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Titanic Sinks Tonight - Season 1 Episode 1 -
The Unsinkable Ship
The Unsinkable Ship
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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.
01:19I didn't become alarmed.
01:26There 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.
02:15It really was every man for himself.
02:30My heart stood still.
02:34If we're gonna die, it's best to die gripping something.
02:53It's a split second decision.
02:55What would you do?
02:56What would I do?
02:57It was a terrible sight.
03:06Men swimming and sinking.
03:17I've been brought up to believe in a hell after death.
03:27For now, I think I went through a hell that night.
03:57Titanic.
03:58Largest ship the world had ever known.
04:20Titanic, largest ship the world had ever known, the 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.
05:4210 decks, 840 cabins.
05:47An absolute masterpiece of human engineering.
05:54I had never been on an ocean voyage.
06:12I 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.
06:31First 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.
07:06There was no moon, a brilliant, starry night.
07:18I'd never seen the sea smoother.
07:23It had become much colder.
07:33It was indeed a night for bed, warmth and cozy thoughts.
07:40How good it was to be in my bunk at last, devouring magazines.
07:46At 23, I was the youngest stewardess on the ship.
07:53I was enjoying the trip tremendously.
07:57The first three days were very calm.
08:02We were another three days before we would reach New York.
08:09It was a pleasure to go to bed.
08:11My pretty little cabin with its electric heater and pink curtains.
08:21I hadn't meant to sail on the Titanic.
08:24The urgent business in New York forced me to take the first available boat.
08:32But everything aboard this lovely ship reassured me.
08:43It's a Sunday.
08:45First-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 mint sauce and stuffed zucchini and chocolate eclairs.
09:00Maybe they've gone to the sauna in the Turkish baths or 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.
09:21They've had a joyful, relaxing day.
09:25They're full of anticipation that they're going to be arriving in New York in two or three days' time.
09:30It's been the perfect day.
09:33day fear.
09:34day fear.
09:35day fear.
09:36day fear.
09:37day fear.
09:38day fear.
09:39day fear.
09:43Day fear.
09:50day fear.
09:59My name is Selene Yasbek.
10:01My husband and I were on our way to America to make our home.
10:08He'd been to America before where he had a business.
10:19It's a misconception that Titanic was first and foremost a luxury ship.
10:24Titanic was primarily an emigrant ship.
10:26And it was to ferry people, working people, from Europe to America.
10:34About 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.
10:47And 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.
10:59It would have been wonderful.
11:02I was a bride of 50 days.
11:06By collating all of these memories from different parts of the ship, memories that could easily have been lost to history.
11:20That's the way in.
11:22That's how we understand the story of the Titanic.
11:24That's how we're about to do right now.
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11:29Are the
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11:33What is the
11:36How is the
11:38Let's go.
12:08Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
12:38I joined her in Belfast while she was still in the builder's hands, the biggest and finest
12:48ship in the world.
12:49On that night of April 14th, the first officer took over from me.
12:58We both remarked on the ship's steadiness, how comfortably she was slipping along.
13:03We knew perfectly well we were entering the region where ice might be sighted and had
13:14taken precautions.
13:16As none of these bergs lay on our course, well, they didn't directly concern us.
13:22I passed on the course, speed, weather conditions, wished him joy of a few perishing cold hours
13:31and went below.
13:31It doesn't matter whether it's a ship, all the way down to a section of Marines in my
13:38circumstance.
13:39There is a system and command structure.
13:42Everyone had a job to do.
13:44And this is the point where the ship just begins to take over.
13:49The navigation crew that are at the top of the ship are settling into their evening routine.
13:54The engineers that are down in the boiler room are working on a four-hour shift to just keep
14:01the ship moving.
14:03The captain is retired to his cabin, you know, comfortable that his crew that ultimately have
14:07been at work since the ship left Belfast are very much in control.
14:12Really, it's the beginning of what should be another calm night on the Titanic.
14:24I joined the Marconi staff last July and was transferred to the Titanic at Belfast.
14:37I didn't have much to do about it except to relieve Philips, a senior operator.
14:54I went to bed.
15:02I was conscious of waking up and hearing Philips sending telegrams.
15:06From leaving Southampton, we got through about 250 telegrams.
15:11I went to bed until winter, we got through about 50,000 children at Belfast.
15:25I had to be in trouble and it did not rare.
15:35It could be done in thealles norteamerican medium- UM6.
15:39It'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.
