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00:00I fell into a mass of people.
00:30Everything I touched seemed to be woman's hair.
00:40Children crying, women screaming, their hair in my face.
00:49My God, if only I could forget those hands and faces.
01:00He told me that apparently we'd struck something.
01:21I didn't become alarmed.
01:27There was no danger, they said.
01:30I told her to come at once, we were sinking.
01:36You can imagine the chaos and the fear and the terror of finding water in your cabin and
01:45you're in the bowels of the ship.
01:47It makes me panic just thinking about it.
01:49The story of the Titanic is the human condition spread out, pinned on a board for us to examine.
01:58Then came the terrible cry, women and children, women and children.
02:04Two men lifted me up and put me in a boat.
02:09It's these small decisions, these little butterfly effect moments that change the outcome.
02:28It really was every man for himself.
02:31My heart stood still.
02:35If we're gonna die, best to die gripping something.
02:53It's a split second decision.
02:55What would you do?
02:56What would I do?
03:00It was a terrible sight.
03:06Men swimming and sinking.
03:08I've been brought up to believe in a hell after death.
03:22For now, I think I went through a hell that night.
03:31I'm a virgin out of the ship.
03:36I'm a virgin out of the ship.
03:38I've been told.
03:43If we're there, I am.
03:49The battle is, and the fire is done.
03:51I'm not afraid to die.
03:52The battle is, and the battle is the inside, men.
03:56Titanic, largest ship the world had ever known.
04:24The last word in luxury.
04:27The ship, palatial. The food, delicious.
04:32The 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.
04:59Afterward, I took a few turns around the deck.
05:05Being 17 years old, I was all over the ship.
05:09The 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.
05:28Titanic was the showpiece for the shipping line.
05:34Built by Harlan and Wolfe, the famous shipyard in Belfast.
05:39She is absolutely huge.
05:41Ten decks, 840 cabins.
05:46An absolute masterpiece of human engineering.
05:50I had never been on an ocean voyage.
06:03I was afraid of the sea.
06:05But Harvey, my husband, and our eight-year-old daughter Marjorie and I decided to go to America that way.
06:28First few days, I was a bit seasick and kept to my cabin most of the time.
06:45But on Sunday, April 14th, I was up and about.
06:51After I d eaten, I listened to the orchestra for a little while, then I went back to my cabin.
06:57There 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 cosy 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.
08:05It was a pleasure to go to bed.
08:10My pretty little cabin with its electric heater and pink curtains.
08:16I hadn't meant to sail on the Titanic.
08:23Urgent 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.
09:00Maybe they've gone to the sauna in the Turkish baths or they've played a round of squash or gone to the gym.
09:07Perhaps the men had gone to the smoking room.
09:11They'd had a cigar, a pipe.
09:13They'd played a round of cards.
09:16Maybe the women had gone to the reading and writing room to have a moment of quiet.
09:22They'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.
09:30It's been the perfect day.
09:37It's been the last night.
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09:43My name is Celini Yazbek.
09:47My husband and I were on our way to America to make our home.
09:50My husband and I were on our way to America to make our home.
09:55My boyfriend and I were on our way to America to make our home little.
10:01Yazbek. My 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.
10:24Titanic was primarily an emigrant ship, and 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,
10:39and it's really not surprising that people do not want to go to bed.
10:44This might be the first time they've been away from home,
10:48and maybe it's the first taste of freedom from very oppressive environments.
10:54They are young people embarking on a new life to a new world.
10:59It would have been wonderful.
11:04I was a bride of 50 days.
11:13By collating all of these memories from different parts of the ship,
11:16memories that could easily have been lost to history, that's the way in.
11:21That's how we understand the story of the Titanic.
11:24JACOB SOBOROFF
11:28I don't know.
11:58I don't know.
12:28I joined her in Belfast, while she was still in the builder's hands.
12:45The biggest and finest ship in the world.
12:49On that night of April 14th, the first officer took over for me.
12:58We both remarked on the ship's steadiness, how comfortably she was slipping along.
