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Titanic Sinks Tonight Season 1 Episode 1 br The Unsinkable Ship
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00:00I
00:26fell into a mass of people
00:30everything I
00:32touched seemed to be
00:34woman's hair
00:40children crying
00:42women screaming
00:44their hair
00:46in my face
00:48my god
00:50if only I could forget those hands
00:52and faces
01:00they
01:02told me that apparently we'd struck something
01:16I didn't become alarmed
01:26there was no danger
01:28they said
01:30I
01:34told her to come at once
01:36we were sinking
01:40you can imagine the chaos and the fear
01:42and the terror of finding water in your cabin
01:44and you're in the bowels of the ship
01:46it makes me panic just thinking about it
01:48the story of the titanic is the human condition spread out
01:54pinned on a board for us to examine
01:58then came the terrible cry
02:00women and children
02:02women and children
02:04two men lifted me up
02:06and put me in a boat
02:08it's these small decisions
02:10these little butterfly effect moments
02:12that change the outcome
02:28really was every man for himself
02:30my heart stood still
02:32my heart stood still
02:46if we're gonna die
02:48best to die gripping
02:50something
02:52it's a split second decision
02:54what would you do
02:56what would I do
02:58what would I do
03:04it was a terrible sight
03:06men swimming
03:08and sinking
03:16I've been brought up to believe
03:18in a hell
03:20after death
03:28for now I think I went through a hell that night
03:30for now I think I went through a hell that night
03:32and it was just all this
03:34and just left us
03:35and I thought I had one
03:36in a way
03:38I was watching when I was really
03:40after that night
03:42I was just through a night
03:44and I got to give up
03:46and at the night
03:47to see if something
03:48was really good
03:50that night
03:51is really gospel
03:52that night
03:54was really good
03:56and he had to die
03:58and was really great
04:00Titanic, the largest ship the world had ever known.
04:24The last word in luxury.
04:25The ship, palatial, the food, delicious.
04:31The rudder alone weighed 100 tons.
04:37I sailed, first class, from Southampton.
04:41We called at Cherbourg, and from there to Queenstown.
04:46Everyone was counting the days till we'd see the Statue of Liberty.
04:53My father and mother were invited to dinner that night, so I dined alone.
05:00Afterward I took a few turns around the deck.
05:05Being 17 years old, I was all over the ship.
05:13The Titanic is a ship of dreams, the epitome of modern technology, of luxury and opulence.
05:22It looks like a cross between the Ritz and an English grand country house.
05:32Titanic was the showpiece for the shipping line.
05:36Built by Harlan and Wolfe, the famous shipyard in Belfast.
05:40He is absolutely huge, 10 decks, 840 cabins, an absolute masterpiece of human engineering.
05:52I had never been on an ocean voyage.
06:15I was afraid of the sea.
06:21But Harvey, my husband, and our eight-year-old daughter Marjorie and I decided to go to America that way.
06:31First few days, I was a bit seasick and kept to my cabin most of the time.
06:47But on Sunday, April 14th, I was up and about.
06:51After I'd eaten, I listened to the orchestra for a little while and then I went back to my cabin.
07:08There was no moon.
07:11A brilliant, starry night.
07:18I'd never seen the sea smoother.
07:23It had become much colder.
07:33It was indeed a night for bed, warmth and cozy thoughts.
07:40How good it was to be in my bunk at last, devouring magazines.
07:46At 23, I was the youngest stewardess on the ship.
07:53I was enjoying the trip tremendously.
07:57The first three days were very calm.
08:02We were another three days before we would reach New York.
08:07It was a pleasure to go to bed.
08:11My pretty little cabin with its electric heater and pink curtains.
08:20I hadn't meant to sail on the Titanic.
08:24Urgent business in New York forced me to take the first available boat.
08:28But everything aboard this lovely ship reassured me.
08:43It's a Sunday.
08:44First class passengers have probably spent the day enjoying themselves.
