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Titanic Sinks Tonight Season 1 Episode 4
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00:00my husband tried to join me in our lifeboat two men grabbed him officers
00:17were there with guns he offered no resistance and backed off back onto the
00:25ship began yelling and crying as I wanted to join him on the sinking ship
00:55he told me that apparently we'd struck something
01:07I didn't become alarmed there was no danger they said
01:14I told her to come at once we were sinking
01:18you can imagine the chaos and the fear and the terror of finding water in your cabin and
01:27you're in the bowels of the ship it makes me panic just thinking about it
01:30the story of the Titanic is the human condition spread out pinned on a board for us to examine
01:39then came the terrible cry women and children women and children
01:45two men lifted me up and put me in a boat
01:49it'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
02:15if we're gonna die
02:29best to die gripping something
02:32it's a split second decision what would you do what would I do
02:38I've been brought up to believe in a hell after death
03:03for now I think I went through a hell that night
03:10for now I think I went through a hell that night
03:24we're gonna die
03:26I've been brought up to believe in a boat
03:31I'm a gold-bearing
03:32I've been brought up to you
03:33I love to believe in a boat
03:34I've been brought up to you
03:35I love to believe in a boat
03:38it's a boat
03:41it's us
03:42it's us
03:44it's us
03:45you
03:46we've got to see
03:47I was working in the engineering room, we got the order, all hands on deck, put your life
04:15preservers on. The deck was full of male third-class passengers. The 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.
04:37When the crew come up on deck, these guys who've worked so heroically to try to keep Titanic
04:50afloat, they expect that there will be a place for them in the lifeboats. And of course that
04:57is not the case. British 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.
05:13It was a bleak and hopeless spectacle that met their eyes.
05:19Empty falls hanging from every david head.
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
05:39to facing death. From resignation, to fight and flight, to acting out of love and empathy
05:46to help other people. And at this point some people choose to do things that may look quite strange.
05:53One fellow said, go to the first cab in Baru. There was a steward filling up tumblers on a tray.
06:03He said, go on lads, drink up. She's going down.
06:09Some people prefer to stay in their cabin and let the waters rise up. Others go to the bar and just
06:20start drinking the place dry. Everyone has to choose to die in their own way, whatever that is.
06:25I was for going down into one of the first-class cabins, but if how Matty wouldn't let me...
06:33Matty said to me, we'll have to jump for it.
06:37It makes me panic just thinking about it, because I can imagine the chaos and the fear.
06:54It's not fair, you know, when passengers embarked on this ship. They were told it was unsinkable.
07:00They probably didn't pay much mind to how many lifeboats there were, but now that it's of the most
07:05crucial importance to them, they see that they've been failed.
07:14Captain Smith and Thomas Andrews, the ship's designer, must have been in hell.
07:20This was their unsinkable ship.
07:25Thomas Andrews was trying to do something, because he is the architect of this disaster.
07:35Andrews was seen throwing steamer chairs into the water with the idea of actually helping those who got
07:41into the sea to have something to support them.
07:48It's very difficult to know what the captain's final moments were.
07:53During the Falklands War, I was captain of a ship that was bombed, which I had to abandon.
07:58And so I know the pressures he was under.
08:01And I personally think that he probably stayed on the bridge and waited to meet his fate.
08:08But 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.
08:19But inside, there must be inner turmoil, because survival instinct is really powerful.
08:25And 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.
08:37People just have that, the will, to survive.
08:43The adrenaline system is working overtime, and they've almost got nothing to lose.
08:49I wanted to jump out and try to catch one of the empty lifeboat falls.
08:57Jack 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.
09:28So many thoughts passed through my mind.
09:35Thought of all the good times I'd had.
09:39All the future pleasures I'd never enjoy.
09:46My father.
09:49My mother.
09:52I was watching myself as though from some far-off place.
09:56I sincerely pitied myself.
10:17Back in the wireless room, Jack Phillips has stuck to his post right to the end.
10:21Even 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,
10:32oblivious to everything going on around him.
10:36And his junior, Harold Bride, is deeply loyal to and respectful of Jack Phillips.
10:42Jack Phillips.
10:44The sea has almost reached the wireless room.
10:47And they have just minutes before it's filled with freezing water.
10:52I was back in my room, getting Phillips' money for him.
10:56And as I looked out the door,
10:58I saw a stoker or somebody from below decks
11:03slipping the life-belt off his back.
