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Titanic Sinks Tonight - Season 1 Episode 3 -
The Moment of Mutiny
The Moment of Mutiny
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00:00Things I saw made impressions. I can never forget.
00:20I can't describe it. I can't say how it was.
00:25It was just terrible.
00:34A dream of being trapped on the ship with no means of escape.
00:43But I always wake up before the boat sinks.
00:55He told me that apparently we'd struck something.
01:07Iceberg!
01:08Deadhead!
01:09I didn't become alarmed.
01:17There was no danger, they said.
01:24I told her to come at once. We were sinking.
01:26I can imagine the chaos and the fear and the terror of finding water in your cabin and
01:35you're in the bowels of the ship. It makes me panic just thinking about it.
01:40The story of the Titanic is the human condition spread out, pinned on a board for us to examine.
01:47Then came the terrible cry. Women and children, women and children.
01:55Two men lifted me up and put me in a boat.
01:59It's these small decisions, these little butterfly effect moments that change the outcome.
02:04It really was every man for himself.
02:22My heart stood still.
02:24It's a split-second decision. What would you do? What would I do?
02:45It's a split-second decision. What would you do? What would I do?
02:54It was a terrible sight. Men, swimming and sinking.
03:06I'd been brought up to believe in a hell, after death.
03:18For now, I think I went through a hell that night.
03:24I think I'm significa-
03:33I'm not a겨 understanding.
03:36I'm not a sogenan-
03:36But I worry about it but then
03:36I'm not a righteous upon this true music.
03:37I have no view.
03:41I feel right, sorry.
03:42But I couldn't put a stab of it together.
03:45I think I can keep it at the saree in the house that he just left us.
03:49I was just Алain to Ära,
03:52I nipped along to have a look down the emergency staircase to gauge the speed the water was
04:14rising that's cold green water crawling its ghostly way the electric lights shone under
04:28the surface with a weird effect so light all up knows now things are getting more serious
04:39he thought this thing could not go down and now he knows it could sink this is a terrible shot for him
04:53captain Smith is at fault here he has not informed his senior officers of what he has known for some
04:59time it's very hard to know why captain Smith did not give out the information to his most trusted
05:05command maybe it's important to keep this away to stop them panicking and to keep control
05:26there are just 10 standard lifeboats left on the ship along with four collapsibles
05:33there's 2 000 souls and more on board and only around 700 places there's no rescue ship coming
05:40anytime soon so if you don't get in you're gonna die
05:46you're going to keep moving up and down the deck
05:59lightola is going to continue doing exactly what he's done before
06:03but with even more fervor and rigidity enforcing the plan it's the only thing he can do
06:09bringing and children only
06:15charlotte collier is just about holding herself together in her family unit her husband harvey
06:21and her little daughter marjorie
06:25mr low
06:28rushed among the passengers and ordered the women into the boats
06:34many of them followed him in a dazed kind of way and others stayed with their men
06:45a sailor caught marjorie in his arms tore her away from me and threw her into the boat
06:55i was crying for my doll then two men lifted me up and put me in a boat
07:04she was not even given a chance to tell her father goodbye
07:16you too a man yelled you're a woman
07:22take a seat in that boat or it will be too late
07:25i heard my husband say
07:32go lottie for god's sake be brave and go
07:42and saw my husband's back as he walked steadily down the deck and disappeared among the men
07:48if they'd not wrenched marjorie away from me
07:58i wish i had gone with him
08:06the coaches deferential veneer is not there anymore the officers will pull apart women
08:14from their men and make them go into the boats whether they want to or not this is new in the
08:20course of the night and it's frightening
08:31there's a really stark disadvantage facing third-class passengers from the beginning
08:37they are stuck in the bowels of the ship trying to get to where the lifeboats are
08:47i've been seasick the whole trip
08:59all i wanted was to be left alone so i could lie down
09:07anna huerblom is a teenager from finland she's a swedish speaker
09:11a third of steerage passengers on the titanic were from nordic countries there were so many
09:17people who did not speak english they spoke spanish arabic swedish swedish is the second most spoken
09:23language when the boat struck the 14th of april which was my birthday i was 18
09:32i didn't become alarmed i just couldn't believe that this wonderful ship could possibly be in trouble
09:46there are 14 stewardesses in first class to help those passengers leave the ship in third class
09:54there's only one there was no tunneling system or announcement of what was going on of what to do
10:05they had to work it out themselves
10:15a crash woke me up
10:27nearly jolted me from my bed
10:32i put on my trousers and shoes and got up
10:36eugene daly is a 29 year old textile worker from county westmeath in ireland
10:46after years of saving he's immigrating to america along with his cousin maggie
10:52her friend bertha and his beloved irish pipes
