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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.
03:24For now, I think it's a
03:49I nipped along to have a look down the emergency staircase to gauge the speed the water was rising.
04:19That cold green water crawling its ghostly way. The electric lights shone under the surface with a weird effect.
04:35Sir Lightoller knows now things are getting more serious. He thought this thing could not go down and now he knows it could sink. This is a terrible shock for him.
04:49Captain Smith is at fault here. He has not informed his senior officers of what he has known for some time.
05:00It's very hard to know why Captain Smith did not give out the information to his most trusted command.
05:06Maybe it's important to keep this away to stop them panicking and to keep control.
05:13There are just ten standard lifeboats left on the ship along with four collapsibles. There's 2,000 souls and more on board and only around 700 places.
05:38There's no rescue ship coming anytime soon. So if you don't get in, you're gonna die.
05:45Oh!
05:55Keep moving up and downboxed!
05:58Lightoller is going to continue doing exactly what he's done before but with even more fervour and rigidity enforcing the plan.
06:07It's the only thing he can do.
06:14Charlotte Collier is just about holding herself together
06:17in her family unit, her husband, Harvey,
06:20and her little daughter, Marjorie.
06:24Mr. Lowe rushed among the passengers
06:29and ordered the women into the boats.
06:33Many of them followed him in a dazed kind of way,
06:41and others stayed with their men.
06:45A sailor caught Marjorie in his arms,
06:50tore her away from me, and threw her into the boat.
06:57I was crying for my doll.
07:00Then two men lifted me up and put me in a boat.
07:09She was not even given a chance to tell her father goodbye.
07:13You too, a man, yelled, you're a woman.
07:21Take a seat in that boat or it will be too late.
07:24I heard my husband say,
07:27Go, Lottie, for God's sake, be brave and go.
07:33And saw my husband's back as he walked steadily down the deck
07:37and disappeared among the men.
07:50If they'd not wrenched Marjorie away from me,
07:54I wish I had gone with him.
07:59The coaches deferential veneer is not there anymore.
08:10The officers will pull apart women from their men
08:14and make them go into the boats whether they want to or not.
08:18This is new in the course of the night.
08:21And it's frightening.
08:30There's a really stark disadvantage facing third-class passengers
08:35from the beginning.
08:37They are stuck in the bowels of the ship,
08:40trying to get to where the lifeboats are.
08:46I had been seasick the whole trip.
08:59All I wanted was to be left alone so I could lie down.
09:07Anna Heerblom is a teenager from Finland.
09:09She's a Swedish speaker.
09:11A third of steerage passengers on the Titanic
09:14were from Nordic countries.
09:16There were so many people who did not speak English.
09:18They spoke Spanish, Arabic, Swedish.
09:21Swedish is the second most spoken language.
09:24When the boat struck the 14th of April,
09:28which was my birthday, I was 18.
09:32I didn't become alarmed.
09:37I just couldn't believe that this wonderful ship
09:41could possibly be in trouble.
09:46There are 14 stewardesses in first class
09:49to help those passengers leave the ship.
09:53In third class, there's only one.
09:55There was no tunneling system or announcement
10:01of what was going on, of what to do.
10:04They had to work it out themselves.
10:06A crash woke me up.
10:25Nearly jolted me from my bed.
10:29I put on my trousers and shoes and got up.
10:40Eugene Daly is a 29-year-old textile worker
10:43from County Westmeath in Ireland.
10:46After years of saving, he's immigrating to America
10:49along with his cousin Maggie, her friend Bertha
10:52and his beloved Irish pipes.
10:54The stewards came through and told the passengers
10:59that they shouldn't be frightened.
11:03There was no danger, they said.
11:07Everything was all right and that I might go back.
11:18The third class passengers don't know what's going on
11:21because they're not being told.
11:23And there's nothing worse than having an idea
11:25that something's really wrong
11:27but not knowing exactly what it is.
11:30Above deck, the first and second class passengers
11:33and the crew, they can all see there aren't enough boats left.
11:37And there are hundreds of them on deck.
11:40I stood at the bulkhead with the other stewardesses.
11:48A ship's officer ordered us into the boat.
11:52Some lifeboats are only at half capacity.
11:56Now, there's fear everywhere,
11:58so they're filling them up as quickly as they can.
