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Titanic Sinks Tonight Season 1 Episode 2 br A Chance of Rescue
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00:00You
00:18He told me that apparently we'd struck something
00:30I didn't become alarmed there was no danger they said I
00:39Told her to come at once we were sinking
00:45You 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
00:51It makes me panic just thinking about it
00:53The story of the titanic is the human condition spread out
00:59Pinned on a board for us to examine
01:03Then came the terrible cry women and children women and children
01:09Two men lifted me up and put me in a boat
01:14It's these small decisions these little butterfly effect moments that change the outcome
01:23I
01:33Really was every man for himself
01:37My heart stood still
01:51If we're gonna die
01:54Best to die gripping something
01:58It's a split-second decision. What would you do? What would I do?
02:09It was a terrible sight
02:11Men swimming and sinking
02:13I'd been brought up to believe in a hell
02:26After a death
02:33For now, I think I went through a hell that night
02:36All right
02:37Like, I
02:38I don't know.
03:08I don't know.
03:38I don't know.
03:40Mr. Harvey ordered me to fetch some men down.
03:44I got between 15 and 20.
03:45The engineers put the pumps on.
03:54But also we're looking off duty stairs on.
04:00Right now on the Titanic, there's a red alert emergency.
04:08Down below in the boiler room, all the crew, the firemen that would normally be down there have been called back on shift to try to pump out the water that is flooding into the compartment.
04:24Imagine it, there's steam everywhere.
04:28There's the groaning, creaking, splitting sounds of the ship itself.
04:33It's terrifying.
04:35They are like soldiers going into battle.
04:43With five compartments flooded, the Titanic is going to sink.
04:47They have around an hour and a half until it's going to disappear below the waves.
04:51They're never going to get all of the water out of the ship.
04:53Can they hold it back just a little bit longer in order to try and save everybody on board?
04:59What I think is unfortunate in Titanic is that the captain had not established a mechanism whereby he was getting information about what the action was.
05:28By what the actual damage was in various parts of the ship.
05:33This is something that there should have been being worked on much earlier.
05:37As a result, time was lost.
05:41Once you begin to understand that you are really up against it in terms of time, it goes from we can't save the ship, but can we get the passengers from the Titanic to a rescue ship before the Titanic sinks?
05:56The captain knows that the decisions that are made in the coming minutes, hours, ultimately that will be the decider on how many people will make it off of the ship alive.
06:05Send a call for assistance, ordered the captain.
06:24Which call should I send?
06:29The regulation international call for help.
06:32Just that.
06:33And the captain was gone.
06:35The next moment we sent an urgent distress call.
06:45So in the radio room right now, it's a race against time.
06:51The operators must send out the distress signal.
06:54It's the standard Morse code signal that will tell shipping in the area that the Titanic is in trouble and needs help.
07:04These two young men, they're in their twenties, are now responsible for seeking rescue for the unsinkable ship Titanic.
07:16It's the standard Morse code signal.
07:36My boats were along the port side.
07:40My idea was that I'd lower the boats and transfer passengers.
07:45It would be perfectly safe in that smooth sea until another ship picked them up.
07:49All right, gentlemen.
07:50We know what to do.
07:51Up to this time, we hadn't had chance for a boat drill beyond just lowering some of the boats in Southampton.
08:01The crew of the Titanic had been put through a fine sift and care taken that there were no misfits.
08:09A tap on the shoulder and indication with the hand was quite sufficient to set the men about the different jobs.
08:15Clearing away boat covers, hauling tight the falls, ready for lowering.
08:23We're not going to see hysteria.
08:25We're not even going to see anxiety at this point.
08:27Not least because the information is distorted and fragmented.
08:32Nobody is thinking that the ship is going to sink.
08:35Only Captain Smith really knows the extent of what is happening.
08:40The water having reached F deck showed me she'd been badly hulled.
08:49Although I knew it was serious, I had not a thought that it was likely to prove fatal.
08:54I figured that she'd go so far until she balanced her buoyancy and there she would remain.
09:02The captain doesn't share the information he has with all the officers that the ship is going down.