10:57the stewards came through and told the passengers that they shouldn't be frightened
11:02there was no danger they said everything was all right and that i might go back
11:19the third class passengers don't know what's going on because they're not being told and there's
11:24nothing worse than having an idea that something's really wrong but not knowing exactly what it is
11:30is above deck the first and second class passengers and the crew they can all see there aren't
11:37enough boats left and there are hundreds of them on deck
11:45i stood at the bulkhead with the other stewardesses a ship's officer ordered us into the boat
11:53some live boats are only at half capacity
11:56now there's fear everywhere so they're filling them up as quickly as they can
12:04looking along the length of the ship
12:08i noticed the forward part of her was lower now
12:15much lower
12:21my heart stood still
12:25you're in the military this is what we talk about triaging this is a case of thinking how many
12:39people can we save at this point there's only room for 800 people in the lifeboats that remain
12:45so that's best case scenario but in crisis situations you're not getting the best case scenario
12:52within the panic the confusion
12:56the boat was full now
13:01as the boat was being lowered the ship's officer called here miss jessop look after this baby
13:10someone had dumped it on the deck beside his feet
13:24at this stage violet is handed a baby that has been sort of separated from their family or whoever
13:31was caring for them at that point it's hard to fathom that
13:34that panic beginning to spread it's making their circumstances worse it's making everybody's
13:42chance of survival worse but it's such a natural reaction
13:54i could hear the commotion overhead increasing i decided to go up even though i still felt very ill
14:13i was fully clothed and i had a life belt my railroad ticket to tacoma and a small amount of money were
14:25sewed in a little bag and hung around my neck so that i couldn't lose it
14:28i went down into the room where maggie daly and bertha mulville hill were
14:38the men and women in third class are separated so for eugene to find maggie and bertha he has to cross
14:45from one end of the ship to another no one is guiding them no one is saying
14:49this is the best way to get around the flooding they have to work it out themselves
14:59come with me the ship is sinking
15:06there's hundreds of third-class passengers trying to navigate the warren
15:10of corridors hallways staircases and they're trying to get to a part of the ship the boat deck that
15:16they've never been allowed onto before it's difficult to convey the size of a ship like the
15:24titanic it took me 14 days before i could find my way from one part of that ship to another by the
15:30shortest route eugene maggie and bertha must navigate up several decks to the boat deck
15:39it's now a very challenging situation and the feeling of a loss of control on the part of the crew
15:44is getting stronger and stronger it was about this time that the chief officer came over from the
15:50starboard side and asked did i know where the firearms were i told the chief officer yes come
15:57along and i'll get them for you drawing weapons is very unusual
16:07the officers are clearly were aware of how panic was setting in
16:12and order and discipline amongst people were falling apart
16:17there are guns on board the titanic like the lifeboats nobody expected to ever have to use them
16:29into the first officer's cabin we went the chief murdoch the captain and myself
16:34i hauled them out still in all their pristine newness and grease
16:46here you are
16:50i was going out when the chief officer shoved one of the revolvers into my hands with a handful of
16:55ammunition it said here you are you may need it the fact of the matter is there are far more passengers
17:05than crew british and american society at this time is hierarchical and it's rules-based people will do
17:13what they are told but not when their lives are at stake this is what the officers fear but you know
17:21check off said you can't put a gun in the room and not use it
17:39third class passengers naturally gravitated towards the aftwell deck which is the outdoor space they've
17:45had use of but it is still three decks below the boat deck where the lifeboats are
18:02there was a lot of confusion with people running around crying swearing and and praying
18:13since i couldn't speak english i hardly knew what was happening
18:19i had to push people apart to find a place to walk
18:29she doesn't speak english there's no one experienced to advise her so she's working this all out with so
18:35much against her there's a sea of passengers already gathered there
18:40so eugene and anna are joining this throng of people i went up on deck people were running around
18:51the titanic being an immigrant ship must conform to american and british immigration laws and one
18:57of those laws is around quarantine maintaining steerage class passengers in areas separate from the first
19:05and second class passengers to stop the spread of disease before the third class passengers have
19:11even boarded titanic they've had to be subjected to medical examinations they're hemmed in by locked
19:18gates and these same gates that were meant to prevent ill health are now blocking their access to the
