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Narrator: THE TITANIC--
BUILT TO BE UNSINKABLE.
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CAPTAIN AND CREW--
THE FINEST OF THEIR DAY.
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THE NIGHT--PERFECTLY CALM.
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Woman: THE SEA WAS
SO VERY STILL,
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AND THE SKY, SO MANY STARS.
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Man: ICE AHEAD!
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Narrator: THE MIGHTY SHIP IS
DESTROYED BY A SINGLE ICEBERG...
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SOME 300 FEET OF HULL PLATING
RIPPED APART AT THE SEAMS.
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[MORSE CODE BEEPING]
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[SCREAMS]
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BUT EVEN IN THE MOMENT
OF DISASTER, THERE IS HOPE--
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A SHIP ON THE HORIZON.
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Man: WE BOTH CAME
TO THE CONCLUSION
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THAT SHE WAS CLOSE ENOUGH
TO BE SIGNALED.
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THE CAPTAIN SAID, "TELL THEM TO
COME AT ONCE, WE ARE SINKING."
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Narrator: YET THAT SHIP
NEVER ARRIVES.
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FOR 100 YEARS
WE'VE WONDERED, WHY?
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AND HOW DID THE TRAGEDY HAPPEN
IN THE FIRST PLACE?
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WHO--OR WHAT--WAS TO BLAME?
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AN INVESTIGATOR IS DETERMINED
TO REEXAMINE ALL THE EVIDENCE...
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Man: SO SHE'S AT TITANIC'S
WRECK SITE--THAT'S INCREDIBLE.
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Narrator: HE TRAVELS THE WORLD,
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COLLECTS DATA,
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AND PORES THROUGH THOUSANDS OF
HOURS OF EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY.
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Man: THE MORE I READ ABOUT
THE TRUTH OF WHAT HAPPENED,
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THE MORE I REALIZE HOW STRANGE
IT REALLY WAS.
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Narrator: FOR 100 YEARS,
WE'VE SOUGHT CULPRITS
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AMONG THOSE ON BOARD
AND EVEN ELSEWHERE.
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NOW, AT LAST, ONE MAN
HAS FOUND THE ANSWERS...
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...THAT FINALLY CLOSE
THE CASE OF TITANIC.
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LAS VEGAS...
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THE ENTERTAINMENT CAPITAL
OF THE WORLD...
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...HARDLY WHERE ONE WOULD
EXPECT TO COME FACE TO FACE
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WITH THE WORLD'S
MOST FAMOUS SHIP.
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CONTROVERSY HAS SWIRLED
AROUND THESE OBJECTS
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RECOVERED FROM
THE TITANIC WRECK SITE
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SINCE THEY FIRST WENT ON DISPLAY
TO THE PUBLIC IN 1994.
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MANY QUESTION WHETHER IT'S RIGHT
TO DISTURB A GRAVE SITE...
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...WHILE MARINE ARCHAEOLOGISTS
COMPLAIN
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THAT AN IMPORTANT SITE
HAS BEEN CRUDELY SALVAGED.
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BUT FOR HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR
TIM MALTIN,
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THESE HULL PIECES SERVE
A VITAL PURPOSE.
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Tim Maltin: THIS IS WHAT WAS
BUILT IN BELFAST 100 YEARS AGO.
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AND THIS IS A TESTAMENT TO
HOW BEAUTIFULLY BUILT SHE WAS.
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SHE'S LIKE A WORK OF ART,
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EVERY RIVET
LITERALLY HANDCRAFTED.
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IT'S EXTRAORDINARY TO BE
STANDING THIS CLOSE TO IT.
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IT'S ALMOST AS THOUGH TITANIC
HAS COME BACK FROM THE DEAD
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AND SORT OF HIT ME IN THE FACE
ALMOST, BECAUSE SHE'S HERE.
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Narrator: IN THE HUNDRED YEARS
SINCE THE SINKING,
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AN ELABORATE WEB OF MYTHS
HAS GROWN UP AROUND TITANIC.
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SOME EVEN BELIEVE
THE BUILDERS CUT CORNERS
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WHEN THEY BEGAN
HER CONSTRUCTION.
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Tim: WHAT YOU CAN SEE HERE FROM
THIS 15-TON PIECE OF THE TITANIC
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IS THE STRENGTH OF IT,
JUST THE SHEER...
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WE DON'T BUILD THINGS LIKE THIS
TODAY ANYMORE.
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THE WAY ITS HEAVINESS,
ITS STRENGTH,
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THE WAY THE RIVETS WERE
HEAT SEALED INTO IT
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AND SHRUNK ONTO THIS VERY THICK
SHELL PLATING HERE.
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AND EVEN OVER HERE
YOU CAN SEE THE GLASS,
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THE THICKNESS OF THE GLASS
IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.
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I MEAN, THAT IS NEARLY
TWO INCHES THICK.
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ONE OF THE MOST
COMMON MYTHS TODAY
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IS THAT TITANIC WAS
SOMEHOW BADLY BUILT,
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OR THE RIVETS WERE WEAK,
OR THE METAL WAS BRITTLE.