11:06You know, I remembered in a flash the way Phillips had clung on,
11:09how I'd had to fix that life-belt in place because he was too busy to do it.
11:13I felt a passion not to let that man die a decent sailor's death.
11:26I did my duty.
11:27I hope I finished him, I don't know.
11:37We left him on the floor of the wireless cabin.
11:40He wasn't moving.
11:48I climbed on top of the officer's quarters.
11:51Yet I saw the last of Phillips.
11:54Jack Phillips is absolutely overwhelmed
11:57by the impossibility of this situation.
12:02He, uh, 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.
12:16The man is ready to die.
12:23At this stage, all of 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
12:40on the roof of the officer's quarters.
12:42Collapsible A and B.
12:44I saw the boat and the men trying to push it off.
12:58They couldn't do it.
13:00I went up to them, lend them a hand.
13:03The collapsible lifeboats were very much a secondary option,
13:09which would need to be rigged so they could be used.
13:14Hold that.
13:15Now, the crew are trying to launch them
13:18in increasingly difficult and desperate conditions.
13:21Just then, the ship took a slight but definite plump.
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,
13:43the lifeboats are stolen from you by the elements.
13:46And that is just devastating.
13:47The big wave carried the boat off.
13:53I had hold of an Orlok and went off with it.
14:00Water was washing right across the deck.
14:03And we were in water right to our hips.
14:07Another lurch threw myself off
14:10and away from the ship into the water.
14:12I fell into a mass of people.
14:22I was underwater.
14:24I knew I had to fight for it.
14:28The temperature in the water is minus two degrees.
14:32So as soon as that cold water hits the body,
14:34there's a shock reaction
14:36and the mind is reacting in a state of panic.
14:38Everything I touched seemed to be
14:44woman's hair.
14:47Children crying.
14:51Woman screaming.
14:54Their hair in my face.
14:56If only I could forget those hands and faces that I touched.
15:14The ship was sinking on its head very quickly.
15:18The water was right up to the bridge.
15:20The crowd moved with it.
15:23Pushing towards the stern.
15:26A sight that doesn't bear dwelling on.
15:30To stand there above the wheelhouse.
15:33Watching 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,
15:48dazed humanity.
15:50Trying to keep our final breath until the last possible moment.
15:56I nuked the futility of following that instinct for self-preservation.
16:02It would only be postponing the plunge and prolonging the agony.
16:06Turning to the bridge.
16:10Turning to the bridge.
16:12I took a header.
16:19Striking the water was like a thousand knives being driven into one's body.
16:25For a few moments I completely lost grip of myself.
16:28We were at the starboard rail to keep away from the crowd.
16:38The ship began to shoot down fast.
16:42The water rushing up towards us.
16:44We had no time to think, only to act.
16:48We wished each other luck.
16:50Then we jumped up on the rail.
16:58Milton looked up at me and he said,
17:02You're coming boy, aren't you?
17:12And I said,
17:14Go ahead.
17:16I'll be with you in a minute.
17:19And then you'll let go.
17:28The people who choose to jump are ultimately the people who take some form of control in a situation where you are powerless.
17:36You are powerless.
17:53We were about five minutes away from the ship.
17:57But we could still see it as the light stayed on.
18:05The ship stood almost on its nose, slowly sinking.
18:11The people on the Titanic were yelling and crying.
18:17I could see some of them as I jumped into the water.
18:37I found myself drawn against the grating covering a ventilator.
18:42The pressure of the water glued me there.
18:48The shaft led to a stoke hold.
18:52A sheer drop of 100 feet right to the bottom of the ship.
18:56I struggled and kicked for all I was worth.
19:01It was impossible to get away.
19:04As fast as I pushed myself off, I was dragged back.
19:07Every instant expecting the wire to go.
19:14To find myself shot down into the bowels of the ship.
19:23The shock of the water took the breath from my lungs.
19:27Down and down I went, spinning in all directions.
19:31The cold was terrific.
19:33Most 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,
19:54it's not in your favor to have a sharp intake of breath.
19:58Some may have cardiac arrest almost immediately because of the shock.
20:02I was still fighting when a blast of hot air came up the shaft
20:09and blew me right away from the air shaft and up to the surface.
20:13Finally, I came up, my lungs bursting.
20:27The ship was in front of me.
20:29Suddenly, the second funnel seemed to be lifted off.
