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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
03:05the sea wave very much
03:10and the sea wave and air did many times
03:14and the sea wave joined
03:16it's a big coalition away
03:17filled out the sea vibe
03:19it's a great mayor of the planet
03:20it's an amazing moment
03:21it's an amazing person
03:22you know
03:22it's a huge teamwork
03:23it's an amazing student
03:58Mr. Harvey ordered me to fetch some men down.
04:13I got between 15 and 20.
04:22The engineers put the pumps on.
04:28But also, we'd have gone off to UT's stairs on.
04:33Right now on the Titanic, there's a red alert emergency.
04:39Wait, wait!
04:40Down below in the boiler room, all the crew, the firemen that would normally be down there
04:46have been called back on ship to try to pump out the water that is flooding into the compartments.
04:55Imagine it, there's steam everywhere.
04:57There's the groaning, creaking, splitting sounds of the ship itself.
05:02It's terrifying.
05:05They are like soldiers going into battle.
05:12With 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.
05:23But can they hold it back just a little bit longer in 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.
06:10Once you begin to understand that you are really up against it in terms of time,
06:15it goes from, we can't save the ship, but can we get the passengers from the Titanic
06:20to a rescue ship before the Titanic sinks?
06:23The 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?
06:57The Regulation International call for help.
07:01Just that.
07:03And 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.
07:19The operators must send out the distress signal.
07:24It's the standard Morse code signal that will tell shipping in the area
07:28that 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.
08:08My idea was that I'd lower the boats and transfer passengers.
08:15They would be perfectly safe in that smooth sea until not a ship picked them up.
08:19All right, gentlemen.
08:20You know what to do.
08:21Up to this time, we hadn't had 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
08:33and caretaken that there were no misfits.
08:39A tap on the shoulder, an indication with the hand,
08:42was quite sufficient to set the men about the different jobs.
08:45Clearing away boat covers,
08:47calling tight the falls,
08:49ready for lowering.
08:52We're not going to see hysteria.
08:54We'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,
09:15showed me she'd been badly hulled.
09:19Although I knew it was serious,
09:21I'd not have thought that it was likely to prove fatal.
09:23I figured that she'd go so far
09:26until she balanced her buoyancy
09:29and there she would remain.
09:32The captain doesn't share the information he has
09:35with all the officers that the ship is going down.
09:38And precisely why he hasn't shared it remains a mystery.
09:43It may be a strategy he doesn't want them to panic.
09:46It maybe reflects an internal chaos.
09:48He doesn't know who to tell or when.
09:50The 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.
10:00They have no idea what like to do or if they can destroy it.
10:04They have no idea what happens to them
10:06They have no idea what to do
10:07So they have no idea what to do
10:08They are not sniffing
10:10But they make no idea what to do
10:10They have no idea as if they SUBSCRIBE
10:11Or use them as if they do
10:12Other people or their være
10:12Or use them as if they have road
10:17Or create fans.
10:18Or even another picnic
10:19Or use them and they are
10:20Several men as if you still wonder
10:21They are hidden,
10:21There are 2208 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.
11:15All 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.
11:37Violet Jessup is a first-class stewardess.
11:43She'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.
11:54They have to demonstrate extraordinary self-control and put these other people first.
12:01Of course, we reiterated from room to room that it was just precautionary measure.
12:13Everywhere I found extraordinary calmness.
12:19People who'd been asleep were dressing, fumbling, sleepy-eyed with buttons.
12:28They were unemotional, probably thinking as I did that it was all too fantastic.
12:43The first-class passengers have invested financially, they've spent a lot on their tickets, they've
12:48invested 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 internalized about this experience
13:07and start to believe that something might be going wrong.
13:15Steward knocked at the door.
13:19Sorry to alarm you, madam, but the captain's orders are that all passengers should put on life belts.
13:27He laughed and joked as he helped us.
13:31Wrap up warmly, for you may have a little trip for an hour or so in one of the lifeboats.
13:36Cosmo was so brave to try and keep us in good spirits, making a bad jest as to how unappetizing
13:45we both looked in those sickly white life preservers.
13:49Thank you, sir.
13:54Lucy Lady Duff Gordon is one of the most prominent people on board.
13:59After divorcing her previous husband, she managed to build up her business, which is a fashion
14:05design 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.
14:19I put on a heavy crepe scarf.
14:23I wore the big squirrel coat.
14:26Bought my little velveteen ring bag.
14:30It all looked so pretty.
14:32Just like a bedroom on land.
14:35It didn't seem possible.
14:36There could be any danger.
14:38A bit of vase of flowers on the washstand slid off and fell to the floor.
14:45It fell to the floor.
14:46It fell to the floor.
14:47It fell to the floor.
14:52Yeah, sinkh newspaper Company.
14:53OK, sleep, sleep.