09:09And precisely why he hasn't shared it remains a mystery.
09:13It may be a strategy he doesn't want them to panic.
09:16It maybe reflects an internal chaos.
09:19He doesn't know who to tell or when.
09:21The reality is, for the crew in the Titanic at this moment,
09:25they have no idea what level of catastrophe they're in.
09:29They just know they have a job to do.
09:31They're different.
09:58there are 2208 passengers on board they won't all fit in the lifeboats so the lifeboats will
10:08have to do shuttle runs take passengers to the rescue ship come back and then take the next lot
10:14of passengers it's physically possible for them to save all the passengers but they have to do it
10:20in an orderly fashion and the people who are going to go first to those whose rooms are closest to
10:25the boat deck and those are the first-class passengers in this emergency plan the wealthy
10:31and the powerful have an innate advantage they are top of the list suddenly orders came down
10:42everybody to the boats
10:45all stewards and stewardesses were on duty in their sections to
10:54assist and direct people I continued through my section trying to reassure reminding people to
11:04put on warm clothing take blankets and valuables
11:08Violet Jessup is a first-class stewardess she's 24 years old she's the youngest stewardess on board
11:17the first-class stewards and stewardesses really are the ones who are responsible for making this
11:23evacuation process happen they have to demonstrate extraordinary self-control and put these other people first
11:32of course we reiterated from room to room that it was just precautionary measure
11:41everywhere I found extraordinary calmness people who'd
11:51been asleep were dressing fumbling sleepy-eyed with with buttons they were
12:00they were unemotional probably thinking as I did that it was all too fantastic
12:09the first-class passengers have invested financially they've spent a lot on their tickets they've
12:19invested psychologically in this being safe and luxurious and they therefore cannot believe that
12:28it can be anything but that it's such a leap of imagination to go against everything they've internalized about this experience and
12:38start to believe that something might be going wrong
12:41steward knocked at the door
12:47sorry to alarm you madam but the captain's orders are that all passengers should put on life belts
12:56he laughed and joked as he helped us thank you wrap up warmly we may have a little trip for an
13:05hour or so in one of the lifeboats Cosmo was so brave to try and keep us in good spirits making a bad
13:13jest as to how unappetizing we both looked in those sickly white life preservers
13:19Lucy Lady Duff Gordon is one of the most prominent people on board
13:29after divorcing her previous husband she managed to build up her business which is a fashion design
13:37house into a multi-million pound enterprise and this is a time when many women don't even have bank
13:43accounts so she's obviously extraordinary she's very resourceful and that will come to be important
13:50I put on a heavy crepe scarf I wore the big squirrel coat bought my little velveteen ring bag
14:00it all looks so pretty just like a bedroom on land it didn't seem possible there could be any danger
14:10a bit of vase of flowers on the washstand slid off and fell to the floor
14:40slowly people started some joking taking their time about it
14:58to those few who showed concern a reassuring answer was there are plenty of boats in the vicinity
15:07they'll be with us any moment now
15:10I heard the crow's nest report a light on the bow
15:26I went on the bridge right away and found this light
15:32it was two masthead lights of a steamer just below the horizon
15:42you could not only see her lights with the naked eye
15:48you could see the lights of her portals
15:51the box all can see the nearest ship to the titanic which is the california
15:57she's very close by about 14 miles the californian had already communicated with the titanic earlier
16:07that evening that she was going to spend the night in the ice flow because it was too dangerous
16:12to continue but the californian would be able to reach titanic before she sings
16:19captain said we've spotted a steamer on the horizon
16:27I told the captain about this ship
16:29he said tell them to come at once
16:32we are sinking
16:33we're sinking
16:37and we're sinking
16:42we boat
16:46and we--"
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17:01After the signal had been sent out, the ether seemed to be dead.
17:12No reply came through.
17:17Californian isn't picking up any signals.
17:20The radio operator has gone to bed, not because he's negligent, but because he's allowed to go to bed.
17:25There's no duty to stay in the radio room all night, and many ships did not ask this of their operators.
17:31But then, suddenly, a chance message comes in from a wireless operator on another ship, the Carpathia.
