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00:00I fell into a mass of people.
00:30Everything I touched seemed to be woman's hair.
00:40Children crying, women screaming, their hair in my face.
00:49My God, if only I could forget those hands and faces.
01:00He told me that apparently we'd struck something.
01:21I didn't become alarmed.
01:27There was no danger, they said.
01:30I told her to come at once, we were sinking.
01:36You can imagine the chaos and the fear and the terror of finding water in your cabin and
01:45you're in the bowels of the ship.
01:47It makes me panic just thinking about it.
01:49The story of the Titanic is the human condition spread out, pinned on a board for us to examine.
01:58Then came the terrible cry, women and children, women and children.
02:04Two men lifted me up and put me in a boat.
02:09It's these small decisions, these little butterfly effect moments that change the outcome.
02:28It really was every man for himself.
02:31My heart stood still.
02:35If we're gonna die, best to die gripping something.
02:53It's a split second decision.
02:55What would you do?
02:56What would I do?
03:00It was a terrible sight.
03:06Men swimming and sinking.
03:08I've been brought up to believe in a hell after death.
03:22For now, I think I went through a hell that night.
03:31I'm gonna die.
03:32I'm gonna die.
03:33I'll die.
03:38I don't know.
04:08Titanic, largest ship the world had ever known.
04:23The last word in luxury.
04:27The ship, palatial, the food, delicious.
04:32The rudder alone weighed 100 tons.
04:37I sailed, first class, from Southampton.
04:41We called at Cherbourg, and from there to Queenstown.
04:46Everyone was counting the days till we'd see the Statue of Liberty.
04:53My father and mother were invited to dinner that night, so I dined alone.
05:00Afterward I took a few turns around the deck.
05:05Being 17 years old, I was all over the ship.
05:13The Titanic is a ship of dreams, the epitome of modern technology, of luxury and opulence.
05:23It looks like a cross between the Ritz and an English grand country house.
05:32Titanic was the showpiece for the shipping line.
05:36Built by Harlan and Wolfe, the famous shipyard in Belfast.
05:40She is absolutely huge, 10 decks, 840 cabins, an absolute masterpiece of human engineering.
05:50I had never been on an ocean voyage.
06:15I was afraid of the sea.
06:22But Harvey, my husband, and our eight-year-old daughter Marjorie and I decided to go to America
06:28that way.
06:32First few days, I was a bit seasick and kept to my cabin most of the time.
06:47But on Sunday, April 14th, I was up and about.
06:51After I'd eaten, I listened to the orchestra for a little while, then I went back to my cabin.
06:57There was no moon.
07:10A brilliant, starry night.
07:17I'd never seen the sea smoother.
07:22It had become much colder.
07:32It was indeed a night for bed, warmth and cosy thoughts.
07:39How good it was to be in my bunk at last, devouring magazines.
07:45At 23, I was the youngest stewardess on the ship.
07:52I was enjoying the trip tremendously.
07:56The first three days were very calm.
08:01We were another three days before we would reach New York.
08:08It was a pleasure to go to bed.
08:10My pretty little cabin with its electric heater and pink curtains.
08:20I hadn't meant to sail on the Titanic.
08:23Urgent business in New York forced me to take the first available boat.
08:32Everything aboard this lovely ship reassured me.
08:37It's a Sunday.
08:44First class passengers have probably spent the day enjoying themselves.
08:49They had eaten roast duckling and sirloin of beef and foie gras and truffles and lamb with
08:56mint sauce and stuffed zucchini and chocolate eclairs.
09:00Maybe they've gone to the sauna in the Turkish baths.
09:03Or they've played a round of squash or gone to the gym.
09:09Perhaps the men had gone to the smoking room.
09:11They'd had a cigar, a pipe.
09:13They'd played a round of cards.
09:16Maybe the women had gone to the reading and writing room to have a moment of quiet.
09:23They've had a joyful, relaxing day.
09:25They're full of anticipation that they're going to be arriving in New York
09:29in two or three days' time.
