sons but
01:52couldn't. She slapped off the deck and fell into the icy water. From there, she swam to the lifeboat
01:58that was washed away from the deck. Rhoda climbed aboard and watched the Titanic go under the water.
02:05Unfortunately, she was unable to save her two sons. Besides her, there were 13 people in the boat.
02:12But in the end, no one except Rhoda survived. A few hours later, the ship Carpathia arrived and found a
02:19nearly frozen Rhoda in the boat. The vessel arrived almost three days later in New York,
02:25where Rhoda was hospitalized, and she lay there for about two weeks. Swimming in cold water caused
02:32her asthma, which remained with her for life. Later, she admitted that she hadn't regretted that she had
02:38refused to evacuate with other women because she got a little extra time to spend with her sons that night.
02:44Another survivor of Titanic was Violet Jessup. She boarded the ship not as a passenger but as a
02:53working staff. She was hired by the White Star Line, which was looking for people to serve wealthy
02:58clients on the new luxury liner. And on April 10th, after an interview, Violet boarded the Titanic.
03:05The first days of work went as usual, but then the ship crashed into an iceberg.
03:10In the beginning, no one panicked and didn't even want to believe that the unsinkable boat could go
03:16down. But while the people on the upper deck were having these conversations, water flooded the
03:22ship's hold. Violet, along with other stewards, helped people evacuate. One of the ship's commanders
03:28ordered Violet to get into the boat first to show everyone else it was safe. She obeyed and spent
03:35several hours there until rescuers came for the survivors. But the most exciting thing in this
03:41story was that before the Titanic, Violet had already been in another shipwreck. The ship where
03:47she worked as a steward collided with another vessel at sea. All the people were saved and Violet got a
03:54job on the Titanic a few years later. But even after the famous shipwreck, she didn't change her
04:00profession and went to the Britannic floating hospital. And you know what? It also sank.
04:07Violet managed to survive for the third time, but this didn't scare the girl. After all these events,
04:14she continued her work on other ships. She survived three shipwrecks and got a name for this,
04:20Miss Unsinkable. One of the bravest passengers of the Titanic was the ship's chief baker, Charles
04:27Jogan. On the night of April 14th, he woke up after the collision with the iceberg. During the
04:33few hours as the ship was sinking underwater, Charles helped the passengers. First, he ordered
04:39his bakers to supply all rescue boats with food, then helped the crew evacuate the passengers. He was
04:46one of the last people left on the ship when all rescue boats were on the water. But still, he continued
04:52to save people's lives. Charles started to throw deck chairs overboard so people could hold onto them.
04:58Then, when half of the Titanic went down, he lowered into the icy water, where he noticed a capsized
05:04rescue boat. Charles boarded it and waited a few hours until rescuers appeared. And the most
05:11incredible thing is that he was completely fine when the Carpathia arrived and found him.
05:16He had not even a scratch and wasn't at all hypothermic. Among the Titanic's surviving passengers
05:24was Margaret Brown, known as the Unsinkable Molly Brown. She was visiting a friend in England with
05:31her daughter. But when Margaret found out her grandson was ill, she immediately bought a ticket
05:36to New York on board the Titanic. After colliding with the iceberg, Margaret bravely helped people
05:43evacuate until the stewards forced her to get into a boat. She continued to help other passengers until
05:49they were rescued by the Carpathia. Margaret created a Survivors Committee and raised about $10,000.
05:56At that time, it was quite a lot of money. For many years, she protected and supported the Titanic's
06:02passengers, who were in poor financial condition. Margaret also helped to build the Titanic Memorial in
06:08Washington. A wealthy English businessman, J. Bruce Ismay, was on board the Titanic, and the shipwreck was
06:18not the only disaster for him. He managed to jump into the last boat 20 minutes before Titanic was
06:24completely submerged. Thus, he saved his life but condemned himself to eternal contempt. When he was on the
06:32mainland, the newspapers began to write about him as the main coward of the Titanic. Also, some articles
06:40accused him of sinking the ship. Ismay was a White Star Line company director that created the ship.
06:47And according to newspaper articles, the businessman asked the captain to sail faster. He wanted the ship
06:53to arrive in America ahead of schedule and receive good reviews in the press. As a result, the ship crashed
07:00into the iceberg at high speed and damaged the hull. Nobody proved the businessman's guilt. Almost all of
07:08the criticism of Bruce Ismay was concentrated in one newspaper. Its publisher had a fight with the
07:14businessman before the tragedy, so they decided to destroy his reputation. Britain organized an independent
07:22investigation, which concluded that Ismay did nothing wrong. Yeah, he jumped into the last boat, but only
07:29after all the women and children were evacuated. However, the investigation didn't help to clear his
07:35reputation. In England and America, many friends and colleagues turned away from him. For many years,
07:42Ismay compensated the families who lost someone on the Titanic.
07:49The most famous passengers of the Titanic were an orchestra of eight musicians. In the beginning,
07:56there was no panic when the ship collided with the iceberg. Many refused to get into the boats,
08:01as it seemed to them that it was safer on the Titanic. Others were sure the breakdown on the ship would
08:07soon be repaired. Some people didn't believe the ship could sink. A minor panic began when everyone
08:14realized a catastrophe was imminent. To calm the people down a bit, the eight musicians from two ensembles
08:21started playing music. Survivors said the orchestra played until the very end.
08:27Fear for their lives and the nearness of the end didn't confuse the valiant men. Unfortunately,
08:33they didn't survive. But a memory about them was written in history forever. And their musical
08:39instruments became world-famous artifacts and very valuable items at auctions.
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