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AND I CAN ASSURE YOU
THAT'S A COMPLETE MYTH.
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THE BUILDERS WERE ACTUALLY
ENCOURAGED, IF ANYTHING,
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TO SPEND MORE MONEY ON THE SHIP,
NOT LESS.
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THIS SHIP IS BUILT
LIKE A BATTLESHIP.
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Narrator: TIM MALTIN
HAS DEBUNKED A LOT OF MYTHS
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ABOUT TITANIC...
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BUT HE STILL HAS QUESTIONS.
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HE BELIEVES THIS 100-YEAR-OLD
CASE IS FAR FROM CLOSED.
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Tim: I'VE SPENT MY WHOLE LIFE
STUDYING THE TITANIC,
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AND NOW I'M STANDING
IN FRONT OF IT.
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AND THIS IS THE BEGINNING
OF A REALLY EXCITING JOURNEY,
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BECAUSE NOW I'M GOING TO PUT
ALL MY THEORIES TO THE TEST
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OF WHY TITANIC SANK.
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Narrator: TIM'S THEORIES ARE
THE RESULT OF HUNDREDS OF HOURS
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SPENT PORING THROUGH
EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY.
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TITANIC IS, IN FACT,
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ONE OF THE BEST DOCUMENTED
DISASTERS IN HISTORY,
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THE SUBJECT OF MASSIVE
PUBLIC INQUIRIES
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IN BOTH NEW YORK AND LONDON.
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150 WITNESSES WERE GRILLED
WITH 50,000 QUESTIONS.
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MUCH OF THAT HISTORIC
AND SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
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IS GATHERED IN THIS LIBRARY
IN LONDON--
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THE BASE FOR
TIM'S INVESTIGATION.
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Tim: AS SOON AS THE SURVIVORS
CAME OFF THE TITANIC,
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THEY GAVE THEIR INTERVIEWS
TO NEWSPAPERS
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WHO SLIGHTLY EMBELLISHED
THE STORIES.
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AND WHAT I'VE BEEN INTERESTED
IN DOING IS GETTING BACK
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TO WHAT PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE
ACTUALLY EXPERIENCED.
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Narrator: FROM THE SURVIVORS,
TIM HAS SIFTED OUT A HANDFUL
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WHOSE TESTIMONY SEEMS VITAL.
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ONE OF THEM IS SCIENCE TEACHER
LAWRENCE BEESLEY.
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Tim: HE WAS PAYING VERY CLOSE
ATTENTION TO EVERYTHING.
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HE EVEN, ON THE DECK, TIMED
THE SWELL OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC.
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SO HE GIVES US
AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT
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OF WHAT WOULD SEEM TO BE
QUITE MUNDANE DETAIL,
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BUT IT PROVIDES
VERY IMPORTANT CLUES
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OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
THAT NIGHT.
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Narrator: CAPTAIN EDWARD SMITH
DIDN'T SURVIVE.
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BUT THE TWO LOOKOUTS
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FREDERICK FLEET AND
REGINALD LEE DID.
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FOR TIM, THEIR TESTIMONY
SOMEHOW HOLDS THE KEY
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TO THE BIGGEST MYSTERY OF ALL.
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Tim: OBVIOUSLY, WE KNOW THAT
TITANIC HIT AN ICEBERG.
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BUT WHAT I WAS INTERESTED IN IS
WHY DID SHE HIT AN ICEBERG?
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YOU KNOW, WHY IS IT THAT
THE BEST NAVIGATORS OF THEIR DAY
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IN THE FINEST SHIP,
BEING AS CAREFUL AS THEY COULD,
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WHY DID THEY CRASH THAT NIGHT?
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Narrator: AND THE KEY TO
A SECOND ENDURING MYSTERY
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LIES WITH STANLEY LORD,
CAPTAIN OF THE CALIFORNIAN,
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A NEARBY SHIP THAT
INEXPLICABLY FAILED
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TO COME TO TITANIC'S RESCUE
THAT NIGHT.
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Tim: THE MORE I GOT TO LEARN
ABOUT THIS SHIP
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AND ITS EFFECT ON
THE TITANIC DISASTER,
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THE MORE I REALIZED THAT
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THEY HADN'T GOT TO
THE BOTTOM OF IT YET.
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Narrator: THE CAREERS AND
REPUTATIONS OF ALL THESE MEN
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WOULD BE FOREVER TARNISHED
BY THE SINKING OF TITANIC.
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BUT DID THEY DESERVE THE BLAME?
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THAT IS WHAT TIM IS DETERMINED
TO FIND OUT.
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Tim: OVER THE YEARS,
TITANIC HAS BECOME A MYTH,
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AND AS WE GO ON, WE GET FURTHER
AND FURTHER AWAY FROM THE TRUTH.
