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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
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04:05Mr. Harvey ordered me to fetch some men down.
04:14I got between 15 and 20.
04:23The engineers put the pumps on.
04:28Those who would have gone off duty stairs on.
04:31Right 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.
05:06They are like soldiers going into battle.
05:09With 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,
05:24but can 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,
06:16it 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?
06:25The 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.
06:50Send a call for assistance.
06:51Send a call for assistance, ordered the captain.
06:55Which call should I send?
06:59The Regulation International call for help.
07:02Just that.
07:04And the captain was gone.
07:08The next moment we sent an urgent distress call.
07:10So in the radio room, right now, it's a race against time.
07:20The operators must send out the distress signal.
07:25It's the standard Morse code signal that will tell shipping in the area that the Titanic is in trouble and needs help.
07:33These two young men, they're in their twenties, are now responsible for seeking rescue for the unsinkable ship, Titanic.
07:45Year's base used to be the three people in the sea.
07:46And the left of the boat, as and the left of the ship.
07:47The next moment we sent a report to the landing.
07:48It was in the sea.
07:48It was the legendary one.
07:49For the least, the request is the first time of response.
07:50The first time of response, the first time of response, the house was behind the sea.
07:51My boats were along the port side.
08:10My idea was that I'd lower the boats and transfer passengers.
08:15It would be perfectly safe in that smooth sea until another ship picked them up.
08:19All right, gentlemen. We know what to do.
08:22Up to this time, we hadn't had a chance for a boat drill, beyond just lowering some of the boats in Southampton.
08:31The crew of the Titanic had been put through a fine sieve and care taken that there were no misfits.
08:39A tap on the shoulder and indication with the hand was quite sufficient to set the men about the different jobs.
08:44Clearing away the boat covers, hauling tight the falls, ready for lowering.
08:52We'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.
09:01Nobody is thinking that the ship is going to sink.
09:05Only Captain Smith really knows the extent of what is happening.
09:09The water, having reached F deck, showed me she'd been badly holed.
09:19Although 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.
09:31The 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.
09:43It may be a strategy he doesn't want them to panic.
09:47It maybe 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,
09:55they have no idea what level of catastrophe they're in.
09:59They just know they have a job to do.
10:01They just know they have a job to do.
10:31There are 2,208 passengers on board.
10:35They won't all fit in the lifeboats,
10:37so the lifeboats will have to do shuttle runs,
10:39take passengers to the rescue ship,
10:42come back and then take the next lot of passengers.
10:46It's physically possible for them to save all the passengers,
10:49but they have to do it in an orderly fashion.
10:52And the people who are going to go first
10:54are those whose rooms are closest to the boat deck,
10:56and those are the first-class passengers.
10:58In this emergency plan, the wealthy and the powerful
11:02have an innate advantage.
11:04They are top of the list.
11:10Suddenly, orders came down.
11:13Everybody to the boats.
11:19All stewards and stewardesses were on duty in their sections
11:24to assist and direct people.
11:28I continued through my section,
11:30trying to reassure,
11:33reminding people to put on warm clothing,
11:36take blankets and valuables.
11:41Violet Jessup is a first-class stewardess.
11:44She's 24 years old.
11:45She's the youngest stewardess on board.
11:48The first-class stewards and stewardesses
11:50really are the ones who are responsible
11:52for making this evacuation process happen.
11:55They have to demonstrate extraordinary self-control
11:59and put these other people first.
12:06Of course, we reiterated from room to room
12:09that it was just precautionary measure.
12:13Everywhere I found...
12:17extraordinary calmness.
12:19People who'd been asleep were dressing,
12:24fumbling, sleepy-eyed, with buttons.
12:28They were...
12:30They were unemotional.
12:35Probably thinking, as I did,
12:37that it was all too fantastic.
12:40The first-class passengers have invested financially.
12:47They've spent a lot on their tickets.
12:49They've invested psychologically
12:50in this being safe and luxurious.
12:54And they therefore cannot believe
12:57that it can be anything but that.
13:00It's such a leap of imagination
13:03to go against everything they've internalised
13:06about this experience
13:07and start to believe
13:09that something might be going wrong.
13:16Stuart knocked at the door.
