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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.
00:14He 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 and the terror
01:20of finding water in your cabin and 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 spread out,
01:31pinned on a board for us to examine.
01:35Then came the terrible cry.
01:37Women and children, women and children.
01:40Archery!
01:41Two men lifted me up and put me in a boat.
01:44Move it!
01:45Move it!
01:46It's these small decisions, these little butterfly effect moments
01:49that change the outcome.
01:50It really was every man for himself.
01:51My heart stood still.
02:03It really was every man for himself.
02:09My heart stood still.
02:10Hurry up!
02:11Pull!
02:12If we're gonna die, the best to die gripping something.
02:27It's a split-second decision.
02:28What would you do?
02:29What would I do?
02:30It was a terrible sign.
02:31Men swimming and sinking.
02:33I'd been brought up to believe in a hell after death.
02:58For now, I think I went through a hell that night.
03:28It's a total nightmare.
03:29Just finally, come back!
03:32My okey voice has finally helped.
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03:58I was working in the engineering.
04:06We got the order, all hands on deck, put your life preservers on.
04:12The deck was full of male third-class passengers.
04:17The last boat was getting lowered.
04:21About this time I met all the engineers as they came trooping up from below.
04:28Up to that time, they had loyally stuck to their guns.
04:38When the crew come up on deck, these guys who've worked so heroically to try to keep Titanic afloat,
04:45they expect that there will be a place for them in the lifeboats.
04:51And of course, that is not the case.
04:53British Hierarchical Society is always there to shaft the underdog.
05:02Those 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.
05:14Empty falls hanging from every dove it had.
05:18Not a hope for any of them.
05:20Titanic 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.
05:43And at this point, some people choose to do things that may look quite strange.
05:50One fellow said, go to the first cabin bar.
05:53There was a steward filling up tumblers on a tray.
05:59He said, go on lads, drink up.
06:03She's going down.
06:09Some people prefer to stay in their cabin and let the waters rise up.
06:13Others go to the bar and just start drinking the place dry.
06:17Everyone has to choose to die in their own way, whatever that is.
06:21I was for going down into one of the first class cabins, but if how Matty wouldn't let me...
06:29Matty said to me,
06:31I'll have to jump for it.
06:40It makes me panic just thinking about it, because I can imagine the chaos and the fear.
06:47It's not fair, you know, when passengers embarked on this ship.
06:54They were told it was unsinkable.
06:55They probably didn't pay much mind to how many lifeboats there were,
06:58but now that it's of the most crucial importance to them,
07:01they see that they've been failed.
07:03Yes!
07:04Yes!
07:05Yes!
07:05Yes!
07:06Yes!
07:06Yes!
07:06Yes!
07:07Yes!
07:07Yes!
07:08Yes!
07:08Yes!
07:09Captain Smith and Thomas Andrews, the ship's designer,
07:13must have been in hell.
07:15This was their unsinkable ship.
07:20Thomas Andrews was trying to do something,
07:23because he is the architect of this disaster.
07:30Andrews was seen throwing steamer chairs into the water,
07:33with the idea of actually helping those who got into the sea to have something to support them.
07:39It's very difficult to know what the captain's final moments were.
07:48During the Falklands War, I was a captain of a ship that was bombed, which I had to abandon,
07:53and so I know the pressures he was under,
07:55and 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.
08:11There's something of the stiff upper lip happening here,
08:14but inside there must be inner turmoil,
08:17because survival instinct is really powerful,
08:20and the captain is probably suppressing it as much as he can.
08:24The social codes of conduct fighting against that very ancient part of the brain,
08:28the primitive part that just drives us forward biologically.
08:34People just have that, the will to survive.
08:37The adrenaline system is working overtime,
08:40and they've almost got nothing to lose.
08:44I wanted to jump out and try to catch one of the empty lifeboat falls.
08:51Jack Thayer has been on a dream holiday in Europe with his parents.