08:48They had eaten roast duckling and sirloin of beef and foie gras and truffles and lamb with mint sauce and stuffed zucchini and chocolate eclairs.
08:59Maybe they've gone to the sauna in the Turkish baths or they've played a round of squash or gone to the gym.
09:06Perhaps the men had gone to the smoking room.
09:10They'd had a cigar, a pipe.
09:12They'd played a round of cards.
09:14Maybe the women had gone to the reading and writing room to have a moment of quiet.
09:20They've had a joyful, relaxing day.
09:25They're full of anticipation that they're going to be arriving in New York in two or three days' time.
09:31It's been the perfect day.
09:50It's been the perfect day.
09:59My name is Celini Yazbek.
10:02My husband and I were on our way to America to make our home.
10:09He'd been to America before where he had a business.
10:20It's a misconception that Titanic was first and foremost a luxury ship.
10:25Titanic was primarily an emigrant ship.
10:28And it was to ferry people, working people from Europe to America.
10:35About three quarters of the Titanic's passengers are in second or third class.
10:40And it's really not surprising that people do not want to go to bed.
10:45This might be the first time they've been away from home.
10:47And maybe it's the first taste of freedom from very oppressive environments.
10:55They are young people embarking on a new life to a new world.
11:00It would have been wonderful.
11:02I was a bride of 50 days.
11:14By collating all of these memories from different parts of the ship.
11:18Memories that could easily have been lost to history.
11:20That's the way in.
11:22That's how we understand the story of the Titanic.
11:36And we they got to take a sauna next to the ship to ASS moment.
12:01He's gone on the back!
12:18He's been in the drill, bud.
12:21He's gone, back and forth.
12:31I joined her in Belfast, while she was still in the builder's hands.
12:47The biggest and finest ship in the world.
12:53On that night of April 14th, the first officer took over from me.
12:58We both remarked on the ship's steadiness.
13:01How comfortably she was slipping along.
13:07We knew perfectly well we were entering the region where ice might be sighted.
13:13And had taken precautions.
13:16As none of these bergs lay on our course, well, they didn't directly concern us.
13:22I passed on the course, speed, weather conditions, wished him joy of a few perishing cold hours and went below.
13:31It doesn't matter whether it's a ship, all the way down to a section of marines in my circumstance.
13:39There is a system and command structure.
13:42Everyone had a job to do.
13:44And this is the point where the ship just begins to take over.
13:48The navigation crew that are at the top of the ship are settling into their evening routine.
13:54The engineers that are down in the boiler room are working on a four-hour shift to just keep the ship moving.
14:03The captain is retired to his cabin, you know, comfortable that his crew, that ultimately have been at work since the ship left Belfast, are very much in control.
14:12Really, it's the beginning of what should be another cam night on the Titanic.
14:30I joined the Marconi staff last July and was transferred to the Titanic at Belfast.
14:38I didn't have much to do about it except to relieve Phillips, a senior operator.
14:42I got to bed.
15:02I was conscious of waking up and hearing Phillips send the telegrams.
15:07From leaving Southampton, we'd got through about 250 telegrams.
15:42It's a tense situation in the wireless room because the equipment broke down the day before and so he's got this great backlog of work to do and he's focused on it.
16:09The last thing he wants is new information coming in.
17:43There are people who will deliberately distort and mislead but mostly you know it's just that people do remember things differently.
17:55You're not looking for the stone cold truths.
18:00We need to bring together all of those memories, see what seems to be consistent through it all, but also to recognise that every individual has a different experience.
18:11We have to respect that.
18:13Frederick Fleet, sailor, lookout man, Southampton, England, 25th next October.
18:36We are there to report anything we see.
18:44A ship or anything.
18:48Watch was nearly over.
18:50I had done the best part of two hours.
18:54Just a night.
19:06It was now very large when I first saw it, a black mass.
19:32It kept getting larger as we were getting nearer to it.
19:36I was fourth officer.
19:48I was just coming along the deck and almost abreast of the captain's quarters when I heard the report of three bells.