16:14It came out that vital messages received in the wireless room that night had never been
16:43delivered to the bridge, walling all ships of heavy ice in an area right ahead of the Titanic.
16:52What was still worse, not far away.
16:55Lighton was trying to say, I 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.
17:08But that's not true because the message didn't have the crucial prefix of MSG Master Service
17:15Graham, which would have meant that Jack Phillips would immediately have prioritised it and sent
17:21it up to the bridge.
17:22That didn't happen.
17:25We have this unique opportunity to understand the sinking of the Titanic from the perspective
17:31of those who were actually there.
17:33We're starting to piece things together, but 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 where people will try and make sense of what was going on.
17:45There are people who will deliberately distort and mislead, but mostly, you know, it's just
17:52that 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, see what seems to be consistent through it all,
18:06but also to recognise that every individual has a different experience.
18:11We have to respect that.
18:15We are there to report anything we see.
18:41A ship or anything.
18:48Watch was nearly over.
18:51I had done the best part of two hours.
19:11It was not very large when I first saw it.
19:29A black mass.
19:32It kept getting larger as we were getting nearer to it.
19:35I was fourth officer.
19:48I was just coming along the deck and almost abreast of the captain's quarters when I heard
19:52the report of three bells.
19:53That signifies something's been seen ahead.
20:00I struck three bells first.
20:02Then I went straight to the telephone.
20:05And rang them up on the bridge.
20:09Iceberg!
20:10Get ahead!
20:11Then I heard the first officer give the order.
20:14The 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.
20:30They swung the ship's bow away from the object.
20:37Yes.
20:40Because we were making straight for it.
20:41What do you do if you're trained at sea?
20:48You try to avoid the obstacle.
20:51It's a split second decision.
20:52And there's just a cliche, 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.
21:22This red light came up.
21:31Shut all dampers!
21:33When I'm the man in charge of the watch, twice shouted,
21:36Shut all dampers.
21:38It shut the wind off the fires.
21:40Shut all dampers!
21:42Shut all dampers!
21:43The crash came before we had them all shut.
22:05I didn't even feel the shock.
22:07I hardly knew what had happened.
22:08There was no jolt whatsoever.
22:10I 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, not a drop would have spilled.
22:28I was soon awakened by a long, grinding shock.
22:32There was a backward jerk, followed by a shorter one.
22:50And the ship started to back, like a train.
22:54Then, uh, a low, crunching, ripping sound as Titanic shivered.
23:11I was fast asleep.
23:21Almost threw me off the bed.
23:29Suddenly, I heard a tremendous noise.
23:32Immediately, 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,
24:34oh, 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 jutting out of it,
24:45underneath the water.
24:46Water came pouring in about two feet from where I was standing.
25:10The ship's side was torn from the third stockhold to the forward end.
25:16The doors dropped instantly, automatically.
25:36We got through into the next section.
25:44And in 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.
26:09But Titanic is designed to have watertight compartments in the event of an emergency.
26:17There's 16 compartments, and the doors do what they're supposed to do.
26:21Come down, seal off the compartments, and protect the rest of the ship.
26:28Fred Barrett and his boys escape this wall of water.
26:33At the moment, they are safe.
26:35But the thing about the Titanic is nobody had thought to put in a direct communication system
26:44between the boiler rooms, which could flood, and the bridge.
26:52But equally, it's not just a case of sending somebody up quickly.
26:57A lowly boiler operator or a stoker goes up and tells the captain what's happened.
27:02There is a chain of command.
27:05So there was no way that Fred Barrett could tell the captain
27:09straight away what was happening.
27:12And that lost time.
27:15The captain said, what have we struck?
27:39Mr. Murdoch, the first officer, said, we have struck an iceberg.
27:47I put her hard to starboard, but it was too close.
27:49She hit it.
27:51He also said, I intended to port around it, but she hit before I could do any more.
27:59We walked out onto the bridge to take a look at the iceberg.
28:03It seemed to be a small black mass not rising very high out of the water.
28:18The ship was past it then.
28:19It couldn't have extended above the ship's rail.
28:29Captain Smith, the captain of the Titanic, was a very experienced seaman, a very highly respected seaman.
28:35He'd served in the Royal Naval Reserve as well as in the Merchant Navy.
28:40He was coming to the end of his career and he must have been very, very proud that he was taking Titanic, this world-beating ship across the Atlantic.
28:50And that would be a wonderful end to 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 as well as keen to solve the problem as quickly as he could.
29:06The engine stopped.
29:20The sudden quiet was disturbing.