20:32The funnel started to fall right amongst the 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.
20:51Those poor people were sucked down in those funnels.
21:00Like flies.
21:02As 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.
21:18So I asked them to give me a hand up, which they did.
21:23Sitting on my haunches, holding on for dear life.
21:26It seemed as though hours had passed since I left the ship.
21:29People like Jack and Officer Lightower are swarming onto 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.
22:01Something in the bowels of the Titanic exploded and sparks shot up to the sky.
22:08Two other explosions followed, dull and heavy,
22:13as if below the surface.
22:17The impact was so great, it shook the waters,
22:21and we thought our lifeboat would sink.
22:25Everyone screamed.
22:28The huge weight of seawater in the bows and in the stern
22:32meant that the two things were unable to remain as one part.
22:36The whole superstructure of the ship seemed to split.
22:41The lights suddenly go out,
22:43and then darkness falls.
22:56The Titanic broke in two before my eyes.
22:59The four-part wallowed over and disappeared instantly.
23:03The ship seemed to right herself
23:09like a hurt animal with a broken back.
23:15It's a strange, hallucinatory moment.
23:19It looks as though everything's going to be fine
23:21because the weird, wonky, distorted angles
23:25of the great ship start to settle.
23:29There's people that think
23:30some sort of safety feature has kicked in.
23:33You know, at least this half of the ship
23:35is going to somehow survive
23:36and those on board are going to be spared.
23:38But ultimately, that is short-lived.
23:40I saw the Titanic go up in the air
23:46ever so big.
23:48A huge ship reared herself on end
23:53rather than propeller clear of the water
23:56until at last she assumed a perpendicular position.
24:01We saw groups of the 1,500 people still aboard
24:08clinging like swarming bees.
24:14The contents of the Titanic is now falling through it
24:18and tragically, people as well.
24:20I think it was only at that moment
24:22that many of those poor souls on board
24:26realized their fate.
24:29If we're going to die, I said,
24:31it would be best to die gripping something.
24:35We gripped the rail.
24:36A sharp exclamation from my husband.
24:53My God, she is going now.
24:58The steamer without a sound
25:02except for the shrieks of the people still on board.
25:06Stood right on end.
25:13It stood there several moments
25:15and slid straight down into the water.
25:22As easily as a pebble in a pond.
25:27Our proud ship.
25:30Our beautiful Titanic.
25:33It's a beautiful Titanic.
25:33It's the Titanic.
25:35Everyone around me on the upturned boat
26:03and breathed the two words.
26:07She's gone.
26:16I did not wish to see her go down.
26:20I'm glad that I did not.
26:24My back was turned to her.
26:29We were pulling away.
26:32This is his ship.
26:33This is his company.
26:35And there is intense professional and personal shame here.
26:40I think that was just too overwhelming for him to be able to look.
26:49Probably a minute passed with almost dead silence and quiet.
26:54Then an unforgettable cry went up from fifteen hundred despairing throats.
27:09Bedlam of shrieks and cries.
27:12A nightmare of both sight and sound.
27:20Hearing desperate disembodied voices in the darkness of the ocean, a cacophony of tears
27:30and shouts and despair.
27:34It's almost like a soundscape of hell.
27:37Potentially it's your husband, your brother, your father, your loved ones voices.
27:43I don't know how you recover from that.
27:46I've never heard such screams from the hundreds of people floating about us.
28:01It was horrible, Raoul.
28:26One young man near me shouted, Mother.
28:33Mother.
28:35A man alongside me clushed me round the neck.
28:45I choked him off.
28:46Nobody knows how they'll react in that circumstance.
28:52You're surrounded by others in a panic with you.
28:57You begin to lose the function of your arms, the function of your legs, the thing that you
29:01need to keep afloat.
29:03And that can happen extremely quickly because that body's reaction to keep your vital organs
29:08warm is so powerful and it's painful, like you are being tortured, essentially.
29:18The people in the lifeboats are sitting and listening to others die.
29:24And everyone's response to that trauma situation will be different.
29:31You chatted of little unimportant things.
29:34As people do when they've been through great mental strain.
29:38Try to make feeble jokes.
29:41I remember I teased Miss Frankatelli.
29:45Just fancy, you left your beautiful nightdress behind you.
29:50And we all laughed.
29:57Though 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.
30:11Don'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.
30:31She'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.