19:56That signifies something's been seen ahead.
20:00I struck three bells first, then I went straight to the telephone.
20:03And rang them up on the bridge.
20:10Then I heard the first officer give the order.
20:13The wheel was put to starboard.
20:18She started to go to port whilst I was on the telephone.
20:25My mate saw it and he told me he could see the bow coming round.
20:29They swan the ship's bow away from the object.
20:33Yes.
20:36Because we were making straight for it.
20:38Because we were making straight for it.
20:46What do you do if you're trained at sea?
20:47You try to avoid the obstacle.
20:49It's a split-second decision.
20:51And there's just a cliché, isn't there, in the way we talk about trying to turn the Titanic.
20:56You can't turn this giant boat in time.
21:00And a red light goes up when the ship is supposed to stop.
21:21This red light came up when I'm the man in charge of the watch, so I shouted,
21:36shut all dampers.
21:38They shut the wind off the fires.
21:52The crash came before we had them all shut.
21:54I didn't even feel the shock.
22:06I hardly knew it had happened.
22:08There was no jolt whatsoever.
22:10I was about to step into bed when I seemed to sway slightly.
22:17If I'd had a brimful glass of water in my hand, not a drop would have spilled.
22:22I was soon awakened by a long, grinding shock.
22:38There was a backward jerk followed by a shorter one.
22:42And the ship started to back like a train.
22:55Then a low, crunching, ripping sound as Titanic shivered.
23:11I was fast asleep.
23:18It almost threw me off the bed.
23:24Suddenly, I heard a tremendous noise.
23:29Immediately, I knew the ship had been hit hard.
23:42When we were alongside her, it was a bit higher than the forecastle heads.
24:01Like, 50 feet, I should say.
24:04Was there much of a jar to the ship?
24:07No.
24:09Just a slight grinding noise.
24:11Did it alarm you when it struck?
24:18I thought it was a narrow shave.
24:20You thought it was a narrow shave?
24:22Yes.
24:29You know, up on the top deck, people are thinking to themselves,
24:33that was close, but we got away with it.
24:35You know, it's just a near miss that somebody writes down in a log.
24:39But they don't know that this iceberg had a very large section jutting out of it, underneath the water.
24:50Water came pouring in about two feet from where I was standing.
25:10The ship's side was torn from the third stockhold to the forward end.
25:24Open the door!
25:28The doors dropped instantly, automatically.
25:39Hurry up!
25:40We got through into the next section.
25:44Then the watertight compartment closed up.
25:57As the iceberg strikes, the rivets give way.
26:04And the water starts pouring into boiler room number six.
26:07That's on the starboard side of the ship.
26:10But Titanic is designed to have watertight compartments in the event of an emergency.
26:17There's 16 compartments, and the doors do what they're supposed to do,
26:21come down, seal off the compartments, and protect the rest of the ship.
26:27Fred Barrett and his boys escape this wall of water.
26:34At the moment, they are safe.
26:37But the thing about the Titanic is nobody had thought to put in a direct communication system
26:44between the boiler rooms, which could flood, and the bridge.
26:52But equally, it's not just a case of sending somebody up quickly.
26:57When a lowly boiler operator or stoker goes up and tells the captain what's happened,
27:01there is a chain of command.
27:04So there was no way that Fred Barrett could tell the captain straight away what was happening,
27:12and that lost time.
27:15The captain said, what have we struck?
27:37Mr. Murdoch, the first officer, said, we have struck an iceberg.
27:47I put her hard to starboard, but it was too close she hit it.
27:51He also said, I intended to port around it, but she hit before I could do any more.
27:59We walked out onto the bridge to take a look at the iceberg.
28:12It seemed to be a small black mass not rising very high out of the water.
28:18The ship was past it then.
28:21It couldn't have extended above the ship's rail.
28:29Captain Smith, the captain of the Titanic, was a very experienced seaman,
28:34a very highly respected seaman.
28:36He'd served in the Royal Naval Reserve as well as in the Merchant Navy.
