00:00Did you know that a man survived the sinking of two ships, including the Titanic?
00:04April 1912, on the luxurious ocean liner Titanic, a man named Arthur John Priest
00:09He was in his cabin when he felt the impact.
00:12The ship had collided with an iceberg.
00:14People were screaming, water was starting to come in, and the unsinkable ship was sinking.
00:19But Arthur wasn't just any passenger; he was a firefighter on the ship, part of the crew.
00:23in charge of the boilers.
00:25When the Titanic broke in two, Arthur jumped into the icy water.
00:28After battling the cold and the rubble, he managed to climb into a lifeboat and survived.
00:34He had escaped one of the greatest tragedies in history, but the story doesn't end there.
00:40Four years later, in the midst of World War I, Arthur was working on another ship, the Britannic.
00:45The Britannic was the Titanic's sister ship, larger and better equipped, but it too sank.
00:50It struck a mine in the Aegean Sea and began to sink rapidly.
00:54Arthur, who was in the boiler room again, managed to run out and jump into the water.
00:58It was his second shipwreck, he almost survived again, a legendary survivor.
01:03Arthur John Priest survived five shipwrecks in total, including the Titanic and the Britannic.
01:09When he finally retired, he said,
01:11I'm not going back to work at sea; I don't want to tempt fate.
01:15He died in 1937, but not in the water.
01:17Thank you!
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