09:31It's been the perfect day.
09:59My name is Celini Yazbek.
10:02My husband and I were on our way to America to make our home.
10:09He'd been to America before where he had a business.
10:20It's a misconception that Titanic was first and foremost a luxury ship.
10:24Titanic was primarily an emigrant ship.
10:27And it was to ferry people, working people, from Europe to America.
10:35About three quarters of the Titanic's passengers are in second or third class.
10:39And it's really not surprising that people do not want to go to bed.
10:43This might be the first time they've been away from home.
10:46And maybe it's the first taste of freedom from very oppressive environments.
10:52They are young people embarking on a new life to a new world.
10:58It would have been wonderful.
11:04I was a bride of 50 days.
11:14By collating all of these memories from different parts of the ship,
11:17memories that could easily have been lost to history,
11:19that's the way in.
11:21That's how we understand the story of the Titanic.
11:24The Titanic.
11:54The Titanic.
11:55The Titanic.
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12:05The Titanic.
12:06The Titanic.
12:08The Titanic.
12:09He's gone in the back.
12:17He's gone in the back.
12:18They are all siamo sonti fiers from the underworld,
12:19and we thought the sons of they were the ones runt 어머.
12:21Keep the car back, boy!
12:41I joined her in Belfast,
12:43while she was still in the builder's hands.
12:47The biggest and finest ship in the world.
12:52On that night of April 14th,
12:55the first officer took over for me.
12:58We both remarked on the ship's steadiness,
13:01how comfortably she was slipping along.
13:07We knew perfectly well
13:09we were entering the region where ice might be sighted,
13:12and had taken precautions.
13:15As none of these bergs lay on our course,
13:18well, they didn't directly concern us.
13:24I passed on the course, speed, weather conditions,
13:28wished him the joy of a few perishing cold hours and went below.
13:31It doesn't matter whether it's a ship,
13:35all the way down to a section of marines in my circumstance.
13:39There is a system and command structure.
13:41Everyone had a job to do.
13:43And this is the point where the ship just begins to tick over.
13:49The navigation crew that are at the top of the ship
13:51are settling into their evening routine.
13:56The engineers that are down in the boiler room
13:59are working on a four-hour shift to just keep the ship moving.
14:02The captain is retired to his cabin,
14:04you know, comfortable that his crew,
14:05that ultimately have been at work
14:07since the ship left Belfast,
14:09are very much in control.
14:11Really, it's the beginning
14:12of what should be another calm night on the Titanic.
14:15I joined the Marconi staff last July
14:33and was transferred to the Titanic at Belfast.
14:37I didn't have much to do about it,
14:39except to relieve Phillips, a senior operator.
14:45I went to bed.
15:03I was conscious of waking up
15:04and hearing Phillips sending telegrams.
15:07From leaving Southampton,
15:08we'd got through about 250 telegrams.
15:15the Jaysia River
15:17of the ship.
15:18They left here.
15:20I asked him to come down.
15:23I knew he was.
15:24He was.
15:25I knew he was.
15:26He turned out to be a place.
15:28I knew he was.
15:31I knew he was.
15:33He was.
15:35He was able to leave him and he'd have to leave him.
15:38The ship was there.
15:40The ship was there.
15:41He was there.
15:42It's a tense situation in the wireless room
16:02because the equipment broke down the day before.
16:04And so he's got this great backlog of work to do.
16:08And he's focused on it, he's concentrating on it.
16:10The last thing he wants is new information coming in.
16:35It came out that vital messages received
16:40in the wireless room that night
16:41had never been delivered to the bridge,
16:45hauling all ships of heavy ice
16:48in an area right ahead of the Titanic.
16:52And what was still worse,
16:54not far away.
16:55Light on us trying to say,
17:03I knew this was important,
17:04it should have gone to the bridge and it didn't
17:06and it's the wireless operator's fault.
