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Titanic Sinks Tonight - Season 1 Episode 2 -
A Chance of Rescue
A Chance of Rescue
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00:00I was afraid of the sea but I listened to the people who said take the new
00:17Titanic she cannot come to any harm new inventions have made a safe
00:30he told me that apparently we'd struck something
00:50I didn't become alarmed there was no danger they said
01:05I told her to come at once we were sinking
01:11you can imagine the chaos and the fear and the terror of finding water in your cabin and your
01:20in the bowels of the ship it makes me panic just thinking about it the story of the
01:26Titanic is the human condition spread out pinned on a board for us to examine then
01:33came the terrible cry women and children women and children two men lifted me up
01:41and put me in a boat it's these small decisions these little butterfly effect
01:47moments that change the outcome
01:49it really was every man for himself
02:05my heart stood still
02:09if we're gonna die that's to die gripping something
02:26it's a split-second decision what would you do what would I do
02:32it was a terrible sight men swimming and sinking
02:43I'd been brought up to believe in a hell after death
02:57for now I think I went through a hell that night
03:05I thought I would have been screaming
03:08it was
03:20Norah
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04:04Mr. Harvey ordered me to fetch some men down.
04:14I got between 15 and 20.
04:23The engineers put the pumps on.
04:29Those who would have gone off duty stairs on.
04:34Right now on the Titanic, there's a red alert emergency.
04:42Down below in the boiler room, all the crew, the firemen that would normally be down there,
04:47have been called back on shift to try to pump out the water that is flooding into the compartment.
04:54Imagine it, there's steam everywhere.
04:58There's the groaning, creaking, splitting sounds of the ship itself.
05:04It's terrifying.
05:06They 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, but can they hold it back just a little bit longer
05:26in 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.
06:26The captain knows that the decisions that are made in the coming minutes, hours,
06:31ultimately that will be the decider on how many people will make it off of the ship alive.
06:35Send a call for assistance, ordered the captain.
06:57Which call should I send?
06:59The Regulation International Call for Help.
07:01Just that.
07:04And the captain was gone.
07:07The next moment we sent an urgent distress call.
07:15So in the radio room right now, it's a race against time.
07:19The operators must send out the distress signal.
07:24It's the standard Morse code signal that will tell shipping in the area
07:29that the Titanic is in trouble and needs help.
07:34These two young men, they're in their 20s,
07:38and now are responsible for seeking rescue for the unsinkable ship Titanic.
07:45My boats were along the port side.
08:08My 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.
08:20We know what to do.
08:22Up to this time, we hadn't had chance for a boat drill,
08:25beyond just lowering some of the boats in Southampton.
08:29The crew of the Titanic had been put through a fine sift
08:34and care taken that there were no misfits.
08:39A tap on the shoulder, an indication with the hand,
08:42was quite sufficient to set the men about the different jobs.
08:46Clearing away boat covers,
08:48hauling tight the falls,
08:49ready for lowering.
08:51We're not going to see hysteria.
08:55We're not even going to see anxiety at this point,
08:57not least because the information is distorted and fragmented.
09:02Nobody is thinking that the ship is going to sink.
09:05Only Captain Smith really knows the extent of what is happening.
09:09The water, having reached F deck,
09:16showed me she'd been badly holed.
09:19Although I knew it was serious,
09:22I had not a thought that it was likely to prove fatal.
09:24I figured that she'd go so far
09:27until she balanced her buoyancy
09:29and there she would remain.
09:33The captain doesn't share the information he has
09:36with all the officers that the ship is going down.
09:38And precisely why he hasn't shared it remains a mystery.
09:43It may be a strategy he doesn't want them to panic.
09:47Maybe it reflects an internal chaos.
09:49He doesn't know who to tell or when.
09:52The reality is, for the crew in the Titanic at this moment,
09:56they have no idea what level of catastrophe they're in.
09:59They just know they have a job to do.
10:08There 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,
11:00the wealthy and the powerful have an innate advantage.
11:04They are top of the list.
11:10Suddenly, orders came down.
11:12Everybody to the boats.
11:20All stewards and stewardesses were on duty in their sections
11:24to assist and direct people.
11:28I continued through my section,
11:31trying to reassure,
11:33reminding people to put on warm clothing,
11:36take blankets and valuables.
11:38Violet 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.
11:56They have to demonstrate extraordinary self-control
11:59and put these other people first.
12:02Of course, we reiterated from room to room
12:09that it was just precautionary measure.
