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Titanic Sinks Tonight - Season 1 Episode 2 -
A Chance of Rescue
A Chance of Rescue
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00:00I was afraid of the sea but I listened to the people who said take the new
00:17Titanic she cannot come to any harm new inventions have made a safe
00:30he told me that apparently we'd struck something
00:50I didn't become alarmed there was no danger they said
01:05I told her to come at once we were sinking
01:11you can imagine the chaos and the fear and the terror of finding water in your cabin and your
01:20in the bowels of the ship it makes me panic just thinking about it the story of the
01:26Titanic is the human condition spread out pinned on a board for us to examine then
01:33came the terrible cry women and children women and children two men lifted me up
01:41and put me in a boat it's these small decisions these little butterfly effect
01:47moments that change the outcome
01:49it really was every man for himself
02:05my heart stood still
02:09if we're gonna die that's to die gripping something
02:26it's a split-second decision what would you do what would I do
02:32it was a terrible sight men swimming and sinking
02:43I'd been brought up to believe in a hell after death
02:57for now I think I went through a hell that night
03:05if we had a man at night
03:07the moon and kept going out there
03:12I mean I know what was what I think
03:15that said
03:20ah
03:22are
03:24who
03:26of
03:57Mr. Harvey ordered me to fetch some men down.
04:14I got between 15 and 20.
04:23The engineers put the pumps on.
04:28But also, we're looking off to UT stairs on.
04:34Right now on the Titanic, there's a red alert emergency.
04:42Down below in the boiler room, all the crew, the firemen that would normally be down there,
04:47have been called back on shift to try to pump out the water that is flooding into the compartment.
04:54Imagine it, there's steam everywhere.
04:58There's the groaning, creaking, splitting sounds of the ship itself.
05:04It's terrifying.
05:05They are like soldiers going into battle.
05:12With five compartments flooded, the Titanic is going to sink.
05:17They have around an hour and a half until it's going to disappear below the waves.
05:21They're never going to get all of the water out of the ship.
05:24Can they hold it back just a little bit longer in order to try and save everybody on board?
05:29What I think is unfortunate in Titanic is that the captain had not established a mechanism
05:55whereby he was getting information about what the actual damage was in various parts of the ship.
06:03This is something that there should have been being worked on much earlier.
06:07As a result, time was lost.
06:11Once you begin to understand that you are really up against it in terms of time,
06:15it goes from, we can't save the ship, but can we get the passengers from the Titanic
06:21to a rescue ship before the Titanic sinks?
06:26The captain knows that the decisions that are made in the coming minutes, hours,
06:31ultimately that will be the decider on how many people will make it off of the ship alive.
06:35Send a call for assistance, ordered the captain.
06:57Which call should I send?
06:59The Regulation International Call for Help.
07:02Just that.
07:03And the captain was gone.
07:08The next moment we sent an urgent distress call.
07:15So in the radio room right now, it's a race against time.
07:20The operators must send out the distress signal.
07:24It's the standard Morse code signal that will tell shipping in the area
07:29that the Titanic is in trouble and needs help.
07:34These two young men, they're in their 20s,
07:38and now are responsible for seeking rescue for the unsinkable ship Titanic.
07:45My boats were along the port side.
07:54My boats were along the port side.
08:10My idea was that I'd lower the boats and transfer passengers.
08:14They would be perfectly safe in that smooth sea until another ship picked them up.
08:19All right, gentlemen.
08:20We know what to do.
08:21Up to this time, we hadn't had a chance for a boat drill beyond just lowering some of the boats in Southampton.
08:29The crew of the Titanic had been put through a fine sift and care taken that there were no misfits.
08:39A tap on the shoulder, an indication with the hand, was quite sufficient to set the men about the different jobs.
08:46Clearing away the boat covers, calling tight the falls, ready for lowering.
08:51We're not going to see hysteria, we're not even going to see anxiety at this point.
08:57Not least because the information is distorted and fragmented.
09:02Nobody is thinking that the ship is going to sink.
09:05Only Captain Smith really knows the extent of what is happening.