08:57They've got separated in the crowds, and now that dream has become a nightmare.
09:03Couldn't just jump.
09:04We might hit wreckage or a steamer chair and be knocked unconscious.
09:08We might do this.
09:09Milton dissuaded me.
09:12Milton Long, a 29-year-old American law clerk,
09:15and Jack had struck up a conversation many hours earlier in the dining saloon,
09:20and now they find themselves facing this life-or-death moment together.
09:26So many thoughts passed through my mind.
09:30I thought of all the good times I'd had,
09:34of all the future pleasures I'd never enjoy.
09:38My father.
09:44My mother.
09:47I was watching myself as though from some far-off place.
09:54Sincerely pitied myself.
10:04Back in the wireless room, Jack Phillips has stuck to his post right to the end,
10:17even when Captain Smith has said it's every man for himself, because he believes he's doing something useful.
10:23He's spent the last few hours trying to communicate with other wireless operators,
10:28oblivious to everything going on around him.
10:32And 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.
10:47I was back in my room, getting Phillips' money for him, and as I looked out the door,
10:53I saw a stoker, or somebody from below decks, slipping the life belt off his back.
10:59You 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.
11:07I felt a passion not to let that man die a decent sailor's death.
11:21I did my duty.
11:22I hope I finished him, I don't know.
11:32We left him on the floor of the wireless cabin.
11:35He wasn't moving.
11:43I climbed on top of the officer's quarters.
11:46Yet I saw the last of Phillips.
11:48Jack Phillips is absolutely overwhelmed by the impossibility of this situation.
11:58He, uh, disappeared, walking aft.
12:04He 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.
12:11The man is ready to die.
12:18At 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.
12:33But there is actually two more stashed away on the roof of the officer's quarters.
12:38Collapsible A and B.
12:40I saw the boat and the men trying to push it off.
12:54They couldn't do it.
12:56I went up to them, lending a hand.
12:58The collapsible lifeboats were very much a secondary option, which would need to be rigged so they could be used.
13:10Now, the crew are trying to launch them in increasingly difficult and desperate conditions.
13:16Just then, the ship took a slight but definite plan.
13:26The sea came rolling up.
13:30And a large wave washes collapsible A and B overboard.
13:35You've just been given that hope.
13:36But in amongst the chaos, the lifeboats are stolen from you by the elements.
13:41And that is just devastating.
13:43The big wave carried the boat off.
13:49I had hold of an oarlock and went off with it.
13:55Water was washing right across the deck.
13:59And we were in water right to our hips.
14:03Another lurch threw myself off and away from the ship into the water.
14:10I fell into a mass of people.
14:13I was underwater.
14:19I knew I had to fight for it.
14:20The temperature in the water is minus two degrees.
14:26So as soon as that cold water hits the body, there's a shock reaction.
14:31And the mind is reacting in a state of panic.
14:34Everything I touched seemed to be woman's hair.
14:40I knew I had to fight for it.
14:41Children crying.
14:42Children crying.
14:46Women screaming.
14:49Their hair in my face.
14:50If only I could forget those hands and faces that I touched.
14:58The ship was sinking on its head very quickly.
15:10The water was right up to the bridge.
15:14The crowd moved with it, pushing towards the stern.
15:20The sight that doesn't bear dwelling on.
15:23To stand there above the wheelhouse, watching the frantic struggles to climb up the slope and deck.
15:32Unable to even hold out a helping hand.
15:40We were a mass of hopeless, dazed humanity, trying to keep our final breath until the last possible moment.
15:49I knew the futility of following that instinct for self-preservation.
15:57It would only be postponing the plunge and prolonging the agony.
16:05Turning 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.
16:28We were at the starboard rail to keep away from the crowd.
16:33The ship began to shoot down fast.
16:37The water rushing up towards us.
16:39We had no time to think, only to act.
16:44We wish each other luck.
16:49Then we jumped up on the rail.