30:50Once severe hypothermia sets in, you've got about 15 minutes until you become unconscious.
30:58When I was wounded in Afghanistan, I knew that that helicopter was coming.
31:03But if you don't know that a rescue is imminent, how long are you capable of holding on for?
31:11A large number of people gave up the struggle and were content to die.
31:16For the water was so cold and there seemed no hope at rescue.
31:25When the darkness starts to creep in on you, that's when you have to have a real word with yourself.
31:29And remind yourself that you still have some fight in you.
31:32I swam as though I was in a race. I got myself away from the crowd. Behind me there was the horrible volume of groans which...
31:49I can hear them now.
31:58I came up to me chum, John Bannon, and I said,
32:03Cheerio, Johnny.
32:05And he said,
32:08Am I right?
32:11Then he told me he had seen a flashlight some distance away and pointed out the direction.
32:20As I went off, I cried out,
32:22What's so long, Johnny?
32:24Poor chap.
32:38He was drowned.
32:49It was a terrible sight all around.
32:52Men swimming and sinking.
32:55I saw a boat of some kind and I put all my strength into an effort to swim to it.
33:00It was like work.
33:03I was all done.
33:05When a hand reached from the boat and pulled me aboard.
33:12Collapsible bee that had been stored on the roof of the officers' quarters was washed off deck
33:17and is now the last hope of the men who jump from the Titanic.
33:24Among the 30 men on Collapsible bee, we have Howard Bride, Jack Feyer, Eugene Daly and Charles Lytolde.
33:32Others came near, nobody gave them a hand.
33:36The bottom-up boat already had more men than it would hold and was sinking.
33:41We were very low in the water.
33:45Standing, sitting, kneeling, lying in all conceivable positions.
33:49People came up beside us and begged us to get on this upturned boat.
33:56Saving ourselves, we were obliged to push them off.
34:02One man was alongside us and asked if he could get up on top of it.
34:07We told him that if he did, we would all go down.
34:14His reply was, God bless you, goodbye.
34:20To look another human being in the eye and say to them, you're going to have to perish.
34:26Like 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.
34:42And there are some lifeboats that are full to capacity and there's nothing they can do.
34:48But there are many others that are even less than half full.
34:52There are less than 700 people in the lifeboats.
34:56Because the 18 lifeboats are not at capacity, there's still space for over 400 people.
35:03It could save them from almost certain death.
35:09Within the lifeboats has an intense dilemma.
35:12Do they go back and save people or do they stay at a safe distance so that they don't get overcrowded and everyone in that lifeboat end up in the water?
35:20These boats are fragile. They're in the middle of this vast sea. There's already been tragic and terrible, huge loss of life. This is their one and only chance to survive.
35:33Three times an officer ordered his men to turn about. But each time they were prevented from doing so by some of the passengers.
35:46They grasped the oars so that the seamen were forced to give up turning back to rescue any of the unfortunates.
35:55In 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.
36:06The Duff Gordons object. They say they'll be swamped and they persuade the crew not to go back.
36:12At the later inquiry, Cosmo Duff Gordon said it's difficult to say what occurred to me. I was minding my wife and we were in a rather abnormal condition, you know.
36:23I find it chilling that the Duff Gordons are just openly hostile to letting anyone in their lifeboat.
36:32All along, they have been given privileges that other people haven't been given.
36:37And 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.
36:46Men and women were going to their death beneath the icy waters of the Atlantic, but I noticed in a hazy, detached sort of way.
37:01I've gone through too much in those aisles to think clearly.
37:07Lucy's talking about trauma here. She's talking about going through so much emotion that she's effectively shutting down.
37:13She'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.
37:29Partially filled lifeboats standing by, only a few hundred yards away, never came back.
37:38Why on earth they did not come back is a mystery.
37:41How could any human being fail to heed those cries?
37:48I think it is extremely unfortunate the lifeboats didn't go in and start to rescue people.
37:55They were willing to sit with people screaming and dying in the water, and I find that quite surprising.
38:00We're highly attuned to other people's emotional expressions. Out on the lifeboats, it's dark and they're quite far away. So not seeing those faces may be one way of distancing themselves from that suffering.
38:14I became so numb I could hardly swim.
38:21The hardly swim.
38:24My head was so queer.
38:31But when I was almost at me last gasp I shouted.
38:34The boat's a horn!
38:35On the off chance that one might be near.
38:44I had room for a dozen more people in my boat.
