Titanic Sinks Tonight Season 1 Episode 4

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00:01Someone's been killed!

00:09My husband tried to join me in our lifeboat.

00:13Two men grabbed him.

00:17Officers were there with guns.

00:20He offered no resistance.

00:23And backed off back onto the ship.

00:27I began yelling and crying.

00:31As they wanted to join him on the sinking ship.

00:56He told me that apparently we'd struck something.

00:59Iceberg!

01:00Deadhead!

01:07I didn't become alarmed.

01:10There was no danger, they said.

01:13I told her to come at once, we were sinking.

01:22You can imagine the chaos and the fear and the terror of finding water in your cabin and you're in the bowels of the ship.

01:28It makes me panic just thinking about it.

01:32The story of the Titanic is the human condition spread out, pinned on a board for us to examine.

01:40Then came the terrible cry.

01:43Women and children, women and children.

01:46Cartwright!

01:48Two men lifted me up and put me in a boat.

01:50Move it, move it!

01:51It's these small decisions, these little butterfly effect moments that change the outcome.

01:55It really was every man for himself.

02:11My heart stood still.

02:12Hurry up!

02:13Pull!

02:14If we're gonna die, the best to die gripping something.

02:17It's a split second decision. What would you do? What would I do?

02:18It's a split second decision. What would you do? What would I do?

02:23That was a terrible son. Men swimming and sinking.

02:27I'm not a father, but I'm not a father.

02:29If we're gonna die, the best to die gripping something.

02:33It's a split second decision. What would you do? What would I do?

02:37That was a terrible son. Men swimming and sinking.

02:42That was a terrible son. Men swimming and sinking.

02:47Men swimming and sinking.

02:58I've been brought up to believe in a hell after death.

03:10For now, I think I went through a hell that night.

03:17In the fall, there's a place where I was and the transformers.

03:24The building of Istanbul is a place where I am.

03:30I've been looking for a day.

03:35I'm not sure.

03:39I'm not sure that we're a part of the world.

03:42I was working in the engine room.

04:12We got the order, all hands on deck, put your life preservers on.

04:17The deck was full of male third-class passengers.

04:22The last boat was getting lowered.

04:26About this time, I met all the engineers as they came trooping up from below.

04:33Until that time, they had loyally stuck to their guns.

04:42When the crew come up on deck, these guys who've worked so heroically to try to keep Titanic afloat,

04:50they expect that there will be a place for them in the lifeboats.

04:55And of course, that is not the case.

04:58British Hierarchical Society is always there to shaft the underdog.

05:07Those people who had risked their lives were not going to get any help at all.

05:12It was a bleak and hopeless spectacle that met their eyes.

05:19Empty falls hanging from every dove it had.

05:23Not a hope for any of them.

05:25Titanic has enough people on board that we're really seeing the whole range of reactions to facing death.

05:41From resignation, to fight and flight, to acting out of love and empathy to help other people.

05:48And at this point, some people choose to do things that may look quite strange.

05:55One fellow said, go to the first cabin bar room.

05:59There was a steward filling up tumblers on a tray.

06:04He said, go on lads, drink up.

06:08She's going down.

06:09Some people prefer to stay in their cabin and let the waters rise up.

06:18Others go to the bar and just start drinking the place dry.

06:22Everyone has to choose to die in their own way, whatever that is.

06:26I was for going down into one of the first class cabins, but...

06:30..if how Matty wouldn't let me...

06:34Matty said to me...

06:35..I'll have to jump for it.

06:39It makes me panic just thinking about it, because I can imagine the chaos and the fear.

06:53It's not fair, you know, when passengers embarked on this ship.

06:59They were told it was unsinkable.

07:00They probably didn't pay much mind to how many lifeboats there were,

07:03but now that it's of the most crucial importance to them,

07:06they see that they've been failed.

07:09Captain Smith and Thomas Andrews, the ship's designer,

07:18must have been in hell.

07:21This was their unsinkable ship.

07:25Thomas Andrews was trying to do something,

07:28because he is the architect of this disaster.

07:32Andrews was seen throwing steamer chairs into the water with the idea of actually helping those who got into the sea

07:42to have something to support them.

07:44It's very difficult to know what the captain's final moments were.

07:51During the Falklands War, I was a captain of a ship that was bombed, which I had to abandon.

07:57And so I know the pressures he was under, and I personally think that he probably stayed on the bridge and waited to meet his fate.