16:53Milton looked up at me and he said,
16:57You're coming, boy, aren't you?
16:58And I said, go ahead.
17:12I'll be with you in a minute.
17:13The people who choose to jump are ultimately the people who take some form of control
17:29in a situation where you are powerless.
17:32We were about five minutes away from the ship.
17:52But we could still see it as the light stayed on.
18:00The ship stood almost on its nose, slowly sinking.
18:05The people on the Titanic were yelling and crying.
18:14I could see some of them as they jumped into the water.
18:17I found myself drawn against the grating covering a ventilator.
18:37The pressure of the water glued me there.
18:43The shaft led to a stokehold, a sheer drop of 100 feet right to the bottom of the ship.
18:52I struggled and kicked for all I was worth.
18:56It was impossible to get away.
18:57As fast as I pushed myself off, I was dragged back.
19:04Every instant expecting the wire to go.
19:09To find myself shot down into the bowels of the ship.
19:18The shock of the water took the breath from my lungs.
19:22Down and down I went, spinning in all directions.
19:25The cold was terrific.
19:29Most people think of drowning in a circumstance like this.
19:33It is that ultimately your body runs out of energy.
19:35But actually you can drown as soon as you first hit freezing water.
19:40There's something called cold water shock.
19:42And part of the reaction is to have a big intake of breath.
19:45And that prepares you for action.
19:47In the case of hitting cold water, it's not in your favor to have a sharp intake of breath.
19:53Some may have cardiac arrest almost immediately because of the shock.
20:00I was still fighting when a blast of hot air came up the shaft.
20:04And blew me right away from the air shaft and up to the surface.
20:08Finally, I came up, my lungs bursting.
20:22The ship was in front of me.
20:25Suddenly, the second funnel seemed to be lifted off.
20:28The funnel started to fall right amongst the struggling mass of humanity already in the water.
20:41It missed me by only 20 to 30 feet.
20:44The suction of it drew me down.
20:45Those poor people were sucked down in those funnels.
20:55Like flies.
20:59As I came to the surface, my hand came against something.
21:04One of the collapsible lifeboats.
21:05It was floating in the water, bottom side up.
21:08About four or five men clinging on to her.
21:13So I asked them to give me a hand up, which they did.
21:18Sitting 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 Lightower are swarming onto the collapsible bee, upside down,
21:33using it like a raft in the freezing water, just as a way of trying to survive.
21:39The end was very close.
21:56Something in the bowels of the Titanic exploded and sparks shot up to the sky.
22:04Two other explosions followed, dull and heavy, as if below the surface.
22:12The impact was so great, it shook the waters.
22:16And we thought our lifeboat would sink.
22:19Everyone screamed.
22:23The huge weight of seawater in the bows and in the stern
22:27meant that the two things were unable to remain as one part.
22:31The whole superstructure of the ship seemed to split.
22:36The lights suddenly go out, and then darkness falls.
22:51The Titanic broke in two before my eyes.
22:54The forepart wallowed over and disappeared instantly.
22:58The ship seemed to right herself, like a hurt animal with a broken back.
23:10The strange hallucinatory moment, it looks as though everything's going to be fine,
23:16because the weird, wonky, distorted angles of the great ship start to settle.
23:25There's people that think some sort of safety feature has kicked in.
23:28You know, at least this half of the ship is going to somehow survive,
23:32and those on board are going to be spared.
23:33But ultimately, that is short-lived.
23:39I saw the Titanic go up in the air.
23:42Ever so big.
23:45Huge ship reared herself on end.
23:49Rudder and propeller clear of the water.
23:51We saw groups of the 1,500 people still aboard, clinging like swarming bees.
24:06The contents of the Titanic is now falling through it.
24:13And tragically, people as well.
24:16I think it was only at that moment that many of those poor souls on board
24:21realized their fate.
24:22If we're going to die, I said, it would be best to die gripping something.
24:31We gripped the rail.