12:04Looking along the length of the ship,
12:06I noticed the forward part of her was lower now.
12:15Much lower.
12:21My heart stood still.
12:22You know, in the military, this is what we talk about triaging.
12:37This is a case of thinking,
12:38how many people can we save at this point?
12:41There's only room for 800 people in the lifeboats that remain.
12:45So that's best case scenario.
12:47But in crisis situations,
12:49you're not getting the best case scenario.
12:51Within the panic, the confusion.
12:55The boat was full now.
13:01As the boat was being lowered,
13:04the ship's officer called,
13:06here, Miss Jessop,
13:08look after this baby.
13:10Someone had dumped it on the deck beside his feet.
13:23At this stage, Violet is handed a baby
13:25that has been sort of separated from their family
13:29or whoever was caring for them at that point.
13:31It's hard to fathom that.
13:36That panic beginning to spread,
13:37it's making their circumstances worse.
13:40It's making everybody's chance of survival worse.
13:43But it's such a natural reaction.
13:45I could hear the commotion overhead increasing.
13:59I decided to go up even though I still felt very ill.
14:04I was fully clothed and I had a lifebelt.
14:20My railroad ticket to Tacoma
14:22and a small amount of money were sewed in a little bag
14:25and hung around my neck so that I couldn't lose it.
14:28I went down into the room where Maggie Daly and Bertha Mulvill Hill were.
14:36The men and women in third class are separated.
14:41So for Eugene to find Maggie and Bertha,
14:43he has to cross from one end of the ship to another.
14:46No one is guiding them.
14:47No one is saying this is the best way to get around the flooding.
14:51They have to work it out themselves.
14:53Come with me.
15:00Come with me.
15:01The ship is sinking.
15:06There's hundreds of third class passengers
15:08trying to navigate the warren of corridors, hallways, staircases,
15:12and they're trying to get to a part of the ship, the boat deck,
15:16that they've never been allowed onto before.
15:18It's difficult to convey the size of a ship like the Titanic.
15:24It took me 14 days before I could find my way
15:28from one part of that ship to another by the shortest route.
15:32Eugene, Maggie, and Bertha must navigate up several decks to the boat deck.
15:39It's now a very challenging situation
15:41and the feeling of a loss of control on the part of the crew
15:44is getting stronger and stronger.
15:45It was about this time that the chief officer came over from the starboard side
15:50and asked, did I know where the firearms were?
15:54I told the chief officer, yes, come along and I'll get them for you.
15:58Come along and I'll get them for you.
16:02Drawing weapons is very unusual.
16:07The officers clearly were aware of how panic was setting in
16:11and order and discipline amongst people were falling apart.
16:17There are guns on board the Titanic.
16:19Like the lifeboats, nobody expected to ever have to use them.
16:24Into the first officer's cabin we went.
16:30The chief, Murdoch, the captain, and myself.
16:37I hauled them out.
16:39Still in all their pristine newness and grease.
16:42I was going out when the chief officer shoved one of the revolvers into my hands
16:55with a handful of ammunition.
16:57It said, here you are.
17:00You may need it.
17:01The fact of the matter is there are far more passengers than crew.
17:07British and American society at this time is hierarchical and it's rules based.
17:12People will do what they are told.
17:14But not when their lives are at stake.
17:17This is what the officers fear.
17:19But you know, Chekhov said you can't put a gun in the room and not use it.
17:24Third class passengers naturally gravitated towards the aft well deck,
17:43which is the outdoor space they've had use of.
17:46But it is still three decks below the boat deck where the lifeboats are.
17:50There was a lot of confusion with people running around, crying, swearing and praying.
18:12Since I couldn't speak English, I hardly knew what was happening.
18:16I had to push people apart to find a place to walk.
18:28She doesn't speak English.
18:30There's no one experienced to advise her.
18:33So she's working this all out with so much against her.
18:37There's a sea of passengers already gathered there.
18:40So Eugene and Anna are joining this throng of people.
18:43I went up on deck.
18:47People were running around.
18:50The Titanic being an immigrant ship must conform to American and British immigration laws.
18:57And one of those laws is around quarantine, maintaining steerage class passengers in areas separate from the first and second class passengers to stop the spread of disease.
19:08Before the third class passengers have even boarded Titanic.
19:12They've had to be subjected to medical examinations.
19:15They're hemmed in by locked gates.