09:13The water, having reached F deck, showed me she'd been badly hold.
09:18Although I knew it was serious, I had not a thought that it was likely to prove fatal.
09:24I figured that she'd go so far until she balanced her buoyancy and there she would remain.
09:33The captain doesn't share the information he has with all the officers that the ship is going down.
09:39And precisely why he hasn't shared it remains a mystery.
09:44It may be a strategy he doesn't want him to panic.
09:46It may be reflects an internal chaos.
09:49He doesn't know who to tell or when.
09:52The reality is, for the crew in the Titanic at this moment,
09:56they have no idea what level of catastrophe they're in.
09:59They just know they have a job to do.
10:01going forward to losing their Saiyan.
10:19So.
10:20They have no idea what they're talking about.
10:24So.
10:25There are 2,208 passengers on board, they won't all fit in the lifeboats, so the lifeboats
10:38will have to do shuttle runs, take passengers to the rescue ship, come back and then take
10:43the next lot of passengers.
10:46It's physically possible for them to save all the passengers, but they have to do it
10:51in an orderly fashion.
10:52And the people who are going to go first are those whose rooms are closest to the boat
10:56deck, and those are the first-class passengers.
10:59In this emergency plan, the wealthy and the powerful have an innate advantage.
11:04They are top of the list.
11:07Suddenly, orders came down.
11:14Everybody to the boats.
11:20All stewards and stewardesses were on duty in their sections to assist and direct people.
11:28I continued through my section, trying to reassure, reminding people to put on warm clothing, take
11:37blankets and valuables.
11:41Violet Jessup is a first-class stewardess.
11:44She's 24 years old, she's the youngest stewardess on board.
11:48The first-class stewards and stewardesses really are the ones who are responsible for making
11:53this evacuation process happen.
11:56They have to demonstrate extraordinary self-control and put these other people first.
12:06Of course, we reiterated from room to room that it was just precautionary measure.
12:14Everywhere I found extraordinary calmness.
12:20People who'd been asleep were dressing, fumbling, sleepy-eyed, with buttons.
12:29They were...
12:32They were unemotional.
12:36Everybody thinking, as I did, that it was all too fantastic.
12:44The first-class passengers have invested financially, they've spent a lot on their tickets, they've
12:49invested psychologically in this being safe and luxurious.
12:54And they therefore cannot believe that it can be anything but that.
13:01It's such a leap of imagination to go against everything they've internalised about this experience
13:08and start to believe that something might be going wrong.
13:16Stuart knocked at the door.
13:18Sorry to alarm you, madam, but the captain's orders are that all passengers should put on
13:25lifebelts.
13:26He laughed and joked as he helped us.
13:32Wrap up warmly.
13:33We may have a little trip for an hour or so in one of the lifeboats.
13:37What a very fetching colour is that?
13:39Cosmo was so brave to try and keep us in good spirits, making a bad jest as to how unappetising
13:46we both looked in those sickly white life preservers.
13:50You have it, sir.
13:55Lucy Lady Duff Gordon is one of the most prominent people on board.
14:00After divorcing her previous husband, she managed to build up her business, which is a fashion
14:06design house, into a multi-million pound enterprise.
14:10And this is a time when many women don't even have bank accounts.
14:14So she's obviously extraordinary.
14:17She's very resourceful.
14:19And that will come to be important.
14:22I put on a heavy crepe scarf.
14:24I wore the big squirrel coat.
14:27Bought my little velveteen ring bag.
14:30It all looked so pretty.
14:34Just like a bedroom on land.
14:36It didn't seem possible.
14:37It didn't seem possible.
14:38There could be any danger.
14:40But a vase of flowers on the washstand slid off and fell to the floor.
14:47I had a mind of them.
14:50Hello.
14:52Yes, it's this way.
15:22Slowly people started, some joking, taking their time about it.
15:30To those few who showed concern, a reassuring answer was, there are plenty of boats in the
15:36vicinity, they'll be with us any moment now.
15:48I heard the crow's nest report a light on the bow.
