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Titanic Sinks Tonight - Season 1 Episode 1 -
The Unsinkable Ship
The Unsinkable Ship
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00:00I fell into a mass of people.
00:30Everything I touched seemed to be woman's hair.
00:40Children crying, women screaming, their hair in my face.
00:49My God, if only I could forget those hands and faces.
01:00He told me that apparently we'd struck something.
01:19I didn't become alarmed.
01:26There was no danger, they said.
01:30I told her to come at once, we were sinking.
01:36You can imagine the chaos and the fear and the terror of finding water in your cabin and
01:45you're in the bowels of the ship.
01:47It makes me panic just thinking about it.
01:49The story of the Titanic is the human condition spread out, pinned on a board for us to examine.
01:58Then came the terrible cry, women and children, women and children.
02:04Two men lifted me up and put me in a boat.
02:09It's these small decisions, these little butterfly effect moments that change the outcome.
02:15It really was every man for himself.
02:30My heart stood still.
02:34If we're gonna die, it's best to die gripping something.
02:53It's a split second decision.
02:55What would you do?
02:56What would I do?
02:57It was a terrible sight.
03:06Men swimming and sinking.
03:17I've been brought up to believe in a hell after death.
03:27For now, I think I went through a hell that night.
03:57Titanic, largest ship the world had ever known.
04:24The last word in luxury, the ship, palatial, the food, delicious.
04:32The rudder alone weighed 100 tons.
04:36I sailed first class from Southampton.
04:40We called at Cherbourg and from there to Queenstown.
04:45Everyone was counting the days till we'd see the Statue of Liberty.
04:49My father and mother were invited to dinner that night, so I dined alone.
05:00Afterward, I took a few turns around the deck.
05:05Being 17 years old, I was all over the ship.
05:13The Titanic is a ship of dreams.
05:16The epitome of modern technology, of luxury and opulence.
05:23It looks like a cross between the Ritz and an English grand country house.
05:32Titanic was the showpiece for the shipping line.
05:36Built by Harlan and Wolfe, the famous shipyard in Belfast.
05:40She is absolutely huge.
05:4110 decks, 840 cabins.
05:46An absolute masterpiece of human engineering.
05:50I had never been on an ocean voyage.
06:16I was afraid of the sea.
06:17But Harvey, my husband, and our eight-year-old daughter Marjorie and I decided to go to
06:27America that way.
06:40First few days, I was a bit seasick and kept to my cabin most of the time.
06:47But on Sunday, April 14th, I was up and about.
06:51After I'd eaten, I listened to the orchestra for a little while and then I went back to
06:56my cabin.
06:59There was no moon, a brilliant, starry night.
07:13I'd never seen the sea smoother.
07:22It had become much colder.
07:33It was indeed a night for bed, warmth and cosy thoughts.
07:40How good it was to be in my bunk at last, devouring magazines.
07:44At 23, I was the youngest stewardess on the ship.
07:52I was enjoying the trip tremendously.
07:57The first three days were very calm.
08:01We were another three days before we would reach New York.
08:05It was a pleasure to go to bed.
08:09My pretty little cabin with its electric heater and pink curtains.
08:20I hadn't meant to sail on the Titanic.
08:23Urgent business in New York forced me to take the first available boat.
08:32But everything aboard this lovely ship reassured me.
08:44It's a Sunday.
08:45First-class passengers have probably spent the day enjoying themselves.
08:49They had eaten roast duckling and sirloin of beef and foie gras and truffles
08:55and lamb with mint sauce and stuffed zucchini and chocolate eclairs.
09:00Maybe they've gone to the sauna in the Turkish baths
09:04or they've played a round of squash or gone to the gym.
09:09Perhaps the men had gone to the smoking room.
09:12They'd had a cigar, a pipe, they'd played a round of cards.
09:16Maybe the women had gone to the reading and writing room
09:19to have a moment of quiet.
09:23They've had a joyful, relaxing day.
09:25They're full of anticipation that they're going to be arriving in New York
09:29in two or three days' time.
