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00:00I was afraid of the sea but I listened to the people who said take the new
00:16Titanic she cannot come to any harm new inventions have made a safe
00:30he told me that apparently we'd struck something
00:50I didn't become alarmed there was no danger they said
01:04I told her to come at once we were sinking
01:11you can imagine the chaos and the fear and the terror of finding water in your cabin and your
01:19in the bowels of the ship it makes me panic just thinking about it the story of the Titanic is
01:26the human condition spread out pinned on a board for us to examine then came the terrible cry
01:35women and children women and children two men lifted me up and put me in a boat
01:42it's these small decisions these little butterfly effect moments that change the outcome
01:48it really was every man for himself
02:04my heart stood still
02:08if we're gonna die that's to die gripping something
02:25it's a split-second decision what would you do what would I do
02:31it was a terrible sight men swimming and sinking
02:43had been brought up to believe in a hell after death
02:56for now I think I went through a hell that night
03:05I'm a...
03:15I'm a...
03:17to be here
03:22I'm a...
03:23to be here
03:26I don't know.
03:56Mr. Harvey ordered me to fetch some men down.
04:13I got between 15 and 20.
04:22The engineers put the pumps on.
04:26But also, we'd have gone off to UT stairs, aren't we?
04:33Right now on the Titanic, there's a red alert emergency.
04:41Down below in the boiler room, all the crew, the firemen that would normally be down there,
04:46have been called back on shift to try to pump out the water that is flooding into the compartment.
04:53Imagine it, there's steam everywhere.
04:57There's the groaning, creaking, splitting sounds of the ship itself.
05:03It's terrifying.
05:05They are like soldiers going into battle.
05:09With five compartments flooded, the Titanic is going to sink.
05:16They have around an hour and a half until it's going to disappear below the waves.
05:20They're never going to get all of the water out of the ship, but can they hold it back just a little bit longer
05:25in order to try and save everybody on board?
05:28What I think is unfortunate in Titanic is that the captain had not established a mechanism whereby he was getting information
05:57about what the actual damage was in various parts of the ship.
06:02This is something that there should have been being worked on much earlier.
06:06As a result, time was lost.
06:09Once you begin to understand that you are really up against it in terms of time, it goes from,
06:17we can't save the ship, but can we get the passengers from the Titanic to a rescue ship before the Titanic sinks?
06:24The captain knows that the decisions that are made in the coming minutes, hours,
06:30ultimately that will be the decider on how many people will make it off of the ship alive.
06:34Send a call for assistance, ordered the captain.
06:56Which call should I send?
06:58The Regulation International Call for Help.
07:01Just that, and the captain was gone.
07:07The next moment we sent an urgent distress call.
07:14So in the radio room right now, it's a race against time.
07:20The operators must send out the distress signal.
07:23It's the standard Morse code signal that will tell shipping in the area that the Titanic is in trouble and needs help.
07:33These two young men, they're in their 20s,
07:37and now are responsible for seeking rescue for the unsinkable ship, Titanic.
07:44My boats were along the port side.
07:54My idea was that I'd lower the boats and transfer passengers.
08:14They would be perfectly safe in that smooth sea until another ship picked them up.
08:19All right, gentlemen. You know what to do.
08:21Up to this time, we hadn't had a chance for a boat drill,
08:25beyond just lowering some of the boats in Southampton.
08:28The crew of the Titanic had been put through a fine sift and caretaken that there were no misfits.
08:39The tap on the shoulder and indication with the hand was quite sufficient to set the men about the different jobs.
08:45Clearing away boat covers, calling tight the falls, ready for lowering.
08:50We're not going to see hysteria. We're not even going to see anxiety at this point.
08:56Not least because the information is distorted and fragmented.
09:01Nobody is thinking that the ship is going to sink.
09:04Only Captain Smith really knows the extent of what is happening.
09:12The water, having reached F deck, showed me she'd been badly holed.
09:18Although I knew it was serious, I'd not have thought that it was likely to prove fatal.