19:18And these same gates that were meant to prevent ill health are now blocking their access to the lifeboats.
19:24Eugene's cousin Maggie tries to go back to her cabin.
19:26But that corridor is under five foot of water.
19:31There's no chance she can make it.
19:33And she turns back.
19:35All this time we knew that the water was coming up and up rapidly.
19:39To know that safety is on the other side of that locked gate, it must make them despair.
19:47The boat was practically full and there were no other women anywhere near it when fifth officer Lowe jumped in and ordered it lowered.
20:15A young lad, hardly more than a schoolboy, was standing close to the rail.
20:25Now, realising he was to be left behind, he leapt down into the boat and crawled under a seat.
20:34But the officer dragged him to his feet and ordered him back onto the ship.
20:47We begged for his life.
20:48Please give him a chance.
20:49The officer drew his revolver and thrust it into his face.
21:02I gave you ten seconds to get back onto that ship before I blow your brains out.
21:08Please, please.
21:12The lad only begged harder.
21:15Please, please, please, please don't.
21:17My mother said I called out.
21:19Don't shoot!
21:21The officer suddenly changed his tone.
21:30He lowered his revolver and looked the boy squarely in the eyes.
21:40for god's sake be a man we have got women and children
21:46we have women and children the little lad turned around and climbed back without a word
21:54he was not saved
22:00to avoid another occurrence of that sort i fired my revolver as i was going down each deck
22:14because the boat wouldn't stand a sudden jerk she was loaded already with people and would not stand
22:21anymore actually drawing the gun shows that the ship's officers realized that things were very
22:32very desperate indeed and of course we did not have enough lifeboats for everybody on board
22:37there are 10 lifeboats left on deck now and 1960 people still to save titanic now was so low in
22:47the water that iconic areas like the grand staircase and some of the luxury state rooms were flooding
22:54there's no doubt at all that this was unstoppable it was merely a question of time
23:00phillips told me the wireless was growing weaker
23:15jack 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
23:33on the nearest ship the californian nobody recognized or responded to the distress
23:40phillips flares but phillips still believes that as long as he can get signals out he may be of some
23:47use but now the electricity is starting to fail
23:52then he does get a message from his sister ship olympic
23:58but 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 getting
24:19through for this young man in his mid-twenties 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
24:35the 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
24:57a number of hot-headed italians and other people who got crazy and made for the stairs these men tried
25:07to rush the stairway pushing and crowding and pulling the women down
25:13at this moment we would expect the adrenaline to kick in the body wants to survive and it gives us some sort
25:21of innate choices you might fight your way to the front physically people might freeze where they're
25:26just stuck then terror they don't know what to do we also see people who are turning inward and that
25:33would be turning to god as well making the sign of the cross and so on the first class deck was higher
25:39up than the steerage deck and there were some steps leading up to it and a gate at the top of the steps
25:45they tried to keep us down at first on our steerage deck at the back of the ship they're trying to
25:53keep order but by doing so in such a chaotic way they probably contribute to a greater loss of life
26:00than they realized i can't say who they were i think they were sailors
26:09they 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
26:28the third class were left marginalized and endangered by cruise actions
26:33there was no help of any kind to reach safety
26:49so 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
27:07i got talking to a young swedish girl returning to the united states
27:15she knew about an emergency stairway to where the lifeboats were
27:21anna'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
27:41we climbed ladder up to the first class deck and then an officer saw me
27:51and dragged me up to the next deck
27:54we passed a window and we looked into a beautiful room what the tables were so beautifully set
28:09the 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
28:39of cognitive toolkit to be able to get through those situations all kinds of skills where you've
28:45needed to survive and depend on yourself and that translates really quite well to an emergency
28:51scenario the 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
29:21the gate was broken all the stearage 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
29:40i rushed to the lifeboats there 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
30:00end of the ship and the others are hundreds of yards ahead
30:03seeing only four lifeboats available and nearly 2 000 people trying to get into them there is such panic in that crowd
30:17everywhere everybody was confused
30:21i saw a lot of people catholics make the sign of the cross
30:27i 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 that
30:46we are programmed to have a sort of visceral reaction to i remember from living through my
30:53trauma my wounding in afghanistan sounds stay with you far more than sights that is a powerful thing
30:59for the senses to take on board and for ultimately you to then have to live with