09:31It's been the perfect day.
09:42It's been the perfect day.
09:47My name is you?
09:59It's not the perfect day.
10:00My husband and I were on our way to America to make our home.
10:09He'd been to America before where he had a business.
10:20It's a misconception that Titanic was first and foremost a luxury ship.
10:24Titanic was primarily an emigrant ship
10:27and it was to ferry people, working people, from Europe to America.
10:35About three quarters of the Titanic's passengers are in second or third class
10:39and it's really not surprising that people do not want to go to bed.
10:44This might be the first time they've been away from home.
10:48And maybe it's the first taste of freedom from very oppressive environments.
10:53They are young people embarking on a new life to a new world.
10:59It would have been wonderful.
11:04I was a bride of 50 days.
11:07By collating all of these memories from different parts of the ship,
11:17memories that could easily have been lost to history,
11:20that's the way in.
11:22That's how we understand the story of the Titanic.
11:24것 of the Titanic
11:25I don't know.
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13:28I passed on the course, speed, weather conditions, wished him joy of a few perishing cold hours
13:30and went below.
13:32It doesn't matter whether it's a ship, all the way down to a section of marines in my
13:38circumstance, there is a system and command structure.
13:43Everyone had a job to do, and this is the point where the ship just begins to take over.
13:50The navigation crew that are at the top of the ship are settling into their evening routine.
13:56The engineers that are down in the boiler room are working on a four-hour shift to just
14:01keep the ship moving.
14:03The captain is retired to his cabin, you know, comfortable that his crew, that ultimately
14:07have been at work since the ship left Belfast, are very much in control.
14:12Really it's the beginning of what should be another calm night on the Titanic.
14:18I joined the Marconi staff last July and was transferred to the Titanic at Belfast.
14:36I didn't have much to do about except to relieve Philips, the senior operator.
14:43I was conscious of waking up and hearing Philips sending telegrams.
15:07From leaving Southampton we got through about 250 telegrams.
15:14gì we were able to do about the ship, we were able to be travelling and be able to travel.
15:20They came to see the site we got through near our summer.
15:24What was the best of the ship again?
15:27What was the ship again?
15:29When did they miss a boat?
15:31Oh my God.
15:32What was the ship again?
15:32I was just going to see.
15:34We lost our ship again.
15:34We lost our ship again.
15:36What was the ship again?
15:37We lost our ship again.
15:38What was the ship again?
15:39It's a tense situation in the wireless room
16:02because the equipment broke down the day before.
16:04And so he's got this great backlog of work to do.
16:08And he's focused on it, he's concentrating on it.
16:10The last thing he wants is new information coming in.
16:14It came out that vital messages received in the wireless room that night had never been delivered
16:43to the bridge, walling all ships of heavy ice in an area right ahead of the Titanic.
16:52And what was still worse, not far away.
16:55Lighton was trying to say, I knew this was important, it should have gone to the bridge
17:06and it didn't and it's the wireless operator's fault.
17:08But that's not true because the message didn't have the crucial prefix of MSG, Master Service
17:15Graham, which would have meant that Jack Phillips would immediately have prioritised it and sent
17:21it up to the bridge.
17:22That didn't happen.
17:25We have this unique opportunity to understand the sinking of the Titanic from the perspective
17:31of those who were actually there.
17:33We're starting to piece things together, but we're working with people's memories.
17:37In reality, memories are going to distort.
17:40And there might be a bit of a bias where people will try and make sense of what was going on.
17:45There are people who will deliberately distort and mislead.
17:50But mostly, you know, it's just that people do remember things differently.
17:55You're not looking for the stone cold truths.
17:59We need to bring together all of those memories, see what seems to be consistent through it all,
18:06but also to recognise that every individual has a different experience.
18:10We have to respect that.
18:25central MUSLIMENT
18:37Cape Sings
18:38Rs.
18:39Frederick Fleet, sailor, lookout man.
18:40Southampton, England.
