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