12:13Everywhere I found...
12:16..extraordinary calmness.
12:20People who'd been asleep were dressing,
12:24fumbling, sleepy-eyed, with buttons.
12:27They were...
12:30..they were unemotional.
12:35Probably thinking, as I did,
12:37that it was all too fantastic.
12:43The 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.
13:01It'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.
13:11BELL RINGS
13:12Stuart knocked at the door.
13:17Sorry to alarm you, madam,
13:21but the captain's orders
13:22are that all passengers
13:24should put on lifebelts.
13:28He laughed and joked as he helped us.
13:32Wrap up warmly.
13:33We may have a little trip
13:34for an hour or so
13:35in one of the lifeboats.
13:37What a very fetching car is that?
13:38Cosmo was so brave
13:40to try and keep us in good spirits,
13:42making a bad jest
13:44as to how unappetising
13:46we both looked in those
13:47sickly white life preservers.
13:54Lucy Lady Duff Gordon
13:56is one of the most prominent
13:58people on board.
14:00After divorcing her previous husband,
14:02she managed to build up
14:04her business,
14:05which is a fashion design house,
14:07into a multi-million pound enterprise.
14:10And this is a time when
14:11many women don't even have bank accounts.
14:13So 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.
14:35It didn't seem possible.
14:38There could be any danger.
14:43A bit of vase of flowers
14:44on the washstand
14:45slid off and fell to the floor.
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15:12There could be any danger.
15:13Slowly 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.
15:53I 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
16:20portals.
16:21It's a box that can see the nearest ship to the Titanic, which is the California.
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 sings.
16:50The captain said, we've spotted a steamer on the horizon.
16:57I told the captain about this ship.
16:59He said, tell them to come at once.
17:02We are sinking.
17:03We are sinking.
17:09We are sinking.
17:10We are sinking.
17:11We are sinking.
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17:16After the signal had been sent out, the ether seemed to be dead.
17:43No reply came through.
17:47Californian isn't picking up any signals.
17:50The radio operator has gone to bed, not because he's negligent, but because he's allowed to
17:54go to bed.
17:55There's no duty to stay in the radio room all night.
17:58And many ships did not ask this of their operators.
18:08Then, suddenly, a chance message comes in from a wireless operator on another ship,
18:14the Carpathia.
18:19I was about to retire.
18:21I'd taken my coat off.
18:23I should have been turning in in about ten minutes.
18:27Called the Titanic.
18:30And his only answer was, Struckerberg.
18:38Come at once.
18:42We told her our position and said we were sinking by the head.
18:46I asked him if he intended me to go get the ship turned round immediately.
18:53And he said yes, quick.
18:58The operator went to tell his captain.
19:03The 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
19:16in trouble.
19:17The captain of the Carpathia 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.
19:28That's the rule of the sea.
19:30So here is a chance of rescue.
19:34As long as Carpathia is able to get there in time.
20:04Though 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.
20:16There was the strangest scene.
20:24People bundled up in old clothes, boarding lifeboats in the night.
20:32Pew seemed to want to brave the dark sea in an open boat.
20:40And it was only after considerable coaxing that many went at all.
20:45People don't want to get in.
20:47Why would you want to get out of your warm bed and go in a lifeboat into the freezing
20:50water when there's no problem?
20:52You wouldn't.
20:53This is like a really annoying fire drill at school.
20:57And everybody says, no, I'll just stay here until it's finished.
21:00At that point in time, the general public weren't really trusted.
21:06Keeping 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.
21:15That information was completely lacking at this point on Titanic.
21:21We were just walking forward when a sailor tried to drag me away from Cosmo.
21:42The officers called for women and children.
21:52So Captain Smith has ordered that women and children should be evacuated and they should
21:57be prioritized.
21:59In the port side, the second officer, Officer Light Toller, interprets it as women and children
22:07only.
22:09The consequence of this is that if you are a family turning up on the port side,
22:16you will be separated and the men will not be allowed on the lifeboats.
22:24Saving the lives of women and children comes from deep in the Edwardian mindset.
22:30Women at the time are seen as having a kind of childish status.
22:34I mean, this is before they've been allowed to vote.
22:37And they are perceived to have a physical and mental weakness
22:42that means that men have to be their protectors.
22:45Please step back, sir. Please step back.
22:50I have no such ideas about my husband.
22:53It would have been too awful to have been alone.
22:58Every time Officer Lightholler prevents a man from getting into a lifeboat,
23:02there is the possibility that his wife won't go.