08:06But I think he would have been feeling to himself that he had failed in this last great appointment of his.

08:13There's something of the stiff upper lip happening here, but inside there must be inner turmoil,

08:22because survival instinct is really powerful, and the captain is probably suppressing it as much as he can.

08:29The social codes of conduct fighting against that very ancient part of the brain,

08:33the primitive part that just drives us forward biologically.

08:38People just have that, the will to survive.

08:42The adrenaline system is working overtime, and they've almost got nothing to lose.

08:47I wanted to jump out and try to catch one of the empty lifeboat falls.

08:53Jack Thayer has been on a dream holiday in Europe with his parents.

09:01They've got separated in the crowds, and now that dream has become a nightmare.

09:07Couldn't just jump.

09:09We might hit wreckage or a steamer chair and be knocked unconscious.

09:14Milton dissuaded me.

09:16Milton Long, 29-year-old American law clerk,

09:20and Jack had struck up a conversation many hours earlier in the dining saloon,

09:24and now they find themselves facing this life-or-death moment together.

09:30So many thoughts passed through my mind.

09:34I thought of all the good times I'd had,

09:37of all the future pleasures I'd never enjoy.

09:43My father.

09:48My mother.

09:52I was watching myself as though from some far-off place.

09:58I sincerely pitied myself.

10:01Back in the wireless room, Jack Phillips has stuck to his post right to the end,

10:22even when Captain Smith has said it's every man for himself,

10:25because he believes he's doing something useful.

10:28He's spent the last few hours trying to communicate with other wireless operators,

10:33oblivious to everything going on around him.

10:36And his junior, Harold Bride, is deeply loyal to and respectful of Jack Phillips.

10:43The sea has almost reached the wireless room,

10:47and they have just minutes before it's filled with freezing water.

10:51I was back in my room getting Phillips' money for him,

10:54and as I looked out the door, I saw a stoker or somebody from below decks

11:01slipping the life belt off his back.

11:04Yeah, I remembered in a flash the way Phillips had clung on,

11:08how I'd had to fix that life belt in place because he was too busy to do it.

11:14I felt a passion not to let that man die a decent sailor's death.

11:25I did my duty.

11:27I hope I finished him, I don't know.

11:36We left him on the floor of the wireless cabin.

11:39He wasn't moving.

11:47I climbed on top of the officers' quarters.

11:51Yet I saw the last of Phillips.

11:53Jack Phillips is absolutely overwhelmed by the impossibility of this situation.

12:02He disappeared, walking aft.

12:08He doesn't say goodbye, he doesn't give any explanation,

12:11there's no clap on the back to his junior.

12:13He's done everything, there's nothing more to do.

12:15The man is ready to die.

12:23At this stage all the lifeboats on the boat deck have been launched,

12:33and of course there's a panic that there are no lifeboats left.

12:37But there is actually two more stashed away on the roof of the officers' quarters.

12:42Collapsible A and B.

12:44I saw the boat and the men trying to push it off.

12:59They couldn't do it.

13:01I went up to them, lending a hand.

13:06The collapsible lifeboats were very much a secondary option,

13:09which would need to be rigged so they could be used.

13:15Now the crew are trying to launch them

13:17in increasingly difficult and desperate conditions.

13:21Just then the ship took a slight but definite plunge.

13:30The sea came rolling up.

13:34And a large wave washes collapsible A and B overboard.

13:39You've just been given that hope.

13:41But in amongst the chaos, the lifeboats are stolen from you by the elements.

13:46And that is just devastating.

13:49The big wave carried the boat off.

13:53I had hold of an oarlock and went off with it.

14:00Water was washing right across the deck.

14:04And we were in water right to our hips.

14:08Another lurch threw myself off and away from the ship into the water.

14:15I fell into a mass of people.

14:19I was underwater and knew I had to fight for it.

14:27The temperature in the water is minus two degrees.

14:31So as soon as that cold water hits the body,

14:34there's a shock reaction and the mind is reacting in a state of panic.

14:38Everything I touched seemed to be woman's hair.

14:47Children crying.

14:50Women screaming.

14:54Their hair in my face.

14:55If only I could forget those hands and faces that I touched.

14:59If only I could forget those hands and faces that I touched.

15:03The ship was sinking on its head very quickly.

15:17The water was right up to the bridge.

15:19The crowd moved with it.

15:22Pushing towards the stern.

15:24The sight that doesn't bear dwelling on.

15:28To stand there above the wheelhouse.