24:44A sharp exclamation from my husband.
24:48My God, she is going now.
24:53The steamer without a sound.
24:57Except for the shrieks of the people still on board.
25:03Stood right on end.
25:08It stood there several moments and slid straight down into the water.
25:17As easily as a pebble in a pond.
25:22Our proud ship.
25:25Our beautiful Titanic.
25:29The boat.
25:29Max.
25:30John.
25:30The ship.
25:30All of us.
25:47The ship.
25:47Everyone around me on the upturned boat
25:58breathed the two words
25:59she's gone.
26:10I did not wish to see her go down.
26:14I'm glad that I did not.
26:17My back was turned to her.
26:23We were pulling away.
26:26This is his ship.
26:28This is his company.
26:30And there is intense professional and personal shame here.
26:35I think that was just too overwhelming for him to be able to look.
26:44Probably a minute passed.
26:45With almost dead silence and quiet.
26:52Then an unforgettable cry went up from
26:561,500 despairing throats.
27:04Bedlam of shrieks and cries.
27:06A nightmare of both sight and sound.
27:15Hearing desperate, disembodied voices in the darkness of the ocean.
27:20A cacophony of tears and shouts and despair.
27:28It's almost like a soundscape of hell.
27:32Potentially it's your husband, your brother, your father, your loved one's voices.
27:37I don't know how you recover from that.
27:41I've never heard such screams.
27:48From the hundreds of people floating about us.
27:54They were piercing.
28:01They were piercing.
28:01It was horrible, Raoul.
28:19One young man near me shouting.
28:26Mother!
28:27Mother!
28:27Mother!
28:28Mother!
28:29Mother!
28:29Mother!
28:30Mother!
28:30Mother!
28:31Mother!
28:31Mother!
28:32The man, alongside me, clutched me round the neck.
28:37I choked him off.
28:41Nobody 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, the thing that you
28:56need to keep afloat.
28:57And that can happen extremely quickly because that body's reaction to keep your vital organs
29:03warm is so powerful.
29:05And it's painful.
29:06Like, you are being tortured, essentially.
29:11The people in the lifeboats are sitting and listening to others die.
29:19And everyone's response to that trauma situation will be different.
29:23We chatted of little unimportant things.
29:30As people do when they've been through great mental strain.
29:35Try to make feeble jokes.
29:38I remember I teased Miss Francatelli, just fancy, you left your beautiful night dress
29:45behind you.
29:46And we all laughed.
29:53Though in our hearts we felt very far from laughter.
29:59Never you mind, madam.
30:02You were lucky to come away with your lives, said one of the sailors.
30:07Lucy'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, she's a fashion
30:28Studio-corporated woman.
30:41And is more spiritless.
30:42And now for them, I'mель круп with an training grocery service of coffee.
30:47sets in you've got about 15 minutes until you'll become unconscious when I
30:55was wounded in Afghanistan I knew that that helicopter was coming but if you
31:01don't know that a rescue is imminent how long are you capable of holding on for
31:06a large number of people gave up the struggle and were content to die for the
31:12water was so cold and there seemed no help but rescue when the darkness starts
31:21to creep in on you that's when you have to have a real word with yourself and
31:24remind yourself that you still have some fight in you
31:34I swam as always in a race I got myself away from the cloud behind me there was
31:42an audible volume of groans which I can hear them now I came up to me chum John
31:55Bannon and I said cheerio Johnny he said am I right then he told me he had seen a
32:08flashlights some distance away and pointed out the direction as I went off I cried out
32:17what's so long Johnny
32:19poor chap
32:30it was a terrible sight all around men swimming and sinking I saw a boat of some kind and I put all my
32:52strength into an effort to swim to it it was hard work I was all done when I had reached from the boat pulled me aboard
33:05and he was nearly as I was tired I had to bring them and I'd have to have turned on the roof the officer's quarters
33:09collapsed wall beat but had been stored on the roof of the officers quarters was washed off-deck and is now
33:13the last hope of the men who jump from the Titanic among the thirty men on collapse will be we have
33:22We have Harold Bride, Jack Thayer, Eugene Daly and Charles Lytola.