17:09But that's not true
17:10because the message didn't have the crucial prefix
17:13of MSG Master Servicegram,
17:16which would have meant that Jack Phillips
17:17would immediately have prioritised it
17:20and sent it up to the bridge.
17:22That didn't happen.
17:25We have this unique opportunity
17:27to understand the sinking of the Titanic
17:29from the perspective of those who were actually there.
17:33We're starting to piece things together,
17:35but we're working with people's memories.
17:37In reality, memories are going to distort.
17:40And there might be a bit of a bias
17:41where people will try and make sense
17:44of what was going on.
17:45There are people who will deliberately distort and mislead,
17:50but mostly, you know,
17:52it's just that people do remember things differently.
17:56You're not looking for the stone-cold truths.
17:59We need to bring together all of those memories,
18:03see what seems to be consistent through it all,
18:06but also to recognise that every individual
18:09has a different experience.
18:11We have to respect that.
18:13Frederick Fleet, sailor, lookout man,
18:33Southampton, England, 25th next October.
18:38We are there to report anything we see.
18:43A ship or anything.
18:48Watch was nearly over.
18:51I had done the best part of two hours.
18:54I had done the best part of two hours.
18:55I had done the best part of two hours.
18:56I had done the best part of two hours.
18:57I had done the best part of two hours.
18:58I had done the best part of two hours.
18:59I had done the best part of two hours.
19:00I had done the best part of two hours.
19:01I had done the best part of two hours.
19:02I had done the best part of two hours.
19:03I had done the best part of two hours.
19:04I had done the best part of two hours.
19:05I had done the best part of two hours.
19:06I had done the best part of two hours.
19:07I had done the best part of two hours.
19:08I had done the best part of two hours.
19:09I had done the best part of two hours.
19:10I had done the best part of two hours.
19:11I had done the best part of two hours.
19:12It was now very large when I first saw it, a black mass.
19:32It kept getting larger as we were getting nearer there.
19:42I was fourth officer.
19:48I was just coming along the deck and almost abreast of the captain's quarters when I heard the report of three bells.
19:56That signifies something's been seen ahead.
20:00I struck three bells first, then I went straight to the telephone and rang them up on the bridge.
20:08Iceberg! Get ahead!
20:11Then I heard the first officer give the order.
20:14Horser!
20:17The wheel was put to starboard.
20:20She started to go to port whilst I was on the telephone.
20:26My mate saw it and he told me he could see the bow coming round.
20:33They swung the ship's bow away from the object?
20:36Yes.
20:40Because we were making straight for it.
20:46What do you do if you're trained at sea?
20:48You try to avoid the obstacle.
20:50It's a split-second decision.
20:52And there's just a cliché, isn't there, in the way we talk about trying to turn the Titanic.
20:57You can't turn this giant boat in time.
21:01And a red light goes up when the ship is supposed to stop.
21:13This red light came up.
21:14Shut all dampers!
21:15And I'm the man in charge of the watch, so I shouted, shut all dampers.
21:19Shut all dampers!
21:20Shut all dampers!
21:21Shut all dampers!
21:22Shut all dampers!
21:23Shut all dampers!
21:24Shut all dampers!
21:25And I'm the man in charge of the watch, so I shouted, shut all dampers.
21:26Shut all dampers!
21:27Shut all dampers!
21:28Shut all dampers!
21:29Shut all dampers!
21:30Shut all dampers!
21:33And I'm the man in charge of the watch, so I shouted, shut all dampers.
21:36Shut the wind off the fires.
21:37Shut all dampers!
21:38Shut all dampers!
21:39Shut all dampers!
21:40Shut all dampers!
21:41Shut all dampers!
21:48The crash came before we had them all shut.
21:58I didn't even feel the shock.
22:07I hardly knew what had happened.
22:08There was no jolt whatsoever.
22:12I was about to step into bed when I seemed to sway slightly.
22:18If I'd had a brimful glass of water in my hand,
22:21not a drop would have spilled.
22:28I was soon awakened by a long, grinding shock.