15:31Watching the frantic struggles to climb up the slope and deck.

15:37Unable to even hold out a helping hand.

15:41We were a mass of hopeless, dazed humanity.

15:50Trying to keep our final breath until the last possible moment.

15:54I nuked the futility of following that instinct for self-preservation.

16:02It would only be postponing the plunge and prolonging the agony.

16:09Turning to the bridge, I took a header.

16:18Striking the water was like a thousand knives being driven into one's body.

16:24For a few moments, I completely lost grip of myself.

16:32We were at the starboard rail.

16:35To keep away from the crowd.

16:37The ship began to shoot down fast.

16:41The water rushing up towards us.

16:44We had no time to think, only to act.

16:48We wish each other luck.

16:53Then we jumped up on the rail.

16:58Milton looked up at me and he said...

17:02You're coming boy, aren't you?

17:03You're coming.

17:12And I said...

17:14Go ahead.

17:16I'll be with you in a minute.

17:19And then you'll let go.

17:21The people who choose to jump are ultimately the people who take some form of control in a situation where you are powerless.

17:36We were about five minutes away from the ship.

17:56But we could still see it as the light stayed on.

18:02The ship stood almost on its nose.

18:08Slowly sinking.

18:09The people on the Titanic were yelling and crying.

18:18I could see some of them as I jumped into the water.

18:21I found myself drawn against the grating covering a ventilator.

18:42The pressure of the water glued me there.

18:48The shaft led to a stokehold.

18:52A sheer drop of 100 feet right to the bottom of the ship.

18:56I struggled and kicked for all I was worth.

19:00It was impossible to get away.

19:02As fast as I pushed myself off, I was dragged back.

19:08Every instant expecting the wire to go.

19:12To find myself shot down into the bowels of the ship.

19:16The shock of the water took the breath from my lungs.

19:26Down and down I went.

19:29Spinning in all directions.

19:30The cold was terrific.

19:34Most people think of drowning in a circumstance like this.

19:37It is that ultimately your body runs out of energy.

19:40But actually you can drown as soon as you first hit freezing water.

19:44There's something called cold water shock.

19:47And part of the reaction is to have a big intake of breath.

19:50And that prepares you for action.

19:52In the case of hitting cold water, it's not in your favour to have a sharp intake of breath.

19:57Some may have cardiac arrest almost immediately because of the shock.

20:05I was still fighting when a blast of hot air came up the shaft and blew me right away from the air shaft and up to the surface.

20:12Finally I came up. My lungs bursting.

20:14The ship was in front of me. Suddenly the second funnel seemed to be lifted off.

20:18The funnel started to fall right amongst the struggling mass of humanity already in the water.

20:28It missed me by only 20 to 30 feet. The suction of it drew me down.

20:33Those poor people were sucked down in those funnels.

20:38Like flies.

20:39As I came to the surface my hand came against something.

20:41a struggling mass of humanity already in the water.

20:46It missed me by only 20 to 30 feet.

20:49The suction of it drew me down.

20:53Those poor people were sucked down in those funnels.

21:00Like flies.

21:04As I came to the surface, my hand came against something.

21:09One of the collapsible lifeboats.

21:11It was floating in the water, bottom side up.

21:15About four or five men clinging on to her.

21:19So I asked them to give me a hand up, which they did.

21:23Sitting on my haunches, holding on for dear life.

21:27It seemed as though hours had passed since I left the ship.

21:32People like Jack and Officer Lightoller are swarming onto the collapsible B upside down,

21:38using it like a raft in the freezing water.

21:41Just as a way of trying to survive.

21:44The end was very close.

21:45Something in the bowels of the Titanic exploded and sparks shot up to the sky.

21:50Two other explosions followed, dull and heavy.

21:51As if below the surface.

21:52The impact was so great.

21:53It shook the world.

21:54The end was very close.

21:55Something in the bowels of the Titanic exploded and sparks shot up to the sky.

22:02Two other explosions followed, dull and heavy.

22:04As if below the surface.

22:05The impact was so great.

22:06It shook the waters.

22:07And we thought our lifeboat would sink.

22:08Everyone screamed.

22:12The huge weight of seawater in the bows and in the stern meant that the two things were unable to remain as one part.

22:19The whole superstructure of the ship seemed to split.

22:20The light suddenly go out.

22:21And then darkness falls.

22:22And then darkness falls.

22:23The light suddenly goes out.