13:03We knew perfectly well we were entering the region where ice might be sighted, and had taken precautions.
13:14As 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, and this is the point where the ship just begins to tick over.
13:48The navigation crew that are at the top of the ship are settling into their evening routine.
13:56The engineers that are down in the boiler room are working on a four-hour shift to just keep the ship moving.
14:02The 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 calm night on the Titanic.
14:16I joined the Marconi staff last July, and was transferred to the Titanic at Belfast.
14:37I didn't have much to do about it, except to relieve Philips, a senior operator.
14:46I went to bed.
15:02I was conscious of waking up and hearing Philips sending telegrams.
15:06From leaving Southampton, we'd got through about 250 telegrams.
15:16I was conscious of waking up again!
15:17I was the임 Dr. Kofi on the morning.
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15:46It's a tense situation in the wireless room
16:02because the equipment broke down the day before.
16:04And so he's got this great backlog of work to do.
16:08And he's focused on it, he's concentrating on it.
16:10The last thing he wants is new information coming in.
16:16It came out that vital messages received in the wireless room that night
16:41had never been delivered to the bridge.
16:44Walling all ships of heavy ice in an area right ahead of the Titanic.
16:52What was still worse, not far away.
16:55Lighton was trying to say, I knew this was important.
17:04It should have gone to the bridge and it didn't.
17:06And it's the wireless operator's fault.
17:08But that's not true because the message didn't have the crucial prefix of MSG, Master Servicegram,
17:16which would have meant that Jack Phillips would immediately have prioritized it and sent it up to the bridge.
17:22That didn't happen.
17:23We have this unique opportunity to understand the sinking of the Titanic from the perspective of those who were actually there.
17:33We're starting to piece things together, but we're working with people's memories.
17:36In reality, memories are going to distort.
17:40And there might be a bit of a bias where people will try and make sense of what was going on.
17:45There are people who will deliberately distort and mislead.
17:50But mostly, you know, it's just that people do remember things differently.
17:56You're not looking for the stone-cold truths.
17:59We need to bring together all of those memories, see what seems to be consistent through it all,
18:06but also to recognize that every individual has a different experience.
18:11We have to respect that.
18:29Frederick Fleet, sailor, lookout man, Southampton, England.
18:3425 next October.
18:36We are there to report anything we see.
18:43A ship or anything.
18:48Watch was nearly over.
18:51I had done the best part of two hours.
18:54A ship.
19:10A ship or anything.
19:10A ship or anything.
19:13It's been for a operation.
19:13I think we hide data.
19:14Let's do this.
19:15A ship from the ads, and we trap her.
19:16A ship or something.
19:17A ship of equipment.
19:18Another ship or something.
19:18A ship.
19:19A ship.
19:19A ship.
19:20A ship.
19:20A ship.
19:21A ship.
19:21A ship.
19:23It was now very large when I first saw her, a black mass.
19:32It kept getting larger as we were getting nearer there.
19:45I was fourth officer.
19:48I was just coming along the deck and almost abreast of the captain's quarters
19:51when 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.
20:11Then I heard the first officer give the order.
20:17The wheel was put to starboard.
20:19She started to go to port whilst I was on the telephone.
20:26My mate saw it, and he told me he could see the bow coming round.
20:33They swung the ship's bow away from the object?
20:37Yes.
20:37Because we were making straight for it.
20:46What do you do if you're trained at sea?
20:48You try to avoid the obstacle.
20:51It's a split-second decision.
20:52And there's just a cliché, isn't there,
20:54in the way we talk about trying to turn the Titanic.
20:56You can't turn this giant boat in time.
21:06And a red light goes up when the ship is supposed to stop.
21:22This red light came up.
21:31Shut all dampers!
21:33When I'm the man in charge of the watch,
21:35so I shouted,
21:36shut all dampers.
21:38It shut the wind off the fires.
21:39Shut all dampers!
21:41Shut all dampers!
21:43The crash came before we had them all shut.
22:05I didn't even feel the shock.
22:07I hardly knew what had happened.