22:37There was a backward jerk followed by a shorter one.
22:50And the ship started to back like a train.
22:58Then, uh, a low, crunching, ripping sound
23:06as Titanic shivered.
23:15I was fast asleep.
23:20It almost threw me off the bed.
23:22Suddenly, I heard a tremendous noise.
23:38Immediately, I knew the ship had been hit hard.
23:41When we were alongside her, it was a bit higher than the forecastle heads.
24:02Like, 50 feet, I should say.
24:06Was there much of a jar to the ship?
24:08No.
24:13Just a slight grinding noise.
24:16Did it alarm you when it struck?
24:19I thought it was a narrow shave.
24:21You thought it was a narrow shave?
24:25Yes.
24:25You know, up on the top deck, people are thinking to themselves,
24:34whoa, that was close, but we got away with it.
24:36You know, it's just a near miss that somebody writes down in a log.
24:40But they don't know that this iceberg had a very large section
24:43jutting out of it underneath the water.
24:46Water came pouring in about two feet from where I was standing.
25:09The ship's side was torn from the third stockhold to the forward's end.
25:23Open the door!
25:25The door's dropped instantly, automatically.
25:38Hurry up!
25:40We got through into the next section.
25:44Then the watertight compartment closed up.
25:46As the iceberg strikes, the rivets give way.
26:03And the water starts pouring into boiler room number six.
26:07That's on the starboard side of the ship.
26:10But Titanic is designed to have watertight compartments
26:14in the event of an emergency.
26:15There's 16 compartments, and the doors do what they're supposed to do,
26:21come down, seal off the compartments,
26:24and protect the rest of the ship.
26:27Fred Barrett and his boys escape this wall of water.
26:33At the moment, they are safe.
26:37But the thing about the Titanic is nobody had thought
26:41to put in a direct communication system
26:44between the boiler rooms, which could flood,
26:48and the bridge.
26:49But equally, it's not just a case of sending somebody up quickly.
26:56A lowly boiler operator or stoker goes up
27:00and tells the captain what's happened.
27:02There is a chain of command.
27:03So there was no way that Fred Barrett could tell the captain
27:09straight away what was happening,
27:12and that lost time.
27:14The captain said, what have we struck?
27:39Mr. Murdoch, the first officer, said,
27:43we have struck an iceberg.
27:47I put her hard to starboard, but it was too close she hit it.
27:51He also said, I intended to port around it,
27:54but she hit before I could do any more.
27:56We walked out onto the bridge
28:00to take a look at the iceberg.
28:11It seemed to be a small black mass
28:15not rising very high out of the water.
28:18The ship was past it then.
28:20It couldn't have extended above the ship's rail.
28:29Captain Smith, the captain of the Titanic,
28:31was a very experienced seaman,
28:33a very highly respected seaman.
28:36He'd served in the Royal Naval Reserve
28:38as well as in the Merchant Navy.
28:41He was coming to the end of his career,
28:43and he must have been very, very proud
28:45that he was taking Titanic,
28:47this world-beating ship across the Atlantic,
28:50and that would be a wonderful end
28:52to what was a glittering career.
28:55And suddenly, of course, there's a collision.
28:58It's the last thing you want.
29:00He would have been annoyed
29:02as well as keen to solve the problem
29:05as quickly as he could.
29:06The engine stopped.
29:20The sudden quiet was disturbing.
29:28When there's that sudden cut of the engines,
29:32it's going to be really noticeable.
29:34Something's going on.
29:35Something's not right.
29:36Something's not as it should be.
29:38I lay still.
29:41I waited for Anne, my cabin mate,
29:44to speak for...
29:46I knew she was awake.
29:49I looked over the side of my bunk at her,
29:52and she returned by saying in her calm way,
29:56sounds as if something has happened.
30:01Passengers were really left in the dark.
30:03There was no tunneling system or announcement
30:05of what was going on, of what to do.
30:08They had to work it out themselves.
30:13I could hear the footsteps of people
30:17on the deck above my head.