38:49But it was dark.
38:54We didn't pick up any swimmers.
38:56We all like to think that we'd be the noble one that does the right thing.
39:03But that's not how survival works.
39:06Ultimately as human beings we are animals who have survived.
39:10That's how we've evolved to be what we are.
39:12So survival instinct is absolutely within our DNA.
39:14And so you have no idea what you are capable of until you are pushed to an extreme.
39:21Disasters reveal an aspect of your personality that you might not know is there.
39:26And you might not like being there.
39:28To save your own life, to let hundreds of people die, I think that's something that would weigh heavily on you for the rest of your life.
39:37Perhaps a thousand.
39:39Perhaps more.
39:40Gotten down with her.
39:56There's a cluster of lifeboats closer to where the Titanic went down.
40:01Including lifeboats 14 and 4.
40:04And this is a kind of case of right place, right time for some people in the water.
40:10Fortunately, my shout was heard.
40:13Over here!
40:15I was hauled into lifeboat number 4.
40:19About seven people are rescued because of that boat, including Thomas Dillon.
40:26I think I'd been 20 minutes in the water.
40:29I was told afterwards I was unconscious for a long time.
40:35I was not properly right when I came to.
40:39Thomas Dillon survived because he's young and he's fit, but by the time he's picked up by the lifeboat, he's got early symptoms of hypothermia.
40:50I would rather die a hundred times than go through such an experience again.
40:57Mr. Lowe went in search of other lifeboats.
41:01He found four or five and took command of the little fleet.
41:06The whole of you are under my orders.
41:08Lifeboat 14 is very full, but Lowe realises that actually if this group works together, they have a chance of being able to launch a rescue mission.
41:12He ordered that the boat should be linked together with ropes to prevent any drifting away.
41:18They're able to redistribute those passengers, and they actually free up each other.
41:26The ship he went in search of their boat.
41:28And he also sat in search of our crew.
41:30The boat had a chance of being able to launch a rescue mission.
41:34And then the ship he got 편.
41:36He got a lot to deal with his boat.
41:38And another ship he got in search of the boats, he was told.
41:39He was able to land the ship, and he was able to land the ship.
41:43They got a lot to land the ship.
41:45And it was able to...
41:46passengers and they actually free up an entire lifeboat which allows them to go in and search
41:52for survivors i went with just the boats crew no passengers of course i had to wait for the yells
42:03and shrieks to subside for the people to thin out
42:07officer low is very aware of the potential risks you can be capsized when trying to pull survivors
42:17into the vessel the vessel can be swamped but they choose to go back they're not just survivors in
42:24this moment they continue to be crewmen their sense of service particularly those that had a military
42:30background ultimately outweighs their sense of survival your training just kicks in and you
42:36have a responsibility to those around you even before yourself i searched the wreck thoroughly
42:43and found four persons one was a mr hoyt from new york
42:52he was bleeding from the mouth i listened to shirts as to give him every chance to breathe
43:00but unfortunately he died
43:01i suppose he was too far gone when we picked him up
43:15most of those jumped in the sea dies within a quarter of an hour
43:19the awful moaning ceased after that
43:21we saw nothing but ice into our bodies
43:33i remember the very last cry it was a man's voice calling loudly
43:38i think it would have been very haunting to slowly hear fewer and fewer voices
43:55and that's one of the most traumatic memories that people had is the sound of those screams
44:00the air was leaking from under the boat lowering us further and further into the icy water
44:21soaking wet freezing the pack of huddled men on collapsible beat and have survived so many odds
44:31but that's all for nothing if nobody comes to your rescue and they don't know if that's coming
44:37some lost consciousness and slipped overboard
44:42every wave threatened to swamp us the problem with trying to stay on an upside down boat which are
44:53now using as a raft is that it's not stable this is a balancing act literally to save your life
45:00every bit of strength and spirit from every one of those men on that boat raft was going to be about
45:06staying alive their class differences ceased to be important we've got men from first class men from
45:15third crew members united by this will to survive we prayed and sang hymns
45:25harold bride helped keep our hopes up he said time and time again the carpathia is coming as fast as
45:33she can carpathia is coming as fast as she can
45:40light holder found his whistle
45:45after desperate calling we got the attention of the other lifeboats
45:52two of the boats realized the position we were in and drew toward us
45:56they had a right side up boat and it was full to its capacity
46:08yet they came to us and loaded us all into it
46:10the other lifeboats
46:24officer boxer took some green flares from the bridge and now he's lighting them hoping that he will
46:31it will attract the attention of the approaching rescue vessel.
