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Titanic Sinks Tonight Season 1 Episode 4 br Swimming and Sinking
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00:00My husband tried to join me in our lifeboat.
00:07Two men grabbed him.
00:10Officers were there with guns.
00:13He offered no resistance
00:17and backed off back onto the ship.
00:20I began yelling and crying
00:24as I wanted to join him on the sinking ship.
00:28Action!
00:50He told me that apparently we'd struck something.
00:54Iceberg!
00:58I didn't become alarmed.
01:04There was no danger, they said.
01:11I told her to come at once. We were sinking.
01:17You can imagine the chaos and the fear
01:19and the terror of finding water in your cabin
01:21and you're in the bowels of the ship.
01:23It makes me panic just thinking about it.
01:27The story of the Titanic is the human condition
01:29spread out, pinned on a board for us to examine.
01:34Then came the terrible cry.
01:37Women and children, women and children.
01:40Cartwright!
01:41Two men lifted me up and put me in a boat.
01:44Move it! Move it!
01:45Move it!
01:46It's these small decisions,
01:47these little butterfly effect moments
01:49that change the outcome.
01:50It really was every man for himself.
01:51My heart stood still.
01:56It really was every man for himself.
02:06My heart stood still.
02:10If we're gonna die,
02:24the best to die gripping something.
02:27It's a split second decision.
02:32What would you do?
02:33What would I do?
02:41It was a terrible son.
02:43Men swimming and sinking.
02:45I'd been brought up to believe in a hell.
02:58After death.
03:06For now, I think I went through a hell that night.
03:15When an shark, he immigrated
03:17he ran and tried to die dead.
03:26No cats.
03:28The shrinking match number six months
03:30the shark took it away from heaven,
03:31and heIDE checked the quantify hairs.
03:33Due to death.
03:36If he did not do any other things about
03:39America, the infinity-fire Ð ill and midnight
03:42the latter who decided to die and
03:42I was working in the engineering.
04:06We got the order, all hands on deck, put your life preservers on.
04:10The deck was full of male third-class passengers.
04:16The last boat was getting lowered.
04:20About this time, I met all the engineers as they came trooping up from below.
04:27Until that time, they had loyally stuck to their guns.
04:31When the crew come up on deck, these guys who've worked so heroically to try to keep Titanic afloat, they expect that there will be a place for them in the lifeboats.
04:49And, of course, that is not the case.
04:54British hierarchical society is always there to shaft the underdog.
04:59Those people who had risked their lives were not going to get any help at all.
05:07It was a bleak and hopeless spectacle that met their eyes.
05:12Empty falls hanging from every dove it had.
05:17Not a hope for any of them.
05:19Titanic has enough people on board that we're really seeing the whole range of reactions to facing death.
05:36From resignation to fight and flight to acting out of love and empathy to help other people.
05:42And, at this point, some people choose to do things that may look quite strange.
05:49One fellow said, go to the first cabin, Baru.
05:53There was a steward filling up tumblers on her tray.
05:58He said, go on, lads, drink up.
06:02She's going down.
06:04Some people prefer to stay in their cabin and let the waters rise up.
06:12Others go to the bar and just start drinking the place dry.
06:16Everyone has to choose to die in their own way, whatever that is.
06:20I was for going down into one of the first-class cabins, but if how Matty wouldn't let me...
06:25Matty said to me, we'll have to jump for it.
06:40It makes me panic just thinking about it because I can imagine the chaos and the fear.
06:44It's not fair, you know, when passengers embarked on this ship, they were told it was unsinkable.
06:55They probably didn't pay much mind to how many lifeboats there were, but now that it's of the most crucial importance to them,
07:01they see that they've been failed.
07:03Captain Smith and Thomas Andrews, the ship's designer, must have been in hell.
07:15This was their unsinkable ship.
07:19Thomas Andrews was trying to do something because he is the architect of this disaster.
07:26Andrews was seen throwing steamer chairs into the water with the idea of actually helping those who got into the sea to have something to support them.
07:43It's very difficult to know what the captain's final moments were.
07:47During the Falklands War, I was a captain of a ship that was bombed, which I had to abandon.
07:52And 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.
08:01But I think he would have been feeling to himself that he had failed in this last great appointment of his.