22:08There was no jolt whatsoever.
22:10I was about to step into bed
22:14when I seemed to sway slightly.
22:18If I'd had a brimful glass of water in my hand,
22:21not a drop would have spilled.
22:28I was soon awakened by a long,
22:31grinding shock.
22:32There was a backward jerk,
22:40followed by a shorter one.
22:50And the ship started to back,
22:53like a train.
22:54Then, uh,
23:00a low,
23:03crunching,
23:05ripping sound
23:06as
23:09Titanic shivered.
23:16I was fast asleep.
23:21Almost threw me off the bed.
23:22suddenly I heard a tremendous noise.
23:38Immediately I knew the ship had been hit hard.
23:41When we were alongside her,
23:56it was...
23:58a bit higher than the forecastle heads.
24:02Like,
24:0350 feet,
24:04I should say.
24:06Was there much of a jar to the ship?
24:08No.
24:13Just a slight grinding noise.
24:16Did it alarm you when it struck?
24:19I thought it was a narrow shave.
24:21You thought it was a narrow shave?
24:25Yes.
24:25You know,
24:31up on the top deck,
24:32people are thinking to themselves,
24:34oh,
24:34that was close,
24:35but we got away with it.
24:36You know,
24:36it's just a near miss
24:37that somebody writes down in a log.
24:40But,
24:40they don't know
24:41that this iceberg
24:42had a very large section
24:43jutting out of it
24:44underneath the water.
24:46water came pouring in
25:07about two feet
25:09from where I was standing.
25:09and the ship's side
25:12was torn
25:12from the third stockhold
25:15to the forward end.
25:24Open the door!
25:32The doors dropped
25:34instantly,
25:36automatically.
25:36We got through
25:41into the next section.
25:44And in the watertight
25:45compartment,
25:46closed up.
25:57As the iceberg strikes,
26:00the rivets give way.
26:01And the water starts pouring
26:05into boiler room number six.
26:07That's on the starboard side
26:08of the ship.
26:10But Titanic
26:11is designed
26:12to have watertight
26:13compartments
26:14in the event
26:14of an emergency.
26:17There's 16 compartments
26:19and the doors
26:19do what they're supposed
26:20to do,
26:21come down,
26:23seal off
26:23the compartments
26:24and protect
26:25the rest of the ship.
26:27Fred Barrett
26:28and his boys
26:30escape this wall
26:31of water.
26:33At the moment,
26:34they are safe.
26:37But the thing
26:38about the Titanic
26:39is nobody had thought
26:41to put in
26:41a direct communication
26:43system
26:44between the boiler rooms,
26:46which could flood,
26:48and the bridge.
26:49But equally,
26:53it's not just a case
26:54of sending somebody
26:55up quickly.
26:57A lowly boiler operator
26:59or stoker
26:59goes up and tells
27:00the captain
27:01what's happened.
27:02There is a chain
27:02of command.
27:05So there was no way
27:06that Fred Barrett
27:08could tell the captain
27:09straight away
27:11what was happening.
27:12And that lost time.
27:14The captain said,
27:38what have we struck?
27:41Mr. Murdoch,
27:42the first officer,
27:43said,
27:43we have struck
27:44an iceberg.
27:47I put her hard
27:48to starboard,
27:48but it was too close.
27:49She hit it.
27:51He also said,
27:52I intended to port
27:53around it,
27:54but she hit
27:54before I could
27:55do any more.
27:59We walked out
28:00onto the bridge
28:00to take a look
28:02at the iceberg.
28:03It seemed to be
28:13a small black mass
28:15not rising very high
28:17out of the water.
28:18The ship was past it then.
28:20It couldn't have extended
28:22above the ship's rail.
28:25Captain Smith,
28:30the captain of the Titanic,
28:31was a very experienced
28:33seaman,
28:33a very highly
28:34respected seaman.
28:36He'd served in the
28:37Royal Naval Reserve
28:38as well as in the
28:39Merchant Navy.