14:54It fell to the floor.
14:55Do not – it fell to breath again.
14:56artificialwwww
14:57ui.com
14:58That will soon sleep.
14:59W.O.S., leave a cave fast.
15:00Blue National Wat Christmas waking up to the desert,
15:10the sea.
15:16What is the autocadult?
15:18I don't know.
15:19Yes, yes, this way.
15:20Slowly, people started, some joking, taking their time about it.
15:28To those few who showed concern, a reassuring answer was,
15:33there are plenty of boats in the vicinity.
15:36They'll be with us any moment now.
15:50I heard the Crow's Nest report a light on the bow.
15:56I went on the bridge right away and found this light.
16:07It was two masthead lights of a steamer just below the horizon.
16:14You could not only see her lights with the naked eye,
16:17you could see the lights of her portals.
16:21The Boxall can see the nearest ship to the Titanic,
16:24which is the Californian.
16:26She'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
16:39because it was too dangerous to continue.
16:42But the Californian would be able to reach Titanic
16:46before she sinks.
16:52Captain Smith!
16:53We've spotted a steamer on the horizon.
16:55I told the captain about this ship.
16:57He said,
16:59Tell them to come at once.
17:00We are sinking.
17:01We are sinking.
17:02We are sinking.
17:03We are sinking.
17:04We are sinking.
17:08We are sinking.
17:09We are sinking.
17:10We are sinking.
17:11We are sinking.
17:12The Cheap.....
17:13Pr numero 33
17:14A
17:35After the signal had been sent out...
17:38The 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,
17:51not because he's negligent, but 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.
18:00But 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.
18:22I should have been turning in in about ten minutes.
18:26Called the Titanic.
18:30And his only answer was,
18:35Struckerberg.
18:37Come at once.
18:41We told her our position and said we were sinking by the head.
18:49I 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.
19:00The Carpathia is a transatlantic steamship.
19:05She's fast, but she's going in the other direction.
19:09Jack Phillips hears that the radio operator is going to tell the captain
19:13that Titanic is in trouble.
19:16The 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.
19:27That's the rule of the sea.
19:29So here is a chance of rescue.
19:32As long as Carpathia is able to get there in time.
19:37The captain of the Carpathia is also going to arrive in place.
19:43MUSIC PLAYS
20:04Though we'd been warned by the stewards to be going away in a boat,
20:10it didn't seem possible that all this could actually be happening.
20:19It was the strangest scene.
20:22People bundled up in odd clothes, boarding lifeboats in the night.
20:32Few seemed to want to brave the dark sea in an open boat.
20:35And it was only after considerable coaxing that many went at all.
20:44People don't want to get in.
20:46Why would you want to get out of your warm bed
20:48and go in a lifeboat into the freezing water when there's no problem?
20:51You wouldn't.
20:52This is like a really annoying fire drill at school,
20:56and 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.
21:05Keeping people in ignorance was considered better.
21:07And we know today that actually people will respond much more sensibly in an emergency
21:12if they do have some information.
21:14That information was completely lacking at this point on Titanic.
21:21MUSIC PLAYS
21:23MUSIC PLAYS
21:28MUSIC PLAYS
21:32We were just walking forward
21:43when a sailor tried to drag me away from Cosmo.
21:48The officers called for women and children.
21:52So Captain Smith has ordered that women and children should be evacuated
21:57and they should be prioritized.
22:00On the port side, the second officer, Officer Lighttoller,
22:05interprets it as women and children only.
22:09The consequence of this is that if you are a family
22:13turning up on the port side,
22:16you will be separated
22:17and the men will not be allowed on the lifeboats.
22:21MUSIC PLAYS
22:22Saving the lives of women and children
22:26comes from deep in the Edwardian mindset.
22:30Women at the time
22:31are seen as having a kind of childish status.
22:34I mean, this is before they've been allowed to vote
22:36and they are perceived to have
22:39a physical and mental weakness
22:42that means that men have to be their protectors.
22:45Please step back, sir.
22:46Please step back.
22:47I have no such ideas about my husband.
22:51It would have been too awful to have been alone.
22:58Every time Officer Lighttoller prevents a man
23:00from getting into a lifeboat,
23:02there is the possibility that his wife won't go,
23:06that they will stay on board the ship.
23:08So he's actually potentially endangering the lives
23:11of the precise people he's been told to prioritize to save.
23:15In a great emergency like that,
23:39where there were limited facilities,
23:42could you not have put more people into boats?
23:44I did not know it was urgent then.
23:51I had no idea it was urgent.
23:54You did not know it was urgent?
23:57Nothing like it.
23:58Lighttoller wants to do a good job, clearly.
24:11Maybe if he'd known the ship was sinking,
24:14he would have allowed men in
24:15to fill up the spaces in the lifeboats.