13:19Sorry to alarm you, madam,
13:21but the captain's orders are that
13:23all passengers should put on lifebelts.
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
13:35in one of the lifeboats.
13:37What a very fetching colour is it?
13:38Cosmo was so brave
13:40to try and keep us in good spirits,
13:42making a bad jest
13:44as to how unappetising we both looked
13:47in those sickly white life preservers.
13:49You have it, sir.
13:54Lucy Lady Duff Gordon
13:56is one of the most prominent people on board.
14:00After divorcing her previous husband,
14:02she managed to build up her business,
14:05which is a fashion design house,
14:07into a multi-million pound enterprise.
14:10And this is a time when many women
14:12don't even have bank accounts.
14:14So she's obviously extraordinary.
14:16She's very resourceful.
14:18And that will come to be important.
14:22I put on a heavy crepe scarf.
14:25I wore the big squirrel coat.
14:28Bought my little velveteen ring bag.
14:32It all looked so pretty.
14:34Just like a bedroom on land.
14:37It didn't seem possible.
14:38There could be any danger.
14:40A bit of vase of flowers on the washstand
14:45slid off and fell to the floor.
14:47It didn't seem possible.
14:51It didn't seem possible but there was no
15:14Slowly 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.
15:42I 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, you could see the lights of her portals.
16:21So 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.
16:44But the Californian would be able to reach Titanic before she sinks.
16:51I told the captain about this ship.
16:58He said, tell them to come at once.
17:02We are sinking.
17:03We are sinking.
17:09We are sinking.
17:32After 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 go to bed.
17:55There's no duty to stay in the radio room all night, and many ships did not ask this of their operators.
18:02But then, suddenly, a chance message comes in from a wireless operator on another ship, the Carpathia.
18:18I was about to retire. I'd taken my coat off. I should have been turning in in about ten minutes.
18:27Called the Titanic.
18:32And his only answer was, Struckerberg. Come at once.
18:42We told her our position and said we were sinking by the head.
18:44I asked him if he intended me to go get the ship turned round immediately, and he said yes, quick.
18:58The operator went to tell his captain.
18:59The Carpathia is a transatlantic steamship.
19:06She'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,
19:22and 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.
19:38Go see.
19:53So we'd been warned by the stewards to be going away in a boat, it didn't seem possible
20:12that all this could actually be happening.
20:20There was the strangest scene.
20:23People bundled up in odd clothes, boarding lifeboats in the night.
20:33Pew seemed to want to brave the dark sea in an open boat.
20:39And it was only after considerable coaxing that many went at all.
20:45People 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
20:50when there's no problem?
20:51You wouldn't.
20:53This is like a really annoying fire drill at school, and everybody says, no, I'll just
20:58stay here until it's finished.
21:02At that point in time, the general public weren't really trusted.
21:06Keeping people in ignorance was considered better.
21:08And we know today that actually people will respond much more sensibly in an emergency if
21:13they do have some information.
21:14That information was completely lacking at this point on Titanic.
21:19We were just walking forward when a sailor tried to drag me away from Cosmo.
21:46So, Captain Smith has ordered that women and children should be evacuated and they should be prioritized.
21:59The 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.
22:35I mean, this is before they've been allowed to vote.
22:37And they are perceived to have a physical and mental weakness that means that men have to be their protectors.
22:45Please step back, sir.
22:46Please step back.
22:47I have no such ideas about my husband.
22:52It would have been too awful to have been alone.
22:56Every time Officer Leichthaler 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.
23:09So, he's actually potentially endangering the lives of the precise people he's been told to prioritize to save.
23:16In a great emergency like that, where there were limited facilities, could you not have put more people into boats?
23:45I did not know it was urgent then.
23:50I had no idea it was urgent.
23:54You did not know it was urgent?
23:57Nothing like it.
24:00Lighthaller 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 Lighthaller 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.
24:37And 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.
24:50I think that Captain Smith was overwhelmed by the enormity of what was happening, and was not really grasping it and taking charge.
24:59He was a leader in the same place in the crew, but he was not able to achieve it.
25:10And this is the best thing to do was to get out of the story, and in this story, he could get out of the trail.
25:14Dr. Halena has a number of points in the territory, and he never was forced to reach the streets before the village.