33:29Others came near, nobody gave them a hand.
33:32The bottom-up boat already had more men than it would hold and was sinking.
33:38We were very low in the water, standing, sitting, kneeling, lying in all conceivable positions.
33:46People came up beside us and begged us to get on this upturned boat.
33:52Saving ourselves, we were obliged to push them off.
34:00One man was alongside us and asked if he could get up on top of it.
34:06We told him that if he did, we would all go down.
34:11His reply was, God bless you, goodbye.
34:15To look another human being in the eye and say to them, you're going to have to perish.
34:23Like, that is an impossible thing, not just to live through in the moment, but then to have to live with.
34:33There are 1,500 people in ice-cold water in the Atlantic.
34:38And there are some lifeboats that are full to capacity and there's nothing they can do.
34:42But there are many others that are even less than half full.
34:48There are less than 700 people in the lifeboats.
34:52Because the 18 lifeboats are not a capacity, there's still space for over 400 people.
34:58It could save them from almost certain death.
35:04Within the lifeboats, there's an intense dilemma.
35:07Do they go back and save people or do they stay at a safe distance so that they don't get overcrowded
35:12and everyone in that lifeboat end up in the water?
35:17These boats are fragile.
35:19They're in the middle of this vast sea.
35:22There's already been tragic and terrible, huge loss of life.
35:26This is their one and only chance to survive.
35:31Three times an officer ordered his men to turn about.
35:36But each time they were prevented from doing so by some of the passengers.
35:42They grasped the oars so that the seamen were forced to give up turning back to rescue any of the unfortunates.
35:50In the Duff Gordon boat, one of the crew members says it's up to us to go back and see if we can pick anyone up.
36:01The Duff Gordons object.
36:04They say they'll be swamped and they persuade the crew not to go back.
36:07At the later inquiry, Cosmo Duff Gordon said, it's difficult to say what occurred to me.
36:14I was minding my wife and we were in a rather abnormal condition, you know.
36:18I find it chilling that the Duff Gordons are just openly hostile to letting anyone in their lifeboat.
36:27All along, they have been given privileges that other people haven't been given.
36:33And to die slowly in ice-cold water within earshot of people who might save your life, I think there's a particular cruelty to that.
36:41Men and women were going to their death beneath the icy waters of the Atlantic, but I noticed in a hazy, detached sort of way.
36:57I've gone through too much in those aisles to think clearly.
37:03Lucy's talking about trauma here.
37:05She's talking about going through so much emotion that she's effectively shutting down.
37:08She's so traumatized, she's not able to get out of her own experience enough to engage with what those people in the water are going through at that time.
37:24Partially filled lifeboats standing by, only a few hundred yards away, never came back.
37:33Why on earth they did not come back is a mystery.
37:38How could any human being fail to heed those cries?
37:45I think it is extremely unfortunate the lifeboats didn't go in and start to rescue people.
37:51They were willing to sit with people screaming and dying in the water, and I find that quite surprising.
37:56We're highly attuned to other people's emotional expressions.
38:00Out on the lifeboats, it's dark and they're quite far away.
38:04So not seeing those faces may be one way of distancing themselves from that suffering.
38:10I became so numb I could hardly swim.
38:17My head was so queer.
38:20But when I was almost at my last gasp, I shouted,
38:24Boats are high!
38:27Only off chance that one might be near.
38:31I had room for a dozen more people in my boat.
38:37But it was dark.
38:38We didn't pick up any swimmers.
38:39We all like to think that we'd be the noble one that does the right thing.
38:44But that's not how survival works.
38:45Ultimately, as human beings, we are animals who have survived.
38:51That's how we've evolved to be what we are.
38:52So survival instinct is absolutely within our DNA.