30:19There was some stamping and queer noises,
30:28as though the ship's tackle was being pulled about.
30:34My husband said there must have been
30:37some slight accident in the engine room.
30:40He put on his coat and left me.
30:48Different people will react to this situation
30:50in different ways,
30:51but a number of passengers have no qualms at all
30:54about going up onto the boat deck
30:55and finding someone to inquire what's going on.
30:59It was bitterly cold.
31:13I moved around the deck,
31:15trying to discover what had happened.
31:16Have you seen the officers?
31:19There were quite a few people standing around,
31:23questioning each other in a dazed kind of way.
31:26There were many prominent people
31:35on the passenger list,
31:36and because it was for Maiden Voyage,
31:38those responsible for building the ship.
31:41Tommy Andrews.
31:44Designer for Harland & Wolfe.
31:47He was respected by everyone.
31:51A great ship builder
31:53and a real gentleman.
31:58A perfectionist.
32:04Thomas Andrews was a highly respected,
32:07in fact, probably the most respected ship designer
32:10in the UK at this time.
32:12Titanic was the pinnacle of Andrews' career.
32:16He had been building up to this moment,
32:18this amazing liner that was going to win
32:20all these different prizes,
32:21that was the queen of the seas, really.
32:26He knew a great deal about ship design.
32:29He understood buoyancy, stability,
32:31all of these issues.
32:35She's got 16 watertight compartments.
32:37That's far more than most of the liners
32:39that were steaming around.
32:41And of those 16,
32:42four of them could be flooded,
32:43and the ship was still stable
32:45and would stay afloat.
32:47And that's why Titanic
32:48had been billed as an unsinkable ship.
32:55She was a fabricated steel vessel
32:58of gigantic dimensions.
33:02We're just stopping,
33:03precautionary,
33:04just making a few checks,
33:06and we'll be on our way to New York area.
33:08Please, you know.
33:10She was a wonderfully safe vessel.
33:12In answer to many questions,
33:21Mr. Andrews assured everybody
33:23that we were absolutely safe.
33:28She would stay afloat indefinitely.
33:30This one man had a piece of ice
33:41and I took it out of his hands
33:43wondering where he'd got it from.
33:45Tried to make him understand
33:46that there was nothing the matter.
33:48Go down to bed and go to sleep again.
33:50I didn't take it very seriously.
33:52After what seemed a few moments,
33:59my husband returned
34:01and he was quite excited.
34:04He exclaimed,
34:06we have struck an iceberg,
34:08a big one,
34:09but there's no danger.
34:11An officer just told me so.
34:14This story reassured me.
34:16If these people weren't worried,
34:20why should I be?
34:26At that particular time,
34:27we know in England,
34:29certainly,
34:29there's a strong,
34:31very hierarchical class system
34:33getting the message
34:34from authority figures
34:35that everything's okay,
34:37even though the ship is stationary
34:39and they're out at sea
34:40and it's dark and it's cold.
34:42For most people,
34:43that's enough.
34:43There had been an accident,
34:48a collision,
34:49and yet there was
34:50a sense of complacency
34:51rather than a sense of urgency
34:53to discover
34:55what exactly has gone wrong.
34:58Thomas Andrews was saying to people,
35:00everything's fine,
35:01it's all safe,
35:02when he didn't have any data
35:04about what the damage
35:05to the ship was
35:06and that was not
35:08a clever thing to do.
35:13There are eight firemen
35:31in the number six section.
35:33The second engineer shouts it,
35:34all hands stand by your stations.
35:37That's for the men
35:38that stand by the fires.
35:39For Fred Barrett
35:42and his crew,
35:44they need to manage
35:45the fire in boiler room six
35:47and he's worried
35:48that there's going to be
35:49a minor explosion
35:50because the freezing water
35:51is hitting the hot coals.
35:55Fred Barrett
35:57is in the boiler room
35:58next door
35:59and the only way
36:00to assess the damage
36:01is to climb out
36:03of boiler room five
36:04to this overhead gangway
36:06that's above boiler room six.