18:4225th next October.
18:43We are there to report anything we see.
18:47Watch was nearly over.
18:49I had done the best part of two hours.
19:17It was now very large when I first saw it.
19:28A black mass.
19:31It kept getting larger as we were getting near it.
19:36I was fourth officer.
19:48I was just coming along the deck and almost abreast of the captain's quarters
19:52when I heard the report of three bells.
19:56That signifies something's been seen ahead.
20:00I struck three bells first, then I went straight to the telephone
20:05and rang them up on the bridge.
20:11Then I heard the first officer give the order.
20:14The wheel was put to starboard.
20:20She started to go to port whilst I was on the telephone.
20:26My mate saw it and he told me he could see the bow coming round.
20:31They swung the ship's bow away from the object.
20:37Yes.
20:40Because we were making straight for it.
20:42What do you do if you're trained at sea?
20:48You try to avoid the obstacle.
20:50It's a split-second decision.
20:52And this is just a cliché, isn't there,
20:54in the way we talk about trying to turn the Titanic.
20:56You can't turn this giant boat in time.
20:59You can't turn this giant boat in time.
21:03And a red light goes up when the ship is supposed to stop.
21:21This red light came up.
21:22Shut all dampers!
21:24And I'm the man in charge of the watch,
21:25so I shouted, shut all dampers.
21:26They shut the wind off the fires.
21:27Shut all dampers!
21:28Shut all dampers!
21:29Shut all dampers!
21:30Shut all dampers!
21:32And I'm the man in charge of the watch,
21:35so I shouted, shut all dampers.
21:37They shut the wind off the fires.
21:38Shut all dampers!
21:39Shut all dampers!
21:40Shut all dampers!
21:41The crash came before we had them all shut.
21:54I didn't even feel the shock.
22:07I hardly knew what had happened.
22:08There was no jolt whatsoever.
22:12I was about to step into bed
22:14when I seemed to sway slightly.
22:17If I'd had a brimful glass of water in my hand,
22:20not a drop would have spilled.
22:24I was soon awakened by a long, grinding shock.
22:38There was a backward jerk followed by a shorter one.
22:42And the ship started to back, like a train.
22:57Then, uh, a low, crunching, ripping sound.
23:06As Titanic shivered.
23:11I was fast asleep.
23:17Almost threw me off the bed.
23:21Suddenly, I heard a tremendous noise.
23:34Immediately, I knew the ship had been hit hard.
23:40When we were alongside it, it was...
23:57a bit higher than the forecastle heads.
24:01Like, fifty feet, I should say.
24:04Was there much of a jar to the ship?
24:11No.
24:12Just a slight grinding noise.
24:15Did it alarm you when it struck?
24:18I thought it was a narrow shave.
24:20You thought it was a narrow shave?
24:22You thought it was a narrow shave?
24:24Yes.
24:30You know, up on the top deck,
24:31people are thinking to themselves,
24:33oh, that was close, but we got away with it.
24:35You know, it's just a near miss
24:36that somebody writes down in a log.
24:39But they don't know that this iceberg
24:42had a very large section jutting out of it
24:44underneath the water.
24:46The water came pouring in,
25:07about two feet from where I was standing.
25:10The ship's side was torn
25:13from the third stock hold to the forward end.
25:24Watch out the door!
25:33The doors dropped,
25:35instantly, automatically.
25:39Hurry up!
25:40We got through into the next section.
25:44And in the watertight compartment, closed up.
25:46As the iceberg strikes, the rivets give way.
26:04And the water starts pouring into boiler room number six,
26:06that's on the starboard side of the ship.
26:09But Titanic is designed to have watertight compartments
26:13in the event of an emergency.
26:17There's 16 compartments,
26:18and the doors do what they're supposed to do,
26:21come down, seal off the compartments,
26:24and protect the rest of the ship.
26:27Fred Barrett and his boys escape this wall of water.
26:31At the moment, they are safe.