19:23lifeboats eugene's cousin maggie tries to go back to her cabin but that corridor is under five foot of water
19:30there's no chance she can make it and she turns back all this time we knew that the water was coming
19:38up and up rapidly
19:43to know that safety is on the other side of that locked gate it must make them despair
19:57the boat was practically full and there were no other women anywhere near it when
20:12fifth officer low jumped in and ordered it lowered
20:20a young lad hardly more than a school boy was standing close to the rail
20:25now realizing he was to be left behind he leapt down into the boat and crawled under a seat
20:38but the officer dragged him to his feet and ordered him back onto the ship
20:47we begged for his life please give him a chance
20:49the officer drew his revolver and thrust it into his face
21:02i give you 10 seconds to get back onto that ship before i blow your brains out
21:09the lad only begged harder my mother said i called out don't shoot
21:27the officer suddenly changed his tone
21:30he lowered his revolver and looked the boy squarely in the eyes
21:42for god's sake be a man we have got women and children
21:46god's sake we have women and children the little lad turned around and climbed back without a word
21:54he was not saved
22:03allow the boats
22:07to avoid another recurrence of that sort i fired my revolver as i was going down each deck
22:15because the boat wouldn't stand a sudden jerk
22:18she was loaded already with people and would not stand anymore
22:26actually drawing the gun shows that the ship's officers
22:30realized that things were very very desperate indeed
22:34and of course we did not have enough lifeboats for everybody on board
22:38there are 10 lifeboats left on deck now and 1960 people still to save
22:45titanic now was so low in the water that iconic areas like the grand staircase and some of the
22:52luxury state rooms were flooding there's no doubt at all that this was unstoppable it was merely a
22:59question of time
23:13phillips told me the wireless was growing weaker
23:20jack phillips has spent the last few hours trying to communicate with other wireless operators
23:26carpathia is sailing at full speed towards titanic but she's still two hours away
23:34on the nearest ship the californian nobody recognized or responded to the distress
23:41flares but phillips still believes that as long as he can get signals out he may be of some use
23:47but now the electricity is starting to fail then he does get a message from his sister ship olympic
24:05but she seems not to understand at all what is happening to titanic and thinks titanic must be
24:12limping along sailing towards them the frustration here is now clear because the messages are not
24:19getting through for this young man in his mid-20s i think this is the place of utmost distress
24:28right now it's clear on board ship that no rescue vessel is going to reach titanic before she sings
24:42the third class passengers are at most risk at this moment there's the language difficulties there's
24:50probably a bit of aggression i think that's setting in annoyance frustration we had quite a number of
24:59hot-headed italians and other people who got crazy and made for the stairs these men tried to rush the
25:07stairway pushing and crowding and pulling the women down at this moment we would expect the adrenaline
25:17to kick in the body wants to survive and it gives us some sort of innate choices you might fight your
25:24way to the front physically people might freeze where they're just stuck then terror they don't know
25:29what to do we also see people who are turning inward and that would be turning to god as well making
25:35the sign of the cross and so on the first class deck was higher up than the steerage deck and there
25:41were some steps leading up to it and a gate at the top of the steps they tried to keep us down at first
25:48on our steerage deck at the back of the ship they're trying to keep order but by doing so in such a chaotic
25:57way they probably contribute to a greater loss of life than they realized
26:05i can't say who they were i think they were sailors
26:11they didn't want us going up to the first class place at all
26:17even though there's no direct policy preventing third-class passengers from accessing lifeboats
26:23it's clear from their testimony after the sinking that there was not a level playing field the
26:28third class were left marginalized and endangered by cruise actions
26:38there was no help of any kind to reach safety
26:42so time is ticking down the water's rising they're sandwiched in between the sea and the locked gate
26:57they're having to make life or death decisions in moments with very little information
27:03i got talking to a young swedish girl returning to the united states
27:15she knew about an emergency stairway to where the lifeboats were
27:25anna's interesting because she's come from a different environment she's come from finland
27:29where the social strata isn't quite as defined as it is in england at the time
27:35perhaps she has a little bit more leeway to not rely on following the authority figure's orders
27:42we climbed ladder after the first class deck and then an officer saw me and dragged me up to the next deck
27:59we passed a window and we looked into a beautiful room the tables were so beautifully set
28:10the silver and and all the furniture
28:16the other girl she wanted to kick the window out and walk in and help ourselves