31:05i tried to get into a lifeboat and i was pushed back
31:12it seemed as though i would go down with the ship
31:26it seemed as though i would go down with the ship and i would go down with the ship and
31:40ideas about self-control and stoicism and self-sacrifice are celebrated as forms of gentlemanliness as well as
31:50manliness these are the values that they've been told to hold to and it means putting yourself
31:58second that is the ideal as far as edwardian society is concerned
32:07bruce ismay who is the managing director of the white star line his father had founded the white
32:11star line and the titanic is basically his idea this is the crowning achievement of his career the
32:18creation of this amazing opulent ship and now he can see that it is all going to the bottom of the sea
32:38did you think it was in a very serious condition
32:41as time got on i did and that the ship was sinking i did
32:51i helped for nearly two hours as far as i can judge at the starboard boats helping women and
32:57children into the boats and blurring them over the side
33:02i think the sensor responsibility for bruce ismay must have been huge and we see this in the fact that
33:09he 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
34:05when i got to the deck of lifeboat was hanging from the davits
34:23number 13 boat it was pretty well filled when i got there
34:28the boat swainer knew me as i'd sailed with them and all the ships before
34:37said to me you get on this boat and 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
34:48at this stage the crew is now starting to really fill the lifeboats so i took his orders and i got on and
34:57she swung from the davits we had women men and two little babies one two months old and the other ten months old
35:08there is no real order people are sitting on top of one another and you know you're sort of being
35:15crushed underneath this mass of people
35:19it's suspended by davits off the side of the ship at this point it's about 18 meters above the water
35:26but every person that gets in adds that weight as that movement as that risk and so there has to be a point
35:33at which you say that's enough about three more people get in after i did and then the orders were
35:41given let no more on that boat or the falls will break that means looking into the whites of people's
35:48eyes and saying there's no more space the boat was being filled with women
36:07maggie and bertha got in and i got it
36:23the officer called me to go back but i got in life was sweet to me and
36:31i wanted to save myself it was the early hours of the morning the lifeboats are being filled to
36:38the broom now overfilled naturally some male passengers want to get in they want to be with
36:44their loved ones so they just want to save their lives as any of us would they told me to get out
36:51but 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 myself
37:31at least i saved the two girls
37:45captain smith had severe doubts about whether
38:00a fully laden lifeboat could be lowered properly he knew there are a lot of people waiting down at
38:06the gangway doors to get into boats and therefore he thought how can i manage to get these boats full
38:13how can i save as many of the people whose lives i am responsible for as is possible
38:19the 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 around to the starboard side
38:38for the gangway doors which was practically on the opposite side to where i was lower
38:47so boxall's lifeboat was only about 45 full
38:50full was meant to go around to the starboard side of the ship to take on more passengers
38:58i had great difficulty in getting that boat around there
39:01there was suction
39:09i was using the stroke horse standing up and there was this lady helping
39:14she was steering around the ship stern when i passed around the boat to get to the gangway
39:22door on the starboard side her propellers were out of water
39:27but when i did eventually reach there
39:34i found that there was such a mob standing at the gangway doors
39:47if they jumped they'd swamp the boat
40:01i 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 didn't
40:23it's a really tricky one because yes crew should follow orders and the structure of discipline is
40:28how you 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 to question orders having said that it's all well and good one
40:42one of your superiors giving you an order but they're not seeing the circumstances that you are witnessing
40:51pull
40:52i pulled off and laid off
40:56until i pulled away about a quarter of a mile i suppose
41:12so 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 navy
42:10that you obey your captain and do as he says he is god in a sense and therefore not to do as you're told
42:17is a heinous crime
42:23quartermaster hitchens who is in command of one of the lifeboats said it's our lives now
42:29not theirs i find that quite extraordinary the bottom line should be i want to save as many as i can
42:35it'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
42:52we had gone perhaps half a mile when the officer ordered the men to cease rowing
43:11no other boat was in sight we didn't even have a lantern to signal with
43:16we lay there in the silence and darkness of that calm sea
43:31no sound reached us
43:35except 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
44:11i started to count the rows of lights
44:22one
44:24two
44:27three
44:29four
44:31five
44:31i stopped
44:39surely i i had miscounted
44:45i went over them again more carefully and i'd made no mistake
44:54there are only five decks now