15:58I went on the bridge right away and found this light.
16:09It was two masthead lights of a steamer just below the horizon.
16:16You could not only see her lights with the naked eye.
16:19You could see the lights of her portals.
16:22So Boxall can see the nearest ship to the Titanic, which is the Californian.
16:28She's very close by, about 14 miles.
16:32The Californian had already communicated with the Titanic earlier that evening, that she
16:39was going to spend the night in the ice flow because it was too dangerous to continue.
16:44The Californian would be able to reach Titanic before she sinks.
16:51Captain Smith, we've spotted a steamer on the horizon.
16:57I told the captain about this ship.
16:59He said, tell them to come at once, we are sinking.
17:29After the signal had been sent out, the ether seemed to be dead.
17:42No reply came through.
17:47Californian isn't picking up any signals.
17:50The radio operator has gone to bed, not because he's negligent, but because he's allowed to
17:54go to bed.
17:55It's no duty to stay in the radio room all night, and many ships did not ask this of their operators.
18:07But then, suddenly, a chance message comes in from a wireless operator on another ship, the Carpathia.
18:18I was about to retire.
18:20I'd taken my coat off.
18:22I should have been turning in in about ten minutes.
18:27Called the Titanic.
18:34And his only answer was,
18:36Struckerberg.
18:38Come at once.
18:39We told her our position and said we were sinking by the head.
18:49I asked him if he intended me to go get the ship turned round immediately.
18:53And he said yes.
18:54Quick.
18:57The operator went to tell his captain.
18:59The Carpathia is a transatlantic steamship.
19:05She's fast, but she's going in the other direction.
19:10Jack Phillips hears that the radio operator is going to tell the captain that Titanic is in trouble.
19:17The captain of the Carpathian will then make the decision about what to do.
19:21And that usually means to turn your vessel towards the ship that is in distress.
19:27That's the rule of the sea.
19:29So here is a chance of rescue.
19:33As long as Carpathia is able to get there in time.
19:37In time.
20:01Women and children only.
20:04Women and children only.
20:06Though we'd been warned by the stewards to be going away in a boat,
20:11it didn't seem possible that all this could actually be happening.
20:20It was the strangest scene.
20:23People bundled up in old clothes, boarding lifeboats in the night.
20:27Pew seemed to want to brave the dark sea in an open boat.
20:38And it was only after considerable coaxing that many went at all.
20:42People don't want to get in.
20:46Why would you want to get out of your warm bed and go in a lifeboat into the freezing water when there's no problem?
20:51You wouldn't.
20:53This is like a really annoying fire drill at school.
20:57And everybody says, no, I'll just stay here until it's finished.
21:00At that point in time, the general public weren't really trusted.
21:05Keeping people in ignorance was considered better.
21:08And we know today that actually people will respond much more sensibly in an emergency if they do have some information.
21:13That information was completely lacking at this point on Titanic.
21:18We were just walking forward when a sailor tried to drag me away from Cosmo.
21:46The officers called for women and children.
21:53So Captain Smith has ordered that women and children should be evacuated and they should be prioritized.
22:01On the port side, the second officer, Officer Lightoller, interprets it as women and children only.
22:08The consequence of this is that if you are a family turning up on the port side, you will be separated and the men will not be allowed on the lifeboats.
22:21Saving the lives of women and children comes from deep in the Edwardian mindset.
22:30Women at the time are seen as having a kind of childish status.
22:34I mean, this is before they've been allowed to vote and they are perceived to have a physical and mental weakness that means that men have to be their protectors.
22:44Please step back, sir. Please step back.
22:50I have no such ideas about my husband.
22:53It would have been too awful to have been alone.
22:55Every time Officer Lightoller prevents a man from getting into a lifeboat, there is the possibility that his wife won't go, that they will stay on board the ship.
23:08So he's actually potentially endangering the lives of the precise people he's been told to prioritize to save.
23:15Let me go!
23:25In a great emergency like that, where there were limited facilities, could you not have put more people into boats?
23:44I did not know it was urgent then. I had no idea it was urgent.