09:24I figured that she'd go so far until she balanced her buoyancy and there she would remain.
09:33The captain doesn't share the information he has with all the officers that the ship is going down.
09:38And precisely why he hasn't shared it remains a mystery.
09:42It may be a strategy he doesn't want them to panic.
09:46It may be reflects an internal chaos.
09:48He doesn't know who to tell or when.
09:51The reality is, for the crew in the Titanic at this moment,
09:55they have no idea what level of catastrophe they're in.
09:58They just know they have a job to do.
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10:12This ship is a state of national anders.
10:13Let's go, Mark.
10:13Let's go, Mark.
10:17Part of the ship is killing!
10:17People can't carry deep sets of water when there's an agent in
10:19such...
10:20Well, the man is best conducive everywhere needs.
10:23Is that this part of the shipware do?
10:25Don't use kirch ar Bite dozen.
10:27Dock the ship gets at it.
10:28There are 2,208 passengers on board, they won't all fit in the lifeboats, so the lifeboats
10:37will have to do shuttle runs, take passengers to the rescue ship, come back, and then take
10:42the next lot of passengers.
10:45It's physically possible for them to save all the passengers, but they have to do it
10:50in an orderly fashion, and the people who are going to go first are those whose rooms
10:54are closest to the boat deck, and those are the first-class passengers.
10:58In this emergency plan, the wealthy and the powerful have an innate advantage.
11:03They are top of the list.
11:10Suddenly orders came down.
11:13Everybody to the boats.
11:19All stewards and stewardesses were on duty in their sections to assist and direct people.
11:27I continued through my section, trying to reassure, reminding people to put on warm clothing,
11:36take blankets and valuables.
11:41Violet Jessup is a first-class stewardess.
11:44She's 24 years old, she's the youngest stewardess on board.
11:48The first-class stewards and stewardesses really are the ones who are responsible for making
11:52this evacuation process happen.
11:55They have to demonstrate extraordinary self-control and put these other people first.
12:06Of course, we reiterated from room to room that it was just precautionary measure.
12:11Everywhere I found extraordinary calmness.
12:18People who'd been asleep were dressing, fumbling, sleepy-eyed with buttons.
12:26They were unemotional, probably thinking as I did that it was all too fantastic.
12:43The first-class passengers have invested financially.
12:46They've spent a lot on their tickets.
12:48They've invested psychologically in this being safe and luxurious.
12:53And they therefore cannot believe that it can be anything but that.
13:00It's such a leap of imagination to go against everything they've internalised about this experience
13:07and start to believe that something might be going wrong.
13:11A steward knocked at the door.
13:19Sorry to alarm you, madam, but the captain's orders are that all passengers should put on lifebelts.
13:27He laughed and joked as he helped us.
13:31Wrap up warmly, but you may have a little trip for an hour or so in one of the lifeboats.
13:38Cosmo was so brave to try and keep us in good spirits,
13:41making a bad jest as to how unappetising we both looked in those sickly white life-preservers.
13:54Lucy Lady Duff Gordon is one of the most prominent people on board.
13:58After divorcing her previous husband, she managed to build up her business,
14:04which is a fashion-design house, into a multi-million-pound enterprise.
14:09And this is a time when many women don't even have bank accounts.
14:12So she's obviously extraordinary.
14:15She's very resourceful.
14:17And that will come to be important.
14:21I put on a heavy crepe scarf.
14:24I wore the big squirrel coat.
14:26I bought my little velveteen ring bag.
14:32It all looked so pretty.
14:33Just like a bedroom on land.
14:36It didn't seem possible.
14:37There could be any danger.
14:42A bit of vase of flowers on the washstand slid off and fell to the floor.
14:46I was gonna try.
14:47I was gonna try.
14:48I was gonna try.
14:48I went to buy a little.
14:49I just tried.
14:49I was already on land.
14:50I was always excited about it.
14:50I was just kidding.
14:51No.
14:51I was just kidding.
14:52What happened.
14:53I was just sitting in the house coming in place.