24:19But because the captain is withholding information,
24:22people like Lighttoller can't do their job properly
24:25and this will have disastrous consequences.
24:31What one wants is to have a very good relationship,
24:35a band of brothers.
24:36And when you've got that,
24:37you must keep them informed of what's going on
24:40and what we call nowadays mission command.
24:42In other words,
24:43you let them know what you want to achieve overall,
24:46you tell them all the facts,
24:47and then you let them get on with it.
24:49I think that Captain Smith was overwhelmed
24:52by the enormity of what was happening
24:54and was not really grasping it and taking charge.
24:58What is hope?
25:00What is hope?
25:02What is hope to serve?
25:02Josh!
25:14Wonderful.
25:15Good.
25:17Good.
25:21Good.
25:21The operator returned and told us the Carpathia was putting about and heading for us.
25:39Our captain had left us at this time.
25:41Phillips told me to run and tell him what the Carpathia had answered.
25:43I went through an awful mass of people to his cabin.
25:54The decks were full.
26:01I came back and heard Phillips give him the Carpathia full of directions.
26:05He told me to put my clothes on.
26:10Until that moment, I forgot I wasn't dressed.
26:13I went to my cabin and dressed and brought an overcoat to Phillips.
26:20It was very cold.
26:23I slipped the overcoat on him while it worked.
26:27Imagine the relief in the radio room.
26:30Carpathia has answered the distress call, is coming their way.
26:37But, although she's going as fast as she can,
26:40she'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.
27:07But the radio operator's still asleep.
27:11Nobody is aware of any problem on the Titanic.
27:14The crew of the Titanic have to think on their feet.
27:21So they start to use Morse lamps and send a signal using light rather than sound.
27:27That the ship was close enough, I thought, to read our electric Morse signal.
27:33So I signaled her.
27:39I told her to come at once.
27:41We were sinking.
27:43The captain was with me most of the time we were signaling.
27:46I would signal with the Morse and then go back and look at the ship.
27:56I cannot say I saw any reply.
27:58In a crisis, you just have to increase your chances of survival.
28:11Survival is all about probability.
28:13You know, throwing as much muck at the wall as possible and seeing what sticks.
28:19Then we started sending off these distressed rockets.
28:23The quartermaster and I on the bridge.
28:25They go right up into the air and throw stars.
28:55Right now, the water is rising up through the body of the ship.
29:20The waterproof bulkheads only went up to a certain level.
29:26And by this stage, water was tipping over bulkheads and cascading into the next compartment.
29:32So compartment after compartment was being filled by water.
29:36And 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.
30:29And there were all our clothes and things that we were taking to America.
30:36Salini is from Hardin, which was in Lebanon.
30:47And she's a newlywed bride.
30:49And her older husband is 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 home forever.
31:13Do you want to arrive in New York destitute with nothing to your name, nothing to pay for a 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 water.
32:04The 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 rumour, 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 travelling 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 health,
33:11as well as whatever economic benefit they might get from migrating.
33:15Whilst 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.
34:15For 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.
36:38All the water that had been thrown on the fence is just making the stock all thick, Christine.
36:56Mr. Shepherds was walking across in a hurry to do something.
37:09And he fell down the hole and broke his leg.
37:14He lifted him up and carried him.
37:16There was a knock and noise.
37:32All at once, I saw a wave of green foam tearing between the boilers.
37:37A rush of water came through.
37:42I never stopped to look.
37:45Or he just jumped for the escape ladder.
37:58A huge wave of green water comes flying through into the room because the coal bunker has been
38:07gradually 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.
38:20So 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
39:18are 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.
39:42All passengers upstairs, at last.
40:04I...
40:05I return to my room.
40:07I began tidying up, folding my nightgown, putting everything in its place.
40:22There was...
40:23There was no sound.
40:27Titanic might have been in dock and all the crew gone home.
40:30I saw Stanley at the door, watching me.
40:45And he...
40:46He 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.
41:00Sinking.
41:02Sinking.
41:07The word...
41:09Repeated itself without fully...
41:13Fully entering my understanding.
41:19My mind could not accept that the super...
41:24Perfect creation was to do so futile a thing as sink.
41:29Of course, Titanic couldn't be sinking.
41:34Suddenly, there was a commotion near one of the gangways, and we saw a stoker come up from below.
41:39Suddenly, there was a commotion near one of the gangways, and we saw a stoker come up from below.
41:46Suddenly, there was a commotion near one of the gangways, and we saw a stoker come up from below.
42:00All the fingers of one hand had been cut off.
42:02All the fingers of one hand had been cut off.
42:07Blood was running from the stumps and was spattered on his face and clothes.
42:16It brought up a picture of smashed engines and mangled human bodies.
42:28I went over to speak to him.
42:31I asked him if there was any danger.
42:35Danger?
42:37I should say so.
42:39It's hell down below.