26:34But the thing about the Titanic is nobody had thought
26:40to put in a direct communication system
26:44between the boiler rooms, which could flood, and the bridge.
26:49But equally, it's not just a case of sending somebody up quickly.
26:56A lowly boiler operator or stoker goes up and tells the captain what's happened.
27:02There is a chain of command.
27:03So there was no way that Fred Barrett could tell the captain straight away what was happening.
27:12And that lost time.
27:14The captain said, what have we struck?
27:26Mr. Murdoch, the first officer, said, we have struck an iceberg.
27:45I put her hard to starboard, but it was too close, she hit it.
27:49He also said, I intended to port around it, but she hit before I could do any more.
27:58We walked out onto the bridge to take a look at the iceberg.
28:12It seemed to be a small black mass not rising very high out of the water.
28:18The ship was past it then.
28:21It couldn't have extended above the ship's rail.
28:29Captain Smith, the captain of the Titanic, was a very experienced seaman,
28:33a very highly respected seaman.
28:36He'd served in the Royal Naval Reserve as well as in the Merchant Navy.
28:41He was coming to the end of his career,
28:43and he must have been very, very proud that he was taking Titanic,
28:46this world-beating ship across the Atlantic.
28:50And that would be a wonderful end to what was a glittering career.
28:55And suddenly, of course, there's a collision.
28:58It's the last thing you want.
28:59He would have been annoyed as well as keen to solve the problem as quickly as he could.
29:06The engines stopped.
29:21The sudden quiet was disturbing.
29:23When there's that sudden cut of the engines, it's going to be really noticeable.
29:33Something's going on, something's not right, something's not as it should be.
29:38I lay still.
29:40I waited for Anne, my cabin mate, to speak for...
29:44I knew she was awake.
29:47I looked over the side of my bunk at her, and she returned by saying in her calm way,
29:56sounds as if something has happened.
29:58Passengers were really left in the dark.
30:03There was no tunneling system or announcement of what was going on, of what to do.
30:08They had to work it out themselves.
30:13I could hear the footsteps of people on the deck above my head.
30:19There was some stamping and queer noises, as though the ship's tackle was being pulled about.
30:34My husband said there must have been some slight accident in the engine room.
30:41He put on his coat and left me.
30:45Different people will react to this situation in different ways, but a number of passengers have no qualms at all about going up onto the boat deck and finding someone to inquire what's going on.
31:06It was bitterly cold.
31:07I moved around the deck, trying to discover what had happened.
31:17Have you seen anything from the officers?
31:19There were quite a few people standing around, questioning each other in a dazed kind of way.
31:26There were many prominent people on the passenger list, and because it was for Maiden Voyage, those responsible for building the ship.
31:40Tommy Andrews, designer for Harland & Wolfe.
31:45He was respected by everyone.
31:50A great shipbuilder, and a real gentleman.
31:56A perfectionist.
31:58Thomas Andrews was a highly respected, in fact, probably the most respected ship designer in the UK at this time.
32:13Titanic was the pinnacle of Andrews' career.
32:17He had been building up to this moment, this amazing liner that was going to win all these different prizes, that was the queen of the seas, really.
32:23He knew a great deal about ship design.
32:29He understood buoyancy, stability, all of these issues.
32:35He's got 16 water-side compartments.
32:37That's far more than most of the liners that were steaming around.
32:41And of those 16, four of them could be flooded, and the ship was still stable and would stay afloat.
32:47And that's why Titanic had been billed as an unsinkable ship.
32:54She was a fabricated steel vessel of gigantic dimensions.
33:02We're just stopping, precautionary, just making a few checks, and then we'll be on our way to New York area.
33:08Please, you know.
33:10She was a wonderfully safe vessel.
33:12In answer to many questions, Mr. Andrews assured everybody that we were absolutely safe.
33:29She would stay afloat indefinitely.
33:30The ship is on sick.
33:34Sit tight.
33:39This one man had a piece of ice, and I took it out of his hands, wondering where he'd got it from.
33:45Tried to make him understand that there was nothing the matter.