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AND WHAT I WANTED TO DO IS
WIND THE CLOCK BACK TO 1912,
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TO ALMOST PUT MYSELF
IN THAT POSITION THERE,
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AND TO REALLY LEARN ABOUT
THE ENVIRONMENT AS WELL,
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AND TO FIND OUT EXACTLY
WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT.
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Narrator: TO GET TO THE BOTTOM
OF TITANIC'S FINAL MYSTERIES,
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TIM FIRST NEEDS THE SHIP.
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Tim: WHEN I WAS ABOUT
11 YEARS OLD,
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I GOT SOME GLUE AND PLANS
AND CUT THEM UP,
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AND JUST ACTUALLY GLUING THEM
ONTO CARDBOARD,
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AND ACTUALLY STARTING TO SEE
THE PROFILE OF TITANIC
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COME TO LIFE OFF THE PAGE...
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IT REALLY MAKES THE TITANIC
BECOME A REAL SHIP,
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THAT YOU UNDERSTAND
THE GEOGRAPHY OF.
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Narrator:
IN THE YEARS SINCE THEN,
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TIM HAS METICULOUSLY RECREATED
TITANIC'S ORIGINAL PLANS,
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BRINGING THEM TO LIFE AS
AN ANIMATED 3D MODEL.
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AT THE TIME, TITANIC IS THE
LARGEST MOVING OBJECT EVER MADE.
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SHE'S A SIXTH OF A MILE LONG,
175 FEET HIGH
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AND DIVIDED INTO 10 DECKS.
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BUILT LIKE A BATTLESHIP,
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TITANIC'S KEEL IS LAID AT
HARLAND AND WOLFF'S SHIPYARD
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IN BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND,
IN 1909.
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OVER 20,000 TONS OF STEEL GO
INTO HER FRAME AND HULL PLATING.
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THE TOP DECK HOUSES THE BRIDGE.
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THE NEXT SEVEN DECKS INCLUDED
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EXQUISITE FIRST CLASS
STATE ROOMS,
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AND LUXURIOUS PUBLIC AREAS,
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SUCH AS THE SPECTACULAR
GRAND STAIRCASE.
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AT THE BOTTOM,
THE REMAINING THREE DECKS
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ARE RESERVED FOR CREW,
CARGO AND MACHINERY.
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THIS EXTRAORDINARY VESSEL
WAS MOVED THROUGH THE WATER
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BY THREE GIANT PROPELLERS
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GENERATING NEARLY
60,000 HORSEPOWER,
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THE POWER OF 100
MODERN 18-WHEELERS.
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THE CONSTRUCTION TAKES
LONGER THAN EXPECTED.
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TITANIC'S MAIDEN VOYAGE IS
DELAYED BY ALMOST THREE WEEKS.
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EVEN THEN, AS HER OWNERS--
THE WHITE STAR LINE--
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RUSH TO GET HER READY,
THERE ARE SIGNS OF TROUBLE.
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Tim: EVEN BEFORE
TITANIC LEFT BELFAST,
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THERE WAS A FIRE THAT HAD BEGUN
TO BURN IN THE COAL
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IN THIS BUNKER HERE,
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BETWEEN BOILER ROOMS
NUMBERS FIVE AND SIX.
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THEY BEGAN TO RAKE THE COAL OUT
ON WEDNESDAY,
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AND IT TOOK THEM
UNTIL SATURDAY NIGHT
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BEFORE THE FIRE WAS PUT OUT.
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SO IT TOOK THEM
NEARLY THE WHOLE VOYAGE
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TO GET THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL.
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Narrator: BUNKER FIRES
WEREN'T UNCOMMON,
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AND EVEN THOUGH THIS ONE WASN'T
PUT OUT FOR SEVERAL DAYS,
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IT'S UNLIKELY THAT
IT SERIOUSLY WEAKENED
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THE STRUCTURE OF TITANIC.
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ON WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 10, 1912,
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TITANIC FINALLY WEIGHS ANCHOR
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AND SETS SAIL FROM SOUTHAMPTON
FOR NEW YORK.
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HER PASSENGERS COME FROM
EVERY CLASS OF SOCIETY--
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THE WEALTHY ELITE
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AND EMIGRANTS HOPING FOR
A NEW START IN AMERICA.
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Tim: TITANIC WAS A FLOATING CITY
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CAPABLE OF CARRYING
3,500 PEOPLE,
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AND SHE HAD FABULOUS FACILITIES.
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Narrator: FOR THOSE TRAVELING
FIRST CLASS,
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LIFE COULDN'T HAVE BEEN BETTER,
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AS COLONEL ARCHIBALD GRACIE,
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A GRADUATE OF WEST POINT
MILITARY ACADEMY,
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WOULD LATER TESTIFY.
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Archibald Gracie:
I ENJOYED MYSELF
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AS IF I WERE IN A SUMMER PALACE
ON THE SEASHORE,
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SURROUNDED WITH EVERY COMFORT.
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THERE WAS NOTHING
TO SUGGEST THAT
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WE WERE ON
THE STORMY ATLANTIC OCEAN.