25:19Dr. Halena has a number of points in the field, and he has a number of points in the village in the village of Jax.
25:23the operator returned and told us the carpathia was putting about and hidden for us
25:35our captain had left us at this time phillips told me to run and tell him what the carpathia
25:44it answered i went through an awful mass of people to his cabin the decks were full
26:02i came back and heard phillips giving the carpathia fuller directions he told me to put my clothes on
26:07until that moment i forgot i wasn't dressed
26:16i went to me 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
26:37so she's going as fast as she can but although she's going as fast as she can she's having to go
26:42through the same ice field where titanic has floundered
26:50she's four hours away and titanic isn't going to stay afloat that long
26:55the nearest ship to titanic is the californian but the radio operators still asleep nobody is aware
27:13of any problem on the titanic
27:15the crew of the titanic have to think on their feet so they start to use morse lamps and send a
27:25signal using light rather than sound the ship was close enough i thought to read our electric morse signal
27:34so i signaled her
27:40i told her to come at once we were sinking
27:44the captain was with me most of the time we were signaling
27:48i would signal with the morse and then go back and look at the ship
27:51i cannot say i saw any reply
28:08in a crisis you just have to increase your chances of survival survival is all about probability you
28:14know throwing as much muck at the wall as possible and seeing what sticks
28:20then we started sending off these distressed rockets the quartermaster and i on the bridge
28:31they go right up into the air and throw stars
28:44and then we started sending off these
28:55so
28:55i
29:01it's
29:03so
29:05Right 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
29:29and cascading into the next compartment.
29:32So compartment after compartment was being filled by water.
29:40And as this mass of water breaches the bulkheads,
29:44it starts flowing back on itself,
29:46making cascades and waterfalls coming down the narrow staircases.
30:02Third-class passengers in the bowels of the ship are at most risk.
30:11They were really left in the dark.
30:14They are wading through water.
30:17They're not aware of what's going on, the rescue mission going on in the upper decks.
30:22They had to work it out themselves.
30:23My husband had left some money in our cabin.
30:30And there were all our clothes and things that we were taking to America.
30:37Salini is from Hardin, which was in Lebanon.
30:48And she's a newlywed bride.
30:50And her older husband is taking her to live with him in America.
30:55They are caught between going up to the higher decks
31:00and the desire to keep their belongings.
31:04It's easy to underestimate just how important things are to a migrant,
31:11to someone who's leaving home forever.
31:14Do you want to arrive in New York destitute with nothing to your name,
31:19nothing to pay for a room?
31:21Of course not.
31:22We returned to try and get our clothes, money and jewellery.
31:35We started down for them.
31:42But the water on our deck was waist deep.
31:46We never got there.
31:52Depending on where you are in the ship right now,
32:02you're going to start seeing a lot of water.
32:05The third-class passengers in particular.
32:09Water in any quantity is terrifying
32:12because you can't push it away, you can't fight it.
32:15People are now seeing evidence with their own eyes.
32:19It's not rumour, it's not gossip.
32:20It's not even that they're waiting to be told.
32:23They can see, feel, that there is a problem.
32:36By this time, the ship seemed to have tilted forward a little.
32:44And we heard queer noises as if the ship was being pulled about.
32:50Charlotte Collier is a second-class passenger.
33:02She's travelling with her husband, Harvey,
33:04and her eight-year-old daughter, Marjorie.
33:06Charlotte has health issues, she has tuberculosis,
33:09so she's eager to find a new climate for her health
33:12as well as whatever economic benefit they might get from migrating.
33:16Whilst this whole hour has passed in which the first-class passengers
33:26are being evacuated,
33:28they were told to stay in their cabin.
33:33They are sitting there and worrying,
33:36and no-one is telling them anything.
33:38Suddenly, 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.
34:04My husband stammered when he spoke to me.
34:07He said we had better go on deck and see what's wrong.
34:15For 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,
34:31especially if you're a parent with a young child.
34:34When we went on board the Titanic,
34:42every possession was with us.
34:46Neither of us took any belongings from the cabin.
34:49My husband even left his watch lying on his pillow.
34:53I had a big dolly that I got two Christmases before,
35:01and we were in such a hurry
35:03that I left it behind.