17:48I was about to retire. I'd taken my coat off. I should have been turning in in about ten minutes.
17:57Called the Titanic.
18:01And his only answer was, struck a berg. Come at once.
18:12We told her our position and said we were sinking by the head.
18:14I asked him if he intended me to go get the ship turned round immediately, and he said yes, quick.
18:28The operator went to tell his captain.
18:29The Carpathia is a transatlantic steamship.
18:36She's fast, but she's going in the other direction.
18:40Jack Phillips hears that the radio operator is going to tell the captain that Titanic is in trouble.
18:47The captain of the Carpathia will then make the decision about what to do,
18:52and that usually means to turn your vessel towards the ship that is in distress.
18:57That's the rule of the sea.
18:59So here is a chance of rescue.
19:03As long as Carpathia is able to get there in time.
19:08to při م pandemie always sets in fear.
19:11So what are same foesMA達?
19:13Who are the categories?
19:15I mean, the Carpathia had bones.
19:18I mean, the pain was also gone.
19:20I mean, the pain was longer and only.
19:22I mean, the pain was gone.
19:23Joesien UWoken, who had been so mily bailout by the.
19:23I mean life was not He?
19:24I really Max Chen.
19:25Was the one's in deed?
19:27I really feel alive in 2 or 6 minutes.
19:28I pray what I have been looking for.
19:30It was a key to his work being her devoteверned son.
19:31Women and children only.
19:33Women and children, I mean thatет.
19:34I mean that you're living and women and children only.
19:35Though we'd been warned by the stewards to be going away in a boat,
19:40it didn't seem possible that all this could actually be happening.
19:49It was the strangest scene.
19:52People bundled up in old clothes, boarding lifeboats in the night.
19:57Pew seemed to have wanted to brave the dark sea in an open boat.
20:08And it was only after considerable coaxing that many went at all.
20:13People don't want to get in.
20:15Why would you want to get out of your warm bed and go in a lifeboat
20:18into the freezing water when there's no problem?
20:20You wouldn't.
20:22This is like a really annoying fire drill at school
20:25and everybody says, no, I'll just stay here until it's finished.
20:31At that point in time, the general public weren't really trusted.
20:35Keeping people in ignorance was considered better.
20:37And we know today that actually people will respond much more sensibly
20:41in an emergency if they do have some information.
20:44That information was completely lacking at this point on Titanic.
20:55We were just walking forward when a sailor tried to drag me away from Cosmo.
21:15The officers called for women and children.
21:22So Captain Smith has ordered that women and children should be evacuated
21:27and they should be prioritized.
21:28On the port side, the second officer, Officer Lighttoller, interprets it as women and children only.
21:38The consequence of this is that if you are a family turning up on the port side,
21:45you will be separated and the men will not be allowed on the lifeboats.
21:54Saving the lives of women and children comes from deep in the Edwardian mindset.
22:00Women at the time are seen as having a kind of childish status.
22:04I mean, this is before they've been allowed to vote.
22:07And they are perceived to have a physical and mental weakness
22:12that means that men have to be their protectors.
22:15Please step back, sir. Please step back.
22:20I have no such ideas about my husband.
22:23It would have been too awful to have been alone.
22:28Every time Officer Lighttoller prevents a man from getting into a lifeboat,
22:32there is the possibility that his wife won't go,
22:36that they will stay on board the ship.
22:38So he's actually potentially endangering the lives
22:41of the precise people he's been told to prioritize to save.
22:48Go!
23:02In a great emergency like that, where there were limited facilities,
23:12could you not have put more people into boats?
23:18I did not know it was urgent then.
23:21I had no idea it was urgent.
23:24You did not know it was urgent?
23:28Nothing like it.
23:32You did not know it was urgent.
23:33You did not know it was urgent.
23:34You did not know it was urgent.
23:35You did not know it was urgent.
23:38Lighttoller wants to do a good job, clearly.
23:42Maybe if he'd known the ship was sinking,
23:44he would have allowed men in to fill up the spaces in the lifeboats.