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THE MOTION OF THE SHIP AND
THE NOISE OF ITS MACHINERY
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WERE SCARCELY DISCERNIBLE
ON DECK OR IN THE SALOONS,
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DAY OR NIGHT.
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Narrator: THIS IS THE GENIUS
OF TITANIC.
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IT MANAGES TO COMBINE HUGE SIZE
WITH IMMACULATE STYLE.
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ON THE LOWER DECK,
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FREEZER STORES MEAN THAT
THE RESTAURANTS AND CAFES
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ARE STOCKED WITH
THE FINEST FRESH PRODUCE.
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CAFE PARISIEN, OUT ON B DECK,
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IS ACCOMPANIED BY A VIEW
OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC
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PASSING BY THE FRENCH WINDOWS--
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A FIRST ON ANY SHIP.
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THE FIRST-CLASS A LA CARTE MENU
INSIDE THE SHIP HAS 11 COURSES,
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INCLUDING OYSTERS,
SIRLOIN OF BEEF,
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PEACHES IN CHARTREUSE JELLY, AND
CHOCOLATE AND VANILLA DESSERTS.
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OTHER LUXURIES ARE EQUALLY
SUITED TO THE FITNESS FANATIC,
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COLONEL GRACIE.
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Gracie: BUT WHEN
SUNDAY MORNING CAME,
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I CONSIDERED IT HIGH TIME TO
BEGIN MY CUSTOMARY EXERCISES.
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I WAS UP EARLY BEFORE BREAKFAST
PREPARATORY TO A SWIM
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IN THE SIX-FOOT-DEEP
TANK OF SALT WATER,
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HEATED TO A REFRESHING
TEMPERATURE.
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IN NO SWIMMING BATH HAD I EVER
ENJOYED SUCH PLEASURE BEFORE.
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HOW CURTAILED THAT ENJOYMENT
WOULD HAVE BEEN
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HAD THE PRESENTIMENT COME TO ME
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TELLING HOW BEFORE
DAWN OF ANOTHER DAY
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I WOULD BE SWIMMING FOR MY LIFE
IN MID-OCEAN.
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Tim: SO WHAT YOU
HAVE TO UNDERSTAND
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IS THAT THE BUILDERS
AND THE CREW
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REALLY BELIEVED
SHE WAS UNSINKABLE.
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AND, OF COURSE,
THE PASSENGERS, THEREFORE,
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REALLY BELIEVED
SHE WAS UNSINKABLE, AS WELL.
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Narrator: 2,000 MILES AWAY,
AN ARMADA OF DEADLY ICE
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BREAKS LOOSE EVERY YEAR FROM
THE GLACIERS OF GREENLAND.
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ONE OF THESE GIANT SHARDS HAS
BEEN DRIFTING FOR A YEAR
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AND IS NOW ON A COLLISION COURSE
WITH TITANIC.
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THE WORLD'S LARGEST SHIP HAS
BARELY FOUR DAYS TO LIVE.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1912.
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DAY TWO OF TITANIC'S
MAIDEN VOYAGE.
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FIRST-CLASS PASSENGERS ARE
ENJOYING THE SMOOTH RIDE
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IN THE DINING SALOON ON DECK D,
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THE MOST STABLE
PART OF THE SHIP.
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FOR THEM AND THE REST
OF THE PASSENGERS,
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THE SHIP'S LUXURIOUS FITTINGS
ARE A PLEASANT DISTRACTION
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ON THEIR TRANSATLANTIC JOURNEY.
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Tim: FOR SOME PEOPLE,
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THEY WERE MAKING THE BIGGEST
JOURNEY OF THEIR LIVES,
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AND THEY WOULD NEVER RETURN.
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00:14:55,584 --> 00:14:57,793
BUT FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE
IN FIRST CLASS, FOR EXAMPLE,
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BUSINESSPEOPLE, THEY MIGHT DO
THIS JOURNEY ONCE A MONTH,
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FOR EXAMPLE,
THEY WERE ALWAYS DOING IT,
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00:15:02,936 --> 00:15:05,525
AND THEY DIDN'T EXPECT IT TO BE
A TRIP INTO THE UNKNOWN.
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THEY EXPECTED TO ARRIVE
ON WEDNESDAY MORNING,
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00:15:07,976 --> 00:15:09,632
AND THAT WAS IT.
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Narrator: WHETHER THEY'RE
TRAVELING FIRST CLASS OR THIRD,
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EVERYONE EXPECTS TITANIC WILL
DELIVER THEM SAFELY TO NEW YORK
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00:15:17,433 --> 00:15:20,022
IN SEVEN DAYS.
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00:15:20,057 --> 00:15:23,267
Tim: BY 1912, THE STEAMSHIP
COMPANIES HAD GOT TOGETHER
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AND ESTABLISHED EFFECTIVELY
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00:15:24,889 --> 00:15:26,753
RAILWAY LINES
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
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AND THIS IS BECAUSE THE INTENSE
COMPETITION OF PASSENGERS
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WANTING TO GET TO NEW YORK
FASTER AND FASTER
259
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WERE CAUSING LINERS
TO TAKE RISKS.