35:07I cried for my dolly,
35:09but we couldn't go back.
35:10When we reached the deck,
35:22there was a great many people.
35:34Some of them were crying.
35:36I was crying for my doll,
35:41but nobody could go back and get her.
35:49An officer said,
35:51we should put on life preservers.
35:53So,
35:54mother put one on me,
35:56and then fastened one around herself.
35:59Papa put one on too.
36:02Do you know?
36:02Yeah.
36:06My husband stepped over to an officer
36:08and asked him a question.
36:11Excuse me.
36:12Yes, sir.
36:12What's going on?
36:13I heard him shout back,
36:15keep calm.
36:17There's no danger.
36:21Nobody's telling anybody what's going on.
36:24The captain knows,
36:26a few of the officers know,
36:27but it's important to keep this away
36:29because of panic.
36:30But now,
36:32because of the noise,
36:33the tilt,
36:35people are realising
36:36that something is wrong.
36:39All the water that had been thrown on the fan
36:55is just making the stock all thick,
36:57the steam.
36:57Mr. Shepherds was walking across
37:02in a hurry to do something.
37:10And he fell down the hole
37:11and broke his leg.
37:15He lifted him up
37:16and carried him.
37:17There was a knock and noise.
37:33All at once,
37:34I saw a wave of green foam
37:36tearing between the boilers.
37:38A rush of water came through.
37:40I never stopped to look.
37:47I just jumped for the escape ladder.
37:50A huge wave of green water
38:03comes flying through into the room
38:05because the coal bunker
38:07has been gradually
38:08filling up
38:09and filling up
38:10and filling up
38:10with the pressure.
38:12And then it bursts
38:13and suddenly it's all over them.
38:16Another engineer,
38:17Jonathan Shepard,
38:18has already slipped
38:19and broken his leg
38:21so he can't escape
38:22this wall of water.
38:29And he's the first casualty
38:31to die on the Titanic.
38:39I went off the escape
38:41and into the main alleyway.
38:43Titanic was slowing down
39:02by the head.
39:04Water was coming down
39:06the alleyway from forward.
39:07Now that boiler room five
39:14is filled with water,
39:16the engineers realise
39:17that all their efforts
39:19are futile.
39:20There's no point
39:21pumping it out anymore.
39:22It's coming in faster
39:24than anyone can manage it.
39:30This is a moment
39:31of terror
39:33and certainty.
39:35Perhaps this is
39:37the first moment
39:38where these brave men realise
39:41that the ship
39:42is going to go down.
39:43all passengers upstairs
40:02at last.
40:04I...
40:04I return to my room.
40:08I began tidying up,
40:18folding my nightgown,
40:19putting everything
40:20in its place.
40:23There was...
40:24there was no sound.
40:28Titanic
40:28might have been in dock
40:30and all the crew
40:30gone home.
40:31I saw Stanley
40:43at the door
40:44watching me
40:44and he...
40:47he almost shouted at me
40:50as he seized my arm.
40:52My God,
40:53don't you realise
40:54this ship will sink?
40:55You have to follow
40:56the rest upstairs
40:57as quickly as possible.
40:58sinking.
41:08The word
41:09repeated itself
41:12without fully...
41:14fully entering
41:16my understanding.
41:17My mind
41:22could not accept
41:23that the super
41:24perfect creation
41:26was to do
41:28so futile a thing
41:29as sink.
41:31Of course,
41:33Titanic
41:34couldn't be
41:35sinking.
41:36suddenly,
41:52there was a commotion
41:55near one of the gangways
41:56and we saw a stoker
41:59come up from below.
42:01all the fingers
42:05of one hand
42:06had been
42:07cut off.
42:10Blood was
42:11running from
42:13the stumps
42:14and was spattered
42:16on his face
42:17and clothes.
42:19It
42:20brought up
42:22a picture
42:22of
42:23smashed
42:24engines
42:25and
42:26mangled
42:28human bodies.
42:30I went over
42:31to speak to him.
42:33I asked him
42:34if there was
42:35any danger.
42:37Danger?
42:39I should say so.
42:41It's hell
42:42down below.
42:45This ship
42:46will sink
42:47like a stone.