23:50But because the captain is withholding information,
23:53people like Lighttoller can't do their job properly,
23:55and this will have disastrous consequences.
23:57What one wants is to have a very good relationship,
24:00a band of brothers.
24:02And when you've got that,
24:03you must keep them informed of what's going on
24:05and what we call nowadays mission command.
24:07In other words,
24:08you let them know what you want to achieve overall,
24:10you tell them all the facts,
24:11and then you let them get on with it.
24:12I think that Captain Smith was overwhelmed by the enormity
24:15of what was happening
24:16and was not really grasping it and taking charge.
24:18And then you let them get on with it.
24:19I think that Captain Smith was overwhelmed by the enormity
24:23of what was happening
24:25and was not really grasping it and taking charge.
24:48The operator returned and told us
25:02that Carpathia was putting about and heading for us.
25:09Our captain had left us at this time.
25:11Philip stopped me to run and tell him
25:12what the Carpathia had answered.
25:14I went through an awful mass of people to his cabin.
25:24The decks were full.
25:31I came back and heard Philip's
25:32giving the Carpathia full of directions.
25:34He told me to put my clothes on.
25:40Until that moment, I forgot I wasn't dressed.
25:44I went to my cabin and dressed and brought an overcoat to Philip's.
25:50It was very cold.
25:53I slipped the overcoat on him while it worked.
25:57Imagine the relief in the radio room.
26:00Carpathia has answered the distress call,
26:03is coming their way.
26:05But, although she's going as fast as she can,
26:10she's having to go through the same ice field
26:13where Titanic has floundered.
26:19She's four hours away,
26:21and Titanic isn't going to stay afloat that long.
26:24The nearest ship to Titanic is the Californian.
26:38But the radio operator's still asleep.
26:41Nobody is aware of any problem on the Titanic.
26:44The crew of the Titanic have to think on their feet.
26:51So they start to use Morse lamps
26:53and send a signal using light rather than sound.
26:57The ship was close enough, I thought, to read our electric Morse signal.
27:03So I signalled her.
27:09I told her to come at once.
27:10We were sinking.
27:11The captain was with me most of the time we were signalling.
27:17I would signal with the Morse
27:18and then go back and look at the ship.
27:26I cannot say I saw any reply.
27:28In a crisis, you just have to increase your chances of survival.
27:41Survival is all about probability.
27:43You know, throwing as much muck at the wall as possible
27:45and seeing what sticks.
27:49Then we started sending off these distressed rockets,
27:53the quartermaster and I on the bridge.
27:55They go right up into the air and throw stars.
28:01They go right up into the air and throw stars.
28:25They go right up into the air.
28:46Right now, the water is rising up through the body of the ship.
28:50The waterproof bulkheads only went up to a certain level.
28:56And by this stage, water was tipping over bulkheads
28:59and cascading into the next compartment.
29:02So compartment after compartment was being filled by water.
29:06And as this mass of water breaches the bulkheads,
29:12it starts flowing back on itself,
29:15making cascades and waterfalls coming down the narrow staircases.
29:19Third-class passengers in the bowels of the ship are at most risk.
29:23They were really left in the dark.
29:25They are wading through water.
29:26They're not aware of what's going on,
29:27the rescue mission going on in the upper decks.
29:28They had to work it out themselves.
29:29They had to work it out themselves.
29:30My husband had left some money in a hospital.
29:31But I don't know what's going on.
29:32The rescue mission was going on in the upper decks.
29:33They had to work it out themselves.
29:34Third-class passengers in the bowels of the ship are at most risk.
29:41They were really left in the dark.
29:44They are wading through water, they're not aware of what's going on, the rescue mission
29:50going on in the upper decks.
29:52Had to work it out themselves.
29:57My husband had left some money in our cabin, and there were all our clothes and things
30:05that we were taking to America.
30:14Salini is from Hardin, which was in Lebanon, and she's a newlywed bride, and her older
30:22husband is taking her to live with him in America.
30:26They are caught between going up to the higher decks and the desire to keep their belongings.
30:35It's easy to underestimate just how important things are to a migrant, to someone who's
30:42leaving home forever.