42:42This ship will sink like a stone.
42:47At this moment, I...
42:52got my first grip of fear.
43:14Those in charge herded us towards the nearest boat.
43:21Then, above the clamour came the terrible cry, lower the boat, women and children.
43:31Women and children only, that's women and children only.
43:35Someone was shouting these last few words over and over again.
43:40Women and children only.
43:41Women and children only.
43:42Women and children only.
43:43Women and children only.
43:48It might be that Lightoller has this kind of rigid view of the world.
43:55He'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, so he just sticks to this one option.
44:09Women and children only.
44:10Women and children only.
44:11Cosmo pleaded with me.
44:26Well, three or four boats were launched, but I refused.
44:29I only said, promise me that whatever you do, you will not let them separate us.
44:36And I clung to him.
44:39He saw that there was no use resisting me.
44:43We'll go round to the starboard side, Cosmo said.
44:51It might be better there.
44:53One of the pivotal facts about the loading of the lifeboats is this.
45:08There are different protocols on each side of the ship.
45:12On the starboard side, Officer Murdoch's approach is more pragmatic, it's more flexible.
45:19It was better.
45:24For although there were crowds, there was no confusion.
45:27The 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 and their children if there are spaces left.
45:48So there's Murdoch allowing men to fill up the spare places.
45:53Why not?
45:54Murdoch doesn't want to split families up.
45:57Murdoch, I think, probably had a sense of wanting to preserve life.
46:03And Light Hollow had a stricter, more patriarchal view, perhaps, of men should sacrifice themselves for women and children.
46:15But the fact that it was happening on the same ship at the same time shows just how vague this policy was.
46:22So it matters very much which side of the ship you're on if you're a man.
46:52I was walking up and down the bridge, saw white lights in the sky in the direction of this other steamer.
47:10I thought perhaps the ship was in communication with some other ship,
47:19or possibly signalling to us to tell us she had big icebergs around her.
47:24Didn't occur to me the ship was in distress.
47:27I just thought there were white rockets, that's all. It might have been anything.
47:34We called her up repeatedly on the Morse lamp and received no answer whatsoever.
47:40Some people say she replied to our rockets and our signals, but I didn't see any of them.
47:53We'll never know why there was miscommunication between the Californian and Titanic.
47:59There 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
48:11because 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,
48:21which is creating a kind of mirage effect.
48:24Shapes are being distorted in the darkness.
48:36What a chance her captain missed.
48:41He could have laid his ship right alongside the Titanic
48:43and taken practically every soul on board.
48:50However, he didn't.
48:51This must be the bitterest blow for those people who could see the ship nearby.
49:07I don't think it was bad faith. I don't think it was negligence.
49:10I think everything conspired that night to go against Titanic's chances of safety and salvation.
49:21What a chance her parents put in line,
49:23Is they going to be
49:39For some reason she was lonely.
49:41Who am I to be bipolar?
49:43Who had never rebounded the world.
49:45How was itoluいました?
49:46The города Hopkins officers are the most abundant amount of emotions
49:48Because 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.
50:18Suddenly, 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.
50:37This is the moment to take one of those spaces.
50:40My husband asked the officer if we might get into it.
50:48We were helped in, followed by two American men who came up at the last minute.
51:02There is something here about being in the right place in the right time,
51:10but also seizing the opportunity and having the confidence to do so.
51:19I think that class probably had a huge impact
51:21on people's sense of entitlement to safety, to rescue.
51:25You probably did assume that if you bought a first-class ticket,
51:32then that would buy you survival.
51:36They are people who are important in the world.
51:39They see themselves as having more value than people in steerage.
51:45And there they are as a couple, sitting safely in a lifeboat.
51:49I shall never forget how black and deep the water looked below us.
52:04Men standing nearby joked with us because we were going out on the ocean.
52:10You'll get your death of cold out there amid the ice.
52:19Men standing nearby, and then they had to go out on the ocean.
52:20I 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 Lytoler, 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.
53:41But it's not objectively right.
53:47From what you have said,
53:48you discriminated entirely in the interest of the women and children
53:51in filling those lifeboats.
53:54Yes.
53:56Why did you do that?
53:57Because of the captain's orders
53:59or because of the rule of the sea?
54:01The 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.
54:32Port, all-star board.
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.
54:48They struck utter terror into my heart
54:53and now they'll ring in my ears till I die.
54:57Theyitions.
55:02Music.
55:03Music.
55:06Music.
55:18Music.
55:19Music.
55:21Music.
55:22There was a lot of confusion.
55:46People crying, swearing and praying.
55:52There's a really stark disadvantage facing third-class passengers.
55:57Chief officer shoved one of the revolvers into my hands.
56:01Chekov 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, don't shoot!
56:11A new ghost story for Christmas from the macabre mind of Margatis.
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