14:53I was just it.
14:55I just went to the door.
14:56I was just one.
14:57I was just one architect of the house coming in.
14:58I was just one of the was on it.
14:59No, you didn't care.
14:59I didn't care about it.
15:00We're just two years later.
15:00I did not know that.
15:01You were just one of the most famous people that were lost.
15:03I was just one of the most famous people here.
15:03It's a new company that was just a known person.
15:05Whatever can't you?
15:05Yes, yes, this way.
15:21Slowly, people started.
15:24Some joking, taking their time about it.
15:28To those few who showed concern,
15:32a reassuring answer was
15:34there are plenty of boats in the vicinity.
15:37They'll be with us any moment now.
15:52I heard the crow's nest report a light on the bow.
15:57I went on the bridge right away and found this light.
16:04It was two masthead lights of a steamer just below the horizon.
16:14You could not only see her lights with the naked eye,
16:18you could see the lights of her portals.
16:20So, Boxall can see the nearest ship to the Titanic,
16:25which is the Californian.
16:27She's very close by, about 14 miles.
16:31The Californian had already communicated with the Titanic
16:35earlier that evening
16:37that she was going to spend the night in the ice flow
16:40because it was too dangerous to continue.
16:42But the Californian would be able to reach Titanic
16:47before she sinks.
16:53Captain Smith,
16:55we've spotted a steamer on the horizon.
16:56I told the captain about this ship.
16:59He said,
16:59tell them to come at once.
17:01We are sinking.
17:03To the
17:05Titanic.
17:22To the
17:23the
17:25very
17:25After the signal had been sent out, the ether seemed to be dead.
17:41No reply came through.
17:47Californian isn't picking up any signals.
17:49The radio operator has gone to bed, not because he's negligent,
17:52but because he's allowed to go to bed.
17:54There's no duty to stay in the radio room all night,
17:57and many ships did not ask this of their operators.
18:06But then, suddenly, a chance message comes in
18:10from a wireless operator on another ship, the Carpathia.
18:17I was about to retire.
18:20I'd taken my coat off.
18:21I should have been turning in in about ten minutes.
18:26Called the Titanic.
18:27And his only answer was,
18:35Struckerberg.
18:37Come at once.
18:41We told her our position and said we were sinking by the head.
18:44I asked him if he intended me to go get the ship turned round immediately.
18:52And he said yes.
18:54Quick.
18:57The operator went to tell his captain.
19:02The Carpathia is a transatlantic steamship.
19:05She's fast, but she's going in the other direction.
19:08Jack Phillips hears that the radio operator is going to tell the captain
19:13that Titanic is in trouble.
19:15The captain of the Carpathia will then make the decision about what to do,
19:21and that usually means to turn your vessel towards the ship that is in distress.
19:26That's the rule of the sea.
19:28So here is a chance of rescue.
19:33As long as Carpathia is able to get there in time.
19:37Then while the tyлушi president stood up,
19:40they said it was in distress,
19:43at sea lots of his daughters later said he said he reached out to herself.
19:46Sort of alawspanixdead point where his taken place-
20:05Number 6 themselves were sitting at sea.