28:41He was coming to the end
28:42of his career,
28:43and he must have been
28:44very, very proud
28:45that he was taking Titanic,
28:47this world-beating ship,
28:49across the Atlantic.
28:50And that would be
28:51a wonderful end
28:52to what was
28:53a glittering career.
28:55And suddenly,
28:56of course,
28:57there's a collision.
28:58It's the last thing
28:58you want.
29:00He would have been
29:02annoyed,
29:03as well as keen
29:04to solve the problem
29:05as quickly as he could.
29:17The engine stopped.
29:20The sudden quiet
29:22was disturbing.
29:28When there's that
29:29sudden cut of the engines,
29:32it's going to be
29:32really noticeable.
29:34Something's going on.
29:35Something's not right.
29:36Something's not
29:37as it should be.
29:38I lay still.
29:41I waited for Anne,
29:43my cabin mate,
29:44to speak for...
29:46I knew she was awake.
29:49I looked over
29:50the side of my bunk
29:51at her,
29:52and she returned
29:53by saying in her calm way,
29:56sounds as if
29:57something has happened.
30:01Passengers were
30:01really left in the dark.
30:03There was no
30:04tunneling system
30:05or announcement
30:05of what was going on,
30:07of what to do.
30:08They had to work
30:09it out themselves.
30:10I could hear the footsteps
30:16of people
30:17on the deck
30:18above my head.
30:19There was some stamping
30:26and queer noises
30:28as though the ship's tackle
30:30was being pulled about.
30:32My husband said
30:36there must have been
30:37some slight accident
30:39in the engine room.
30:42He put on his coat
30:44and left me.
30:48Different people
30:49will react to this situation
30:50in different ways,
30:51but a number of passengers
30:52have no qualms at all
30:54about going up
30:55onto the boat deck
30:55and finding someone
30:57to inquire
30:58what's going on.
30:59It was bitterly cold.
31:13I moved around the deck
31:14trying to discover
31:15what had happened.
31:19There were
31:20quite a few people
31:22standing around
31:23questioning each other
31:24in a dazed kind of way.
31:29There were many
31:34prominent people
31:35on the passenger list
31:36and because it was
31:36for Maiden Voyage
31:37those responsible
31:38for building the ship.
31:41Tommy Andrews.
31:44Designer for Harland & Wolfe.
31:47He was respected
31:48by everyone.
31:51A great ship builder
31:53and a real gentleman.
31:55a perfectionist.
32:04Thomas Andrews
32:05was a highly respected,
32:07in fact,
32:08probably the most respected
32:09ship designer
32:10in the UK at this time.
32:12Titanic
32:13was the pinnacle
32:14of Andrews' career.
32:16He'd been building up
32:17to this moment,
32:18this amazing liner
32:19that was going to win
32:20all these different prizes,
32:21that was the queen
32:22of the seas, really.
32:23He knew a great deal
32:27about ship design.
32:29He understood
32:30buoyancy, stability,
32:32all of these issues.
32:35He's got 16
32:36watertight compartments.
32:37That's far more
32:38than most of the liners
32:39that were steaming around.
32:41And of those 16,
32:42four of them
32:43could be flooded
32:43and the ship
32:44was still stable
32:45and would stay afloat.
32:47And that's why
32:48Titanic had been
32:49built as
32:50an unsinkable ship.
32:51She was
32:56a fabricated
32:57steel vessel
32:58of
33:00gigantic dimensions.
33:02We're just stopping,
33:03precautionary,
33:04just making a few checks
33:05and we'll be on our way
33:07to New York here.
33:08Please, you know.
33:10She was a wonderfully
33:11safe vessel.
33:12In answer to many
33:21questions,
33:21Mr. Andrews
33:22assured everybody
33:23that we were
33:24absolutely safe.
33:28She would stay afloat
33:30indefinitely.
33:30The shoulder
33:32is on sick.
33:35Is it time?
33:39This one man
33:40had a piece of ice
33:41and I took it
33:42out of his hands
33:43wondering where
33:43he'd got it from.