08:10There's something of the stiff upper lip happening here, but inside there must be inner turmoil.
08:15Because survival instinct is really powerful, and the captain is probably suppressing it as much as he can.
08:23The social codes of conduct fighting against that very ancient part of the brain, the primitive part that just drives us forward biologically.
08:32People just have that, the will to survive.
08:36The adrenaline system is working overtime, and they've almost got nothing to lose.
08:41I wanted to jump out and try to catch one of the empty lifeboat falls.
08:50Jack Thayer has been on a dream holiday in Europe with his parents.
08:56They've got separated in the crowds, and now that dream has become a nightmare.
09:01Couldn't just jump.
09:02We might hit wreckage or a steamer chair and be knocked unconscious.
09:08Milton dissuaded me.
09:10Milton Long, 29-year-old American law clerk, and Jack had struck up a conversation many hours earlier in the dining saloon, and now they find themselves facing this life-or-death moment together.
09:24So many thoughts passed through my mind.
09:29Thought of all the good times I'd had.
09:32Of all the future pleasures I'd never enjoy.
09:40My father.
09:43My mother.
09:44I was watching myself as though from some far-off place.
09:53Sincerely pitied myself.
09:55Back in the wireless room, Jack Phillips has stuck to his post right to the end, even when Captain Smith has said it's every man for himself, because he believes he's doing something useful.
10:08He's spent the last few hours trying to communicate with other wireless operators, oblivious to everything going on around him.
10:26And his junior, Harold Bride, is deeply loyal to and respectful of Jack Phillips.
10:38The sea has almost reached the wireless room, and they have just minutes before it's filled with freezing water.
10:46I was back in my room, getting Phillips' money for him.
10:49And as I looked out the door, I saw a stoker, or somebody from below decks, slipping the life-belt off his back.
11:00You know, I remembered in a flash the way Phillips had clung on, how I'd had to fix that life-belt in place because he was too busy to do it.
11:09I felt a passion not to let that man die a decent sailor's death.
11:12I did my duty.
11:28I hope I finished him, I dunno.
11:31We left him on the floor of the wireless cabin.
11:34He wasn't moving.
11:35I climbed on top of the officers' quarters.
11:45Yet I saw the last of Phillips.
11:48Jack Phillips is absolutely overwhelmed by the impossibility of this situation.
11:56He disappeared, walking aft.
12:00He doesn't say goodbye, he doesn't give any explanation, there's no clap on the back to his junior.
12:08He's done everything, there's nothing more to do.
12:10The man is ready to die.
12:12At this stage, all of the lifeboats on the boat deck have been launched, and of course there's a panic that there are no lifeboats left.
12:32But there is actually two more stashed away on the roof of the officers' quarters, collapsible A and B.
12:38I saw the boat and the men trying to push it off.
12:53They couldn't do it.
12:55I went up to them, lending a hand.
12:57The collapsible lifeboats were very much a secondary option, which would need to be rigged so they could be used.
13:09Now, the crew are trying to launch them in increasingly difficult and desperate conditions.
13:15Just then, the ship took a slight but definite plump.
13:22The sea came rolling up.
13:27A large wave washes collapsible A and B overboard.
13:33You've just been given that hope.
13:35But in amongst the chaos, the lifeboats are stolen from you by the elements.
13:40And that is just devastating.
13:44The big wave carried the boat off.
13:46I had hold of an o'clock and went off with it.
13:55Water was washing right across the deck.
13:58And we were in water right to our hips.
14:02Another lurch threw myself off and away from the ship into the water.
14:07I fell into a mass of people.
14:16I was underwater.
14:18I knew I had to fight for it.
14:22The temperature in the water is minus two degrees.
14:26So as soon as that cold water hits the body, there's a shock reaction and the mind is reacting in a state of panic.
14:33Everything I touched seemed to be woman's hair.
14:40Children crying.
14:43Women screaming.
14:47Their hair in my face.
14:50If only I could forget those hands and faces that I touched.
14:55The ship was sinking on its head very quickly.
15:12The water was right up to the bridge.
15:15The crowd moved with it, pushing towards the stern.
15:19The sight that doesn't bear dwelling on.
15:23To stand there above the wheelhouse.
15:27Watching the frantic struggles to climb up the sloping deck.