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Narrator: TO AVOID COLLISIONS,
STEAMER TRAFFIC IS SEPARATED
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00:15:38,178 --> 00:15:40,940
INTO EASTBOUND AND
WESTBOUND ROUTES
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KNOWN AS STEAMER TRACKS.
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00:15:47,947 --> 00:15:50,466
AS TITANIC STEAMS WEST,
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OTHER SHIPS ARE ALREADY RADIOING
WARNINGS OF ICE AHEAD.
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00:15:56,576 --> 00:15:59,268
CAPTAIN SMITH AND HIS OFFICERS
ARE COUNTING ON LOOKOUTS
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IN THE CROW'S NEST TO GIVE THEM
UP TO 30 MINUTES' WARNING.
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IN CLEAR WEATHER
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FROM THEIR POSITION
90 FEET ABOVE THE WAVES,
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THESE TWO CREWMEN CAN
TYPICALLY SPOT AN ICEBERG
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AS FAR AWAY AS THE HORIZON.
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00:16:14,111 --> 00:16:17,493
FOR NOW, THEY CAN SEE
NOTHING AHEAD OF THEM.
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00:16:21,359 --> 00:16:23,913
TODAY, THE MOVEMENT OF ICE
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC
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IS MONITORED IN
NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT.
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00:16:27,676 --> 00:16:30,748
TIM MALTIN IS HERE
TO FIND OUT HOW.
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RUN BY THE U.S. COAST GUARD,
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THE INTERNATIONAL ICE PATROL
WAS SET UP
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AS A DIRECT CONSEQUENCE
OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
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00:16:38,790 --> 00:16:41,552
BY THE LEADING MARITIME POWERS
OF THE DAY.
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DURING ICE SEASON,
GENERALLY FEBRUARY TILL JULY,
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00:16:46,764 --> 00:16:48,835
IT USES SATELLITE
AND RADAR TECHNOLOGY
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00:16:48,869 --> 00:16:52,287
TO TRACK THE PROGRESS OF
ICEBERGS HEADING SOUTH.
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DON MURPHY IS
CHIEF OCEANOGRAPHER.
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00:16:58,707 --> 00:16:59,915
Tim: SO, DON,
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00:16:59,949 --> 00:17:02,021
ARE ICEBERGS STILL DANGEROUS
TO SHIPS NOWADAYS?
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00:17:02,055 --> 00:17:03,539
Don Murphy: ICEBERGS ARE
DANGEROUS TO SHIPS
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00:17:03,574 --> 00:17:05,852
EVEN IN THE MODERN WORLD.
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00:17:05,886 --> 00:17:08,130
THE ICEBERGS IN
THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC,
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00:17:08,165 --> 00:17:10,236
THE ONES THAT ENTER
THE SHIPPING LANES,
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COME PRIMARILY FROM
THE WEST COAST OF GREENLAND...
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00:17:19,452 --> 00:17:20,729
AND THEN DOWN THE COAST,
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00:17:20,763 --> 00:17:25,699
AND EVENTUALLY ALONG
THE COAST OF LABRADOR,
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00:17:25,734 --> 00:17:27,460
AND THEN TOWARDS
THE SHIPPING LANES,
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00:17:27,494 --> 00:17:31,153
AND INTO THE AREA WHERE
THEY BECOME A VERY SEVERE DANGER
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TO THE NORTH ATLANTIC MARINER.
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00:17:35,606 --> 00:17:37,711
Narrator: THE FREEZING CURRENT
THAT CARRIES THE ICEBERGS
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IS CALLED THE LABRADOR.
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00:17:42,337 --> 00:17:44,408
ALTHOUGH NO ONE COULD KNOW IT
AT THE TIME,
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1912 IS SHAPING UP TO BE
AN UNUSUALLY BAD ICE YEAR
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00:17:48,274 --> 00:17:49,896
AS TITANIC PREPARES TO CROSS
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00:17:49,930 --> 00:17:52,105
FROM THE WARM WATERS
OF THE GULF STREAM
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00:17:52,140 --> 00:17:55,177
INTO THE FREEZING
LABRADOR CURRENT.
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00:17:55,212 --> 00:17:57,455
Don: OVER 1,000 ICEBERGS ENTERED
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THE NORTH ATLANTIC
SHIPPING LANES DURING 1912.
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00:18:01,045 --> 00:18:02,702
THE AVERAGE IS A LOT LESS
THAN THAT--
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00:18:02,736 --> 00:18:04,566
AROUND 500 A YEAR
IS THE AVERAGE.
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00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:07,258
SO IT WAS A VERY SEVERE
ICEBERG YEAR.
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00:18:09,502 --> 00:18:11,883
Narrator: TODAY, WE HAVE
THE TECHNOLOGY TO WARN A SHIP
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00:18:11,918 --> 00:18:15,473
OF THE EXACT LOCATIONS OF
ICEBERGS IN ITS PATH.