33:45Tried to make him
33:45understand that
33:46there was nothing
33:47the matter.
33:48Go down to bed
33:48and go to sleep again.
33:50I didn't take it
33:51very seriously.
33:52After what seemed
33:58a few moments
33:59my husband
34:00returned
34:01and he was
34:03quite excited.
34:04He exclaimed,
34:06we have struck
34:07an iceberg,
34:08a big one,
34:09but there's no danger.
34:11An officer
34:11just told me so.
34:14This story
34:15reassured me.
34:17If these people
34:18weren't worried,
34:20why should I be?
34:22At that particular
34:27time we know
34:28in England
34:29certainly
34:29there's a strong
34:31very hierarchical
34:32class system
34:33getting the message
34:34from authority
34:35figures that
34:36everything's okay
34:37even though the
34:38ship is stationary
34:39and they're out
34:40at sea
34:40and it's dark
34:41and it's cold.
34:42For most people
34:43that's enough.
34:47There had been
34:48an accident,
34:48a collision
34:49and yet there was
34:50a sense of
34:51complacency
34:51rather than
34:52a sense of
34:53urgency
34:53to discover
34:55what exactly
34:56has gone wrong.
34:58Thomas Andrews
34:59was saying to
35:00people,
35:00everything's fine,
35:01it's all safe
35:02when he didn't
35:03have any data
35:04about what the
35:05damage to the
35:06ship was
35:06and that was
35:08not a clever
35:08thing to do.
35:09there are eight firemen
35:31in the number six section.
35:32the second engineer
35:33shouted,
35:34all hands stand
35:35by your stations.
35:37That's for the men
35:38that stand by the fires.
35:41For Fred Barrett
35:42and his crew,
35:44they need to
35:45manage the fire
35:46in boiler room six
35:47and he's worried
35:48that there's going
35:49to be a minor explosion
35:50because the freezing
35:51water is hitting
35:52the hot coals.
35:55Fred Barrett
35:57is in the boiler room
35:58next door
35:59and the only way
36:00to assess the damage
36:01is to climb out
36:03of boiler room five
36:04to this overhead gangway
36:06that's above boiler room six.
36:11He went up and escaped
36:12and down to the boiler room.
36:17But we couldn't get in.
36:25There was eight feet
36:26of water in it.
36:30When he tries to get
36:31back down into boiler room six,
36:33he can't
36:34because there's eight feet
36:35of water in there
36:36and the whole place
36:37is already filled
36:38with steam.
36:41But I think when Fred
36:42Barrett saw
36:43the situation,
36:45he would have been
36:45still feeling
36:46that everything
36:47could be contained.
36:48You know,
36:49this is how the ship
36:50was sold
36:50to passengers
36:51and crew alike.
37:12Captain Smith looked at the
37:32inclinometer,
37:33which is a sort of
37:34spirit level type gauge
37:35which shows whether
37:37the ship is stable or not,
37:38and realized there was
37:40a five degree list
37:41in the ship
37:42to starboard.
37:45We're taking on water.
37:50Captain Smith
37:51knows that probably
37:52is water.
37:53The problem is
37:54where is this water
37:55coming from
37:56and what the hell
37:57is going on?
38:00Titanic, of course,
38:01was a massive ship
38:02with a huge number
38:03of compartments.
38:05Therefore,
38:05finding out what's happened
38:07is a difficult
38:08and complex task
38:10because the ability
38:11to communicate
38:12between parts of the ship
38:13was very, very poor indeed.
38:16Therefore,
38:16you have to send
38:17a person,
38:18a runner,
38:19to go down and look
38:20and then come all the way
38:21back to the bridge
38:22to tell you
38:22what on earth
38:23is going on.
38:24I went right down below
38:37into the lowest steerage
38:43as far as I could go
38:44without going into
38:45the cargo portion
38:46of the ship.
38:48And I inspected
38:49all the decks
38:50as I came up
38:51in the vicinity
38:52where I thought
38:53she'd struck.
38:54I couldn't hear any noise.
39:00I couldn't see any damage.