22:24And then darkness falls.

22:25The light suddenly goes out.

22:26The light suddenly goes out.

22:27And then darkness falls.

22:28The light suddenly goes out.

22:29And then darkness falls.

22:55The Titanic broke in two before my eyes.

22:59The forepart wallowed over and disappeared instantly.

23:04The ship seemed to right herself.

23:09Like a hurt animal with a broken back.

23:12The strange hallucinatory moment.

23:18It looks as though everything's going to be fine.

23:21Because the weird, wonky, distorted angles of the great ship start to settle.

23:29There's people that think that some sort of safety feature has kicked in.

23:34You know, at least this half of the ship is going to somehow survive.

23:37And those on board are going to be spared.

23:39But ultimately that is short lived.

23:44I saw the Titanic go up in the air.

23:46Ever so big.

23:48Huge ship reared herself on end.

23:53Rudder and propeller clear of the water.

23:56Till at last she assumed a perpendicular position.

24:01We saw groups of the 1500 people still aboard.

24:07Clinging like swarming bees.

24:10The contents of the Titanic is now falling through it.

24:17And tragically, people as well.

24:20I think it was only at that moment that many of those poor souls on board realized their fate.

24:27If we're gonna die, I said, it would be best to die gripping something.

24:33We gripped the rail.

24:36We gripped the rail.

24:37A sharp exclamation from my husband.

24:51My god.

24:53She is going now.

24:55The steamer without a sound.

25:00Except for the shrieks of the people still on board.

25:05Stood right on end.

25:09Stood there several moments.

25:12And slid straight down into the water.

25:18As easily as a pebble in a pond.

25:24Our proud ship.

25:29Our beautiful Titanic.

25:54Everyone around me on the upturned boat.

26:03Breathed the two words.

26:05She's gone.

26:07I did not wish to see her go down.

26:18I'm glad that I did not.

26:21My back was turned to her.

26:25We were pulling away.

26:30This is his ship.

26:33This is his company.

26:34And there is intense professional and personal shame here.

26:39I think that was just too overwhelming for him to be able to look.

26:44Probably a minute passed.

26:50With almost dead silence and quiet.

26:53Then an unforgettable cry went up from fifteen hundred despairing throats.

27:09Bedlam of shrieks and cries.

27:11A nightmare.

27:12Of both sight and sound.

27:13Hearing desperate disembodied voices in the darkness of the ocean.

27:26A cacophony of tears and shouts and despair.

27:33It's almost like a soundscape of hell.

27:36Potentially it's your husband, your brother, your father, your loved ones voices.

27:42I don't know how you recover from that.

27:45I've never heard such screams from the hundreds of people floating about us.

28:01They were piercing.

28:02They were piercing.

28:06It was horrible, Raoul.

28:25One young man near me shouted.

28:31Mother.

28:34A man alongside me clashed me round the neck.

28:40Clutched me round the neck.

28:45I choked him off.

28:50Nobody knows how they'll react in that circumstance.

28:53You're surrounded by others in a panic with you.

28:56You begin to lose the function of your arms, the function of your legs,

29:00the thing that you need to keep afloat.

29:02And that can happen extremely quickly because that body's reaction

29:06to keep your vital organs warm is so powerful.

29:10And it's painful.

29:11Like, you are being tortured, essentially.

29:17The people in the lifeboats are sitting and listening to others die.

29:24And everyone's response to that trauma situation will be different.

29:31We chatted of little unimportant things,

29:34as people do when they've been through great mental strain.

29:37Try to make feeble jokes.

29:42I remember I teased Miss Frankatelli.

29:46Just fancy.

29:48You left your beautiful nightdress behind you.

29:50And we all laughed.

29:58Though in our hearts we felt very far from laughter.

30:04Never you mind, madam.

30:07You were lucky to come away with your lives, said one of the sailors.

30:10Don't you bother about anything you had to leave behind you.

30:18Lucy's comments sound tone-deaf to us, but I think they're a trauma response.

30:24It is far easier to comprehend the loss of a beautiful piece of clothing,

30:32she's a fashion designer, of course,

30:34than it is to wrap their heads around the extraordinary horror of the loss of human life

30:42that they're seeing before them.

30:44For those in the water, a fatal countdown has begun.

30:51Once severe hypothermia sets in,

30:54you've got about 15 minutes until you'll become unconscious.

30:59When I was wounded in Afghanistan,

31:01I knew that that helicopter was coming.