20:06we'd been warned by the stewards to be going away in a boat it it didn't seem
20:11possible that all this could actually be happening
20:18it was the strangest scene people bundled up in old clothes boarding lifeboats in
20:26the night
20:29you seem to want to brave the dark sea in an open boat
20:39and it was only after considerable coaxing that many went at all
20:44people don't want to get in why would you want to get out of your warm bed and go in a lifeboat into
20:49the freezing water when there's no problem you wouldn't this is like a really annoying fire drill
20:55at school and everybody says no i'll just stay here until it's finished
21:01at that point in time the general public weren't really trusted keeping people in ignorance was
21:06considered better and we know today that actually people will respond much more sensibly in an
21:11emergency if they do have some information that information was completely lacking at this point
21:17on titanic
21:31we were just walking forward when a sailor tried to drag me away from cosmo
21:48the officers called for women and children
21:53so captain smith has ordered that women and children should be evacuated and they should be prioritized
21:58on the port side the second officer officer like toller interprets it as women and children only
22:09the consequence of this is that if you are a family turning up on the port side you will be
22:17separated and the men will not be allowed on the lifeboats
22:21so
22:24saving the lives of women and children comes from deep in the edwardian mindset women at the time are seen
22:32as having a kind of childish status i mean this is before they've been allowed to vote
22:37and they are perceived to have a physical and mental weakness that means that men have to be their
22:44protectors please step back sir please step back
22:50i had no such ideas about my husband
22:53it would have been too awful to have been alone
22:58every time officer like toller prevents a man from getting into a lifeboat
23:02there is the possibility that his wife won't go that they will stay on board the ship so
23:08he's actually potentially endangering the lives of the precise people he's been told to prioritize to save
23:28the ship in a great emergency like that where there were limited facilities
23:42could you not have put more people into boats
23:48i did not know it was urgent then
23:51i had no idea it was urgent
23:54you did not know it was urgent
23:56nothing like it
24:08light other wants to do a good job clearly maybe if he'd known the ship was sinking
24:14he would have allowed men in to fill up the spaces in the lifeboats
24:19but because the captain is withholding information people like like toller can't do their job properly
24:25and this will have disastrous consequences
24:31what one wants is to have a very good relationship a band of brothers and when you've got that you
24:37you must keep them informed of what's going on and what we call nowadays mission command in other
24:43words you let them know what you want to achieve overall you tell them all the facts and then you let
24:48them get on with it i think the captain smith was overwhelmed by the enormity of what was happening
24:54what was happening and was not really grasping it and taking charge
25:06the operator returned and told us that carpathia was putting about and hidden for us
25:34our captain had left us at this time philips told me to run and tell him what the carpathia had answered
25:43i went through an awful mass of people to his cabin the decks were full
25:55i came back and heard philips giving the carpathia full of directions he told me to put my clothes on
26:10until that moment i forgot i wasn't dressed
26:12i went to my cabin and dressed and brought an overcoat to philips
26:20it was very cold i slipped the overcoat on him while it worked
26:27imagine the relief in the radio room carpathia has answered the distress call is coming their way
26:34but although she's going as fast as she can she's having to go through the same ice field where titanic has floundered
26:49she's four hours away and titanic isn't going to stay afloat that long
26:54the nearest ship to titanic is the californian but the radio operators still asleep
27:11nobody is aware of any problem on the titanic
27:18the crew of the titanic have to think on their feet
27:20so they start to use morse lamps and send a signal using light rather than sound
27:29that the ship was close enough i thought to read our electric morse signal so i signaled her
27:39i told her to come at once we were sinking
27:43the captain was with me most of the time we were signaling
27:47i would signal with the morse and then go back and look at the ship
27:50i cannot say i saw any reply
28:07in a crisis you just have to increase your chances of survival survival is all about probability
28:13you know throwing as much muck at the wall as possible and seeing what sticks
28:16and then we started sending off these distressed rockets the quartermaster and i on the bridge
28:24they go right up into the air and throw stars
28:34you know
28:39oh
28:40you know
28:43the
28:46the
28:48and
28:54Right now, the water is rising up through the body of the ship.
29:20The waterproof bulkheads only went up to a certain level.
29:26By this stage, water was tipping over bulkheads and cascading into the next compartment.
29:32So compartment after compartment was being filled by water.
29:39And as this mass of water breaches the bulkheads, it starts flowing back on itself,
29:45making cascades and waterfalls, coming down the narrow staircases.
29:50Third-class passengers in the bowels of the ship are at most risk.
30:10They were really left in the dark.
30:11They are wading through water.
30:17They're not aware of what's going on, the rescue mission going on in the upper decks.
30:21They had to work it out themselves.
30:22My husband had left some money in our cabin, and there were all our clothes and things
30:34that we were taking to America.
30:36Salini is from Hardin, which was in Lebanon, and she's a newlywed bride, and her older husband
30:51is taking her to live with him in America.