36:07He went up and escaped
36:12and down to the boiler room.
36:17But
36:18he couldn't get in.
36:25There was eight feet
36:26of water in it.
36:30When he tries to get back down
36:32into boiler room six,
36:33he can't
36:34because there's eight feet
36:35of water in there
36:36and the whole place
36:37is already filled
36:38with steam.
36:41But I think
36:42when Fred Barrett
36:42saw the situation,
36:45he would have been
36:45still feeling
36:46that everything
36:47could be contained.
36:48You know,
36:49this is how the ship
36:50was sold
36:50to passengers
36:51and crew alike.
36:52I think
36:53and the crew
36:54could be
36:54had to be
36:55in the house for
36:56the danger
36:56of the nearby
36:57and the hymn
36:58and the...
36:58they needed to be
36:59late for a week.
37:00And,
37:01when heコメント
37:02was told,
37:02he has to be
37:02on the house
37:03and the父
37:03and the other
37:05the time
37:05was added.
37:06He was about to
37:06try and
37:07to the other
37:09and the other
37:09because,
37:09he just
37:09had to come
37:10to check
37:11him out.
37:12He knew
37:12that he was
37:14getting
37:15on the house
37:17and
37:18and
37:18the
37:19way
37:19he
37:20Captain Smith looked at the inclinometer,
37:33which is a sort of spirit-level type gauge
37:35which shows whether the ship is stable or not,
37:38and realised there was a five-degree list in the ship to starboard.
37:45We're taking on water.
37:47Captain Smith knows that probably is water.
37:53The problem is, where is this water coming from,
37:56and what the hell is going on?
38:00Titanic, of course, was a massive ship
38:02with a huge number of compartments.
38:05Therefore, finding out what's happened
38:07is a difficult and complex task
38:10because the ability to communicate between parts of the ship
38:13was very, very poor indeed.
38:15Therefore, you have to send a person, a runner,
38:19to go down and look,
38:20and then come all the way back to the bridge
38:22to tell you what on earth is going on.
38:35I went right down below.
38:37Into the lowest steerage as far as I could go
38:44without going into the cargo portion of the ship.
38:48And I inspected all the decks as I came up
38:51in the vicinity where I thought she'd struck.
38:57I couldn't hear any noise.
38:59I couldn't see any damage.
39:04Remember, the mindset is,
39:06this ship is unsinkable.
39:09If you believe a ship is unsinkable,
39:13you're not looking for trouble.
39:17Imagine it, wandering about this vast ship,
39:22looking for water.
39:22He's not going to find it
39:25because he doesn't go down to the boiler rooms.
39:27I boarded a Titanic in Queenstown.
39:46I'm 21 years old.
39:48I wanted to come to America to make some money.
39:52There were three other boys from the same place
39:54sleeping in the same room with me.
39:55I jumped on the floor.
40:13First thing I knew, my feet were getting wet.
40:17I told the other fellas to get up,
40:19that there was something wrong.
40:21Get back to bed.
40:23They only laughed.
40:27One of them says,
40:28get back to bed, you're not in Ireland now.
40:31Go back to bed, Daniel.
40:33I really understand where that voice is coming from.
40:37Something that I hear from immigrants nowadays
40:39is this belief that you've entered a world of order
40:43and protection and security.
40:48So you don't have to worry about anything.
40:51This is the safest ship in the world that's ever been built,
40:55but it's so wrong in this context.
41:01I turned on the lights.
41:06And to my surprise,
41:07there was a stream of water running along the floor.
41:10The fact that water was seen on the deck
41:27at the level where Daniel Butney had a cabin
41:30was seen to indicate
41:31that a second watertight compartment
41:34had actually gone as well as the boiler room.
41:37And the water was rising up the bulkhead
41:39in that compartment.
41:41And that, of course, is extremely worrying.
41:44But who exactly knew that
41:46is a different issue.