31:04But if you don't know that a rescue is imminent,

31:09how long are you capable of holding on for?

31:12A large number of people gave up the struggle

31:15and were content to die.

31:17For the water was so cold

31:20and there seemed no help but rescue.

31:25When the darkness starts to creep in on you,

31:28that's when you have to have a real word with yourself

31:29and remind yourself that you still have some fight in you.

31:34I swam as always in a race.

31:42I got myself away from the crowd.

31:46Behind me, there was the horrible volume of groans,

31:49which...

31:50I can hear them now.

31:58I came up to me chum, John Bannon,

32:01and I said,

32:02cheerio, Johnny.

32:05And he said,

32:07am I right?

32:12Then he told me he had seen a...

32:14a flashlight some distance away

32:17and pointed out the direction.

32:20As I went off, I cried out,

32:22it was so long, Johnny.

32:24poor chap.

32:39He was drowned.

32:49It was a terrible sight all around.

32:51Men swimming and sinking.

32:54I saw a boat of some kind

32:56and I put all my strength

32:58into an effort to swim to it.

33:01It was hard work.

33:03I was all done

33:04when a hand

33:07reached from the boat,

33:09pulled me aboard.

33:10I was all done.

33:12I was all done.

33:13Collapse will be that had been stored on the roof

33:15of the officers' quarters

33:16was washed off deck

33:18and is now the last hope

33:20of the men who jump

33:22from the Titanic.

33:25Among the 30 men

33:26on collapse will be,

33:27we have

33:28Howard Bride,

33:29Jack Thayer,

33:31Eugene Daly,

33:31and Charles Lytle.

33:34Others came near,

33:35nobody gave them a hand.

33:37The bottom-up boat

33:38already had more men

33:40than it would hold

33:40and was sinking.

33:43We were very low in the water,

33:45standing,

33:47sitting, kneeling,

33:48lying in all conceivable positions.

33:50People came up beside us

33:52and begged us

33:53to get on this upturned boat.

33:58Saving ourselves,

34:00we were obliged

34:01to push them off.

34:05One man was alongside us

34:07and asked if he could get up

34:09on top of it.

34:11We told him that if he did,

34:13we would all go down.

34:16His reply was,

34:18God bless you.

34:20Goodbye.

34:23To look another human being

34:25in the eye

34:25and say to them,

34:27you're going to have to perish.

34:29Like, that is an impossible thing,

34:31not just to live through

34:32in the moment,

34:33but then to have to live with.

34:38There are 1,500 people

34:40in ice-cold water

34:41in the Atlantic,

34:42and there are some lifeboats

34:44that are full to capacity,

34:46and there's nothing they can do.

34:47But there are many others

34:50that are even less than half full.

34:53There are less than 700 people

34:55in the lifeboats.

34:57Because the 18 lifeboats

34:58are not a capacity,

35:00there's still space

35:01for over 400 people.

35:03It could save them

35:04from almost certain death.

35:09Within the lifeboats,

35:10there's an intense dilemma.

35:12Do they go back

35:13and save people,

35:14or do they stay

35:14at a safe distance

35:15so that they don't get overcrowded,

35:18and everyone in that lifeboat

35:19end up in the water?

35:20These boats are fragile.

35:24They're in the middle

35:25of this vast sea.

35:27There's already been

35:28tragic and terrible,

35:29huge loss of life.

35:31This is their one

35:32and only chance

35:33to survive.

35:36Three times,

35:38an officer ordered

35:39his men to turn about.

35:41But each time,

35:42they were prevented

35:43from doing so

35:44by some of the passengers.

35:45They grasped the oars

35:49so that the seamen

35:50were forced

35:51to give up

35:52turning back

35:53to rescue

35:53any of the unfortunates.

35:59In the Duff Gordon boat,

36:01one of the crew members

36:02says it's up to us

36:03to go back

36:03and see if we can

36:04pick anyone up.

36:06The Duff Gordons

36:07object.

36:09They say they'll be swamped,

36:10and they persuade

36:11the crew not to go back.

36:13At the later inquiry,

36:15Cosmo Duff Gordon said,

36:17it's difficult to say

36:18what occurred to me.

36:19I was minding my wife,

36:21and we were

36:22in a rather abnormal

36:22condition, you know.

36:26I find it chilling

36:27that the Duff Gordons

36:28are just openly hostile

36:30to letting anyone

36:31in their lifeboat.