23:54You did not know it was urgent?
23:57Nothing like it.
24:08Lightoller wants to do a good job, clearly.
24:11Maybe if he'd known the ship was sinking, he would have allowed men in to fill up the spaces in the lifeboats.
24:20But because the captain is withholding information, people like Lightoller can't do their job properly and this will have disastrous consequences.
24:28What one wants is to have a very good relationship, a band of brothers and when you've got that, you must keep them informed of what's going on and what we call nowadays mission command.
24:43In other words, you let them know what you want to achieve overall, you tell them all the facts and then you let them get on with it.
24:49I think that Captain Smith was overwhelmed by the enormity of what was happening and was not really grasping it and taking charge.
24:58Anybody next day?
25:01Anybody next day?
25:10What's up?
25:12The operator returned and told us that Carpathia was put in a baton hidden for us.
25:35Our captain had left us at this time. Phillips told me to run and tell him what the Carpathia had answered.
25:51I went through an awful mass of people to his cabin. The decks were full.
26:02I came back and heard Phillips giving the Carpathia full of directions. He told me to put my clothes on.
26:11Until that moment, I forgot I wasn't dressed. I went to my cabin and dressed and brought an overcoat to Phillips.
26:21It was very cold. I slipped the overcoat on him while it worked.
26:28Imagine the relief in the radio room. Carpathia has answered the distress call, is coming their way.
26:35But although she's going as fast as she can, she's having to go through the same ice field where Titanic has floundered.
26:46She's four hours away and Titanic isn't going to stay afloat that long.
26:54The nearest ship to Titanic is the Californian, but the radio operators still asleep.
27:11Nobody is aware of any problem on the Titanic.
27:15The crew of the Titanic have to think on their feet.
27:22So they start to use Morse lamps and send a signal using light rather than a sound.
27:28The ship was close enough, I thought, to read our electric Morse signal.
27:33So I signalled her.
27:39I told her to come at once. We were sinking.
27:44The captain was with me most of the time we were signalling.
27:47I would signal with the Morse and then go back and look at the ship.
27:56I cannot say I saw any reply.
27:58In a crisis, you just have to increase your chances of survival.
28:12Survival is all about probability.
28:13You know, throwing as much muck at the wall as possible and seeing what sticks.
28:20Then we started sending off these distress rockets.
28:23The quartermaster and I on the bridge.
28:25They go right up into the air and throw stars.
28:32So we took them right up into the air and throw stars.
28:4718
28:52No
28:53No
28:56No
28:57No
28:59No
29:00Right now, the water is rising up through the body of the ship.
29:23The waterproof bulkheads only went up to a certain level.
29:27By this stage, water was tipping over bulkheads and cascading into the next compartment.
29:33So compartment after compartment was being filled by water.
29:40And as this mass of water breaches the bulkheads, it starts flowing back on itself,
29:46making cascades and waterfalls coming down the narrow staircases.
29:56Third-class passengers in the bowels of the ship are at most risk.
30:11They were really left in the dark.
30:13They are wading through water.
30:17They're not aware of what's going on, the rescue mission going on in the upper decks.
30:21They had to work it out themselves.
30:23My husband had left some money in our cabin and there were all our clothes and things
30:35that we were taking to America.
30:43Salini is from Hardin, which was in Lebanon.
30:47And she's a newlywed bride.
30:49And her older husband is taking her to live with him in America.
30:55They are caught between going up to the higher decks and the desire to keep their belongings.
31:02It's easy to underestimate just how important things are to a migrant, to someone who's leaving home forever.
31:13Do you want to arrive in New York destitute with nothing to your name, nothing to pay for a room?
31:21Of course not.
31:28We returned to try and get our clothes, money and jewellery.
31:34We started down for them, but the water on our deck was waist deep.
31:46We never got there.
31:47Depending on where you are in the ship right now, you're going to start seeing a lot of water.
32:04The third class passengers in particular.
32:07Water in any quantity is terrifying because you can't push it away, you can't fight it.
32:14People are now seeing evidence with their own eyes.