15:31Unable to even hold out a helping hand.
15:36We were a mass of hopeless, dazed humanity.
15:41Trying to keep our final breath until the last possible moment.
15:48I nuked the futility of following that instinct for self-preservation.
15:54It would only be postponing the plunge and prolonging the agony.
16:00Turning to the bridge, I took a header.
16:13Striking the water was like a thousand knives being driven into one's body.
16:19For a few moments I completely lost grip of myself.
16:22We were at the starboard rail to keep away from the crowd.
16:32The ship began to shoot down fast.
16:36The water rushing up towards us.
16:39We had no time to think, only to act.
16:42We wish each other luck.
16:45Then we jumped up on the rail.
16:49Milton looked up at me and he said,
16:55You're coming boy, aren't you?
16:58And I said, uh, go ahead.
17:02I'll be with you in a minute.
17:04Then he'll let go.
17:06The people who choose to jump are ultimately the people who take some form of control in a situation where you are powerless.
17:29We were about five minutes away from the ship.
17:54But we could still see it as the light stayed on.
17:57The ship stood almost on its nose.
18:03Slowly sinking.
18:06The people on the Titanic were yelling and crying.
18:14I could see some of them as I jumped into the water.
18:27I found myself drawn against the grating covering a ventilator.
18:36The pressure of the water glued me there.
18:41The shaft led to a stokehold, a sheer drop of 100 feet right to the bottom of the ship.
18:50I struggled and kicked for all I was worth.
18:53It was impossible to get away.
18:57As fast as I pushed myself off, I was dragged back.
19:02Every instant expecting the wire to go.
19:05To find myself shot down into the bowels of the ship.
19:10The shock of the water took the breath from my lungs.
19:15Down and down I went, spinning in all directions.
19:25The cold was terrific.
19:27Most people think of drowning in a circumstance like this.
19:32It is that ultimately your body runs out of energy.
19:35But actually you can drown as soon as you first hit freezing water.
19:38There's something called cold water shock.
19:41And part of the reaction is to have a big intake of breath.
19:44And that prepares you for action.
19:46In the case of hitting cold water, it's not in your favour to have a sharp intake of breath.
19:52Some may have cardiac arrest almost immediately because of the shock.
19:59I was still fighting when a blast of hot air came up the shaft.
20:03And blew me right away from the air shaft and up to the surface.
20:08Finally I came up, my lungs bursting.
20:21The ship was in front of me.
20:24Suddenly the second funnel seemed to be lifted off.
20:30The funnel started to fall right amongst the struggling mass of humanity already in the water.
20:38It missed me by only 20 to 30 feet.
20:43The suction of it drew me down.
20:47Those poor people were sucked down in those funnels.
20:55Like flies.
20:56As I came to the surface, my hand came against something.
21:03One of the collapsible lifeboats.
21:05It was floating in the water, bottom side up.
21:09About four or five men clinging on to her.
21:12So I asked them to give me a hand up, which they did.
21:17Sitting on my haunches, holding on for dear life.
21:21It seemed as though hours had passed since I left the ship.
21:24People like Jack and Officer Lighthover are swarming onto the collapsible B upside down, using it like a raft in the freezing water.
21:36Just as a way of trying to survive.
21:38The end was very close.
21:56Something in the bowels of the Titanic exploded and sparks shot up to the sky.
22:02Two other explosions followed, dull and heavy, as if below the surface.
22:11The impact was so great, it shook the waters.
22:15And we thought our lifeboat would sink.
22:19Everyone screamed.
22:20The huge weight of seawater in the bows and in the stern meant that the two things were unable to remain as one part.
22:31The whole superstructure of the ship seemed to split.
22:35The lights suddenly go out.
22:38And then darkness falls.
22:50The Titanic broke in two before my eyes.
22:53The forepart wallowed over and disappeared instantly.
22:59The ship seemed to right herself.
23:03Like a hurt animal with a broken back.
23:06The strange hallucinatory moment.
23:13It looks as though everything's going to be fine.
23:16Because the weird, wonky, distorted angles of the great ship start to settle.
23:24There's people that think that some sort of safety feature has kicked in.
23:28You know, at least this half of the ship is going to somehow survive and those on board are going to be spared.
23:32But ultimately that is short-lived.