44:55as if all could read my mind the women in the boat started to weep
45:04some silently some unrestrainedly
45:15just before launching the last lifeboats
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
45:35not 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
45:47if we were to avoid the disgrace of going down with lifeboats still hanging to the davits
45:54there wasn't one moment to lose
46:01the 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 which we know is what happens
46:21when people are facing death jack phillips won't leave his post
46:26it is a clear single focus on what you believe to be right and he believes the right thing to do
46:34is to stay there until 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
47:01i remembered that every member of the crew had a life belt and 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 phillips is leading from the front
47:22he's a hero it's easier to understand fear and self-interest than it is to understand sacrifice
47:34and heroism especially now in our world we think that everything is about greed and me first
47:42that generation did not as phillips was sending the message i strapped the life belt to his back
47:49i'd already put on his overcoat wondered if i could get him into his boots just at that moment the
47:55captain came into the cabin and said men you have done your full duty you can do no more
48:02land in your cabin now 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 crowd or
48:27you know screaming at the top of your voice all you're doing in that circumstance is wasting energy
48:45the 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
49:11though there were many crew and men lined up with apparently not a thought at attempting to board
49:17the 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 shipbuilders
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 yes i did
50:27prepare to load the lifeboat has it occurred to you that you as the responsible managing director
50:34deciding the number of boats owed your life to every other person on that ship it has not
50:41i have searched my mind with the deepest care
50:47i'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
50:59it is true i'm president of the company but i didn't consider myself any different from the rest of
51:04the passengers i took no other man's place
51:16i took no man's place this is palpably untrue but i think he must believe it
51:24i think that bruce ismay comes from a class of society who believes that they have everything
51:32they have because of grit and character i mean it's like being a billionaire today in a world of hungry
51:40people the only way you can live with yourself is to imagine that you deserve it in some way
51:46and so i think that bruce ismay believes contrary to all rational fact that he hasn't taken someone
51:57else's place even though he really must know internally that he has
52:03there was a terrible crowd standing about
52:24the officer in charge pointed a revolver waved his hand and said that if any man
52:30tried to get in he'd shoot him on the spot if anyone tries to answer i will shoot
52:37two men tried to break through and he shot them both
52:48i 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
53:22here
53:30when we rode away from the titanic my face was towards the sinking steamer
53:37The things I saw I'll never forget
53:49I saw an officer shoot himself through the temple with a revolver
54:07The story of the officer shooting himself is contested
54:17Even the name of the officer is in dispute
54:20You're meant to help others, not shoot them
54:23And you're certainly not meant to shoot yourself when you make a mistake
54:26I saw the officer himself lying on the deck
54:32They told me he shot himself
54:36It's not a line of inquiry that is pursued
54:40And I think that is because in Edwardian society
54:44There is such a taboo around death by suicide
54:48It looks like the easy way out, though it can hardly have been so
54:54It suggests that the people who did it
54:59Have failed that test of being an Edwardian man
55:02Which is to demonstrate heroicism and courage and stoicism
55:08In the face of disaster
55:11Death stares everyone in the face
55:26Death stares everyone in the face
55:38Some will escape, some won't
55:41Jack Phillips, he's young, but he's responsible
55:48He's self-reliant
55:50He thinks he's going to die
55:53And so he decides to die
55:56Doing his best for everyone else
55:59Philip's clung on for about ten minutes after the captain had released him
56:06I learned to love him that night
56:15I suddenly felt for him
56:19A great reverence to see him
56:22Standing there, sticking to his work
56:25While everybody else was raging about
56:28I will never forget the work of Philip's
56:38For those last awful minutes
56:41He was a brave man
56:48People find themselves facing this life or death moment together
56:57Titanic broke in two before my eyes
57:01Striking water
57:03It was like a thousand knives being driven into one's body
57:07To die slowly within a shot of people who might save your life
57:13There's a particular cruelty to that
57:15I can't breathe
57:20We've not let myself
57:22Lucky the stars
57:24Lucky the stars
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57:28The first eagle
57:28Did you see his life
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57:30Lucky the stars
57:32Lucky the stars
57:33Butter
57:33In fact
57:34Dumb
57:34fromacks
57:36At this old
57:37Facing
57:38A
57:38lucky
57:39Until
57:39Facing
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57:40You
57:41After
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