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00:18:18,856 --> 00:18:21,238
BUT IN 1912,
SHIPS COULRELY ONLY
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ON THE POWER OF HUMAN EYESIGHT.
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APRIL 14th, 6:00 P.M.
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FOUR DAYS SINCE TITANIC
LEFT SOUTHAMPTON,
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00:18:32,456 --> 00:18:36,253
AND THREE DAYS SINCE SHE
RECEIVED THE FIRST ICE WARNINGS.
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00:18:37,702 --> 00:18:39,532
ALTHOUGH NO ONE SUSPECTS IT,
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00:18:39,566 --> 00:18:41,982
TITANIC AND MOST OF THOSE
ON BOARD
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00:18:42,017 --> 00:18:44,157
HAVE JUST HOURS TO LIVE.
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BACK IN LONDON, TIM SEARCHES
THE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS
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00:18:59,103 --> 00:19:03,072
TO BUILD AN ACCURATE PICTURE
OF THE CONDITIONS THAT NIGHT.
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00:19:03,107 --> 00:19:06,593
Tim: FOR ME, THE FACTS
ARE ABSOLUTELY KEY.
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00:19:07,870 --> 00:19:10,287
THERE ARE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS
OF BOOKS ON THE TITANIC,
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00:19:10,321 --> 00:19:11,909
BUT THE ONLY ONES
I'M INTERESTED IN
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ARE ONES THAT WERE WRITTEN
BY PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE,
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00:19:14,153 --> 00:19:16,465
OR ONES WHICH ARE
THE TRANSCRIBED TESTIMONY
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00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:19,261
OF EYEWITNESSES.
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00:19:19,296 --> 00:19:21,884
Narrator: 16-YEAR-OLD
JEAN HIPPACH IS STRUCK
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00:19:21,919 --> 00:19:24,404
BY HOW UNUSUAL THE NIGHT IS.
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00:19:25,854 --> 00:19:28,236
Jean Hippach: THE SEA WAS
SO VERY STILL,
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00:19:28,270 --> 00:19:31,998
AND THE SKY, SO MANY STARS.
329
00:19:33,482 --> 00:19:36,278
I NEVER SAW SO MANY
IN MY WHOLE LIFE.
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00:19:37,969 --> 00:19:39,419
Narrator: SCIENTIST
LAWRENCE BEESLEY
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ALSO NOTICES
THE REMARKABLE CLARITY.
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00:19:43,216 --> 00:19:46,461
Lawrence Beesley: EACH STAR
SEEMED IN THE KEEN ATMOSPHERE
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00:19:46,495 --> 00:19:49,533
TO HAVE INCREASED
ITS BRILLIANCE TENFOLD,
334
00:19:49,567 --> 00:19:52,294
AND TO TWINKLE AND SPARKLE
WITH A STACCATO FLASH
335
00:19:52,329 --> 00:19:55,539
THAT MADE THE SKY SEEM
NOTHING BUT A SETTING
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00:19:55,573 --> 00:19:58,335
MADE FOR THEM IN WHICH
TO DISPLAY THEIR WONDER.
337
00:19:59,750 --> 00:20:00,958
Narrator: THE CREW IS
MORE CONCERNED
338
00:20:00,992 --> 00:20:03,719
ABOUT THE PLUNGING TEMPERATURE.
339
00:20:03,754 --> 00:20:07,999
CHARLES LIGHTOLLER IS
THE SECOND OFFICER OF TITANIC.
340
00:20:08,034 --> 00:20:10,209
Tim: LIGHTOLLER TALKS ABOUT IT
DROPPING FOUR DEGREES
341
00:20:10,243 --> 00:20:12,521
IN THE HALF AN HOUR THAT
HE WAS HAVING HIS TEA,
342
00:20:12,556 --> 00:20:13,936
AND THE CARPENTER THEN GOES
343
00:20:13,971 --> 00:20:15,766
TO STOP THE FRESH WATER
FREEZING UP,
344
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,976
AND YET THEY'D BEEN SUNBATHING
ON THE DECK JUST BEFORE.
345
00:20:20,564 --> 00:20:22,151
ALL OF THE SURVIVORS MENTION
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00:20:22,186 --> 00:20:24,568
HOW SUDDEN THE DROP
IN TEMPERATURE WAS,
347
00:20:24,602 --> 00:20:27,916
AND HOW EXTREME THE DROP
IN TEMPERATURE WAS.
348
00:20:30,781 --> 00:20:34,336
Beesley: IT WAS JUST A KEEN,
BITTER, ICY, MOTIONLESS COLD
349
00:20:34,371 --> 00:20:39,721
THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE,
AND YET WAS THERE ALL THE TIME.
350
00:20:39,755 --> 00:20:41,101
THE STILLNESS OF IT--
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00:20:41,136 --> 00:20:45,899
IF ONE CAN IMAGINE "COLD"
BEING MOTIONLESS AND STILL--
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00:20:45,934 --> 00:20:48,350
WAS WHAT SEEMED NEW AND STRANGE.