28:41He was coming to the end of his career, and he must have been very, very proud
28:45that he was taking Titanic, this world-beating ship across the Atlantic.
28:50And that would be a wonderful end to what was a glittering career.
28:56And suddenly, of course, there's a collision.
28:58It's the last thing you want.
29:01He would have been annoyed as well as keen to solve the problem as quickly as he could.
29:15When there's that sudden cut of the engines, it's going to be really noticeable.
29:33Something's going on, something's not right, something's not as it should be.
29:38I lay still.
29:41I waited for Anne, my cabin mate, to speak, for I knew she was awake.
29:49I looked over the side of my bunk at her, and she returned by saying in her calm way,
29:56sounds as if something has happened.
30:00Passengers were really left in the dark.
30:02There was no tunneling system or announcement of what was going on, of what to do.
30:07They had to work it out themselves.
30:13I could hear the footsteps of people on the deck above my head.
30:19There was some stamping and queer noises, as though the ship's tackle was being pulled about.
30:34My husband said there must have been some slight accident in the engine room.
30:40He put on his coat and left me.
30:46Different people will react to this situation in different ways,
30:50but a number of passengers have no qualms at all about going up onto the boat deck
30:55and finding someone to inquire what's going on.
31:05It was bitterly cold.
31:07I moved around the deck, trying to discover what had happened.
31:16Have you seen the officers?
31:19There were quite a few people standing around,
31:23questioning each other in a dazed kind of way.
31:26There were many prominent people on the passenger list.
31:35And because it was for Maiden Voyage, those responsible for building the ship.
31:40Tommy Andrews.
31:43Designer for Harland & Wolfe.
31:46He was respected by everyone.
31:49Everyone.
31:51A great ship builder.
31:53And a real gentleman.
31:57A perfectionist.
32:03Thomas Andrews was a highly respected, in fact, probably the most respected ship designer in the UK at this time.
32:11Titanic was the pinnacle of Andrews' career.
32:15You know, he'd been building up to this moment.
32:17This amazing liner that was going to win all these different prizes,
32:20that was the queen of the seas, really.
32:25He knew a great deal about ship design.
32:28He understood buoyancy, stability, all of these issues.
32:34He's got 16 water-side compartments.
32:36That's far more than most of the liners that were steaming around.
32:40And of those 16, four of them could be flooded,
32:43and the ship was still stable and would stay afloat.
32:46And that's why Titanic had been billed as an unsinkable ship.
32:55She was a fabricated steel vessel of gigantic dimensions.
33:02We're just stopping, cautioning her, just making a few checks,
33:05and on our way to New York in here.
33:08Please, you know.
33:10She was a wonderfully safe vessel.
33:16It's just, it's just precautionary, just...
33:19In answer to many questions, Mr. Andrews assured everybody that we were absolutely safe.
33:28She would stay afloat indefinitely.
33:31The ship is on sick.
33:34Is it tight?
33:38This one man had a piece of ice.
33:41And I took it out of his hands, wondering where he'd got it from.
33:44Tried to make him understand that there was nothing the matter.
33:47Go down to bed and go to sleep again.
33:50I didn't take it very seriously.
33:52After what seemed a few moments, my husband returned and he was quite excited.
34:04He exclaimed,
34:05We have struck an iceberg, a big one.
34:09But there's no danger.
34:10An officer just told me so.
34:13This story reassured me.
34:16If these people weren't worried, why should I be?
34:21At that particular time, we know in England certainly, there's a strong, very hierarchical class system.
34:33Getting the message from authority figures that everything's okay, even though the ship is stationary and they're out at sea and it's dark and it's cold.
34:41For the most people, that's enough.
34:46There had been an accident, a collision, and yet there was a sense of complacency rather than a sense of urgency to discover what exactly has gone wrong.
34:57Thomas Andrews was saying to people, everything's fine, it's all safe, when he didn't have any data about what the damage to the ship was.
35:06And that was not a clever thing to do.