30:44Do you want to arrive in New York destitute, with nothing to your name, nothing to pay for
30:50a room?
30:51Of course not.
30:56We returned to try and get our clothes, money, and jewelry.
31:06We started down for them.
31:09But the water on our deck was waist deep.
31:16We never got there.
31:30Depending on where you are in the ship right now, you're going to start seeing a lot of
31:34water.
31:35There were third-class passengers in particular.
31:39Water, in any quantity, is terrifying because you can't push it away, you can't fight it.
31:45People are now seeing evidence with their own eyes.
31:49It's not rumour, it's not gossip, it's not even that they're waiting to be told.
31:53They can see, feel that there is a problem.
31:56By this time, the ship seemed to have tilted forward a little.
32:14And we heard queer noises as if the ship was being pulled about.
32:30Charlotte Collier is a second-class passenger.
32:32She's travelling with her husband, Harvey, and her eight-year-old daughter, Marjorie.
32:36Charlotte has health issues.
32:37She has tuberculosis.
32:39So she's eager to find a new climate for her health, as well as whatever economic benefit
32:45they might get from migrating.
32:52Whilst this whole hour has passed in which the first-class passengers are being evacuated,
32:58they were told to stay in their cabin.
33:03They are sitting there and worrying, and no one is telling them anything.
33:12Suddenly, we heard people running along the passageway in front of our door.
33:23Their feet reminded me of rats scurrying.
33:28I could see my face had grown very white.
33:34My husband stammered when he spoke to me.
33:38He said we had better go on deck and see what's wrong.
33:45We just need to get out of here.
33:49For anyone that was feeling confused or was just following the rules, it's very clear something
33:57major is now happening.
33:59It's going to be terrifying, especially if you're a parent with a young child.
34:10When we went on board the Titanic, every possession was with us.
34:16Neither of us took any belongings from the cabin.
34:20My husband even left his watch lying on his pillow.
34:27I had a big dolly that I got two Christmases before.
34:31And we were in such a hurry that I left it behind.
34:37I cried for my dolly, but we couldn't go back.
34:50When we reached the deck, there was a great many people.
35:05Some of them were crying.
35:09I was crying for my doll, but nobody could go back and get her.
35:16An officer said we should put on life preservers.
35:24So, mother put one on me and then fastened one around herself.
35:30Can I put one on two?
35:36My husband stepped over to an officer and asked him a question.
35:41Excuse me?
35:42Yes, sir.
35:43What's going on?
35:44I heard him shout back,
35:46Keep calm.
35:48There's no danger.
35:52Nobody's telling anybody what's going on.
35:55The captain knows, a few of the officers know, but it's important to keep this away
35:59because of panic.
36:01But now, because of the noise, the tilt,
36:04people are realising that something is wrong.
36:23All the water that had been thrown on the furnaces,
36:25just making the stock all thick of steam.
36:28Mr Shepherds was walking across in a hurry to do something.
36:31Mr Shepherds was walking across in a hurry to do something.
36:35And he fell down the hole and broke his leg.
36:41He lifted him up and carried him.
36:46There was a knock and noise.
36:47All at once I saw a wave of green foam tearing between the boilers.
36:51A rush of water came through.
36:52I never stopped to look.
36:53I just jumped for the escape ladder.
36:54I never stopped to look.
36:55I just jumped for the escape ladder.
36:57I never stopped to look.
36:58I just jumped for the escape ladder.
36:59I never stopped to look.
37:00I just jumped for the escape ladder.
37:01I never stopped to look.
37:02I just jumped for the escape ladder.
37:03I never stopped to look.
37:04I just jumped for the escape ladder.
37:05I never stopped to look.
37:10I just jumped for the escape ladder.
37:17A huge wave of green water comes flying through into the room because the coal bunker has been
37:38gradually filling up and filling up and filling up with the pressure.
37:42And then it bursts and suddenly it's all over them.
37:46Another engineer, Jonathan Shepard, has already slipped and broken his leg so he can't escape this wall of water.
37:59And he's the first casualty to die on the Titanic.