353
00:20:49,834 --> 00:20:52,803
Narrator: BEESLEY DESCRIBES
THE NIGHT AS "STRANGE."
354
00:20:52,837 --> 00:20:57,014
AND IT IS, EVEN TO THE MOST
EXPERIENCED CREW.
355
00:20:57,048 --> 00:20:59,534
YET, THERE IS NO CAUSE
FOR ALARM.
356
00:20:59,568 --> 00:21:02,295
THE CLARITY OF THE NIGHT,
THE BRIGHT STARS--
357
00:21:02,330 --> 00:21:06,230
ALL ARE PERFECT CONDITIONS
FOR SPOTTING ICEBERGS.
358
00:21:06,265 --> 00:21:07,473
Tim: WHAT CAUGHT THEM
OUT THAT NIGHT?
359
00:21:07,507 --> 00:21:10,683
WHAT SINGLE ELEMENT WAS
THE REAL FUNDAMENTAL REASON
360
00:21:10,717 --> 00:21:12,650
WHY THOSE EXPERIENCED SAILORS
361
00:21:12,685 --> 00:21:15,860
RAMMED THIS BEAUTIFUL,
LARGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD,
362
00:21:15,895 --> 00:21:18,000
PERFECTLY BUILT
OVER SEVERAL YEARS,
363
00:21:18,035 --> 00:21:21,280
STRAIGHT INTO AN ICEBERG
ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE?
364
00:21:22,384 --> 00:21:24,144
Narrator:
IN LESS THAN SIX HOURS,
365
00:21:24,179 --> 00:21:27,355
THIS IS THE FATE
THAT AWAITS TITANIC.
366
00:21:34,396 --> 00:21:38,504
SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1912.
367
00:21:38,538 --> 00:21:40,333
7:00 P.M.
368
00:21:41,472 --> 00:21:43,509
CAPTAIN EDWARD SMITH
HAS CROSSED THE ATLANTIC
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00:21:43,543 --> 00:21:46,408
MANY TIMES DURING ICE SEASON.
370
00:21:46,443 --> 00:21:49,377
HE SEES NO REASON YET
TO BE ALARMED.
371
00:21:59,214 --> 00:22:01,941
TITANIC AUTHOR AND INVESTIGATOR
TIM MALTIN
372
00:22:01,975 --> 00:22:03,322
TRAVELS TO NEWFOUNDLAND
373
00:22:03,356 --> 00:22:06,463
TO GET AS CLOSE TO THE SCENE
OF THE CRIME AS HE CAN.
374
00:22:10,018 --> 00:22:14,263
EVEN TODAY, THESE WATERS ARE
TEEMING WITH DANGEROUS ICEBERGS.
375
00:22:19,407 --> 00:22:21,823
THE LOCAL CAPTAINS HERE
ARE EXPERTS.
376
00:22:23,031 --> 00:22:24,550
THEY HAVE TO BE.
377
00:22:24,584 --> 00:22:27,346
THEIR LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON
SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATING
378
00:22:27,380 --> 00:22:31,453
AMONG ICY MONSTERS
SOMETIMES 300 FEET TALL.
379
00:22:34,042 --> 00:22:36,734
Captain: WITH A TRAINED EYE, YOU
CAN SEE THE WHITECAPS FORMING.
380
00:22:36,769 --> 00:22:39,565
HERE YOU SEE SOME AREAS
OF CALM, AS WELL.
381
00:22:39,599 --> 00:22:40,600
THIS IS THE LABRADOR CURRENT
382
00:22:40,635 --> 00:22:41,981
THAT IS RUNNING
RIGHT ALONG HERE.
383
00:22:42,015 --> 00:22:44,017
Tim: IS THAT WHY THE ICE IS
SO NEAR THE SHORE HERE?
384
00:22:44,052 --> 00:22:44,846
Captain: EXACTLY.
385
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:45,985
IT'S THE DRIVING FORCE
386
00:22:46,019 --> 00:22:48,159
THAT BRINGS THESE ICEBERGS
HERE, REALLY.
387
00:22:48,194 --> 00:22:49,575
SEVEN-EIGHTHS OF THE ICE
IS UNDER WATER,
388
00:22:49,609 --> 00:22:51,853
SO THE MAIN SAIL IS
UNDER WATER, REALLY.
389
00:22:51,887 --> 00:22:54,234
SO WHEN THAT CURRENT STRIKES
THAT ICE UNDER WATER,
390
00:22:54,269 --> 00:22:55,684
IT'S GOING TO HAVE
A DRAMATIC EFFECT
391
00:22:55,719 --> 00:22:57,997
ON THE MOVEMENT OF
THESE ICEBERGS.
392
00:23:05,314 --> 00:23:07,351
Narrator: TODAY,
EVEN WITH MODERN TECHNOLOGY
393
00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:08,732
AT THEIR DISPOSAL,
394
00:23:08,766 --> 00:23:11,355
SAILORS ARE STILL VERY WARY
OF THE DANGER
395
00:23:11,390 --> 00:23:15,497
THAT CROSSING INTO THE ICY
LABRADOR CURRENT CAN BRING...