35:08There are eight firemen in the number six section. The second engineer shouted, all hands, stand by your stations.
35:23That's for the men that stand by the fires.
35:26For Fred Barrett and his crew, they need to manage the fire in boiler room six.
35:32And he's worried that there's going to be a minor explosion because the freezing water is hitting the hot coals.
35:39Fred Barrett is in the boiler room next door.
35:40Fred Barrett is in the boiler room next door.
35:42And the only way to assess the damage is to climb out of boiler room five to this overhead gangway that's above boiler room six.
35:52He went up and escaped and down to the boiler room and down to the boiler room.
36:13But we couldn't get in.
36:25It was eight feet of water in it.
36:30When he tries to get back down into boiler room six, he can't because there's eight feet of water in there and the whole place is already filled with steam.
36:40But I think when Fred Barrett saw the situation, he would have been still feeling that everything could be contained.
36:47You know, this is how the ship was sold to passengers and crew alike.
37:17Captain Smith looked at the inclinometer, which is a sort of spirit level type gauge, which shows whether the ship is stable or not, and realized there was a five degree list in the ship to starboard.
37:42We're taking on the water.
37:49Captain Smith knows that property is water.
37:52The problem is, where is this water coming from and what the hell is going on?
37:59Titanic, of course, was a massive ship with a huge number of compartments.
38:04Therefore, finding out what's happened is a difficult and complex task,
38:09because the ability to communicate between parts of the ship was very, very poor indeed.
38:15Therefore, you have to send a person, a runner, to go down and look and then come all the way back to the bridge to tell you what on earth is going on.
38:23I went right down below, into the lowest steerage as far as I could go without going into the cargo portion of the ship.
38:45And I inspected all the decks as I came up in the vicinity where I thought she'd struck.
38:52I couldn't hear any noise.
38:59I couldn't see any damage.
39:01Remember, the mindset is, this ship is unsinkable.
39:07If you believe a ship is unsinkable, you're not looking for trouble.
39:14Imagine it, wandering about this vast ship looking for water.
39:22He's not going to find it because he doesn't go down to the boiler rooms.
39:26I board a Titanic in Queenstown.
39:45I'm 21 years old.
39:47I wanted to come to America to make some money.
39:51There were three other boys from the same place sleeping in the same room with me.
40:02I jumped on the floor.
40:13First thing I knew, my feet were getting wet.
40:16I told the other fellas to get up, that there was something wrong.
40:21Get back to bed.
40:24They only laughed.
40:26One of them says, get back to bed, you're not in Ireland now.
40:31Go back to bed, Daniel.
40:33I really understand where that voice is coming from.
40:36Something that I hear from immigrants nowadays is this belief that you've entered a world of order and protection and security.
40:48So you don't have to worry about anything.
40:51This is the safest ship in the world that's ever been built, but it's so wrong in this context.
40:56I turned on the lights.
41:05And to my surprise, there was a stream of water running along the floor.
41:09The fact that water was seen on the deck at the level where Daniel Buckney had a cabin was seen to indicate that a second water site compartment had actually gone as well as the boiler room.
41:23And the water was rising up the bulkhead in that compartment, and that, of course, is extremely worrying.
41:41But who exactly knew that is a different issue.
42:11I met the carpenter coming up, absolutely out of breath.
42:16And he said, she's evidently making water fast.
42:20Number one tarpaulin is ballooning.
42:23Go tell the captain.
42:29At last, Boxall gets himself some concrete information.
42:34The carpenter he meets is talking about one of the tarpaulins up on G-Deck that's covering a cargo hold.
42:41The air in there is being pushed out at speed, at pressure, by the volume of water coming in.
42:52In the cargo hold, there's all the passengers' luggage.
42:56There's goods that are being shipped from companies across the Atlantic.
43:01There's a Renault car all boxed up belonging to one of the first-class passengers.
43:06There's cases of feather boas.
43:08There's all kinds of crazy things in there.