33:47Go down to bed and go to sleep again.
33:50I didn't take it very seriously.
33:52After what seemed a few moments, my husband returned, and he was quite excited.
34:04He exclaimed, we have struck an iceberg, a big one.
34:10But there's no danger.
34:11An officer just told me so.
34:14This story reassured me.
34:17If these people weren't worried, why should I be?
34:21At that particular time, we know in England, certainly, there's a strong, very hierarchical class system.
34:33Getting the message from authority figures that everything's okay.
34:37Even though the ship is stationary, and they're out at sea, and it's dark, and it's cold.
34:42For most people, that's enough.
34:43There had been an accident, a collision, and yet there was a sense of complacency, rather than a sense of urgency, to discover what exactly has gone wrong.
34:57Thomas Andrews was saying to people, everything's fine, it's all safe, when he didn't have any data about what the damage to the ship was.
35:07And that was not a clever thing to do.
35:13There are eight firemen in the number six section.
35:33The second engineer shouted, all hands, stand by your stations.
35:37That's for the men that stand by the fires.
35:39For Fred Barrett and his crew, they need to manage the fire in boiler room six.
35:47And he's worried that there's going to be a minor explosion, because the freezing water is hitting the hot coals.
35:54Fred Barrett is in the boiler room next door.
35:58And the only way to assess the damage is to climb out of boiler room five to this overhead gangway that's above boiler room six.
36:07He went up and escaped, and down to the boiler room.
36:14But we couldn't get in.
36:19It was eight feet of water in it.
36:26When he tries to get back down into boiler room six, he can't, because there's eight feet of water in there, and the whole place is already filled with steam.
36:38But I think when Fred Barrett saw the situation, he would have been still feeling that everything could be contained.
36:48You know, this is how the ship was sold to passengers and crew alike.
36:51You know, this is how the ship was sold to passengers and crew alike.
37:21Captain Smith looked at the inclinometer, which is a sort of spirit level type gauge, which shows whether the ship is stable or not.
37:39And realized there was a five degree list in the ship to starboard.
37:46We're taking on water.
37:47Captain Smith knows that probably is water.
37:52The problem is, where is this water coming from, and what the hell is going on?
37:59Titanic, of course, was a massive ship with a huge number of compartments.
38:04Therefore, finding out what's happened is a difficult and complex task, because the ability to communicate between parts of the ship was very, very poor indeed.
38:15Therefore, you have to send a person, a runner, to go down and look, and then come all the way back to the bridge to tell you what on earth is going on.
38:23What on earth is going on?
38:35I went right down below.
38:37Into the lowest steerage, as far as I could go without going into the cargo portion of the ship.
38:48And I inspected all the decks as I came up, in the vicinity where I thought she'd struck.
38:53I couldn't hear any noise. I couldn't see any damage.
39:04Remember, the mindset is, this ship is unsinkable. If you believe a ship is unsinkable, you're not looking for trouble.
39:15Imagine it, wandering about this vast ship, looking for water.
39:23He's not going to find it, because he doesn't go down to the boiler rooms.
39:27I boarded Titanic in Queenstown.
39:45I'm 21 years old. I wanted to come to America to make some money.
39:50There were three other boys from the same place, sleeping in the same room with me.
40:02I jumped on the floor.
40:04First thing I knew, my feet were getting wet.
40:17I told the other fellas to get up, that there was something wrong.
40:21Get back to bed.
40:25They only laughed.
40:27One of them says, get back to bed, you're not in Ireland, no.
40:30Go back to bed, Daniel.
40:33I really understand where that voice is coming from.
40:37Something that I hear from immigrants nowadays is this belief that you've entered a world of order and protection and security.
40:48So you don't have to worry about anything.
40:52This is the safest ship in the world that's ever been built, but it's so wrong in this context.
41:00I turned on the lights.
41:06And to my surprise, there was a stream of water running along the floor.
41:10The fact that water was seen on the deck at the level where Daniel Buckney had a cabin was seen to indicate that a second water site compartment had actually gone as well as the boiler room.