38:08I went up the escape and into the main alleyway.
38:31Titanic was slowing down by the head.
38:35Water was coming down the alleyway from forward.
38:43Now that boiler room five is filled with water, the engineers realise that all their efforts are futile.
38:50There's no point pumping it out anymore.
38:52It's coming in faster than anyone can manage it.
39:00This is a moment of terror and certainty.
39:06Perhaps this is the first moment where these brave men realise that the ship is going to go down.
39:13All passengers upstairs, at last.
39:31I returned to my room.
39:38I began tidying up, folding my nightgown, putting everything in its place.
39:50There was, there was no sound.
39:55Titanic might have been in dock and all the crew gone home.
40:00I saw Stanley at the door watching me.
40:14And he, he almost shouted at me as he seized my arm.
40:21My God, don't you realise this ship will sink.
40:25You have to follow the rest upstairs as quickly as possible.
40:29Sinking.
40:34Sinking.
40:39The word repeated itself without fully, fully entering my understanding.
40:47My mind could not accept that the super perfect creation was to do so futile a thing as sink.
41:00Of course, Titanic couldn't be sinking.
41:06Suddenly, there was a commotion near one of the gangways and we saw a stoker come up from below.
41:31All the fingers of one hand had been cut off.
41:38Blood was running from the stumps and was spattered on his face and clothes.
41:48It brought up a picture of smashed engines and mangled human bodies.
41:59I went over to speak to him.
42:02I asked him if there was any danger.
42:06Danger?
42:08I should say so.
42:11It's hell down below.
42:13This ship will sink like a stone.
42:18At this moment, I got my first grip of fear.
42:33At this moment, I got a heiß.
42:46Those in charge herded us towards the nearest boat.
42:49The bekhaf, believe on the deck...
42:52Below the lightover...
42:54Then...
42:55Above the clamor came the terrible cry...
42:58Lower the boat, women and children.
43:02Women and children only. That's women and children only.
43:06Someone was shouting these last few words over and over again.
43:11Women and children only. That's women and children only.
43:16Women and children only. Women and children only.
43:23It might be that Lightoller has this kind of rigid view of the world.
43:27He's come in with a set of rules.
43:29It might be that under this stressful situation,
43:32it's the only way he can function.
43:34He can't cope with more information and more decision-making,
43:37so he just sticks to this one option.
43:54Cosmo pleaded with me.
43:57Well, three or four boats were launched, but I refused.
44:02I only said, promise me that whatever you do,
44:05you will not let them separate us.
44:08And I clung to him.
44:10He saw that there was no use resisting me.
44:15And children only.
44:19We'll go round to the starboard side, Cosmo said.
44:21It might be better there.
44:22One of the pivotal facts about the loading of the lifeboats is this.
44:39There are different protocols on each side of the ship.
44:42On the starboard side, Officer Murdoch's approach is more pragmatic.
44:50It's more flexible.
44:54It was better.
44:56For although there were crowds, there was no confusion.
45:00The lifeboats are being quietly filled.
45:06If you emerge on the starboard side, then Officer Murdoch might well allow the men to join the women and their children if there are spaces left.
45:19So there's Murdoch allowing men to fill up the spare places.
45:24Why not?
45:26Murdoch doesn't want to split families up.
45:31Murdoch, I think, probably had a sense of wanting to preserve life.
45:34And Light Hollow had a stricter, more patriarchal view, perhaps, of men should sacrifice themselves for women and children.
45:47But the fact that it was happening on the same ship at the same time shows just how vague this policy was.
45:55So it matters very much which side of the ship you're on if you're a man.
46:02No more.
46:32I was walking up and down the bridge.
46:37Saw white lights in the sky in the direction of this other steamer.
46:45I thought perhaps the ship was in communication with some other ship.
46:50Or possibly signaling to us to tell us she had big icebergs around her.
46:55Didn't occur to me the ship was in distress.
46:59I just thought there were white rockets, that's all.
47:01It might have been anything.
47:06We called her up repeatedly on the Morse lamp and received no answer whatsoever.