23:06That they will stay on board the ship.
23:09So he's actually potentially endangering the lives of the precise people
23:13he's been told to prioritize to save.
23:15Let me go!
23:16In a great emergency like that, where there were limited facilities,
23:20could you not have put more people into boats?
23:21In a great emergency like that, where there were limited facilities,
23:25could you not have put more people into boats?
23:26I did not know it was urgent then. I had no idea it was urgent.
23:30You did not know it was urgent.
23:31You did not know it was urgent.
23:32Nothing like it.
23:33You did not know it was urgent.
23:34Nothing like it.
23:35Nothing like it.
24:06You did not know it was urgent.
24:09Lightholler wants to do a good job, clearly.
24:12Maybe if he'd known the ship was sinking,
24:15he would have allowed men in to fill up the spaces in the lifeboats.
24:20But because the captain is withholding information,
24:23people like Lightholler can't do their job properly,
24:26and this will have disastrous consequences.
24:32What one wants is to have a very good relationship,
24:35a band of brothers.
24:37When you've got that,
24:38you must keep them informed of what's going on
24:40and what we call nowadays mission command.
24:43In other words,
24:44you let them know what you want to achieve overall,
24:46you tell them all the facts,
24:48and then you let them get on with it.
24:50I think that Captain Smith was overwhelmed
24:53by the enormity of what was happening
24:55and was not really grasping it and taking charge.
25:20The operator returned and told us the Carpathia was putting about
25:34and heading for us.
25:40Our captain had left us at this time.
25:42Phillips told me to run and tell him what the Carpathia had answered.
25:44I went through an awful mass of people to his cabin.
25:54The decks were full.
26:02I came back and heard Phillips giving the Carpathia full of directions.
26:05He told me to put my clothes on.
26:07Until that moment, I forgot I wasn't dressed.
26:16I went to my cabin and dressed and brought an overcoat to Phillips.
26:21It was very cold.
26:23I slipped the overcoat on him while it worked.
26:28Imagine the relief in the radio room.
26:30Carpathia has answered the distress call,
26:33is coming their way.
26:38But although she's going as fast as she can,
26:41she's having to go through the same ice field
26:43where Titanic has floundered.
26:50She's four hours away
26:51and Titanic isn't going to stay afloat that long.
27:04The nearest ship to Titanic is the Californian.
27:09But the radio operator is still asleep.
27:12Nobody is aware of any problem in the Titanic.
27:15The crew of the Titanic have to think on their feet.
27:22So they start to use Morse lamps
27:24and send a signal using light rather than a sound.
27:29The ship was close enough, I thought,
27:31to read our electric Morse signal.
27:34So I signalled her.
27:35I told her to come at once.
27:41We were sinking.
27:44The captain was with me most of the time.
27:46We were signalling.
27:48I would signal with the Morse
27:49and then go back and look at the ship.
27:57I cannot say I saw any reply.
28:06In a crisis,
28:08you just have to increase your chances of survival.
28:12Survival is all about probability.
28:13You know, throwing as much muck at the wall as possible
28:16and seeing what sticks.
28:20Then we started sending off these distressed rockets,
28:24the quartermaster and I on the bridge.
28:31They go right up into the air and throw stars.
28:35I can't believe I could be in there.
28:36I'm sorry.
28:38I can't believe I have enough of my injuries as Minerva.
28:39I was a really good government,
28:41I can't believe I had enough of myς.
28:44They dove into the sand.
28:45At that point,
28:47I can't believe I can't believe I could be in there.
28:48I know.
28:49I'm not talking about my wife except for the Kena.
28:51I can't believe I had enough of my life since I made a trip.
28:53The future wouldn't be in there.
28:55Maybe I might have an anger if my wife is enough of my life.
28:57The future might have been a nightmare,
28:59and I have twoкол google,
29:00and the future might have been too many times.
29:02And you have two탕 to me!
29:03Right 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.
30:10They were really left in the dark.
30:12They are wading through water.
30:17They're not aware of what's going on, the rescue mission going on in the upper decks.
30:21They had to work it out themselves.
30:23My husband had left some money in our cabin, and there were all our clothes and things that we were taking to America.
30:37Salini is from Hardin, which was in Lebanon, and she's a newlywed bride.
30:49And her older husband is taking her to live with him in America.
30:55They are caught between going up to the higher decks and the desire to keep their belongings well.