43:10But it is the entirety of everyone's possessions.
43:20Then, on his way to investigate, Boxall gets some more news.
43:24I met the mail clerk coming up.
43:30And he said, Mr Boxall, the mail room is filling.
43:35Captain Smith!
43:36I got back to the boat deck and I saw the captain.
43:38The mail room is filling, sir.
43:39And I said, the mail room is filling, sir.
43:40And I said, the mail room is filling, sir.
43:41What did he say?
43:42I got back to the boat deck and I saw the captain.
43:51The mail room is filling, sir.
43:52And I said, the mail room is filling, sir.
43:53What did he say?
43:54He walked away and left me.
43:55He went off the bridge as far as I remember.
43:56He went off the bridge as far as I remember.
43:57I got back to the boat deck and I saw the captain.
44:02The mail room is filling, sir.
44:03I got back to the boat deck and I saw the captain.
44:04The mail room is filling, sir.
44:05The mail room is filling, sir.
44:06And I said, the mail room is filling, sir.
44:09What did he say?
44:11He walked away and left me.
44:18He went off the bridge as far as I remember.
44:23He didn't say anything to you?
44:25No.
44:26The captain goes down to inspect, accompanied by Thomas Andrews.
44:39Here, they can see with their own eyes, the mail room has been flooded.
44:43And that means another compartment is gone.
44:46The Titanic was a ship designed to carry mail from Great Britain.
44:58And there are about 3,500 sacks of mail on board.
45:02Already, these mail bags are beginning to float away.
45:06The mail clerks have tried to salvage some of them, but they can't because the water is everywhere.
45:11This doesn't look good for rural Britannia.
45:15Seeing the speed with which the water levels were rising must have been quite a sobering moment for both of them.
45:24And, of course, this was not what the captain had hoped would be his final crowning glory in command of this splendid ship.
45:32This was going to be the ultimate test for him.
45:36He was going to have to prove himself as the sort of captain that he thought he was and that other people thought he was.
45:43But then the situation gets worse.
45:49The captain learns that a third compartment is flooded.
45:54The captain knows that this is a terrible circumstance, but equally, Titanic was built to endure that.
46:07There's 16 compartments.
46:09Four of them could be fully flooded, and the ship was still stable and wouldn't sink.
46:13If another one, a fifth compartment, started to be flooded, then that changed the equation completely.
46:22The captain is sitting right at the moment of what is known as Event Horizon.
46:26You know, once you tip over that precipice, the ship is going to sink.
46:31Any captain worth their salt is ultimately going to prepare for the worst and actually not even expect the best.
46:39You have to be preparing for things to continue to worsen.
46:50Then came the order to clear the lifeboats.
46:53There was the frightful noise of escaping steam.
47:11Many first-class passengers report this unearthly scream that comes out of the funnels.
47:28It's the steam which has been diverted from the engines now emerging from the funnels.
47:41For those who have their rooms closest to the boat deck, suddenly this is very alarming indeed.
47:48It's a moment where they realize that things are not as they should be, and maybe they should be worrying.
47:54I was uneasy.
47:59I rushed to my husband.
48:01Go up on deck and see what has happened.
48:04He got out of his bed rather unwillingly.
48:06On board the Titanic in first class are American millionaires.
48:25There are people like Colonel John Jacob Astor the Fourth, who is an American business magnate.
48:30He's one of the richest men in the world.
48:33And Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon sees Astor stride over to Captain Smith and have a private little word with him.
48:41I'm exactly how I say, Borman.
48:43I would advise you to go and get your family into the lifeboats.
48:46The first-class passengers know Captain Smith.
48:48They are able to mix with the senior crew.
48:52They have exclusive access.
48:54It means that they're part of the inner circle and other people are not.
48:58From the get-go, first-class passengers are in a kind of chumocracy with the senior crew.
49:05And that means that they get the information immediately when others don't.
49:08They have a distinct advantage from the word go.
49:14Yes, my wife.
49:15What does he say?