36:32All along,

36:33they have been given

36:34privileges that other

36:36people haven't been given,

36:38and to die slowly

36:39in ice-cold water

36:40within earshot

36:42of people who might

36:43save your life,

36:44I think there's

36:45a particular cruelty

36:46to that.

36:50Men and women

36:51were going to their death

36:52beneath the icy waters

36:55of the Atlantic,

36:56but I noticed

36:57in a hazy,

36:58detached

36:58sort of way.

37:02I'd gone through

37:03too much in those aisles

37:04to think clearly.

37:08Lucy's talking

37:09about trauma here.

37:10She's talking about

37:10going through so much emotion

37:12that she's effectively

37:13shutting down.

37:14She's so traumatized,

37:16she's not able to

37:17get out of her own

37:19experience enough

37:20to engage with

37:21what those people

37:22in the water

37:23are going through

37:24at that time.

37:24partially filled lifeboats

37:31standing by

37:32only a few hundred

37:34yards away

37:35never came back.

37:38Why on earth

37:39they did not come back

37:41is a mystery.

37:43How could any

37:44human being fail

37:45to heed those cries?

37:46I think it is

37:52extremely unfortunate

37:53the lifeboats

37:54didn't go in

37:54and start to

37:55rescue people.

37:56They were willing

37:56to sit with people

37:58screaming and dying

37:59in the water

37:59and I find that

38:00quite surprising.

38:02We're highly attuned

38:03to other people's

38:04emotional expressions.

38:06Out on the lifeboats

38:07it's dark

38:08and they're quite far away

38:09so not seeing

38:11those faces

38:11may be one way

38:13of distancing

38:13themselves

38:14from that suffering.

38:15I became so numb

38:20I could badly swim

38:22my head was so queer

38:26but when I was almost

38:33at my last gas

38:34I shouted

38:34on the off chance

38:39that one might be near.

38:41I had room

38:45for a dozen more

38:46people in my boat

38:47but it was dark

38:50we didn't pick up

38:55any swimmers.

38:59We all like to think

39:00that we'd be

39:01the noble one

39:02that does the right thing

39:03but that's not

39:04how survival works.

39:07Ultimately

39:08as human beings

39:09we are animals

39:09who have survived

39:10that's how we've evolved

39:11to be what we are

39:12so survival instinct

39:13is absolutely

39:14within our DNA

39:15and so

39:16you have no idea

39:17what you are capable of

39:18until you are pushed

39:19to an extreme.

39:22Disasters reveal

39:23an aspect of your personality

39:24that you might not know

39:25is there

39:25and you might not like

39:27being there.

39:28To save your own life

39:29to let hundreds of people die

39:31I think that's

39:31that's something

39:32that would

39:32weigh heavily on you

39:34for the rest of your life.

39:37Perhaps a thousand

39:38perhaps more

39:40gone down with her.

39:44There's a cluster

39:57of lifeboats

39:59closer to where

40:00the Titanic went down

40:01including lifeboats

40:02fourteen

40:03and four

40:04and this is a kind

40:05of case of

40:06right place

40:06right time

40:07for some people

40:08in the water.

40:10Fortunately

40:11my shout was heard.

40:12Over here!

40:15I was hauled into

40:16lifeboat number four.

40:19About seven

40:20people

40:21are rescued

40:22because of that boat

40:23including

40:24Thomas Dillon.

40:26I think I'd been

40:27twenty minutes

40:28in the water.

40:31I was told afterwards

40:32I was unconscious

40:33for a long time.

40:36I was not properly right

40:38when I came to.

40:41Thomas Dillon

40:42survived

40:43because he's young

40:43and he's fit

40:44but by the time

40:45he's picked up

40:46by the lifeboat

40:48he's got early

40:49symptoms

40:49of hypothermia.

40:51I would rather die

40:53a hundred times

40:55than go through

40:57such an experience

40:58again.

40:58Mr. Lowe went in search

41:16of other lifeboats.

41:18He found four

41:19or five

41:19and took command

41:21of the little fleet.

41:22The whole of you

41:23are under my orders.

41:24lifeboat 14

41:26is very full

41:27but Lowe

41:28realises that

41:29actually if this

41:30group works together

41:31they have a chance

41:32of being able to

41:33launch a rescue mission.

41:35He ordered

41:37that the boat

41:38should be

41:39linked together

41:39with ropes

41:40to prevent

41:41any drifting away.