42:52At this moment,
42:54I
42:54got my first
42:57grip
42:58of fear.
43:15Those in charge
43:16herded us
43:17herded us
43:17towards
43:18the nearest
43:18boat.
43:22Then,
43:24above the
43:25clamour
43:25came the
43:26terrible cry,
43:29lower the
43:29boat,
43:30women and
43:30children.
43:36Someone
43:37was shouting
43:38these last
43:39few words
43:39over
43:40and over
43:41again.
43:41Women and
43:42children
43:42only.
43:43That's
43:43women and
43:44children
43:44only.
43:46Women and
43:46children
43:47only.
43:48Women and
43:49children
43:49only.
43:53It might
43:53be that
43:54Lightoller
43:54has this
43:55kind of
43:55rigid view
43:56of the
43:56world.
43:57He's
43:57come in
43:57with a
43:58set of
43:58rules.
43:59It might
44:00be that
44:00under
44:00this
44:01stressful
44:01situation,
44:02it's
44:02the only
44:03way he
44:03can
44:03function.
44:04He
44:04can't
44:05cope
44:05with
44:05more
44:05information
44:06and
44:06more
44:06decision
44:07making,
44:07so he
44:07just
44:08sticks
44:08to
44:09this
44:09one
44:10option.
44:10Cosmo
44:25pleaded
44:26with me
44:26while
44:27three
44:28or
44:28four
44:28boats
44:28were
44:28launched
44:29but
44:29I
44:30refused.
44:32I
44:33only
44:33said
44:33promise
44:34me
44:34that
44:34whatever
44:35you
44:35do
44:35you
44:35will
44:36not
44:36let
44:36them
44:37separate
44:37us
44:37and
44:39I
44:39clung
44:39to
44:39him.
44:40He
44:41saw
44:41that
44:41there
44:41was
44:41no
44:42use
44:42resisting
44:42me.
44:49We'll
44:50go
44:50around
44:50to
44:50the
44:50starboard
44:51side
44:51Cosmo
44:52said
44:52it
44:52might
44:53be
44:53better
44:53there.
45:05One
45:05one
45:06of
45:07one
45:07of the
45:08pivotal
45:08facts
45:08is this
45:08there
45:09are
45:09different
45:10protocols
45:11on
45:11each
45:12side
45:12of
45:12the
45:12ship
45:12on
45:14the
45:15starboard
45:15side
45:16officer
45:17Murdoch's
45:17approach
45:18is more
45:19pragmatic
45:19it's
45:20more
45:20flexible
45:21was
45:25was better
45:25for
45:26although
45:27there
45:27were
45:27crowds
45:27there
45:28was
45:28no
45:28confusion
45:29the
45:33lifeboats
45:34were being
45:34quietly
45:35filled
45:35if
45:38you
45:38emerge
45:39on
45:39the
45:39starboard
45:40side
45:40then
45:42officer
45:42Murdoch
45:43might
45:43well
45:44allow
45:44the
45:45men
45:45to
45:45join
45:45the
45:46women
45:46and
45:47their
45:47children
45:47if
45:48there
45:49are
45:49spaces
45:49left
45:50so
45:51there's
45:51Murdoch
45:51allowing
45:52men
45:52to
45:53fill
45:53up
45:53the
45:54spare
45:54places
45:55why
45:55not
45:55Murdoch
45:57doesn't
45:57want to
45:57split
45:58families
45:58up
45:58Murdoch
46:02I think
46:02probably
46:03had a
46:03sense
46:03of
46:04wanting
46:04to
46:04preserve
46:04life
46:05and
46:09Light Hollow
46:09had a
46:10stricter
46:10more
46:11patriarchal
46:12view
46:12perhaps
46:12of
46:13men
46:13should
46:14sacrifice
46:14themselves
46:15for
46:15women
46:15and
46:15children
46:16but
46:17the
46:18fact
46:18that
46:18it was
46:18happening
46:18on
46:18the
46:18same
46:19ship
46:19at
46:19the
46:19same
46:19time
46:20shows
46:21just
46:21how
46:21vague
46:21this
46:22policy
46:22was
46:22so
46:26it
46:27matters
46:27very
46:28much
46:28which
46:29side
46:29of
46:30the
46:30ship
46:30you're
46:30on
46:31if
46:31you're
46:31a
46:32man
46:34you're
46:35going
46:36to
46:37you're
46:37going
46:38to
46:38you're
46:39going
46:39to
46:40go
46:44I was walking up and down the bridge, saw white lights in the sky, in the direction
47:10of this other steamer.