49:16I would appeal to you to the kitchen.
49:24My husband was back, looking rather grave.
49:27I've been up to the bridge and I've seen Colonel Astor, he said.
49:34He told me that he was going to ask his wife to dress and I think you'd better do the same.
49:40I hurriedly put on the warmest clothes I could find.
49:44As I was dressing, my secretary, Miss Francatelli, came into the room very agitated.
49:57I woke up of my own accord.
50:21I promised to relieve Philip's earlier than usual.
50:27I asked him how he was getting on.
50:30I think we struck something.
50:32Felt the ship tremble and stop.
50:33He told me that he'd felt the ship tremble and stop.
50:37He thought she'd got damaged in some way.
50:41Suddenly, the captain put his head in the cabin.
50:46Struck an iceberg.
50:49We've struck an iceberg, the captain said.
50:52And I'm having an inspection made to tell what he's done.
50:54He'd better get ready to send a call for assistance.
50:58But don't send it until I tell you.
51:01But don't send it until I tell you.
51:05The captain went away.
51:08Philip's resumed the phones.
51:09THE PASSES
51:11HOT EARTH
51:14TREATS
51:15TREATS
51:17TREATS
51:18THE END
51:40Because there's no instant communications
51:42between large parts of the ship
51:44Captain Smith and others
51:46still did not know fully
51:48what the damage was to the ship
51:52During his inspection
51:54Andrews must have learned
51:56that a fourth compartment had flooded
52:00But problems in the boiler room
52:02he was still completely unaware of
52:09When Andrews went down into the boiler room
52:12he was horrified, horror struck
52:16Water was rising
52:20and it was rising in spaces
52:22that they had not realized
52:24it would be in
52:26Earlier on
52:28Andrews had said about
52:30Titanic that she was
52:32nearly as perfect as human brains
52:34could achieve
52:36He'd put all of his knowledge
52:38into Titanic
52:40to make her as safe as she could be
52:46But unfortunately
52:48the ship was doomed
52:52You're now at a point where it's
52:54mathematically certain
52:56that this ship is going to sink
52:58Now that the front five compartments
53:00are flooded
53:02and the water will start pouring over
53:04the top of the bulkheads
53:08Picture an ice tray
53:10You start filling it at one end
53:12and eventually it will
53:14rise up over the line
53:16and the next compartment
53:18and the next compartment
53:20and it just continues to fill and fill
53:22to draw this ship
53:24to the bottom of the ocean
53:42My husband and I jumped up
53:44and ran out to see what had happened
53:54We were still wearing our night clothes
54:02I can imagine them in my mind
54:04Middle of the night they wake up
54:06and then suddenly there's the terror
54:08of finding water
54:10and you're in the bowels of the ship
54:12You are not being told anything
54:14There's no announcements
54:16You're left to work out what's going on
54:18and how that impacts on your own safety
54:22It's such a jarring
54:24break from this very
54:26beautiful experience
54:28I think they must have been having up until this point
54:30We walked around to the port side
54:40And the ship had then a fair list
54:44We stayed there
54:46looking over the side for about
54:48five minutes
54:50The list seemed very slowly
54:52to be increasing
54:54Thomas Andrews
55:00Thomas Andrews was seen by
55:02another passenger running up the bridge
55:04with a look of terror on his face
55:08No doubt he realized
55:10the first time
55:12my god, we can't save the ship
55:16His unsinkable ship was going to sink
55:18I saw the captain
55:26It was then I realized it was serious
55:30Captain looked over
55:34He said
55:36We are sinking
55:38He's supposed to be so
55:44Imagine a Rabbi
56:00Here's aên
56:02behind the test
56:04He knew to see
56:06suddenly orders came down everybody to the boats we sent an urgent distress call and said we were
56:24sinking by the head if you are a family you will be separated nobody's telling anybody what's going
56:33on husband stepped over to an officer and asked him a question i heard him shout back keep calm
56:45there's no danger
57:03so
57:15so
57:27so
57:36so
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