41:44They were able

41:44to redistribute

41:45those passengers

41:46and they actually

41:47free up

41:48an entire lifeboat

41:49which allows them

41:50to go in

41:51and search

41:52for survivors.

41:54I went with

41:55just a boat's crew

41:57no passengers.

42:00Of course

42:01I had to wait

42:02for the yells

42:03and shrieks

42:04to subside

42:05for the people

42:07to thin out.

42:10Officer Lowe

42:11is very aware

42:12of the potential risks.

42:15You can be capsized

42:16when trying to pull

42:16survivors

42:17into the vessel.

42:18The vessel can be swamped

42:20but they choose

42:21to go back.

42:22They're not just

42:23survivors in this moment.

42:25They continue

42:25to be crewmen.

42:27Their sense of service

42:28particularly those

42:29that had a military background

42:31ultimately outweighs

42:32their sense of survival.

42:35Your training

42:35just kicks in

42:36and you have a responsibility

42:37to those around you

42:39even before yourself.

42:41I searched the wreck

42:42thoroughly

42:42and found four persons.

42:45One was

42:46a Mr. Hoyt.

42:48from New York.

42:50Get him in.

42:52He was bleeding

42:53from the mouth.

42:55I loosened his shirt

42:56so as to give him

42:56every chance to breathe.

43:00But unfortunately

43:01he died.

43:05I suppose he was too far gone

43:06when we picked him up.

43:07Most of those

43:16who jumped in the sea

43:17died within a quarter

43:18of an hour.

43:19The awful moaning

43:20ceased after that.

43:23We saw nothing

43:24but ice

43:25and dead bodies.

43:26I remember the very

43:34last cry

43:34was a man's voice

43:36calling loudly

43:38my God

43:41my God

43:43I think it would have been

43:51very haunting

43:51to slowly hear

43:53fewer and fewer voices

43:54and that's one of the

43:56most traumatic

43:57memories that people had

43:58is the sound

43:59of those screams.

44:00The air was leaking

44:16from under the boat

44:18lowering us further

44:20and further

44:20into the icy water.

44:21soaking wet

44:25freezing

44:25the pack

44:26of huddled men

44:27on collapsible beat

44:28have survived

44:29so many odds

44:31but that's all

44:32for nothing

44:33if nobody comes

44:34to your rescue

44:34and they don't know

44:35if that's coming.

44:37Some

44:38lost consciousness

44:40and slipped overboard.

44:47Every wave

44:47threatened to swamp us.

44:50The problem

44:50with trying to stay

44:51on an upside down boat

44:52which are now using

44:53as a raft

44:54is that it's not stable.

44:55This is a balancing act

44:57literally

44:57to save your life.

45:00Every bit of strength

45:01and spirit

45:02from every one

45:03of those men

45:03on that boat raft

45:05was going to be

45:06about staying alive.

45:09Their class differences

45:10cease to be important.

45:13We've got men

45:14from first class

45:14men from third

45:15crew members

45:16united by this will

45:17to survive.

45:19We prayed

45:20and sang hymns.

45:25Harold Bride

45:26helped keep our hopes up.

45:28He said time and time again

45:30the Carpathia is coming

45:32as fast as she can.

45:33Carpathia is coming

45:34as fast as she can.

45:40Lighthuller found his whistle.

45:42After desperate calling

45:46we

45:47got the attention

45:49of the other lifeboats.

45:52Two of the boats

45:53realized the position

45:55we were in

45:56and drew toward us.

46:00They had a

46:01right side up boat

46:02and it was full

46:04to its capacity

46:05yet they came to us

46:09and loaded us

46:10us all into it.

46:23Officer Boxall

46:25took some green

46:26flares from the bridge

46:27and now

46:28he's lighting them

46:30hoping that he will

46:31attract the attention

46:32of the approaching

46:34rescue vessel.

46:35time will be

46:39standing still.

46:41All they can do

46:42is sit in the boats

46:43and wait.

46:57About this time

46:59the edge of the sun

47:00came above the horizon.

47:06To feel that glowing warmth

47:08which we'd never

47:10expected to see again

47:11that's something

47:13never to be forgotten.

47:14I have no idea

47:24of the passage of time

47:26during that awful night.

47:29We were all

47:30very tired

47:31when

47:33we saw a big light.

47:35suddenly a flicker

47:44of hope

47:45a ship

47:47getting closer

47:48every minute.