23:38I saw the Titanic go up in the air.
23:41Ever so big.
23:45Huge ship reared herself on end.
23:49Rudder and propeller clear of the water.
23:52Till at last she assumed a perpendicular position.
23:56We saw groups of the 1500 people still aboard.
24:03Clinging like swarming bees.
24:08The contents of the Titanic is now falling through it.
24:12And tragically, people as well.
24:14I think it was only at that moment that many of those poor souls on board realized their fate.
24:22If we're gonna die, I said, it would be best to die gripping something.
24:28We gripped the rail.
24:30We gripped the rail.
24:43A sharp exclamation from my husband.
24:47My god.
24:49She is going now.
24:50The steamer.
24:52The steamer without a sound.
24:56Except for the shrieks of the people still on board.
25:02Stood right on end.
25:08It stood there several moments.
25:10And slid straight down into the water.
25:13As easily as a pebble in a pond.
25:22Our proud ship.
25:25Our beautiful Titanic.
25:43Everyone round me on the upturned boat.
25:58Breathed the two words.
26:01She's gone.
26:02I did not wish to see her go down.
26:14I'm glad that I did not.
26:18My back was turned to her.
26:23We were pulling away.
26:26This is his ship.
26:27This is his company.
26:28And there is intense professional and personal shame here.
26:34I think that was just too overwhelming for him to be able to look.
26:43Probably a minute passed with almost dead silence and quiet.
26:47Then an unforgettable cry went up from fifteen hundred despairing throats.
27:04Bedlam of shrieks and cries.
27:08A nightmare.
27:10Of both sight and sound.
27:12Hearing desperate disembodied voices in the darkness of the ocean.
27:20A cacophony of tears and shouts and despair.
27:27It's almost like a soundscape of hell.
27:30Potentially it's your husband, your brother, your father, your loved one's voices.
27:35I don't know how you recover from that.
27:39I've never heard such screams.
27:45From the hundreds of people floating about us.
27:49Hundreds of people floating about us.
28:00They were piercing.
28:01Yes.
28:02.
28:06.
28:18It's a horrible row.
28:24One young man near me shouted.
28:26Mother.
28:27Mother, a man alongside me, clutched me round the neck.
28:40I choked him off.
28:45Nobody knows how they'll react in that circumstance.
28:48You're surrounded by others in a panic with you.
28:51You begin to lose the function of your arms, the function of your legs,
28:55the thing that you need to keep afloat, and that can happen extremely quickly
28:59because that body's reaction to keep your vital organs warm is so powerful.
29:05And it's painful. Like, you are being tortured, essentially.
29:12The people in the lifeboats are sitting and listening to others die.
29:19And everyone's response to that trauma situation will be different.
29:25We chatted of little unimportant things.
29:29As people do when they've been through great mental strain.
29:34Try to make feeble jokes.
29:37I remember I teased Miss Frankatelli.
29:41Just fancy you left your beautiful nightdress behind you.
29:46And we all laughed.
29:53Though in our hearts we felt very far from laughter.
29:59Never you mind, madam.
30:01You were lucky to come away with your lives, said one of the sailors.
30:06Don't you bother about anything you had to leave behind you.
30:10Lucy's comments sound tone-deaf to us, but I think they're a trauma response.
30:19It is far easier to comprehend the loss of a beautiful piece of clothing,
30:27she's a fashion designer, of course,
30:29than it is to wrap their heads around the extraordinary horror
30:35of the loss of human life that they're seeing before them.
30:41For those in the water, a fatal countdown has begun.
30:46Once severe hypothermia sets in,
30:49you've got about 15 minutes until you'll become unconscious.
30:53When I was wounded in Afghanistan, I knew that that helicopter was coming.
31:01But if you don't know that a rescue is imminent,
31:04how long are you capable of holding on for?
31:07A large number of people gave up the struggle and were content to die.
31:12For the water was so cold,
31:16and there seemed no help for rescue.
31:18When the darkness starts to creep in on you,
31:22that's when you have to have a real word with yourself
31:24and remind yourself that you still have some fight in you.
31:34I swam as though I was in a race.
31:37I got myself away from the crowd.
31:41Behind me, there was the horrible volume of groans, which...
31:44I can hear them now.