41:24And that water was rising up the bulkhead in that compartment.
41:25And that water was rising up the bulkhead in that compartment.
41:27And that, of course, is extremely worrying.
41:28But who exactly knew that is a different issue.
41:29And who exactly knew that is a different issue.
41:34And the water is a different issue.
41:35And the water was rising up the bulkhead in that compartment.
41:37And the water was rising up the bulkhead in that compartment.
41:40And that, of course, is extremely worrying.
41:42But who exactly knew that is a different issue.
42:05I met the carpenter coming up absolutely out of breath and he said she's evidently making
42:19water fast number one tarpaulin is ballooning go tell the captain
42:24at last boxall gets himself some concrete information the carpenter he meets is talking
42:36about one of the tarpaulins up on g-deck that's covering a cargo hold the air in there is being
42:43pushed out at speed at pressure by the volume of water coming in
42:49in the cargo hold there's all the passengers luggage there's goods that are being shipped
42:58from companies across the atlantic there's a renault car all boxed up belonging to one of the first
43:04class passengers there's cases of feather boas there's all kinds of crazy things in there
43:10but it is the entirety of everyone's possessions
43:15then on his way to investigate boxall gets some more news
43:25i met the mail clerk coming up and he said mr boxall the mail room is filling
43:36i got back to the boat deck and i saw the captain
44:05the mail room is filling sir and i said the mail room is filling sir
44:08what did he say
44:11he walked away and left me
44:18he went off the bridge as far as i remember
44:23he didn't say anything to you
44:26no
44:27the captain goes down to inspect accompanied by thomas andrews here they can see with their
44:41own eyes the mail room has been flooded and that means another compartment is gone
44:46the titanic was a ship designed to carry mail from great britain and there are about three and a half
45:00thousand sacks of mail on board already these mail bags are beginning to float away the mail clerks
45:07have tried to salvage some of them but they can't because the water is everywhere this doesn't look good
45:14for rule britannia
45:16seeing the speed with which the water levels were rising must have been quite a sobering moment for both of them
45:24and of course this was not what the captain had hoped would be his final crowning glory in command of this splendid ship
45:32this was going to be the ultimate test for him
45:36he was going to have to prove himself as the sort of captain that he thought he was
45:41and other people thought he was
45:43but then the situation
45:48gets worse
45:50the captain learns that a third compartment is flooded
45:54the captain knows that this is a terrible circumstance but equally titanic was built to endure that
46:07there's 16 compartments four of them could be fully flooded and the ship was still stable and wouldn't sink
46:13if another one a fifth compartment started to be flooded then that changed the equation completely
46:20the captain is sitting right at the moment of what is known as event horizon
46:26you know once you tip over that precipice the ship is going to sink
46:31any captain worth their salt is ultimately going to prepare for the worst
46:36and actually not even expect the best you have to be preparing for things to continue to worsen
46:42then came the order to clear the lifeboats
46:57there was a frightful noise of escaping steam
47:12many first-class passengers report this unearthly scream that comes out of the funnels
47:26it's the steam which has been diverted from the engines now emerging from the funnels
47:41for those who have their rooms closest to the boat deck
47:44suddenly this is very alarming indeed
47:47it's a moment where they realize that things are not as they should be
47:51as they should be and maybe they should be worrying
47:54i was uneasy
47:58i rushed to the husband
48:00go up on deck and see what has happened
48:03he got out of his bed rather unwillingly
48:06on board the titanic in first class are american millionaires
48:24there are people like colonel john jacob astor the fourth who is an american business magnate he's one of the richest men in the world and sir cosmo
48:33sir cosmo duff gordon
48:35sees astor stride over to captain smith and have a private little word with him
48:40i'm exactly how you say for them
48:42i would advise you to go and get your family into the lightbulbs
48:46the first class passengers know captain smith