30:54They are caught between going up to the higher decks and the desire to keep their belongings.
31:01It's easy to underestimate just how important things are to a migrant, to someone who's leaving
31:11home forever.
31:13Do you want to arrive in New York destitute with nothing to your name, nothing to pay for
31:19a room?
31:20Of course not.
31:21We returned to try and get our clothes, money, and jewelry.
31:34We started down for them.
31:41But the water on our deck was waist deep.
31:45We never got there.
31:51Depending on where you are in the ship right now, you're going to start seeing a lot of
32:03water, the third-class passengers in particular.
32:08Water in any quantity is terrifying because you can't push it away, you can't fight it.
32:15People are now seeing evidence with their own eyes.
32:17It's not rumor, it's not gossip, it's not even that they're waiting to be told.
32:22They can see, feel, that there is a problem.
32:35By this time, the ship seemed to have tilted forward a little.
32:40And we heard queer noises as if the ship was being pulled about.
32:48Charlotte Collier is a second-class passenger.
33:01She's traveling with her husband, Harvey, and her eight-year-old daughter, Marjorie.
33:05Charlotte has health issues, she has tuberculosis, so she's eager to find a new climate for her
33:11health, as well as whatever economic benefit they might get from migrating.
33:15While this whole hour has passed, in which the first-class passengers are being evacuated,
33:27they were told to stay in their cabin.
33:31They are sitting there and worrying, and no one is telling them anything.
33:37Suddenly, we heard people running along the passageway in front of our door.
33:51Their feet reminded me of rats scurrying.
33:57I could see my face had grown very white.
34:00My husband stammered when he spoke to me.
34:06He said we had better go on deck and see what's wrong.
34:14For anyone that was feeling confused or was just following the rules,
34:22it's very clear, something major is now happening.
34:28It's going to be terrifying, especially if you're a parent with a young child.
34:33When we went on board the Titanic, every possession was with us.
34:45Neither of us took any belongings from the cabin.
34:48My husband even left his watch lying on his pillow.
34:52I had a big dolly that I got two Christmases before.
35:00And we were in such a hurry that I left it behind.
35:06I cried for my dolly, but we couldn't go back.
35:09When we reached the deck, there was a great many people.
35:33Some of them were crying.
35:35I was crying for my doll, but nobody could go back and get her.
35:48An officer said, you should put on life preservers.
35:52So, mother put one on me and then fastened one around herself.
35:58Papa put one on too.
36:05My husband stepped over to an officer and asked him a question.
36:10Excuse me.
36:11Yes, sir.
36:11What's going on?
36:12I heard him shout back.
36:14How many are you?
36:15Keep calm.
36:16There's no danger.
36:20Nobody's telling anybody what's going on.
36:23The captain knows.
36:25A few of the officers know.
36:26But it's important to keep this away because of panic.
36:30But now, because of the noise, the tilt, people are realising that something is wrong.
36:36All the water that had been thrown on the furnaces, just making the stock all thick, was clean.
37:00Mr. Shepherds was walking across in a hurry to do something.
37:02And he fell down the hole and broke his leg.
37:14He lifted him up and carried him.
37:28There was a knocking noise.
37:32All at once, I saw a wave of green foam tearing between the boilers.
37:38A rush of water came through.
37:42Don't worry about it!
37:44I never stopped to look.
37:46I just jumped for the escape ladder.
37:47A huge wave of green water comes flying through into the room because the coal bunker has been gradually filling up and filling up and filling up with the pressure.
38:10And then it bursts, and suddenly it's all over them.
38:15Another engineer, Jonathan Shepard, has already slipped and broken his leg, so he can't escape this wall of water.
38:23And he's the first casualty to die on the Titanic.
38:38I went off the escape and into the main alleyway.
38:42Titanic was sloping down by the head.
39:03Water was coming down the alleyway from forward.
39:06Now that boiler room five is filled with water, the engineers realise that all their efforts are futile.
39:19There's no point pumping it out anymore.