47:16Some people say she replied to our rockets and our signals, but I didn't see any of them.
47:24We'll never know why there was miscommunication between the Californian and Titanic.
47:30There seems to have been some confusion about the colour of these rockets.
47:35Were they distress signals?
47:38It's also possible that Boxall didn't see Californian's Morse lamp reply.
47:43Because there's something strange about the atmospheric conditions that night.
47:47You've got this weird effect of warm air underneath and colder air on top, which is creating a kind of mirage effect.
47:57Shapes are being distorted in the darkness.
47:59What a chance her captain missed.
48:12He could have laid his ship right alongside the Titanic and taken practically every soul on board.
48:17However, he didn't.
48:23This must be the bitterest blow for those people who could see the ship nearby.
48:38I don't think it was bad faith.
48:40I don't think it was negligence.
48:41I think everything conspired that night to go against Titanic's chances of safety and salvation.
48:47I don't think it was a good thing.
49:17Because the earlier lifeboats went out half full, there are now only about 900 places left on the lifeboats and more than 2,000 people on board the ship.
49:40If people don't get onto a lifeboat, they will go down with the Titanic.
49:51Suddenly we saw some sailors who were launching a little boat.
49:57It was a captain's special boat.
50:02Lucy Duff Gordon knows that she needs to get off the ship.
50:07This is the moment to take one of those spaces.
50:16My husband asked the officer if we might get into it.
50:19We were helped in, followed by two American men who came up at the last minute.
50:33There is something here about being in the right place in the right time, but also seizing the opportunity and having the confidence to do so.
50:47I think that class probably had a huge impact on people's sense of entitlement to safety, to rescue.
50:58You probably did assume that if you bought a first-class ticket, then that would buy you survival.
51:06They are people who are important in the world.
51:10They see themselves as having more value than people in steerage.
51:16And there they are as a couple, sitting safely in a lifeboat.
51:20I shall never forget how black and deep the water looked below us.
51:35Men standing nearby joked with us because we were going out on the ocean.
51:41You'll get your death of cold out there amid the ice.
51:43Men standing nearby joked with us.
51:45I don't know.
52:15I found myself clinging to my husband's arm with little Marjorie beside me.
52:24I did not want to leave him.
52:29Charlotte knows she'll be separated from her husband.
52:31Not knowing if and when they'd be reunited, I think she probably was just thinking, please, no, not this.
52:37I want to survive, but not at this cost.
52:40There are dilemmas that you just have to accept in that moment.
52:46Those are...
52:48Yeah, those are heavy.
52:50Officer Lytle, you know, the man's been at sea since he was 13.
53:00He doesn't have that understanding of what it means when a woman is clinging to her husband, when a child is crying for their father.
53:07He just goes ahead with what he believes to be right.
53:13But it's not objectively right.
53:17From what you have said, you discriminated entirely in the interest of the women and children in filling those lifeboats.
53:24Yes.
53:25Why did you do that?
53:28Because of the captain's orders or because of the rule of the sea?
53:33The rule of human nature.
53:35The deck seemed to be slipping under my feet.
53:44I hung onto my husband's arm.
53:50And although he was very brave and not trembling,
53:56I saw his face was white as paper.
54:00Hort, all-star board.
54:07That sliding doors moment will determine who survives and who doesn't.
54:11Keep moving along the deck.
54:12We are filling the lifeboats.
54:14Women and children only.
54:15That's women and children only.
54:17Women and children.
54:18Women and children.
54:22They struck utter terror into my heart and...
54:25Now they'll ring in my ears till I die.
54:30All right.
54:43To be with you.
54:49One time.
54:50And if I will fly through my heart and breathe to my heart and breathe,
54:55it's the day that everyone feels to me.
54:56You can't take us through the door.
54:58There was a lot of confusion.
55:17People crying, swearing and praying.
55:23There's a really stark disadvantage facing third-class passengers.
55:27Chief officer shoved one of the revolvers into my hands.
55:31Chekov said you can't put a gun in the room and not use it.
55:36All of the order has been lost.
55:38I called out, don't shoot!
55:57Take care.
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