29:28When there's that sudden cut of the engines, it's going to be really noticeable.
29:34Something's going on.
29:35Something's not right.
29:36Something's not as it should be.
29:39I lay still.
29:41I waited for Anne, my cabin mate, to speak for...
29:46I knew she was awake.
29:49I looked over the side of my bunk at her and she returned by saying in her calm way,
29:56it sounds as if something has happened.
30:01Passengers were really left in the dark.
30:03There was no tunneling system or announcement of what was going on, of what to do.
30:08They had to work it out themselves.
30:09I could hear the footsteps of people on the deck above my head.
30:19There was some stamping and queer noises, as though the ship's tackle was being pulled about.
30:32My husband said there must have been some slight accident in the engine room.
30:40He put on his coat and left me.
30:46Different people will react to this situation in different ways, but a number of passengers have no qualms at all about going up onto the boat deck and finding someone to inquire what's going on.
30:59It was bitterly cold.
31:07I moved around the deck, trying to discover what had happened.
31:16There were quite a few people standing around, questioning each other in a dazed kind of way.
31:33There were many prominent people on the passenger list, and because it was for Maiden Voyage, those responsible for building the ship.
31:40Tommy Andrews, designer for Harland and Wolf, he was respected by everyone, a great ship builder and a real gentleman, a perfectionist.
31:59Thomas Andrews was a highly respected, in fact, probably the most respected ship designer in the UK at this time.
32:12Titanic was the pinnacle of Andrews' career.
32:16He had been building up to this moment, this amazing liner that was going to win all these different prizes, that was the queen of the seas, really.
32:23He knew a great deal about ship design.
32:28He understood buoyancy, stability, all of these issues.
32:33She's got 16 waterside compartments.
32:37That's far more than most of the liners that were steaming around.
32:40And of those 16, four of them could be flooded, and the ship was still stable and would stay afloat.
32:46And that's why Titanic had been billed as an unsinkable ship.
32:51She was a fabricated steel vessel of gigantic dimensions.
33:02We're just stopping precautionary, just making a few checks, and then we'll be on our way to New York here.
33:08Please, you know.
33:10She was a wonderfully safe vessel.
33:12In answer to many questions, Mr. Andrews assured everybody that we were absolutely safe.
33:25She would stay afloat indefinitely.
33:30This one man had a piece of ice, and I took it out of his hands wondering where he'd got it from.
33:44Tried to make him understand that there was nothing the matter.
33:47Go down to bed and go to sleep again.
33:49I didn't take it very seriously.
33:56After what seemed a few moments, my husband returned, and he was quite excited.
34:04He exclaimed,
34:06We have struck an iceberg, a big one, but there's no danger.
34:11An officer just told me so.
34:14This story reassured me.
34:17If these people weren't worried, why should I be?
34:26At that particular time, we know in England, certainly, there's a strong, very hierarchical class system.
34:33Getting the message from authority figures that everything's okay.
34:37Even though the ship is stationary, and they're out at sea, and it's dark, and it's cold.
34:42For most people, that's enough.
34:44There had been an accident, a collision, and yet there was a sense of complacency, rather than a sense of urgency, to discover what exactly has gone wrong.
34:57Thomas Andrews was saying to people, everything's fine, it's all safe, when he didn't have any data about what the damage to the ship was.
35:07And that was not a clever thing to do.
35:09There are eight firemen in the number six section. The second engineer shouted, all hands stand by your stations.
35:24That's for the men that stand by the fires.
35:39For Fred Barrett and his crew, they need to manage the fire in boiler room six.
35:47And he's worried that there's going to be a minor explosion, because the freezing water is hitting the hot coals.
35:53Fred Barrett is in the boiler room next door, and the only way to assess the damage is to climb out of boiler room five, to this overhead gangway that's above boiler room six.
36:07He went up and escaped, and down to the boiler room.
36:19But couldn't get in.
36:24There was eight feet of water, innit?