47:16I thought perhaps the ship was in communication with some other ship, or possibly signalling
47:22to us to tell us she had big icebergs around her.
47:25It didn't occur to me the ship was in distress.
47:29I just thought there were white rockets, that's all.
47:32It might have been anything.
47:36We called her up repeatedly on the Morse lamp and received no answer whatsoever.
47:47Some people say she replied to our rockets and our signals, but I didn't see any of them.
47:55We'll never know why there was miscommunication between the Californian and Titanic.
48:01There seems to have been some confusion about the colour of these rockets.
48:06Were they distress signals?
48:08It's also possible that Boxall didn't see Californian's Morse lamp reply, because there's something
48:14strange about the atmospheric conditions that night.
48:18You've got this weird effect of warm air underneath and colder air on top, which is creating a kind
48:24of mirage effect.
48:26Shapes are being distorted in the darkness.
48:31What a chance her captain missed.
48:42He could have laid his ship right alongside the Titanic and taken practically every soul
48:47on board.
48:52However, he didn't.
49:01This must be the bitterest blow for those people who could see the ship nearby.
49:08I don't think it was bad faith, I don't think it was negligence, I think everything conspired
49:12that night to go against Titanic's chances of safety and salvation.
49:18I don't think it was good.
49:25I don't think it was a good thing.
49:28We're not a good thing.
49:33It's a good thing.
49:37We're not a good thing.
49:38I'm the only one of them.
49:42Because the earlier lifeboats went out half full, there are now only about 900 places
50:04left on the 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.
50:26It was a captain's special boat.
50:33Lucy Duff Gordon knows that she needs to get off the ship.
50:38This is the moment to take one of those spaces.
50:46My husband asked the officer if we might get into it.
50:58We 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, that would buy you survival.
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.
51:57They have to 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.
52:37I found myself clinging to my husband's arm with little Marjorie beside me.
52:55I did not want to leave him.
52:59Charlotte 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. I want to survive, but not at this cost.
53:11Dilemmas that you just have to accept in that moment, those are, yeah, those are heavy.
53:22Dilemmas that you have to accept in that moment, those are heavy.
53:28Dilemmas, he was – he was 13.
53:30Dilemmas that you have to accept in that moment when a woman is clinging to her husband, when
53:35a child is crying for their father.
53:38He just goes ahead with what he believes to be right.
53:43But it's not objectively right.
53:47From what you have said, you discriminated entirely in the interest of the women and children in filling those lifeboats.
53:54Yes.
53:57Why did you do that? Because of the captain's orders or because of the rule of the sea?
54:03The rule of human nature.
54:08The deck seemed to be slipping under my feet.
54:14And I hung onto my husband's arm.
54:20And although he was very brave and not trembling, I saw his face was white as paper.
54:30Hort or Starboard.
54:36That sliding doors moment will determine who survives and who doesn't.
54:41Keep moving along the deck. We are getting the lifeboats.
54:44Women and children only. That's women and children only.
54:47Women and children. Women and children.
54:49They struck utter terror into my heart and...
54:56Now they'll ring in my ears till I die.
54:58So they're like, you good to see.
54:59Well, I can't believe.
55:00Yeah, sÃ.
55:01I can't believe.
55:02I know that to be a saint.
55:03I'll be the易fe about my silence.
55:04I'll see.
55:04I'll be the most of you then.
55:05I'll be the next day.
55:05Oh, my God.
55:35There was a lot of confusion.
55:48People crying, swearing, and praying.
55:53There's a really stark disadvantage facing third-class passengers.
55:58Chief 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.
56:09I called out.
56:10Don't shoot!
56:11Don't shoot!
56:41Don't shoot!
56:42Don't shoot!
56:43Don't shoot!
56:44Don't shoot!
56:45Don't shoot!
56:46Don't shoot!
56:47Don't shoot!
56:48Don't shoot!
56:49Don't shoot!
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