31:53I came up to me chum, John Bannon,
31:56and I said,
31:58Cheerio, Johnny.
32:00And he said,
32:01Am I right?
32:07Then he told me he had seen a...
32:09a flashlight some distance away
32:12and pointed out the direction.
32:15As I went off, I cried out.
32:18It was so long, Johnny.
32:29Poor chap.
32:33He was drowned.
32:34It was a terrible sight all around.
32:48Men swimming and sinking.
32:50I saw a boat of some kind,
32:52and I put all my strength
32:53into an effort to swim to it.
32:56It was hard work.
32:58I was all done
32:59when I had reached from the boat
33:04and pulled me aboard.
33:07Collapse will be,
33:08that had been stored on the roof
33:10of the officers' quarters,
33:12was washed off deck
33:13and is now the last hope
33:15of the men who jump
33:17from the Titanic.
33:19Among the 30 men on Collapse will be,
33:22we have Howard Bride,
33:24Jack Thayer,
33:26Eugene Daly,
33:27and Charles Lightover.
33:28Others came near,
33:30nobody gave them a hand.
33:32The bottom-up boat
33:33already had more men
33:35than it would hold
33:35and was sinking.
33:38We were very low in the water,
33:41standing,
33:42sitting, kneeling, lying
33:43in all conceivable positions.
33:46People came up beside us
33:47and begged us
33:48to get on this upturned boat.
33:53Saving ourselves,
33:55we were obliged
33:56to push them off.
33:58One man was alongside us
34:02and asked if he could get up
34:04on top of it.
34:06We told him that if he did,
34:08we would all go down.
34:12His reply was,
34:13God bless you.
34:15Goodbye.
34:15To look another human being
34:20in the eye
34:20and say to them,
34:22you're going to have to perish.
34:24Like, that is an impossible thing,
34:26not just to live through in the moment,
34:28but then to have to live with.
34:33There are 1,500 people
34:35in ice-cold water
34:36in the Atlantic,
34:37and there are some lifeboats
34:39that are full to capacity
34:41and there's nothing they can do.
34:43But there are many others
34:45that are even less than half full.
34:48There are less than 700 people
34:50in the lifeboats.
34:52Because the 18 lifeboats
34:53are not at capacity,
34:55there's still space
34:56for over 400 people.
34:58It could save them
34:59from almost certain death.
35:04Within the lifeboats,
35:05there's an intense dilemma.
35:07Do they go back and save people
35:08or do they stay at a safe distance
35:10so that they don't get overcrowded
35:12and everyone in that lifeboat
35:14end up in the water?
35:17These boats are fragile.
35:19They're in the middle
35:20of this vast sea.
35:22There's already been
35:23tragic and terrible,
35:24huge loss of life.
35:26This is their one and only
35:28chance to survive.
35:31Three times,
35:33an officer ordered his men
35:34to turn about.
35:36But each time,
35:37they were prevented
35:38from doing so
35:39by some of the passengers.
35:42They grasped the oars
35:44so that the seamen
35:45were forced
35:46to give up turning back
35:48to rescue any of the unfortunates.
35:54In the Duff Gordon boat,
35:56one of the crew members
35:57says it's up to us
35:58to go back
35:58and see if we can pick anyone up.
36:01The Duff Gordons object.
36:03They say they'll be swamped
36:05and they persuade the crew
36:06not to go back.
36:09At the later inquiry,
36:10Cosmo Duff Gordon said,
36:11it's difficult to say
36:13what occurred to me.
36:14I was minding my wife
36:16and we were in a rather
36:17abnormal condition,
36:18you know.
36:21I find it chilling
36:22that the Duff Gordons
36:23are just openly hostile
36:25to letting anyone
36:26in their lifeboat.
36:27All along,
36:28they have been given
36:29privileges that other people
36:31haven't been given.
36:32and to die slowly
36:34in ice-cold water
36:35within earshot
36:37of people
36:38who might save your life,
36:39I think there's
36:40a particular cruelty to that.
36:41Men and women
36:46were going to their death
36:47beneath the icy waters
36:50of the Atlantic,
36:51but I noticed
36:52in a hazy,
36:53detached
36:53sort of way.
36:57I've gone through too much
36:58in those aisles
36:59to think clearly.
37:03Lucy's talking
37:04about trauma here.