32:18It's not rumour, it's not gossip.
32:20It's not even that they're waiting to be told.
32:22They can see, feel that there is a problem.
32:35By this time, the ship seemed to have tilted forward a little.
32:40And we heard queer noises as if the ship was being pulled about.
32:59Charlotte Collier is a second class passenger.
33:01She's travelling with her husband, Harvey, and her eight-year-old daughter, Marjorie.
33:05Charlotte has health issues, she has tuberculosis, so she's eager to find a new climate for her health,
33:11as well as whatever economic benefit they might get from migrating.
33:15While this whole hour has passed in which the first class passengers are being evacuated,
33:27they were told to stay in their cabin.
33:30They are sitting there and worrying, and no one is telling them anything.
33:37Suddenly, we heard people running along the passageway in front of our door.
33:52Their feet reminded me of rats scurrying.
33:57I could see my face had grown very white.
34:03My husband stammered when he spoke to me.
34:06He said we had better go on deck and see what's wrong.
34:10For anyone that was feeling confused or was just following the rules,
34:23it's very clear something major is now happening.
34:29It's going to be terrifying, especially if you're a parent with a young child.
34:34When we went on board the Titanic, every possession was with us.
34:45Neither of us took any belongings from the cabin.
34:49My husband even left his watch lying on his pillow.
34:55I had a big dolly that I got two Christmases before,
34:59and we were in such a hurry that I left it behind.
35:07I cried for my dolly, but we couldn't go back.
35:19When we reached the deck, there was a great many people.
35:29Some of them were crying.
35:36I was crying for my doll, but nobody could go back and get her.
35:43It's just a precaution, okay?
35:48An officer said, we should put on life preservers.
35:51So, mother put one on me and then fastened one around herself.
35:58Papa put one on too.
36:00My husband stepped over to an officer and asked him a question.
36:10I heard him shout back,
36:14Keep calm, there's no danger.
36:18Nobody's telling anybody what's going on.
36:23The captain knows, a few of the officers know,
36:26but it's important to keep this away because of panic.
36:30But now, because of the noise, the tilt,
36:34people are realising that something is wrong.
36:36All the water that had been thrown on the furnaces,
36:55just making the stock all thick with steam.
37:00Mr Shepherds was walking across in a hurry to do something.
37:03And he fell down the hole and broke his leg.
37:12He lifted him up and carried him.
37:17There was a knocking noise.
37:30All at once I saw a wave of green foam tearing between the boilers.
37:37A rush of water came through.
37:41I never stopped to look.
37:46I just jumped for the escape ladder.
37:47A huge wave of green water comes flying through into the room,
38:05because the coal bunker has been gradually filling up and filling up and filling up with the pressure.
38:10And then it bursts and suddenly it's all over them.
38:15Another engineer, Jonathan Shepard, has already slipped and broken his leg,
38:20so he can't escape this wall of water.
38:23And he's the first casualty to die on the Titanic.
38:39I went off the escape and into the main alleyway.
38:42The Titanic was slowing down by the head.
39:01Water was coming down the alleyway from forward.
39:04Now that boiler room five is filled with water, the engineers realise that all their efforts are futile.
39:19There's no point pumping it out anymore.
39:21It's coming in faster than anyone can manage it.
39:30This is a moment of terror and certainty.
39:36Perhaps this is the first moment where these brave men realise that the ship is going to go down.
39:43All passengers upstairs, at last.
40:03I...
40:06I returned to my room.
40:07I began tidying up, folding my nightgown, putting everything in its place.
40:23There was... there was no sound.
40:27Titanic might have been in dock and all the crew gone home.
40:30I saw Stanley at the door, watching me.
40:45And he...
40:47He almost shouted at me as he seized my arm.
40:51My God, don't you realise this ship will sink?
40:55You have to follow the rest upstairs as quickly as possible.
40:58Sinking.
41:03Sinking.
41:08The word...
41:10...repeated itself without fully...
41:14...fully entering my understanding.
41:16My mind could not accept that the super...