39:22It's coming in faster than anyone can manage it.
39:25This is a moment of terror and certainty.
39:35Perhaps this is the first moment where these brave men realise that the ship is going to go down.
39:55All passengers upstairs, at last, I returned to my room.
40:14I began tidying up, folding my nightgown, putting everything in its place.
40:20Titanic might have been in dock and all the crew gone home.
40:41I saw Stanley at the door watching me.
40:44And he, he almost shouted at me as he seized my arm.
40:51My God, don't you realise this ship will sink?
40:54You have to follow the rest upstairs as quickly as possible.
41:02Sinking.
41:03The word repeated itself without fully, fully entering my understanding.
41:19My mind could not accept that the super perfect creation was to do so futile a thing as sink.
41:29Of course, Titanic couldn't be sinking.
41:51Suddenly, there was a commotion near one of the gangways and we saw a stoker.
41:59It had come up from below.
42:03All the fingers of one hand had been cut off.
42:10Blood was running from the stumps and was spattered on his face and clothes.
42:17It brought up a picture of smashed engines and mangled human bodies.
42:29I went over to speak to him.
42:31I asked him if there was any danger.
42:36Danger?
42:38I should say so.
42:41It's hell down below.
42:42This ship will sink like a stone.
42:52At this moment, I got my first grip of fear.
42:58Those in charge herded us towards the nearest boat.
43:14Those in charge herded us towards the nearest boat.
43:22Then, above the clamour, came the terrible cry.
43:28Lower the boat, women and children.
43:30Someone was shouting these last few words over and over again.
43:40Women and children only.
43:41That's women and children only.
43:43Women and children only.
43:45Women and children only.
43:52It might be that Lightoller has this kind of rigid view of the world.
43:56He's come in with a set of rules.
43:58It might be that under this stressful situation, it's the only way he can function.
44:03He can't cope with more information and more decision making.
44:06So he just sticks to this one option.
44:23Cosmo pleaded with me.
44:26Well, three or four boats were launched, but I refused.
44:31I only said, promise me that whatever you do,
44:34you will not let them separate us.
44:38And I clung to him.
44:40He saw that there was no use resisting me.
44:49We'll go round to the starboard side, Cosmo said.
44:51It might be better there.
44:52One of the pivotal facts about the loading of the lifeboats is this.
45:08There are different protocols on each side of the ship.
45:13On the starboard side, Officer Murdoch's approach is more pragmatic.
45:19It's more flexible.
45:24It was better.
45:25For although there were crowds, there was no confusion.
45:32The lifeboats were being quietly filled.
45:34If you emerge on the starboard side, then Officer Murdoch might well allow the men to join the women
45:45and their children if there are spaces left.
45:49So there's Murdoch allowing men to fill up the spare places.
45:54Why not?
45:55Murdoch doesn't want to split families up.
46:00Murdoch, I think, probably had a sense of wanting to preserve life.
46:04And Light Hollow had a stricter, more patriarchal view, perhaps, of men should sacrifice themselves for women and children.
46:16But the fact that it was happening on the same ship at the same time shows just how vague this policy was.
46:21So, it matters very much which side of the ship you're on, if you're a man.
46:31.
46:52.
46:55.
46:58I was walking up and down the bridge.
47:06Saw white lights in the sky in the direction of this other steamer.
47:14I thought perhaps the ship was in communication with some other ship,
47:19or possibly signaling to us to tell us she had big icebergs around her.
47:24Didn't occur to me the ship was in distress.
47:26I just thought there were white rockets, that's all.
47:31It might have been anything.
47:35We called her up repeatedly on the Morse lamp,
47:39and received no answer whatsoever.
47:46Some people say she replied to our rockets and our signals,
47:51but I didn't see any of them.
47:52We'll never know why there was miscommunication between the Californian and Titanic.
48:00There seems to have been some confusion about the colour of these rockets.
48:04Were they distress signals?
48:06It's also possible that Boxall didn't see Californian's Morse lamp reply,
48:12because there's something strange about the atmospheric conditions that night.