37:05She's talking about
37:05going through so much emotion
37:07that she's effectively
37:08shutting down.
37:08She's so traumatized,
37:11she's not able
37:12to get out
37:13of her own experience
37:14enough to engage
37:16with what those people
37:17in the water
37:18are going through
37:19at that time.
37:24Partially filled lifeboats
37:26standing by,
37:28only a few hundred yards away,
37:30never came back.
37:33Why on earth
37:34they did not come back
37:36is a mystery.
37:38How could any human being
37:40fail to heed those cries?
37:46I think it is
37:47extremely unfortunate
37:48the lifeboats
37:49didn't go in
37:49and start to rescue people.
37:51They were willing to sit
37:52with people screaming
37:53and dying in the water
37:54and I find that
37:55quite surprising.
37:57We're highly attuned
37:58to other people's
37:59emotional expressions.
38:01Out on the lifeboats,
38:02it's dark
38:03and they're quite far away
38:04so not seeing
38:06those faces
38:06may be one way
38:08of distancing themselves
38:09from that suffering.
38:14I became so numb
38:15I could hardly swim.
38:19My head was so queer.
38:21But when I was almost
38:28at my last gasp
38:29I shouted
38:29Boats are high!
38:33On the off chance
38:34that
38:35one might be near.
38:39I had room for
38:40a dozen more people
38:41in my boat
38:42but it was dark.
38:49We didn't pick up
38:50any swimmers.
38:54We all like to think
38:55that we'd be
38:56the noble one
38:57that does the right thing
38:58but that's not
38:59how survival works.
39:02Ultimately
39:03as human beings
39:04we are animals
39:04who have survived.
39:06That's how we've evolved
39:06to be what we are.
39:07So survival instinct
39:08is absolutely
39:09within our DNA
39:10and so
39:11you have no idea
39:12what you are capable of
39:13until you are pushed
39:14to an extreme.
39:17Disasters reveal
39:18an aspect of your personality
39:19that you might not know
39:20is there
39:20and you might not like
39:22being there.
39:23To save your own life
39:24to let hundreds of people die
39:26I think that's
39:26something that would
39:27weigh heavily on you
39:29for the rest of your life.
39:32Perhaps a thousand
39:33perhaps more
39:35gotten down with her.
39:42There's a cluster
39:52of lifeboats
39:54closer to where
39:55the Titanic went down
39:56including lifeboats
39:5714 and 4
39:59and this is a kind
40:00of case of
40:01right place
40:01right time
40:02for some people
40:03in the water.
40:05Fortunately
40:06my shout was hurt.
40:07Over here!
40:10I was hauled into
40:11lifeboat number 4.
40:14About 7 people
40:16are rescued
40:17because of that boat
40:18including
40:19Thomas Dillon.
40:21I think I'd been
40:2220 minutes
40:23in the water.
40:26I was told afterwards
40:27I was unconscious
40:28for a long time.
40:29I was not
40:32properly right
40:33when I came to.
40:36Thomas Dillon
40:37survived
40:38because he's young
40:38and he's fit
40:39but by the time
40:40he's picked up
40:41by the lifeboat
40:43he's got early
40:44symptoms
40:44of hypothermia.
40:46I would rather die
40:48a hundred times
40:50than go through
40:52such an experience
40:53again.
40:53Mr. Lowe
41:10went in search
41:11of other lifeboats.
41:12He found
41:13four or five
41:14and took command
41:16of the little fleet.
41:17The whole of you
41:18are under my orders.
41:20Lifeboat 14
41:21is very full
41:22but Lowe
41:23realises
41:24that actually
41:24if this group
41:25works together
41:26they have a chance
41:27of being able
41:28to launch
41:29a rescue mission.
41:31He ordered
41:32that the boat
41:33should be
41:34linked together
41:34with ropes
41:35to prevent
41:36any drifting away.
41:39They were able
41:39to redistribute
41:40those passengers
41:42and they actually
41:42free up
41:43an entire lifeboat
41:44which allows them
41:45to go in
41:46and search
41:47for survivors.
41:49I went with
41:50just the boat's crew.
41:52no passengers.
41:55Of course
41:56I had to wait
41:57for the yells
41:58and shrieks
41:59to subside
42:00for the people
42:02to thin out.