41:25...perfect creation was to do so futile a thing...
41:29...as sink.
41:31Of course, Titanic...
41:34...couldn't be sinking.
41:35Suddenly, there was a commotion near one of the gangways...
41:53...and...
41:56...we saw a stoker come up from below.
42:00All the fingers of one hand had been cut off.
42:07Blood was...
42:11...running from the stumps...
42:14...and was spattered on his face and clothes.
42:18It...
42:20...brought up a picture of...
42:23...smashed engines and...
42:26...mangled human bodies.
42:28I went over to speak to him.
42:32I asked him...
42:34...if there was any danger.
42:36Danger?
42:38I should say so.
42:40It's hell down below.
42:42This ship will sink like a stone.
42:52At this moment, I...
42:55...got my first grip...
42:57...of fear.
43:12...of fear.
43:15Those in charge...
43:16...herded us...
43:17...towards the nearest boat.
43:22Then...
43:24...above the clamour...
43:25...came the terrible cry...
43:28...lower the boat...
43:29...women and children.
43:32Women and children only.
43:33That's women and children only.
43:36Someone was shouting...
43:38...these last few words...
43:39...over and over again.
43:42Women and children only.
43:45Women and children only.
43:46Women and children only.
43:48Women and children only.
43:53It might be that Lightoller...
43:54...has this kind of rigid view of the world.
43:56He's come in with a set of rules.
43:59It might be that under this stressful situation...
44:02...it's the only way he can function.
44:04He can't cope with more information...
44:06...and more decision-making...
44:07...so he just sticks to this one option.
44:09It might be one option.
44:10It might be one option.
44:11It might be one option.
44:12It's open.
44:13It's open.
44:24Cosmo...
44:25...pleaded with me.
44:27Well, three or four boats were launched...
44:29...but...
44:30...I refused.
44:31I only said, promise me that whatever you do, you will not let them separate us.
44:38And I clung to him.
44:41He saw that there was no use resisting me.
44:49We'll go round to the starboard side, Cosmo said.
44:52It might be better there.
45:01One of the pivotal facts about the loading of the lifeboats is this.
45:09There are different protocols on each side of the ship.
45:14On the starboard side, Officer Murdoch's approach is more pragmatic.
45:20It's more flexible.
45:24It was better.
45:26For although there were crowds, there was no confusion.
45:31The lifeboats were being quietly filled.
45:37If you emerge on the starboard side, then Officer Murdoch might well allow the men to join the women and their children if there are spaces left.
45:50So there's Murdoch allowing men to fill up the spare places.
45:55Why not?
45:56Murdoch doesn't want to split families up.
45:58Murdoch, I think, probably had a sense of wanting to preserve life.
46:08And Light Hollow had a stricter, more patriarchal view, perhaps, of men should sacrifice themselves for women and children.
46:16But the fact that it was happening on the same ship at the same time shows just how vague this policy was.
46:25So it matters very much which side of the ship you're on if you're a man.
46:32That's very Frankfurt, huh?
46:33Let's lose the ship next to me.
46:34Listen here.
46:40ине been warned.
46:42I think you're all set.
46:46I don't suspect you're all set.
46:51I think you're all set.
46:52I was walking up and down the bridge, saw white lights in the sky, in the direction of this other steamer.
47:15I thought perhaps the ship was in communication with some other ship,
47:19or possibly signalling to us to tell us she had big icebergs around her.
47:25Didn't occur to me the ship was in distress.
47:29I just thought there were white rockets, that's all. It might have been anything.
47:36We called her up repeatedly on the Morse lamp and received no answer whatsoever.
47:41Some people say she replied to our rockets and our signals, but I didn't see any of them.
47:53We'll never know why there was miscommunication between the Californian and Titanic.
48:00There seems to have been some confusion about the colour of these rockets, were they distress signals.
48:07It's also possible that Boxall didn't see Californian's Morse lamp reply,
48:13because there's something strange about the atmospheric conditions that night.
48:17You've got this weird effect of warm air underneath and colder air on top,
48:23which is creating a kind of mirage effect.