39:04Remember,
39:05the mindset is
39:06this ship
39:07is unsinkable.
39:09If you believe
39:10a ship is unsinkable,
39:13you're not looking
39:14for trouble.
39:17Imagine it,
39:18wandering about
39:19this vast ship
39:21looking for water.
39:22he's not going
39:24to find it
39:25because he doesn't
39:25go down
39:26to the boiler rooms.
39:27I boarded a Titanic
39:43in Queenstown.
39:46I'm 21 years old.
39:48I wanted to come
39:49to America
39:49to make some money.
39:52There were
39:52three other boys
39:53from the same place
39:54sleeping in the same room
39:55with me.
40:02I jumped on the floor.
40:13First thing I knew,
40:14my feet were getting wet.
40:17I told the other fellas
40:18to get up,
40:19that there was
40:19something wrong.
40:20get back to bed.
40:24They only laughed.
40:27One of them says,
40:28get back to bed,
40:29you're not in Ireland now.
40:31Go back to bed,
40:32Daniel.
40:33I really understand
40:34where that voice
40:36is coming from.
40:37Something that I hear
40:38from immigrants nowadays
40:39is this belief
40:41that you've entered
40:42a world of order
40:43and protection
40:46and security.
40:48So you don't have
40:50to worry about anything.
40:51This is the safest ship
40:53in the world
40:53that's ever been built,
40:55but it's so wrong
40:56in this context.
40:57I turned on the lights
41:02and to my surprise
41:07there was a stream
41:08of water running
41:09along the floor.
41:10The fact that water
41:26was seen on the deck
41:27at the level
41:27where Daniel Buckney
41:29had a cabin
41:30was seen to indicate
41:31that a second
41:33water site compartment
41:34had actually gone
41:35as well as the boiler room
41:37and that water
41:38was rising up the bulk
41:39head in that compartment
41:40and that, of course,
41:42is extremely worrying.
41:44But who exactly knew
41:46that is a different issue.
42:09I met the carpenter
42:14coming up,
42:15absolutely out of breath,
42:17and he said,
42:18she is evidently
42:18making water fast.
42:20Number one tarpaulin
42:21is ballooning.
42:23Go tell the captain.
42:29At last,
42:31Boxall gets himself
42:32some concrete information.
42:34The carpenter he meets
42:36is talking about
42:37one of the tarpaulins
42:38up on G-deck
42:39that's covering
42:40a cargo hold.
42:41The air in there
42:42is being pushed out
42:44at speed,
42:45at pressure,
42:46by the volume of water
42:48coming in.
42:52In the cargo hold,
42:54there's all the passengers' luggage.
42:57There's goods
42:57that are being shipped
42:58from companies
42:59across the Atlantic.
43:00There's a Renault car
43:02all boxed up
43:03belonging to
43:04one of the first-class passengers.
43:06There's cases
43:06of feather boas.
43:08There's all kinds
43:09of crazy things in there.
43:11But it is the entirety
43:12of everyone's possessions.
43:20Then,
43:21on his way to investigate,
43:23Boxall gets some more news.
43:25I met the mail clerk
43:31coming up.
43:33And he said,
43:34Mr. Boxall,
43:35the mail room
43:36is filling.
43:36I got back to the boat deck
44:04and I saw the captain
44:05and I said,
44:07the mail room
44:08is filling, sir.
44:10What did he say?
44:15He walked away
44:17and left me.
44:20He went off the bridge
44:22as far as I remember.
44:24He didn't say anything
44:25to you?
44:26No.
44:27The captain goes down
44:36to inspect,
44:37accompanied by
44:38Thomas Andrews.
44:39Here,
44:40they can see
44:40with their own eyes
44:41the mail room
44:42has been flooded
44:43and that means
44:44another compartment
44:45is gone.
44:46The Titanic was a ship
44:56designed to carry mail
44:57from Great Britain
44:58and there were
44:59about three and a half
45:00thousand sacks
45:01of mail on board.
45:03Already,
45:04these mail bags
45:05are beginning
45:05to float away.