42:02Officer Lowe
42:06is very aware
42:07of the potential risks.
42:10You can be capsized
42:11when trying to pull
42:11survivors
42:12into the vessel.
42:13The vessel
42:14can be swamped
42:15but they choose
42:16to go back.
42:18They're not just
42:18survivors in this moment.
42:20They continue
42:20to be crewmen.
42:22Their sense of service
42:23particularly those
42:24that had a military
42:25background
42:26ultimately outweighs
42:27their sense of survival.
42:29your training
42:30just kicks in
42:31and you have
42:31a responsibility
42:32to those around you
42:34even before yourself.
42:36I searched the wreck
42:37thoroughly
42:37and found
42:39four persons.
42:40One was
42:41a Mr. Hoyt
42:42from New York.
42:46He was bleeding
42:48from the mouth.
42:49I listened to shirts
42:51as to give him
42:51every chance to breathe.
42:52but unfortunately
42:56he died.
43:00I suppose
43:00he was too far gone
43:01when we picked him up.
43:10Most of those
43:11who jumped in the sea
43:12died within
43:12a quarter of an hour.
43:14The awful moaning
43:15ceased after that.
43:18We saw nothing
43:19but ice and dead bodies.
43:22I remember
43:28the very last cry
43:29was a man's voice
43:31calling loudly.
43:34My God.
43:37My God.
43:42My God.
43:44I think it would have
43:46been very haunting
43:46to slowly hear
43:48fewer and fewer voices
43:49and that's one of
43:51the most traumatic
43:52memories that people
43:53had
43:53is the sound
43:54of those screams.
44:10The air was leaking
44:11from under the boat
44:13lowering us further
44:15and further
44:15into the icy water.
44:19Soaking wet,
44:20freezing,
44:21the pack of huddled men
44:22on collapsible beat
44:23have survived
44:24so many odds.
44:27But that's all for nothing
44:28if nobody comes
44:29to your rescue
44:29and they don't know
44:30if that's coming.
44:31some lost consciousness
44:35and slipped overboard.
44:42Every wave
44:42threatened to swamp us.
44:45The problem
44:45with trying to stay
44:46on an upside down boat
44:47which you're now using
44:48as a raft
44:49is that it's not stable.
44:50This is a balancing act,
44:52literally,
44:53to save your life.
44:55Every bit of strength
44:56and spirit
44:57from every one
44:58of those men
44:58on that boat raft
45:00was going to be
45:01about staying alive.
45:04Their class differences
45:05ceased to be important.
45:08We've got men
45:09from first class,
45:09men from third,
45:10crew members
45:11united by this will
45:12to survive.
45:14We prayed
45:15and sang hymns.
45:20Harold Bride
45:21helped keep our hopes up.
45:23He said time
45:25and time again,
45:26the Carpathia
45:27is coming
45:27as fast as she can.
45:28Carpathia is coming
45:29as fast as she can.
45:35Lighthaller found
45:36his whistle.
45:40After desperate calling,
45:42we got the attention
45:44of the other lifeboats.
45:47Two of the boats
45:48realized the position
45:50we were in
45:51and drew toward us.
45:55They had a
45:56right-side-up boat
45:57and it was full
45:59to its capacity.
46:03Yet they came to us
46:04and loaded us all
46:05into it.
46:05Officer Boxall took some
46:21green flares from the bridge
46:22and now he's lighting them,
46:25hoping that he will
46:26attract the attention
46:27of the approaching
46:29rescue vessel.
46:30Time will be
46:34standing still.
46:36All they can do
46:37is sit in the boats
46:38and wait.
46:52About this time,
46:54the edge of the sun
46:56came above the horizon.
46:57To feel that
47:02glowing warmth,
47:04which we'd never
47:05expected to see again,
47:07that's something
47:08never to be forgotten.
47:17I have no idea
47:19of the passage of time
47:21during that awful night.
47:22We were all very tired
47:26when we saw
47:29a big light.
47:33Look.
47:34Look.
47:36The ship.
47:38Suddenly a flicker of hope.
47:41A ship getting closer
47:43every minute.
47:44Coming towards the site
47:49of the wreck
47:49and the lifeboats
47:51bobbing about
47:52in this freezing,
47:54empty sea
47:55finally
47:56is the Carpathia.