36:26feet of water in it when he tries to get back down into boiler room six he can't
36:33because there's eight feet of water in there and the whole place is already
36:37filled with steam but I think when Fred Barrett saw the situation he would have
36:45been still feeling that everything could be contained you know this is how the
36:49ship was sold to passengers and crew alike
37:19captain Smith looked at the inclinometer which is a sort of spirit level type gauge which shows
37:36whether the ship is stable or not and realized there was a five-degree list in the ship to starboard
37:46we're taking on water
37:49captain Smith knows that probably is water the problem is where is this water coming from and
37:56what the hell is going on Titanic of course was a massive ship with a huge number of compartments
38:04therefore finding out what's happened is a difficult and complex task because the ability
38:11to communicate between parts of the ship was very very poor indeed therefore you have to send a
38:17a person a runner to go down and look and then come all the way back to the bridge to tell you
38:22what on earth is going on
38:24I went right down below
38:37into the lowest steerage as far as I could go without going into the cargo portion of the ship
38:46and I inspected all the decks as I came up in the vicinity where I thought she'd struck
38:53I couldn't hear any noise I couldn't see any damage
39:02remember the mindset is this ship is unsinkable if you believe a ship is unsinkable you're not looking
39:14for trouble imagine it wandering about this vast ship looking for water he's not gonna find it because he
39:25he doesn't go down to the boiler rooms
39:27I board a Titanic in Queenstown
39:44I'm 21 years old I wanted to come to America to make some money
39:50there were three other boys from the same place sleeping in the same room with me
39:56I jumped on the floor
40:04first thing I knew my feet were getting wet
40:16I told the other fellas to get up that there was something wrong
40:20they only laughed
40:25one of them says get back to bed you're not in Ireland no
40:30go back to bed Daniel I really understand where that that voice is coming from
40:37something that I hear from immigrants nowadays is this belief that you've entered a world of order
40:43and protection and security so you don't have to worry about anything
40:51this is the safest ship in the world that's ever been built but it's so wrong in this context
41:00I turned on the lights
41:02and to my surprise there was a stream of water running along the floor
41:10the fact that water was seen on the deck at the level
41:27where Daniel Buckney had a cabin was seen to indicate
41:31that a second water site compartment had actually gone as well as the boiler room
41:37and the water was rising up the bulkhead in that compartment
41:40and that of course is extremely worrying
41:43but who exactly knew that is a different issue
41:47I met the carpenter coming up absolutely out of breath
42:16and he said she is evidently making water fast
42:20number one tarpaulin is ballooning
42:22go tell the captain
42:24at last Boxall gets himself some concrete information
42:34the carpenter he meets is talking about one of the tarpaulins up on G deck
42:39that's covering a cargo hold
42:41the air in there is being pushed out at speed at pressure
42:46by the volume of water coming in
42:49in the cargo hold there's all the passengers luggage
42:56there's goods that are being shipped from companies across the Atlantic
43:00there's a Renault car all boxed up belonging to one of the first class passengers
43:05there's cases of feather boas
43:07there's all kinds of crazy things in there
43:10but it is the entirety
43:12of everyone's possessions
43:15then
43:21on his way to investigate
43:23Boxall gets some more news
43:25I met the mail clerk coming up
43:32and he said
43:34Mr. Boxall
43:35the mail room is filling
43:36I got back to the boat deck
44:04and I saw the captain
44:05and I said
44:07the mail room is filling sir
44:08what did he say?
44:15he walked away and left me
44:18he went off the bridge as far as I remember
44:23he didn't say anything to you?
44:27no
44:27the captain goes down to inspect accompanied by Thomas Andrews
44:39here they can see with their own eyes
44:41the mail room has been flooded
44:43and that means another compartment is gone
44:46the Titanic was a ship designed to carry mail from Great Britain
44:58and there were about three and a half thousand sacks of mail on board
45:02already these mail bags are beginning to float away
45:06the mail clerks have tried to salvage some of them
45:08but they can't
45:10because the water is everywhere
45:12this doesn't look good for Royal Britannia
45:15seeing the speed with which the water levels were rising
45:20must have been quite a sobering moment
45:23for both of them
45:24and of course this was not what the captain had hoped would be
45:28his final crowning glory
45:30in command of this splendid ship
45:32this was going to be the ultimate test for him
45:36he 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
45:43but then
45:47the situation gets worse
45:50the captain learns
45:52that a third compartment is flooded
45:54the captain knows that this is a terrible circumstance
46:03but equally Titanic was built to endure that
46:05there's 16 compartments
46:09four of them could be fully flooded
46:11and the ship was still stable and wouldn't sink
46:13if another one
46:15a fifth compartment started to be flooded