38:57And so you have no idea what you are capable of until you are pushed to an extreme.
39:15Disasters reveal an aspect of your personality that you might not know is there,
39:20and you might not like being there.
39:22To save your own life, to let hundreds of people die,
39:25I think that's something that would weigh heavily on you for the rest of your life.
39:32Perhaps a thousand.
39:34Perhaps more.
39:38Gone down with her.
39:39There's a cluster of lifeboats closer to where the Titanic went down, including lifeboats 14 and 4.
39:58And this is a kind of case of right place, right time for some people in the water.
40:05Fortunately, my shout was heard.
40:08Over here!
40:09I was hauled into lifeboat number 4.
40:12About seven people are rescued because of that boat, including Thomas Dillon.
40:21I think I'd been 20 minutes in the water.
40:24I was told afterwards I was unconscious for a long time.
40:31I was not properly right when I came to.
40:36Thomas Dillon survived because he's young and he's fit.
40:39But by the time he's picked up by the lifeboat, he's got early symptoms of hypothermia.
40:45I would rather die a hundred times than go through such an experience again.
40:54...
41:02...
41:03...
41:04...
41:06Mr Lowe went in search of other Lifeboats.
41:12He found four or five and, took command of the little fleet.
41:16The whole of you are under my orders.
41:19Lifeboat 14 is very full, but Lowe realises that actually if this group works together,
41:26they have a chance of being able to launch a rescue mission.
41:31He ordered that the boat should be linked together with ropes to prevent any drifting
41:37away.
41:38They were able to redistribute those passengers and they actually free up an entire lifeboat,
41:45which allows them to go in and search for survivors.
41:50I went with just the boat's crew, no passengers.
41:55Of course I had to wait for the yells and shrieks to subside, for the people to thin out.
42:06Officer Lowe is very aware of the potential risks.
42:10You can be capsized when trying to pull survivors into the vessel.
42:14The vessel can be swamped, but they choose to go back.
42:18They're not just survivors in this moment, they continue to be crewmen.
42:22Their sense of service, particularly those that had a military background, ultimately
42:27outweighs their sense of survival.
42:30Your training just kicks in and you have a responsibility to those around you, even before
42:34yourself.
42:35I searched the wreck thoroughly and found four persons.
42:41One was a Mr. Hoyt from New York.
42:47He was bleeding from the mouth.
42:50I listened to shirts as to give him every chance to breathe.
42:55But unfortunately he died.
43:00I suppose he was too far gone when we picked him up.
43:10Most of those who jumped in the sea died within a quarter of an hour.
43:15The awful moaning ceased after that.
43:19We saw nothing but ice and dead bodies.
43:24I remember the very last cry was a man's voice calling loudly, my God, my God.
43:45I think it would have been very haunting to slowly hear fewer and fewer voices.
43:50And that's one of the most traumatic memories that people had, is the sound of those screams.
43:57The air was leaking from under the boat, lowering us further and further into the icy water.
44:18Soaking wet, freezing, the pack of huddled men on collapsible beat have survived so many odds.
44:26But that's all for nothing if nobody comes to your rescue.
44:29And they don't know if that's coming.
44:31Some lost consciousness and slipped overboard.
44:37Every wave threatened to swamp us.
44:44The problem with trying to stay on an upside-down boat, which you're now using as a raft, is that it's not stable.
44:50This is a balancing act, literally, to save your life.
44:54Every bit of strength and spirit from every one of those men on that boat raft was going to be about staying alive.
45:03Their class differences ceased to be important.
45:07We've got men from first class, men from third, crew members united by this will to survive.
45:14We prayed and sang hymns.
45:20Harold Bride helped keep our hopes up.
45:23He said time and time again, the Carpathia is coming as fast as she can.
45:28The Carpathia is coming as fast as she can.
45:31Lytoler found his whistle.
45:40After desperate calling, we got the attention of the other lifeboats.