45:06The mail clerks
45:07have tried to salvage
45:08some of them
45:08but they can't
45:10because the water
45:11is everywhere.
45:13This doesn't look good
45:14for rural Britannia.
45:17Seeing the speed
45:19with which the water
45:19levels were rising
45:20must have been
45:22quite a sobering moment
45:23for both of them
45:24and of course
45:25this was not what
45:26the captain
45:27had hoped would be
45:28his final crowning glory
45:30in command
45:31of this splendid ship.
45:34This was going to be
45:35the ultimate test
45:36for him.
45:37He was going to have
45:38to prove himself
45:39as the sort of captain
45:40that he thought he was
45:41and that other people
45:43thought he was.
45:44But then
45:47the situation
45:48gets worse.
45:51The captain learns
45:52that a third compartment
45:53is flooded.
45:59The captain knows
46:00that this is
46:01a terrible circumstance
46:03but equally
46:04Titanic was built
46:05to endure that.
46:07There's 16 compartments
46:09four of them
46:10could be fully flooded
46:11and the ship
46:12was still stable
46:13and wouldn't sink.
46:14If another one,
46:16a fifth compartment,
46:17started to be flooded,
46:18then that changed
46:19the equation completely.
46:23The captain
46:24is sitting right
46:25at the moment
46:25of what is known
46:26as event horizon.
46:27You know,
46:27once you tip over
46:29that precipice,
46:30the ship is going
46:32to sink,
46:33any captain worth
46:34their salt
46:35is ultimately
46:36going to prepare
46:37for the worst
46:37and actually
46:38not even expect
46:39the best.
46:40You have to be preparing
46:41for things
46:43to continue to worsen.
46:51Then came the order
46:52to clear the lifeboats.
46:54There was a frightful noise
47:11of escaping steam.
47:12Many first-class passengers
47:22report this unearthly scream
47:25that comes out
47:27of the funnels.
47:28It's the steam
47:30which has been diverted
47:31from the engines
47:33now emerging
47:34from the funnels.
47:35For those who
47:42have their rooms
47:43closest to the boat deck,
47:45suddenly this is
47:46very alarming indeed.
47:49It's a moment
47:50where they realize
47:50that things are not
47:51as they should be
47:52and maybe they should
47:53be worrying.
47:55I was uneasy.
47:59I rushed to the husband.
48:02Go up on deck
48:03and see what has happened.
48:05He got out of his bed.
48:05rather unwillingly.
48:20On board the Titanic
48:22in first class
48:23are American millionaires.
48:26There are people
48:26like Colonel John Jacob Astor IV
48:29who is an American business magnate.
48:31He's one of the richest men
48:32in the world.
48:33And Sir Cosmo Darth Gordon
48:35sees Astor stride over
48:38to Captain Smith
48:39and have a private
48:40little word with him.
48:41I'm exactly
48:42how you say,
48:42Mormon.
48:43I would advise you
48:44to go and get your family
48:46into the light bulb, sir.
48:47The first class passengers
48:48know Captain Smith.
48:49They are able
48:51to mix with the senior crew.
48:53They have exclusive access.
48:55It means that
48:56they're part of the inner circle
48:57and other people are not.
48:58from the get-go
48:59first class passengers
49:01are in a kind of
49:02chumocracy
49:03with the senior crew
49:05and that means
49:06that they get the information
49:07immediately
49:08when others don't.
49:09They have a distinct advantage
49:11from the word go.
49:14Yes, my wife.
49:15What is your second?
49:16I would appeal
49:17to you to be a vacation.
49:18Sure.
49:18My husband was back
49:26looking rather grave.
49:29I've been up to the bridge
49:31and I've seen Colonel Astor,
49:33he said.
49:34He told me
49:35that he was going to ask
49:36his wife to dress
49:37and I think
49:39you better do the same.
49:41I hurriedly put on
49:42the warmest clothes
49:43I could find.
49:45As I was dressing,
49:47my secretary,
49:47Miss Frankitelli
49:49came into the room
49:51very agitated.