47:58She's come as fast
47:59as she could
48:00through the ice flows,
48:01through the night,
48:03responding to
48:04Jack Phillips'
48:05distress calls.
48:06Nothing has ever
48:16looked so good
48:17to me
48:18as the lights
48:20from the Carpathia.
48:23Even through
48:24my numbness,
48:25I began to realize
48:27I was saved.
48:30I would live.
48:31I would live.
48:31She stopped
48:39maybe
48:41four miles away.
48:44The task
48:45of rowing
48:46over to her
48:47was one of
48:47the hardest things
48:49we had to face.
49:01At last,
49:03the Carpathia
49:04was alongside
49:05and people
49:05were being
49:06taken up
49:06by rope ladder.
49:10One man was dead.
49:14I passed him
49:15and went up the ladder.
49:24The dead man
49:25was Phillips.
49:28He had died
49:28on the raft
49:29of exposure
49:30and cold,
49:31I guess.
49:35He stood his ground
49:36until the crisis
49:37had passed
49:38and he
49:38collapsed.
49:44Only I could have
49:45slipped more clothing
49:46on Phillips.
49:53We're just saved him.
50:00When I was wounded,
50:04three people
50:05lost their lives.
50:06So I know
50:06what it's like
50:07to trawl over
50:08in your head
50:09the what could
50:10I have done
50:10and ultimately
50:12life is unpredictable.
50:16You know,
50:18you live or you die
50:18and you cannot
50:20change that fate
50:21but learning
50:23to live with that
50:24it takes time.
50:32No survivor
50:33knows better
50:36than either.
50:38Cruelty of disappointment.
50:39I had a husband
50:44to search for.
50:48A husband
50:49whom I believed
50:51would be found
50:52in one of the boats.
50:54he was not there.
51:10I let myself
51:13be saved
51:15because
51:17I believed
51:19he too
51:20would escape.
51:20I sometimes
51:26envy
51:28those
51:29whom
51:31no human
51:32power
51:32could tear them
51:34from their
51:37husband's arms.
51:42What do you
51:43remember of
51:43the Carpathia?
51:47Uh
51:47consoling.
51:50and being
51:54consoled.
52:00My friends
52:01were all among
52:02the missing
52:02when the role
52:03was called.
52:06The loss
52:07affected me
52:09badly.
52:10The big narrative
52:21is always going
52:22to be about
52:23heroism
52:23and loss
52:24and sacrifice.
52:26But the Titanic
52:27was a disaster.
52:30These are real
52:31people's lives
52:33that are lost.
52:35Real people
52:36who suffer.
52:37and
52:40are
52:40the
52:40people
52:41who
52:42are
52:42and
52:42are
52:43in the
52:43world.
52:43They
52:44are
52:44in the
52:45world.
52:45They
52:46are
52:47in the
52:47world.
52:47They
52:48are
52:49in the
52:49world.
52:50MUSIC PLAYS
53:13The engineers were the heroes, I think.
53:16They kept going until minutes before the Titanic went out of sight.
53:20Not a man of them was saved.
53:27In 1912, it was taken for granted that the price of a first-class ticket
53:32included a greater likelihood of surviving.
53:35It was seen as a reflection of the natural order.
53:42What the Titanic teaches us is what happens
53:45when people's lives are given unequal value.
53:50Every element, from your breakfast to how you're treated in an emergency,
53:54all of that is impacted by class and hierarchy and status.
53:59This happened in an age where the British stiff upper lip
54:03was stiffer than ever.
54:05But the reality is it doesn't matter how resilient you think you are.
54:08Sometimes we're just not capable of processing that level of horror.
54:12Personal trauma was not recognized.
54:16You just suffered and you carried on.
54:18Those people who survived, they were just now going to have to pick up their lives
54:22as best they could and manage.
54:24These are searing memories that never leave them.
54:28And the grief was huge.
54:31But I like to imagine that there were those who felt that this encounter with death
54:37made them live the rest of their days more fully
54:40and that they owed it to those who died to live.
54:45I don't know.
54:46Plus, the
54:51people who died were there.
54:53The people who died were the most.
54:55The people who died were the most.
54:58The people who died were the most.
54:59The people who died for her and their dying were the most.
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