48:48they are able to mix with the senior crew
48:51they have exclusive access
48:55it means that they're part of the inner circle and other people are not
48:57from the get-go
48:59first class passengers are in a kind of chumocracy
49:02with the senior crew
49:04and that means that they get the information immediately when others don't
49:08they have a distinct advantage from the word go
49:11thank you
49:13yes my ma'am
49:14what is he saying
49:15i would appear that we are to leave the kitchen
49:18my husband was back looking rather grave
49:26i've been up to the bridge and i've seen colonel astor he said
49:32he told me that he was going to ask his wife to dress and
49:38i think you better do the same
49:40i hurriedly put on the warmest clothes i could find
49:44as i was dressing
49:46my secretary miss francatelli
49:49came into the room very agitated
49:52i woke up of my own accord
50:20i promised to relieve philips earlier than usual
50:23i asked him how he was getting on
50:28i think we struck something
50:30he told me that he felt the ship tremble and stop
50:34he thought she'd got damaged in some way
50:38suddenly the captain put his head in the cabin
50:44struck an iceberg
50:47we've struck an iceberg
50:50the captain said
50:51and i'm having an inspection made to tell what he's done
50:54you better get ready to send a call for assistance
50:57but don't send it until i tell you
51:01but don't send it until i tell you
51:05the captain went away
51:07philips resume the phones
51:21because there's no instant communications between large parts of the ship
51:43captain smith and others
51:45still did not know fully what the damage was to the ship
51:50during his inspection andrews must have learned
51:55that a fourth compartment had flooded
51:58but problems in the boiler room
52:01he was still completely unaware of
52:04when andrews went down into the boiler room
52:11he was horrified, horror struck
52:15water was rising
52:20and it was rising in spaces
52:22that they had not realized it would be in
52:25earlier on
52:28andrews had said about titanic
52:30that she was nearly as perfect as human brains could achieve
52:36he'd put all of his knowledge into titanic
52:39to make her as safe as she could be
52:45but unfortunately
52:47the ship was doomed
52:52you're now at a point where it's mathematically certain
52:55that this ship is going to sink
52:57now that the front five compartments are flooded
53:00the water will start pouring over the top of the bulkheads
53:08picture an ice tray
53:10you start filling it at one end
53:11and eventually it will
53:13you know rise up over the line
53:14and the next compartment
53:15and the next compartment
53:16and it just continues to fill
53:18and fill
53:19and that is ultimately what is going to draw this ship
53:22to the bottom of the ocean
53:24for the ocean
53:43my husband and I jumped up
53:45and ran out to see what had happened
53:46to see what had happened.
53:56We were still wearing our night clothes.
54:02I can imagine them in my mind.
54:05Middle of the night, they wake up,
54:06and then suddenly there's the terror of finding water.
54:10And you're in the bowels of the ship.
54:13You are not being told anything.
54:15There's no announcements.
54:16You're left to work out what's going on
54:19and how that impacts on your own safety.
54:23It's such a jarring break from this very beautiful experience,
54:28I think, that must have been having up until this point.
54:34We walked around to the port side.
54:40And the ship had then a fair list.
54:45We stayed there, looking over the side for about five minutes.
54:51And the list seemed very slowly to be increasing.
55:01Thomas Andrews was seen by another passenger running up the bridge
55:04with a look of terror on his face.
55:07No doubt he realized, the first time, my god, we can't save the ship.
55:16His unsinkable ship was going to sink.
55:19I saw the captain.
55:29It was then I realized it was serious.
55:34Captain looked over.
55:36He said, we are sinking.
55:38He'll be at the top of the ship.
56:00You Chick?
56:03We are gonna take it easy.
56:04It's just a precaution.
56:16Suddenly, orders came down.
56:18Everybody to the boats.
56:21We sent an urgent distress call.
56:23Instead, we were sinking by the head.
56:27If you are a family, you will be separated.
56:31Nobody's telling anybody what's going on.
56:35Husband stepped over to an officer and asked him a question.
56:40What's going on?
56:41I heard him shout back, keep calm.
56:45There's no danger.
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