45:47Two of the boats realized the position we were in and drew toward us.
45:55They had a right-side-up boat, and it was full to its capacity.
46:03Yet they came to us and loaded us all into it.
46:10MUSIC PLAYS
46:17Officer Boxall took some green flares from the bridge,
46:22and now he's lighting them,
46:25hoping that he will attract the attention of the approaching rescue vessel.
46:33Time will be standing still.
46:36All they can do is sit in the boats and wait.
46:40About this time, the edge of the sun came above the horizon.
47:01To feel that glowing warmth,
47:04which we'd never expected to see again,
47:07that's something never to be forgotten.
47:09I have no idea of the passage of time during that awful night.
47:24We were all very tired when we saw a big light.
47:30Suddenly a flicker of hope.
47:41A ship getting closer every minute.
47:47Coming towards the site of the wreck
47:49and the lifeboats bobbing about in this freezing, empty sea,
47:55finally, is the Carpathia.
47:58She's come as fast as she could through the ice flows,
48:01through the night,
48:03responding to Jack Phillips' distress calls.
48:06Nothing has ever looked so good to me
48:18as the lights from the Carpathia.
48:23Even through my numbness,
48:26I began to realize I was saved.
48:27She stopped maybe four miles away.
48:44The task of rowing over to her
48:47was one of the hardest things we had to face.
48:49At last,
49:04the Carpathia was alongside
49:05and people were being taken up by rope ladder.
49:11One man was dead.
49:11I passed him and went up the ladder.
49:24The dead man was Phillips.
49:28He had died on the raft of exposure and cold, I guess.
49:35He stood his ground until the crisis had passed
49:38and he collapsed.
49:41Only I could have slipped more clothing on Phillips.
49:53We're just saved him.
50:03When I was wounded,
50:04three people lost their lives.
50:06So I know what it's like to trawl over in your head
50:09that what could I have done
50:10and ultimately
50:12life is unpredictable.
50:17You know,
50:17you live or you die
50:18and you cannot change that fate
50:21but learning to live with that
50:24it takes time.
50:26No survivor
50:33knows better than either.
50:38Cruelty of disappointment.
50:42I had a husband to search for.
50:48A husband whom I believed
50:51would be found
50:52would be found
50:52in one of the boats.
51:02He was not there.
51:11I let myself
51:13be saved
51:15because
51:17I believed
51:18he too
51:20would escape.
51:25I sometimes
51:26envy
51:28those
51:29whom
51:31no human power
51:32could tear them
51:34from their husband's arms.
51:37What do you remember
51:43of the Carpathia?
51:46Uh
51:47consoling
51:50and being consoled.
51:55my friends
52:01were all among the missing
52:02when the road was called.
52:06The loss
52:07affected me badly.
52:10The big narrative
52:21is always going to be
52:22about heroism
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.
52:40and
52:45they
52:49are
52:50a
52:50who
52:52is
53:00a
53:03who
53:04is
53:05a
53:05who
53:06a
53:07who
53:08The engineers were the heroes, I think.
53:15They kept going until minutes before the Titanic went out of sight.
53:20Not a man of them was saved.
53:26In 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.
53:41What the Titanic teaches us is what happens
53:44when people's lives are given unequal value.
53:49Every 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,
54:09sometimes we're just not capable of processing that level of horror.
54:14Personal trauma was not recognised.
54:16You just suffered and you carried on.
54:19Those people who survived,
54:21they 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.
54:29And the grief was huge.
54:32But 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
54:41and that they owed it to those who died to live.
54:44But I just showed that there were those who died to live.
54:46So it seems like
54:48to have been doing this to yourself,
54:48because they and they were the início and they almost fell to you.
54:49It's kind of low.
54:50So what?
54:50It was nothing back to you.
54:50But of course I couldn't believe it tonight.
54:52So my life.
54:52I love you.
54:53I'm the relative one of my life.
57:54I was thankful to God that he left me my life.
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