31:03It's easy to underestimate just how important things are to a migrant, to someone who's leaving home forever.
31:13Do you want to arrive in New York destitute, with nothing to your name, nothing to pay for a room?
31:21Of course not.
31:28We returned to try and get our clothes, money, and jewelry.
31:35We started down for them.
31:37But the water on our deck was waist deep.
31:45We never got there.
31:59Depending on where you are in the ship right now, you're going to start seeing a lot of water.
32:04The third-class passengers in particular, water in any quantity is terrifying because you can't push it away.
32:14You can't fight it.
32:15People are now seeing evidence with their own eyes.
32:18It's not rumor.
32:19It'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.
32:26By 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.
33:00Charlotte Collier is a second-class passenger.
33:02She's traveling with her husband, Harvey, and her eight-year-old daughter, Marjorie.
33:06Charlotte has health issues.
33:07She has tuberculosis.
33:08So she's eager to find a new climate for her health, as well as whatever economic benefit
33:14they might get from migrating.
33:16While this whole hour has passed in which the first-class passengers are being evacuated,
33:28they were told to stay in their cabin.
33:33They are sitting there and worrying, and no one is telling them anything.
33:38Suddenly, we heard people running along the passageway in front of our door.
33:51Their feet reminded me of rats scurrying.
33:57I could see my face had grown very white.
34:01My husband stammered when he spoke to me.
34:06He said we had better go on deck and see what's wrong.
34:19For anyone that was feeling confused or was just following the rules,
34:23it's very clear something major is now happening.
34:29It's going to be terrifying, especially if you're a parent with a young child.
34:36When we went on board the Titanic, every 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.
34:56I had a big dolly that I got two Christmases before,
35:00and we were in such a hurry that I left it behind.
35:07I cried for my dolly, but we couldn't go back.
35:10When we reached the deck, there was a great many people.
35:25Some of them were crying.
35:39I was crying for my doll, but nobody could go back and get her.
35:43It's just a precaution, okay?
35:49An officer said you should put on life preservers.
35:52So, mother put one on me and then fastened one around herself.
35:58Papa put one on too.
36:00Do you know?
36:02My husband stepped over to an officer and asked him a question.
36:10Excuse me.
36:11Yes, 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, a few of the officers know,
36:27but it's important to keep this away because of panic.
36:31But now, because of the noise, the tilt,
36:34people are realising that something is wrong.
36:38All the water that had been thrown on the furnaces,
36:54just making the stock all thick with steam.
37:00Mr. Shepherds was walking across in a hurry to do something.
37:03And he fell down the hole and broke his leg.
37:15He lifted him up and carried him.
37:29There was a knocking noise.
37:33All at once, I saw a wave of green foam tearing between the boilers.
37:38A rush of water came through.
37:45I never stopped to look.
37:47I just jumped for the escape ladder.
37:48A huge wave of green water comes flying through into the room
38:06because the coal bunker has been gradually filling up and filling up
38:10and filling up with the pressure.
38:12And then it bursts and suddenly it's all over them.
38:15Another engineer, Jonathan Shepard,
38:17has already slipped and broken his leg
38:20so he can't escape this wall of water.
38:28And he's the first casualty to die on the Titanic.
38:32I went off the escape and into the main alleyway.
38:46The Titanic was slowing down by the head.
39:02Water was coming down the alleyway from forward.
39:06Now that boiler room five is filled with water,
39:16the engineers realise that all their efforts are futile.
39:20There's no point pumping it out anymore.
39:22It's coming in faster than anyone can manage it.
39:26This is a moment of terror and certainty.
39:35Perhaps this is the first moment
39:38where these brave men realise
39:41that the ship is going to go down.
39:43All passengers upstairs.
40:02At last.
40:03I...
40:06I returned to my room.
40:15I began tidying up.
40:17Folding my nightgown.
40:18Putting everything in its place.
40:23There was...
40:24There was no sound.
40:27Titanic might have been in dock
40:29and all the crew gone home.
40:30I saw Stanley at the door watching me.
40:46And he...
40:48He almost shouted at me as he seized my arm.
40:52My God, don't you realise this ship will sink?
40:55You have to follow the rest upstairs
40:57as quickly as possible.
40:59Sinking.
41:08The word...
41:09...repeated itself without fully...
41:13...fully entering my understanding.
41:16My mind could not accept that the super...
41:25...perfect creation was to do so futile a thing...
41:29...as sink.
41:32Of course...
41:33Titanic...
41:34...couldn't be sinking.