49:52I woke up
50:08with my own accord
50:21and I promised
50:22to relieve Phillips
50:23early than usual.
50:27I asked him
50:28how he was getting on.
50:30I think we struck something.
50:32He told me that
50:33he felt the ship
50:34tremble and stop.
50:37He thought she'd got
50:38damaged in some way.
50:42Suddenly,
50:42the captain
50:43put his head
50:44in the cabin.
50:45and I'm having an inspection
50:54made to tell
50:54what he's done.
50:56He better get ready
50:57to send a call
50:58for assistance.
50:59But don't send it
51:00until I tell you.
51:01But don't send it
51:02until I tell you.
51:06The captain went away.
51:09Phillips resumed the phones.
51:10Phillips resumed the phones.
51:11Phillips resumed the phones.
51:12Phillips resumed the phones.
51:13Phillips resumed the phones.
51:14Phillips resumed the phones.
51:15Phillips resumed the phones.
51:16Phillips resumed the phones.
51:17Phillips resumed the phones.
51:17Phillips resumed the phones.
51:18Phillips resumed the phones.
51:19Phillips resumed the phones.
51:20Phillips resumed the phones.
51:21Phillips resumed the phones.
51:22Phillips resumed the phones.
51:23Phillips resumed the phones.
51:24Phillips resumed the phones.
51:25Phillips resumed the phones.
51:26Phillips resumed the phones.
51:27Phillips resumed the phones.
51:28Phillips resumed the phones.
51:29Phillips resumed the phones.
51:30Phillips resumed the phones.
51:31Phillips resumed the phones.
51:32because there's no instant communications between large parts of the ship captain
51:45smith and others still did not know fully what the damage was to the ship during his
51:53inspection andrews must have learned that a fourth compartment had flooded but problems
52:01in the boiler room he was still completely unaware of when andrews went down into the
52:11boiler room he was horrified horror struck water was rising and it was rising in spaces
52:23that they had not realized it would be in earlier on andrews had said about titanic
52:31that she was nearly as perfect as human brains could achieve he'd put all of his knowledge
52:39into titanic to make her as safe as she could be but unfortunately the ship was doomed
52:49you're now at a point where it is mathematically certain that this ship is going to sink now that
52:59the front five compartments are flooded the water will start pouring over the top of the bulkheads
53:05picture an ice tray you start filling it at one end and eventually it will you know rise up over the
53:15line in the next compartment in the next compartment and it just continues to fill and fill and that
53:21is ultimately what is going to draw this ship to the bottom of the ocean
53:25my husband and i jumped up and ran out to see what had happened
53:48we were still wearing our night clothes
53:57i can imagine them in my mind middle of the night they wake up and then suddenly there's the terror of
54:08finding water and you're in the bowels of the ship
54:11you are not being told anything there's no announcements you're left to work out what's
54:18going on and how that impacts on your own safety
54:21it's such a jarring break from this very beautiful experience i think they must have been having up until
54:30this point
54:30we walked around to the port side
54:36and the ship had then a fair list
54:42we stayed there looking over the side for about five minutes
54:49the list seemed very slowly to be increasing
54:54thomas andrews was seen by another passenger running up the bridge with a with a look of terror on his face
55:07no doubt he realized the first time my god we can't save the ship
55:14his unsinkable ship was going to sink
55:19i saw the captain
55:26it was then i realized it was serious
55:31captain looked over
55:35he said
55:37we are sinking
55:38we are sinking
55:48we are sinking
56:04we are sinking
56:06It's just a precautionary change.
56:16Suddenly, orders came down.
56:18Everybody to the boats.
56:21We sent an urgent distress call.
56:23Instead, we were sinking by the head.
56:25Women and children only.
56:26Women and children only.
56:27If you are a family, you will be separated.
56:31Nobody's telling anybody what's going on.
56:34The husband stepped over to an officer and asked him a question.
56:41I heard him shout back, keep calm, there's no danger.
57:04I don't know why.
57:13I don't know why.
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