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