48:16You've got this weird effect of warm air underneath and colder air on top,
48:22which is creating a kind of mirage effect.
48:26Shapes are being distorted in the darkness.
48:28What a chance her captain missed.
48:41He could have laid his ship right alongside the Titanic
48:44and taken practically every soul on board.
48:51However, he didn't.
48:52This must be the bitterest blow for those people who could see the ship nearby.
49:07I don't think it was bad faith.
49:09I don't think it was negligence.
49:10I think everything conspired that night
49:12to go against Titanic's chances of safety and salvation.
49:17I don't think it was a good thing.
49:47Because the earlier lifeboats went out half full,
50:00there are now only about 900 places left on the lifeboats
50:04and more than 2,000 people on board the ship.
50:09If people don't get onto a lifeboat,
50:12they will go down with the Titanic.
50:14Suddenly, we saw some sailors who were launching a little boat.
50:25It was a captain's special boat.
50:31Lucy Duff Gordon knows that she needs to get off the ship.
50:36This is the moment to take one of those spaces.
50:45My husband asked the officer if we might get into it.
50:48We were helped in, followed by two American men
51:01who came up at the last minute.
51:07There is something here about being in the right place
51:10in the right time, but also seizing the opportunity
51:13and having the confidence to do so.
51:21I think that class probably had a huge impact
51:23on people's sense of entitlement to safety, to rescue.
51:29You probably did assume that if you bought a first-class ticket,
51:32then that would buy you survival.
51:34They are people who are important in the world.
51:39They see themselves as having more value
51:41than people in steerage.
51:44And there they are as a couple,
51:47sitting safely in a lifeboat.
51:49I shall never forget how black and deep
51:59the water looked below us.
52:04Men standing nearby joked with us
52:06because we were going out on the ocean.
52:10You'll get your death of cold out there amid the ice.
52:12Women have a shield of lowly.
52:33Women have a shield of lowly.
52:34I found myself clinging to my husband's arm
52:48with little Marjorie beside me.
52:53I did not want to leave him.
52:58Charlotte knows she'll be separated from her husband.
53:00Not knowing if and when they'd be reunited,
53:02I think she probably was just thinking,
53:04please, no, not this.
53:06I want to survive, but not at this cost.
53:11Dilemmas that you just have to accept in that moment,
53:15those are...
53:16Yeah, those are heavy.
53:22Officer Lytle, you know, the man's been at sea since he was 13.
53:29He doesn't have that understanding of what it means
53:32when a woman is clinging to her husband,
53:34when a child is crying for their father.
53:37He just goes ahead with what he believes to be right.
53:42But it's not objectively right.
53:46From what you have said,
53:48you discriminated entirely in the interest of the women and children
53:51in filling those lifeboats.
53:53Yes.
53:54Why did you do that?
53:57Because of the captain's orders or because of the rule of the sea?
54:02The rule of human nature.
54:09The deck seemed to be slipping under my feet.
54:13I hung onto my husband's arm.
54:19And although he was very brave
54:21and not trembling,
54:25I saw his face was white as paper.
54:29Port or starboard.
54:36That sliding doors moment
54:37will determine who survives and who doesn't.
54:40Keep moving along the deck.
54:41We are coming to the lifeboats.
54:43Women and children only.
54:44That's women and children only.
54:46Women and children.
54:47Women and children.
54:51They struck utter terror into my heart
54:53and now they'll ring in my ears till I die.
54:57And they'll ring in my ears till I die.
55:27There was a lot of confusion.
55:47People crying, swearing and praying.
55:52There's a really stark disadvantage facing third-class passengers.
55:56Chief officer shoved one of the revolvers into my hands.
56:01Chekhov said you can't put a gun in the room and not use it.
56:05All of the order has been lost.
56:08I called out.
56:09Don't shoot!
56:10A new ghost story for Christmas from the macabre mind of Margatis.
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56:34Bye.
56:34Put your arm in the possibly end.
56:34Yeah.
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