48:27Shapes are being distorted in the darkness.
48:30What a chance her captain missed.
48:42He could have laid his ship right alongside the Titanic and taken practically every soul on board.
48:52However, he didn't.
49:00This must be the bitterest blow for those people who could see the ship nearby.
49:08I don't think it was bad faith.
49:10I don't think it was negligence.
49:11I think everything conspired that night to go against Titanic's chances of safety and salvation.
49:17Well, I think it was ridiculous.
49:18I think it was good 15 minutes.
49:24Yeah.
49:27I think it was too big.
49:27Yeah.
49:28Yeah.
49:30Yeah.
49:31Yeah.
49:32How are you doing this?
49:32Yeah.
49:32Yeah.
49:35Yeah.
49:38Yeah.
49:38Because the early lifeboats went out half full, there are now only about 900 places left on
50:05the lifeboats, and more than 2,000 people on board the ship.
50:10If people don't get onto a lifeboat, they will go down with the Titanic.
50:18Suddenly, we saw some sailors who were launching a little boat, it was a captain's special boat.
50:32Lucy Duff Gordon knows that she needs to get off the ship.
50:38This is the moment to take one of those spaces.
50:42My husband asked the officer if we might get into it.
50:53We were helped in, followed by two American men who came up at the last minute.
51:08There is something here about being in the right place in the right time, but also seizing
51:13the opportunity and having the confidence to do so.
51:22I think that class probably had a huge impact on people's sense of entitlement to safety,
51:27to rescue.
51:30You probably did assume that if you bought a first class ticket, then that would buy you
51:34survival.
51:37They are people who are important in the world.
51:40They see themselves as having more value than people in steerage.
51:46And there they are as a couple sitting safely in a lifeboat.
51:53I shall never forget how black and deep the water looked below us.
52:05Men standing nearby joked with us, because we were going out on the ocean.
52:10You'll get your death of cold out there amid the ice.
52:35I found myself clinging to my husband's arm with little Marjorie beside me.
52:54I did not want to leave him.
52:58Charlotte knows she'll be separated from her husband.
53:01Not knowing if and when they'd be reunited, I think she probably was just thinking, please
53:05no, not this.
53:07I want to survive, but not at this cost.
53:11Dilemmas that you just have to accept in that moment.
53:16Those are, yeah, those are heavy.
53:23Officer Lytle, you know, the man's been at sea since he was 13.
53:31He doesn't have that understanding of what it means when a woman is clinging to her husband,
53:35when a child is crying for their father.
53:38He just goes ahead with what he believes to be right.
53:44But it's not objectively right.
53:47From what you have said, you discriminated entirely in the interest of the women and children
53:53in filling those lifeboats?
53:54Yes.
53:55Why did you do that?
53:59Because of the captain's orders or because of the rule of the sea?
54:03The rule of human nature.
54:05The deck seemed to be slipping under my feet.
54:14I hung onto my husband's arm.
54:20And although he was very brave and not trembling, I saw his face was white as paper.
54:32Hought all-starboard.
54:37That sliding doors moment will determine who survives and who doesn't.
54:40Keep moving along the deck.
54:42We are getting the lifeboats, women and children only.
54:45That's women and children only.
54:47Women and children.
54:48Women and children.
54:50They struck utter terror into my heart and now they'll ring in my ears till I die.
55:20There was a lot of confusion.
55:47People crying, swearing and praying.
55:53There's a really stark disadvantage facing third-class passengers.
55:57Chief officer shoved one of the revolvers into my hands.
56:01Chekhov said you can't put a gun in the room and not use it.
56:06All of the order has been lost.
56:08I called out, don't shoot!
56:17I told you it was a big deal.
56:19I just stayed with the car to get past the time.
56:22It's all about the wheel.
56:24I'm sorry.
56:25I was thinking about it.
56:27I was thinking about your own head.
56:29I was thinking about it.
56:31I was thinking about it.
56:33I'm thinking about it.
56:35I'm thinking about it.
56:37I didn't do it.
56:39I didn't do it.
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