28:24i told her that they might make us pay for the broken window so we didn't
28:35there's some evidence that growing up in adverse situations actually gives you a kind of cognitive
28:40toolkit to be able to get through those situations all kinds of skills where you've needed to survive
28:46and depend on yourself and that translates really quite well to an emergency scenario
28:52the third class passengers have survived so many different challenges already
29:02they must have felt their confidence and trust in the crew and officers had gone
29:09i think these are people who are not taking no for an answer they couldn't keep them down
29:22gate was broken all the storage passengers went up onto the first class deck
29:29they're going to take fate into their own hands and they will get to those boats
29:34in the same way that i think when officer low fired his gun
29:37he changed the terms by breaking the gate they changed the terms
29:45i rushed to the lifeboats
29:50there seemed hundreds of people around me
29:55half the lifeboats have already gone they're in the water there's only four lifeboats at this end of
30:00the ship and the others are hundreds of yards ahead
30:05seeing only four lifeboats available and nearly two thousand people trying to get into them
30:11there is such panic in that crowd
30:13everywhere everybody was confused i saw a lot of people catholics make the sign of the cross
30:26i had to step on many of these people to reach the side of the deck
30:41the crying of children and the screaming of a woman you know these are terrifying sounds
30:46that we are programmed to have a sort of visceral reaction to i remember from living through my
30:53trauma my wounding in afghanistan it sounds stay with you far more than sights that is a powerful
30:59thing for the senses to take on board and for ultimately you to then have to live with
31:04i tried to get into a lifeboat and i was pushed back
31:18it seemed as though i would go down with the ship
31:34it's a very important thing for us to take on the ship and the ship and the ship and the ship
31:40ideas about self-control and stoicism and self-sacrifice are celebrated as forms of gentlemanliness
31:49as well as manliness these are the values that they've been told to hold to
31:55and it means putting yourself second that is the ideal as far as edwardian society is concerned
32:04that's interesting bruce ismay who is the managing director of the white star line his father had
32:10founded the white star line and the titanic is basically his idea this is the crowning achievement
32:17of his career the creation of this amazing opulent ship and now he can see that it is all going
32:26to the bottom of the sea
32:38did you think it was in a very serious condition as time got on i did and that the ship was sinking i did
32:48i helped for nearly two hours as far as i can judge at the starboard boats helping women and children
32:57enter the boats and blurring them over the side
32:59i think the sense of responsibility for bruce ismay must have been huge and we see this in the fact
33:09that he spends time patrolling the boat deck putting people into boats instructing crew how to behave
33:17but he knows that there aren't enough lifeboats on board he knows by this point that there's no rescue
33:24ship coming anytime soon these lives are on his conscience
33:41the ship was listing heavily in the bow somebody gave me a push towards the boat
33:51and i got in that girl and i went together
34:02the lifeboat was so crowded
34:13when i got to the deck a lifeboat was hanging from the davits number 13 boat
34:26it was pretty well filled when i got there
34:32the boat swainer knew me as i'd sailed with them and other ships before said to me you get on this boat
34:38and pull an oar
34:43fred is in the lifeboat and because you know he's one of those strong enough to be able to row it and at
34:48this stage the crew is now starting to really fill the lifeboats
34:54so i took his orders and i got on and she swung from the davits
34:59we had women men and two little babies
35:03one two months old and the other ten months old
35:11there is no real order people are sitting on top of one another and you know you're sort of being
35:16crushed underneath this mass of people it's suspended by davits off the side of the ship at this point
35:23it's about 18 meters above the water but every person that gets in
35:29adds that weight as that movement as that risk and so there has to be a point at which you say that's enough
35:36about three more people get in after i did
35:40and then the orders were given let no more on that boat or the falls will break
35:46that means looking into the whites of people's eyes and saying there's no more space
35:58the boat was being filled with women
36:14maggie and bertha got in and i got it
36:18the officer called me to go back but i got in life was sweet to me and
36:32i wanted to save myself it's the early hours of the morning the lifeboats are being filled to the
36:38brim now overfilled naturally some male passengers want to get in they want to be with their loved
36:44one so they just want to save their lives as any of us would they told me to get out but i didn't stir
36:56then they got a hold of me and pulled me out
37:01eugene's testimony makes me like him i think he's honest he's frank he's not trying to put a spin
37:08on his own behavior or anyone else's i get the feeling of a real historical account in its watson