46:38Time will be standing still.
46:41All they can do is sit in the boats and wait.
46:44About this time, the edge of the sun came above the horizon.
47:06To feel that glowing warmth, which we'd never expected to see again,
47:12that's something never to be forgotten.
47:14I have no idea of the passage of time during that awful night.
47:28We were all very tired when we saw a big light.
47:34Suddenly a flicker of hope. A ship getting closer every minute.
47:48Coming towards the site of the wreck and the lifeboats bobbing about in this freezing, empty sea, finally, is the Carpathia.
48:02She's come as fast as she could through the ice flows, through the night, responding to Jack Phillips' distress calls.
48:10Nothing has ever looked so good to me as the lights from the Carpathia.
48:25Even through my numbness, I began to realize I was saved.
48:31I would live.
48:35She stopped maybe four miles away.
48:47The task of rowing over to her was one of the hardest things we had to face.
48:53At last, the Carpathia was alongside and people were being taken up by rope ladder.
49:11One man was dead. I passed him and went up the ladder.
49:25The dead man was Phillips.
49:30He had died on the raft of exposure and cold, I guess.
49:36He stood his ground until the crisis had passed, then he collapsed.
49:44He collapsed.
49:49Only I could have slipped more clothing on Phillips.
49:58We're just saved him.
50:08When I was wounded, three people lost their lives.
50:10So I know what it's like to trawl over in your head that what could I have done?
50:15And ultimately, life is unpredictable.
50:21You know, you live or you die.
50:24And you cannot change that fate.
50:27But learning to live with that, it takes time.
50:37No survivor.
50:40Knows better than either.
50:43Cruelty of disappointment.
50:47I had a husband to search for.
50:54A husband whom I believed would be found in one of the boats.
50:59He was not there.
51:07He was not there.
51:16I let myself be saved.
51:21Because I believed he too would escape.
51:25I sometimes envy those whom no human power could tear them from their husband's arms.
51:42What do you remember of the Carpathia?
51:51Uh...
51:54Consoling.
51:58And being consoled.
51:59My friends, they were all among the missing when the role was called.
52:09The loss affected me badly.
52:14The big narrative is always going to be about heroism and loss and sacrifice.
52:30But the Titanic was a disaster.
52:32And it was a disaster.
52:35These are real people's lives that are lost.
52:39Real people who suffer.
52:41the thousands.
52:42They were alors named Abed.
52:43Who suffered.
52:44It was gone for the people who suffered.
52:46The personalけة depting leads to all persons and services.
52:47Over the world, they were now known as being eliminated.
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53:18The Titanic was 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.
53:31In 1912, it was taken for granted
53:35that the price of a first-class ticket
53:37included a greater likelihood of surviving.
53:40It was seen as a reflection of the natural order.
53:45What the Titanic teaches us
53:48is what happens when people's lives are given unequal value.
53:54Every element, from your breakfast
53:56to how you're treated in an emergency,
53:59all of that is impacted by class and hierarchy and status.
54:04This happened in an age
54:06where the British stiff upper lip was stiffer than ever.
54:09But the reality is, it doesn't matter how resilient you think you are,
54:14sometimes we're just not capable of processing that level of horror.
54:19Personal trauma was not recognised.
54:21You just suffered and you carried on.
54:24Those people who survived,
54:26they were just now going to have to pick up their lives
54:27as best they could and manage.
54:29These are searing memories that never leave them.
54:34And the grief was huge.
54:37But I like to imagine that there were those
54:39who felt that this encounter with death
54:42made them live the rest of their days more fully
54:46and that they owed it to those who died to live.
54:49They were just now going to live the rest of their lives.
55:19They were just here to tell you
55:20the grief life and recovery.
55:23They took it to day,
55:24and they both solved the pain
55:26That they were just poor.
55:26They took it to day,
55:27and they fell to nothing
55:31And then you rep召索ous.
55:33I also adopted them
55:35First, back to that
55:36I already deliberate
55:39Likely before
55:41Pershing
55:44And then,
55:46You shall love
55:47Think the truth
55:48You shall get
57:49And 98 pounds which had taken me many years to save.
57:56Here I am stripped of all I had but thankful to God that he left me my life.
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