41:47I met the carpenter coming up.
42:15Absolutely out of breath.
42:16And he said,
42:18she is evidently making water fast.
42:20Number one tarpaulin is ballooning.
42:23Go tell the captain.
42:29At last, Boxall gets himself some concrete information.
42:34The carpenter he meets
42:36is talking about one of the tarpaulins
42:38up on G-deck that's covering a cargo hold.
42:41The air in there is being pushed out
42:44at speed, at pressure.
42:46By the volume of water coming in.
42:52In the cargo hold,
42:54there's all the passengers' luggage.
42:57There's goods that are being shipped
42:58from companies across the Atlantic.
43:01There's a Renault car
43:02all boxed up belonging
43:04to one of the first-class passengers.
43:06There's cases of feather boas.
43:08There's all kinds of crazy things in there.
43:10But it is the entirety of everyone's possessions.
43:21Then, on his way to investigate,
43:23Boxall gets some more news.
43:25I met the mail clerk coming up.
43:33And he said,
43:34Mr. Boxall,
43:35the mail room is filling.
43:36I got back to the boat deck and I saw the captain.
44:05The mail room is filling, sir.
44:06And I said,
44:07The mail room is filling, sir.
44:10What did he say?
44:15He walked away and left me.
44:20He went off the bridge as far as I remember.
44:24He didn't say anything to you?
44:26No.
44:35The captain goes down to inspect,
44:37accompanied by Thomas Andrews.
44:39Here, they can see with their own eyes,
44:42the mail room has been flooded.
44:44And that means another compartment is gone.
44:46The Titanic was a ship designed to carry mail from Great Britain.
44:59And there are about 3,500 sacks of mail on board.
45:03Already, these mail bags are beginning to float away.
45:06The mail clerks have tried to salvage some of them.
45:08But they can't, because the water is everywhere.
45:13This doesn't look good for Royal Britannia.
45:17Seeing the speed with which the water levels were rising
45:20must have been quite a sobering moment for both of them.
45:25And of course, this was not what the captain had hoped would be
45:28his final crowning glory in command of this splendid ship.
45:34This was going to be the ultimate test for him.
45:37He was going to have to prove himself
45:39as the sort of captain that he thought he was
45:41and that other people thought he was.
45:46But then the situation gets worse.
45:51The captain learns that a third compartment is flooded.
45:58The captain knows that this is a terrible circumstance.
46:03But equally, Titanic was built to endure that.
46:07There's 16 compartments.
46:09Four of them could be fully flooded.
46:11And the ship was still stable and wouldn't sink.
46:14If another one, a fifth compartment, started to be flooded,
46:18then that changed the equation completely.
46:23The captain is sitting right at the moment
46:25of what is known as event horizon.
46:27You know, once you tip over that precipice,
46:30the ship is going to sink.
46:33Any captain worth their salt
46:35is ultimately going to prepare for the worst
46:37and actually not even expect the best.
46:40You have to be preparing for things to continue to worsen.
46:51Then came the order to clear the lifeboats.
46:54There was a frightful noise of escaping steam.
47:12Many first-class passengers report this unearthly scream
47:25that comes out of the funnels.
47:28It's the steam which has been diverted from the engines
47:33now emerging from the funnels.
47:35For those who have their rooms closest to the boat deck,
47:45suddenly this is very alarming indeed.
47:49It's a moment where they realize that things are not as they should be
47:52and maybe they should be worrying.
47:55I was uneasy.
47:59I rushed to the husband.
48:02Go up on deck and see what has happened.
48:04He got out of his bed rather unwillingly.
48:07On board the Titanic in first class are American millionaires.
48:25There are people like Colonel John Jacob Astor IV,
48:29who is an American business magnate.
48:31He's one of the richest men in the world.
48:32And Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon sees Astor stride over to Captain Smith
48:39and have a private little word with him.
48:41I'm exactly how you say, Borman.
48:43I would advise you to go and get your family into the lifeboats.