46:18then that changed the equation completely
46:20the 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
46:32any 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
46:44then came the order to clear the lifeboats
46:54there was the frightful noise of escaping steam
47:12many first class passengers
47:22report this unearthly scream
47:26that comes out of the funnels
47:27it's the steam
47:30which has been diverted
47:31from 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
47:48it's a moment where they realize
47:50that things are not as they should be
47:52and maybe they should be worrying
47:54I was uneasy
47:56I rushed to the husband
48:00go 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
48:23are american millionaires
48:25there are people like colonel john jacob astor the fourth
48:29who is an american business magnate
48:31he's one of the richest men in the world
48:32and sir cosmo daft gordon sees astor stride over to captain smith
48:39and have a private little word with him
48:41i'm exactly how you say more
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
48:52they have exclusive access
48:54it means that they're part of the inner circle
48:57and 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
49:12thank you
49:13yes my wife
49:15what is he saying
49:16i would appeal to me to you
49:18very good show
49:18my husband was back
49:26looking rather grave
49:27i've been up to the bridge
49:31and i've seen colonel astor
49:32he said
49:33he told me that he was going to ask his wife to dress
49:37and
49:38i think you better do the same
49:40i hurriedly put on the warmest clothes i could find
49:43as i was dressing
49:46my secretary
49:47mrs francatelli
49:49came into the room
49:51very agitated
49:52i woke up of my own accord
50:04i'd promised to relieve philips early than usual
50:20i asked him how i was getting on
50:29i think we struck something
50:31felt the ship tremble and stop
50:33he told me that he felt the ship tremble and stop
50:35he thought she'd got damaged in some way
50:39suddenly the captain
50:43put his head in the cabin
50:45struck an iceberg
50:48we've struck an iceberg
50:51the captain said
50:52and i'm having an inspection made to tell what he's done
50:55he better get ready to send a call for assistance
50:58but don't send it until i tell you
51:02the captain went away
51:07philips resumed the phones
51:10philips resumed the phone
51:40because there's no instant communications between large parts of the ship
51:44captain smith and others
51:46still did not know fully what the damage was to the ship
51:50during his inspection
51:54andrews must have learned
51:56that a fourth compartment had flooded
51:59but problems in the boiler room
52:02he was still completely unaware of
52:05when andrews went down into the boiler room
52:12he was horrified
52:13horror struck
52:14water was rising
52:21and it was rising in spaces
52:23that they had not realized it would be in
52:25earlier on
52:29andrews had said about titanic
52:31that she was nearly as perfect as human brains could achieve
52:35he'd put all of his knowledge into titanic
52:40to make her as safe as she could be
52:43but unfortunately
52:47the ship was doomed
52:49you're now at a point where it's mathematically certain
52:56that this ship is going to sink
52:57now that the front five compartments are flooded
53:01the water will start pouring over the top of the bulkheads
53:06picture an ice tray
53:11you start filling it at one end
53:13and eventually it will
53:14you know rise up over the line
53:15in the next compartment
53:16in the next compartment
53:17and it just continues to fill and fill
53:20and that is ultimately
53:22what is going to draw this ship
53:24to the bottom of the ocean
53:25my husband and i jumped up
53:46and ran out to see what had happened
53:48we were still wearing our night clothes
53:57i can imagine them in my mind
54:04middle of the night
54:05they wake up
54:06and then suddenly there's the terror
54:08of finding water
54:09and you're in the bowels of the ship
54:11you are not being told anything
54:15there's no announcements
54:16you're left to work out
54:18what's going on
54:19and how that impacts on your own safety
54:22it's such a jarring break
54:26from this very beautiful experience
54:28i think they must have been having up until this point
54:30we walked around to the port side
54:36and the ship had then a fair list
54:42we stayed there
54:46looking over the side
54:48for about five minutes
54:50the list seemed very slowly
54:53to be increasing
54:54thomas andrews was seen by
55:03another passenger running up the bridge
55:05with a look of terror on his face
55:07no doubt he realized
55:10the first time
55:12my god
55:13we can't save the ship
55:14his unsinkable ship
55:18was going to sink
55:19i saw the captain
55:26it was then i realized it was serious
55:31captain looked over
55:35he said
55:37we are sinking
55:38that's why
55:48so
55:48well
55:53It's just a precaution.
56:11Suddenly, orders came down.
56:18Everybody to the boats.
56:20We sent an urgent distress call.
56:23And said, we were sinking by the head.
56:27If you are a family, you will be separated.
56:31Nobody's telling anybody what's going on.
56:35Husband stepped over to an officer and asked him a question.
56:40What's going on?
56:41I heard him shout back, keep calm, there's no danger.
56:46I don't know.
56:48I don't know.
56:54I don't know.
56:54I'm sorry.
56:55I'm sorry.
56:55I'm sorry.
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