37:14all attitude what's sad about this story is that most of those officers knew the people that they
37:21were turning away in the sense that they were from the same class the same kind well if i didn't save
37:29myself at least i saved the two girls
37:43and i think that they had a lot of people waiting down at the gangway doors to get into
37:57boats and therefore he thought how can i manage to get these boats full
38:03how can i save as many of the people whose lives i am responsible for as is possible
38:22the captain came and said mr boxall you go away in that boat pointing to boat number two
38:27i tumbled into this lifeboat and started to lower up and the captain looked over and told me go
38:37around to the starboard side which was practically on the opposite side to where i was lowered
38:47so boxall's lifeboat is only about 45 full was meant to go around to the starboard side of the ship
38:54to take on more passengers i had great difficulty in getting that boat around there
39:04there was suction
39:09i was using the stroke horse standing up and there was this lady helping
39:15she was steering around the ship's stern when i passed around the boat to get to the gangway door
39:22on the starboard side her propellers were out of water
39:30but when i did eventually reach there
39:34i found that there was such a mob standing at the gangway doors
39:52if they jumped they'd swamped the boat
40:00i don't go alongside she was only a small boat
40:10boxall should have made sure that he filled the lifeboat up
40:13and take necessary action to make sure he wasn't swamped he was in a position to do that and he
40:19didn't
40:23it's a really tricky one because yes crew should follow orders and the structure of discipline is how
40:29you can try and create some form of order in moments of chaos there is a good reason why
40:36you know in circumstances we are not question orders having said that it's all well and good one of your
40:42superiors giving you an order but they're not seeing the circumstances that you are witnessing
40:52i pulled off and laid off
40:54until i pulled away about a quarter of a mile i suppose
41:12you
41:24so the instinct to row away is very normal very human everybody wants to get away from the scene
41:33of an accident or a disaster and this ship is huge people have never seen anything this big
41:45captain smith is out there with his megaphone barking orders
41:49bring those boats back for the lifeboats to come back and pick up other passengers
42:04it's almost instinctive and it's driven into you from the day you join the royal navy or the merchant
42:10navy that you obey your captain and do as he says he is god in a sense and therefore not to do as
42:16you're told is a heinous crime
42:23quartermaster hitchens who is in command of one of the lifeboats said it's our lives now not theirs
42:30i find that quite extraordinary the bottom line should be i want to save as many as i can
42:36it's our lives now not theirs this is the moment of mutiny this is when all order has broken down
42:46we are not going to stand by anymore and drown because you tell us to fair enough
42:58we had gone perhaps half a mile when the officer ordered the men to cease rowing
43:06no other boat was in sight we didn't even have a lantern to signal with
43:16no sound reached us except the music from the band which i was aware of for the first time
43:41those brave musicians
43:51they were playing lively tunes ragtime
44:00i will never forget the terrible beauty of the titanic at that moment
44:04i started to count the rows of lights
44:19one
44:22two
44:24three
44:27four
44:29five
44:31i stopped
44:39surely i i had miscounted
44:45i went over them again more carefully and i'd made no mistake
44:51there are only five decks now
44:57as if all could read my mind the women in the boat started to
45:02weep
45:02some silently some unrestrainedly
45:15just before launching the last lifeboat
45:18i'd made my final hurried visit to the emergency stairway
45:22to gauge how quickly she was going down
45:31it was then conclusively evident that
45:34not only was she going but she was going very soon
45:43even in pants and sweater over pajamas alone i was in a bath of perspiration
45:48if we were to avoid the disgrace of
45:52going down with lifeboats still hanging to the davits there wasn't one moment to lose
45:56the forward well deck was under water
46:11i saw phillips still sending away
46:14i suspect many people on the ship by now are in an altered state
46:19which we know is what happens when people are facing death
46:23jack phillips won't leave his post
46:27it is a clear single focus on what you believe to be right
46:32and he believes the right thing to do is to stay there
46:35until it's all over again phillips called cqd and sos for nearly five minutes and got no reply
46:41we now realized the awful state of affairs the ship listing heavily to port and forward
46:58i thought it was about time to look about and see if there was anything that would float
47:03i remembered that every member of the crew had a life belt
47:05and then i thought how cold the water was
47:09i remembered i had some boots and i put those on and an extra jacket we picked up the olympic and
47:15told that we were sinking by the head and we're about all down
47:19phillips is leading from the front he's a hero it's easier to understand fear and self-interest
47:30than it is to understand sacrifice and heroism especially now in our world we think that