41:36Suddenly...
41:53...there was a commotion near one of the gangways...
41:56...and...
41:58...we saw a stoker...
41:59...come up from below.
42:04All the fingers...
42:05...of one hand had been cut off.
42:10Blood was...
42:11...running from the stumps...
42:14...and was spattered...
42:16...on his face and clothes.
42:18It...
42:20...brought up a picture of...
42:23...smashed engines and...
42:26...mangled human bodies.
42:30I went over to speak to him.
42:33I asked him...
42:34...if there was any danger.
42:37Danger?
42:38I should say so.
42:39I should say so.
42:41It's hell down below.
42:45This ship will sink like a stone.
42:52At this moment I...
42:55...got my first grip...
42:57...of fear.
42:59I should say so.
43:16Those in charge...
43:17...herded us...
43:18...towards the nearest boat.
43:23Then...
43:24...above the clamour...
43:25...came the terrible cry...
43:27...lower the boat...
43:29...women and children.
43:32Women and children only.
43:33That's women and children only.
43:36Someone was shouting...
43:38...these last few words...
43:39...over and over again.
43:41Women and children only.
43:42That's women and children only.
43:44That's women and children only.
43:45Women and children only.
43:47Women and children only.
43:52It might be that Light Holler...
43:54...has this kind of rigid view...
43:55...of the world.
43:56He's come in with a set of rules.
43:59It might be that...
44:00...under this stressful situation...
44:02...it's the only way he can function.
44:04He can't cope with more information...
44:06...and more decision-making...
44:07...so he just sticks to this one option.
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49:50Because the early lifeboats went out half full, there are now only about 900 places left
50:04on 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.
50:17Suddenly we saw some sailors who were launching a little boat.
50:26It was the captain's special boat.
50:32Lucy Duff Gordon knows that she needs to get off the ship.
50:38This is the moment to take one of those spaces.
50:45My husband asked the officer if we might get into it.
50:57We 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.
51:18I think that class probably had a huge impact on people's sense of entitlement to safety,
51:27to rescue.
51:30You probably did assume that if you bought a first class ticket, then that would buy you
51:34survival.
51:37They are people who are important in the world.
51:40They see themselves as having more value than people in steerage.
51:46And there they are as a couple sitting safely in a lifeboat.
51:57I shall never forget how black and deep the water looked below us.
52:05Women 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.
52:17women standing nearby joked with us, because we were going out on the ocean.
52:24Women and children only.
52:26Women and children only.
52:31I found myself clinging to my husband's arm
52:49with little Marjorie beside me.
52:54I did not want to leave him.
52:58Charlotte knows she'll be separated from her husband.
53:01Not knowing if and when they'd be reunited,
53:03I think she probably was just thinking,
53:05please, no, not this.
53:07I want to survive, but not at this cost.
53:11Dilemmas that you just have to accept in that moment,
53:16those are...
53:18Yeah, those are heavy.
53:23Officer Lytle, you know, the man's been at sea
53:27since he was 13.
53:29He doesn't have that understanding of what it means
53:33when a woman is clinging to her husband,
53:35when a child is crying for their father.
53:38He just goes ahead with what he believes to be right.
53:43But it's not objectively right.
53:48From what you have said,
53:49you discriminated entirely in the interest of the women and children
53:52in filling those lifeboats.
53:54Yes.
53:57Why did you do that?
53:58Because of the captain's orders
54:00or because of the rule of the sea?
54:03The rule of human nature.
54:05The deck seemed to be slipping under my feet.
54:14I hung onto my husband's arm.
54:20And although he was very brave
54:22and not trembling,
54:25I saw his face was white as paper.
54:33Port, all-star board.
54:37That sliding doors moment
54:38will determine who survives and who doesn't.
54:41Keep moving along the deck.
54:42We are filling the lifeboats.
54:44Women and children only.
54:45That's women and children only.
54:47Women and children.
54:48Women and children.
54:52They struck utter terror into my heart
54:54and now they'll ring in my ears till I die.
55:28There was a lot of confusion.
55:48People crying, swearing and praying.
55:53There's a really stark disadvantage facing third-class passengers.
55:57Chief officer shoved one of the revolvers into my hands.
56:01Chekhov said you can't put a gun in the room and not use it.
56:06All of the order has been lost.
56:09I called out, don't shoot.
56:11You're out, don't shoot.
56:17You're out.
56:27I went out, don't you?
56:27You're out, don't shoot.
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