48:47The first-class passengers know Captain Smith.
48:49They are able to mix with the senior crew.
48:53They have exclusive access.
48:54It means that they're part of the inner circle and other people are not.
48:58From the get-go, first-class passengers are in a kind of chumocracy
49:03with the senior crew.
49:05And that means that they get the information immediately when others don't.
49:09They have a distinct advantage from the word go.
49:14Yes, my wife.
49:15What is your second?
49:16I would appeal to you to meet the vacation.
49:18Sure.
49:18My husband was back, looking rather grave.
49:29I've been up to the bridge and I've seen Colonel Astor, he said.
49:34He told me that he was going to ask his wife to dress and
49:38I think you'd better do the same.
49:41I hurriedly put on the warmest clothes I could find.
49:43As I was dressing, my secretary, Mrs. Francatelli, came into the room very agitated.
50:13I woke up of my own accord.
50:22I'd promised to relieve Phillips early than usual.
50:27I asked him how he was getting on.
50:30I think we struck something.
50:32He told me that he'd felt the ship tremble and stop.
50:37He thought she'd got damaged in some way.
50:39Suddenly, the captain put his head in the cabin.
50:47Struck an iceberg.
50:50We've struck an iceberg, the captain said.
50:53And I'm having an inspection made to tell what he's done.
50:56He'd better get ready to send a call for assistance.
50:59But don't send it until I tell you.
51:01But don't send it until I tell you.
51:06The captain went away.
51:09Phillips resumed the phones.
51:10Phillips resumed the phones.
51:39Because there's no instant communications between large parts of the ship.
51:45Captain Smith and others still did not know fully what the damage was to the ship.
51:52During his inspection, Andrews must have learned that a fourth compartment had flooded.
52:00But problems in the boiler room, he was still completely unaware of.
52:05When Andrews went down into the boiler room, he was horrified, horror-struck.
52:20Water was rising, and it was rising in spaces that they had not realized it would be in.
52:25Earlier on, Andrews had said about Titanic that she was nearly as perfect as human brains could achieve.
52:37He'd put all of his knowledge into Titanic to make her as safe as she could be.
52:43But, unfortunately, the ship was doomed.
52:53You're now at a point where it's mathematically certain that this ship is going to sink.
52:57Now that the front five compartments are flooded, the water will start pouring over the top of the bulkheads.
53:09Picture an ice tray.
53:11You start filling it at one end, and eventually it will, you know, rise up over the line in the next compartment, in the next compartment.
53:18And it just continues to fill and fill.
53:20And that is ultimately what is going to draw this ship to the bottom of the ocean.
53:24My husband and I jumped up and ran out to see what had happened.
53:48We were still wearing our nightclothes.
54:02I can imagine them in my mind.
54:05Middle of the night, they wake up, and then suddenly there's the terror of finding water.
54:10And you're in the bowels of the ship.
54:12You are not being told anything.
54:15There's no announcements.
54:16You're left to work out what's going on and how that impacts on your own safety.
54:23It's such a jarring break from this very beautiful experience I think they must have been having up until this point.
54:33We walked around to the port side.
54:40And the ship had then a fair list.
54:42We stayed there looking over the side for about five minutes.
54:51And the list seemed very slowly to be increasing.
54:54Thomas Andrews was seen by another passenger running up the bridge with a look of terror on his face.
55:09No doubt he realized the first time, my God, we can't save the ship.
55:16His unsinkable ship was going to sink.
55:18I saw the captain.
55:27I saw the captain.
55:29It was then I realized it was serious.
55:34Captain looked over.
55:36He said,
55:37We are sinking.
55:38We are sinking.
56:02We are sinking.
56:02We are sinking.
56:03We are sinking.
56:03suddenly orders came down everybody to the boats we sent an urgent distress call
56:22and said we were sinking by the head
56:24if you are a family you will be separated
56:30nobody's telling anybody what's going on husband stepped over to an officer
56:37and asked him a question i heard him shout back keep calm there's no danger
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