47:38everything is about greed and me first that generation did not as phillips was sending the
47:46message i strapped the life belt to his back i'd already put on his overcoat wondered if i could get
47:51him into his boots just at that moment the captain came into the cabin
47:56and said men you have done your full duty you can do no more abandon your cabin
48:04now it's every man for himself i release you
48:10every man for himself now in the conflicts i trained for and it's unimaginable that we would
48:15ever find ourselves in a circumstance where it was every man for themselves all of the order has been
48:20lost and actually trying to maintain that order whether it's you know pointing a gun at a
48:26crowd or you know screaming at the top of your voice all you're doing in that circumstance is wasting energy
48:47the last of the hard hulled lifeboats have been dispatched but there is still
48:52two collapsible lifeboats left on the boat deck they're a little bit more flimsy but they still
48:58are a lifeline there was some disturbance loading the last two forward boats
49:07a large crowd of men were pressing to get into them though there were many crew and men lined up with
49:14apparently not a thought at attempting to board the boats without orders
49:23i saw bruce ismay who had been assisting in loading the last boat push his way into it
49:32really was every man for himself
49:45bruce ismay decides to save himself he is about the only man on board who can't be ordered out of that
49:53spot by any of the remaining crew
50:01you were one of those as the managing director responsible for determining the number of lifeboats
50:07yes in conjunction with these ship builders
50:11when you got into the boat you thought that the titanic was sinking
50:15i did did you know that there were some hundreds of people on that ship
50:19yes who must go down with her who must go down with her who must go down with her who must go down with her
50:23yes i did
50:27there's a load of the lifeboat
50:30has it occurred to you that you as the responsible managing director deciding the number of boats owed
50:37your life to every other person on that ship it has not
50:43i have searched my mind with the deepest care
50:45i'm sure i did nothing that i shouldn't have done
50:50my conscience is clear
50:53i took a chance of escape when it came to me i did not seek it
50:58it is true i'm president of the company but i didn't consider myself any different from the rest of
51:04the passengers
51:06i took no other man's place
51:16i took no man's place
51:19this is palpably untrue
51:22but i think he must believe it
51:25i think that bruce ismay comes from a class of society
51:30who believes that they have everything they have because of grit and character i mean it's like
51:37being a billionaire today in a world of hungry people the only way you can live with yourself
51:43is to imagine that you deserve it in some way
51:47and so i think that bruce ismay believes contrary to all rational fact
51:55that he hasn't taken someone else's place even though he really must know internally that he has
52:01there was a terrible crowd standing about
52:18the officer in charge pointed a revolver waved his hand and said that if any man
52:30tried to get in
52:32he'd shoot him on the spot
52:33if anyone tries to enter i will shoot
52:37two men tried to break through and he shot them both
52:40i saw him shoot them
52:52i saw them lying
52:53one seemed to be dead the other was trying to pull himself up at the side of the deck but he couldn't
53:05i tried to get to the boat myself but was afraid i would be shot and stayed back
53:23when we rode away from the titanic my face was towards the sinking steamer
53:36the things i saw i'll never forget
53:55i saw an officer
53:59shoot himself through the temple with a revolver
54:06the story of the officer shooting himself is contested even the name of the officer
54:19is in dispute you're meant to help others not shoot them and you're certainly not meant to shoot
54:24yourself when you make a mistake
54:28i saw the officer himself lying on the deck
54:32it's not a line of inquiry that is pursued and i think that is because in edwardian society there
54:44is such a taboo around death by suicide it looks like the easy way out though it can hardly have been
54:53seen so it suggests that the people who did it have failed that test of being an edwardian man
55:02which is to demonstrate heroism and courage and stoicism in the face of disaster
55:19death stares everyone in the face some will escape some won't
55:41jack phillips he's young but he's responsible he's self-reliant he thinks he's going to die
55:53and so he decides to die doing his best for everyone else
56:02phillips clung on for about 10 minutes after the captain had released him
56:06i learned to love him that night
56:18i suddenly felt for him a great reverence to see him standing there sticking to his work
56:25while everybody else was raging about
56:35i will never forget the work of phillips for those last awful minutes
56:47he was a brave man
56:48people find themselves facing this life or death moment together
56:59titanic broke in two before my eyes
57:02striking water was like a thousand knives being driven into one's body
57:09to die slowly within a shot of people who might save your life there's a particular cruelty to that
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