47:52Coming towards

47:53the site of the wreck

47:54and the lifeboats

47:56bobbing about

47:57in this freezing

47:58empty sea

48:00finally

48:01is

48:02the Carpathia.

48:03She's come as fast

48:04as she could

48:05through the ice flows

48:06through the night

48:07responding

48:08to Jack Phillips'

48:10distress calls.

48:19Nothing has

48:20ever looked

48:21so good to me

48:23as the lights

48:25from the Carpathia.

48:28Even through

48:29my numbness

48:29I began to realize

48:32I was saved.

48:35I would live.

48:43She stopped

48:44maybe

48:46four miles away.

48:49The task

48:50of rowing

48:51over to her

48:52was one of the

48:53hardest things

48:54we had to face.

48:59at last

49:07the Carpathia

49:09was alongside

49:10and people

49:10were being

49:11taken up

49:11by rope ladder.

49:15One man was dead.

49:19I passed

49:20him

49:20and went up

49:20the ladder.

49:21a dead man

49:30was Phillips.

49:33He had died

49:33on the raft

49:34of exposure

49:35and cold

49:36I guess.

49:40He stood his ground

49:41until the crisis

49:42had passed

49:43and he

49:43collapsed.

49:45only I could

49:50have slipped

49:50more crow

49:51than on Phillips.

49:58We're just

49:59saved him.

50:08When I was

50:09wounded

50:09three people

50:10lost their lives.

50:11So I know

50:11what it's like

50:12to trawl

50:13over in your

50:14head

50:14that what

50:14could I

50:15have done

50:15and ultimately

50:17life is

50:20unpredictable.

50:22You know

50:22you live

50:23or you die

50:23and you cannot

50:25change that fate

50:26but learning

50:28to live

50:28with that

50:29it takes

50:30time.

50:37No survivor

50:38knows better

50:41than either

50:42cruelty

50:43of disappointment.

50:47I had

50:48a husband

50:49to search

50:50for.

50:53A husband

50:54whom I

50:55believed

50:56would be found

50:57in one

50:58of the boats.

51:07He was

51:08not there.

51:12I let

51:18myself

51:18be saved

51:20because

51:21I believed

51:24he too

51:25would escape.

51:30I sometimes

51:31envy

51:33those

51:34whom

51:36no human

51:37power

51:37could tear

51:39them

51:39from their

51:42husband's arms.

51:47What do you

51:48remember of the

51:49Carpathia?

51:49consoling

51:55and being

51:59consoled.

52:05My friends

52:06were all among

52:07the missing

52:07when the role

52:08was called.

52:08the loss

52:12affected me

52:14badly.

52:25The big narrative

52:26is always going to be

52:27about heroism

52:28and loss

52:29and sacrifice.

52:31But the Titanic

52:32was a disaster.

52:35These are real

52:36people's lives

52:38that are lost.

52:40Real people

52:41who suffer.

52:42mother.

52:43mother.

52:44mother.

52:45mother.

52:46mother.

52:47mother.

52:48mother.

52:49mother.

52:50mother.

52:51mother.

52:52mother.

52:53mother.

52:54mother.

52:55mother.

52:56mother.

52:57mother.

52:58mother.

52:59mother.

53:00mother.

53:01mother.

53:02mother.

53:02The engineers were the heroes, I think.

53:20They kept going until minutes before the Titanic went out of sight.

53:25Not a man of them was saved.

53:26In 1912, it was taken for granted that the price of a first-class ticket included a greater likelihood of surviving.

53:40It was seen as a reflection of the natural order.

53:46What the Titanic teaches us is what happens when people's lives are given unequal value.

53:53Every element, from your breakfast to how you're treated in an emergency, all of that is impacted by class and hierarchy and status.

54:04This happened in an age where the British stiff upper lip was stiffer than ever.

54:10But the reality is, it doesn't matter how resilient you think you are, sometimes we're just not capable of processing that level of horror.

54:19Personal trauma was not recognised. You just suffered and you carried on.

54:23Those people who survived, they were just now going to have to pick up their lives as best they could and manage.

54:30These are searing memories that never leave them.

54:34And the grief was huge.

54:37But I like to imagine that there were those who felt that this encounter with death made them live the rest of their days more fully.

54:46And that they owed it to those who died to live.

54:49Oh god.

54:50Oh god.

55:00And that they owed one of my dreams.

55:00I have nevermbre for this before time.

55:02I could always have to believe that there was not someone otherwise that meant those who died it was instead of being accused of being accused of being convicted of done.

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