396
00:23:15,532 --> 00:23:18,258
ESPECIALLY ONCE NIGHT FALLS.
397
00:23:21,020 --> 00:23:23,505
Captain: I CAN SEE
IN THE NIGHTTIME, YOU KNOW,
398
00:23:23,540 --> 00:23:27,129
HOW A CAPTAIN COULD BE
CONFUSED OR MESMERIZED,
399
00:23:27,164 --> 00:23:28,717
IS THE PROBABLY THE BEST WAY
I WOULD DESCRIBE IT, REALLY,
400
00:23:28,752 --> 00:23:33,619
BECAUSE YOUR EYE CAN ONLY FOCUS
ON SO MUCH AT A TIME.
401
00:23:33,653 --> 00:23:37,036
Tim: WHAT WOULD YOU FEEL LIKE
IF WE WERE ON THIS BOAT,
402
00:23:37,070 --> 00:23:39,452
AND INSTEAD OF COMING INTO PORT,
LIKE WE ARE NOW,
403
00:23:39,487 --> 00:23:41,005
WE WERE JUST IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE ATLANTIC,
404
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,179
AND THERE WAS HUNDREDS
OF ICEBERGS
405
00:23:42,213 --> 00:23:43,663
THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT
IN THE DARK.
406
00:23:43,698 --> 00:23:44,733
WHAT WOULD YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?
407
00:23:44,768 --> 00:23:46,873
Captain: I'D BE PRETTY NERVOUS,
I MEAN,
408
00:23:46,908 --> 00:23:49,117
AS WE'RE STANDING HERE NOW,
I'M LOOKING AT THE WATER,
409
00:23:49,151 --> 00:23:50,636
LOOKING FOR BERGY BITS.
410
00:23:50,670 --> 00:23:53,811
AND I KNOW WHAT THE DAMAGE
THAT THESE ICEBERGS CAN DO.
411
00:23:53,846 --> 00:23:56,296
SO I WOULD BE QUITE FEARFUL,
REALLY,
412
00:23:56,331 --> 00:23:57,677
TO BE QUITE HONEST WITH YOU.
413
00:23:57,712 --> 00:24:00,887
I'D MAKE SURE I'D HAVE A LOT
OF EYES ON THE WATER...
414
00:24:00,922 --> 00:24:02,061
[BOTH LAUGH]
415
00:24:02,095 --> 00:24:04,719
...TRYING TO AVOID IT,
THAT'S FOR SURE.
416
00:24:10,863 --> 00:24:14,176
Narrator: APRIL 14, 8:30 P.M.
417
00:24:15,523 --> 00:24:18,664
VISIBILITY IS GOOD AND
THE HORIZON IS CLEAR.
418
00:24:18,698 --> 00:24:20,907
NO ICEBERGS IN SIGHT.
419
00:24:23,669 --> 00:24:26,741
TITANIC IS NOW STEAMING
AT OVER 22 KNOTS,
420
00:24:26,775 --> 00:24:30,330
ROUGHLY 25 MILES AN HOUR.
421
00:24:30,365 --> 00:24:32,850
SHE IS ALMOST AT TOP SPEED.
422
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,992
Tim: ONE OF THE MOST COMMON
EXPLANATIONS THAT PEOPLE GIVE
423
00:24:37,027 --> 00:24:38,822
FOR THE CAUSE OF
THE TITANIC DISASTER
424
00:24:38,856 --> 00:24:41,134
IS THAT SHE WAS GOING TOO FAST.
425
00:24:41,169 --> 00:24:42,929
AND YET, WHEN YOU LOOK
AT THE EVIDENCE,
426
00:24:42,964 --> 00:24:46,415
WHAT YOU SEE IS THAT
CAPTAIN AFTER CAPTAIN TESTIFIES
427
00:24:46,450 --> 00:24:48,797
TO HAVING EXPERIENCED IT
TO BE TOTALLY SAFE
428
00:24:48,832 --> 00:24:52,456
TO KEEP TO FULL SPEED
IN ICE IN CLEAR WEATHER.
429
00:24:53,837 --> 00:24:55,010
Narrator: ANOTHER LEGEND HAS IT
430
00:24:55,045 --> 00:24:58,013
THAT CAPTAIN SMITH
IS DRUNK ON DUTY.
431
00:24:58,048 --> 00:25:01,154
BUT HE NEVER DRANK AT SEA.
432
00:25:01,189 --> 00:25:03,536
HE'S IN COMMAND OF TITANIC
BECAUSE HE'S CONSIDERED
433
00:25:03,571 --> 00:25:06,608
ONE OF THE WHITE STAR'S
FINEST CAPTAINS.
434
00:25:06,643 --> 00:25:08,990
TITANIC IS THE FOURTH
LARGE OCEAN LINER
435
00:25:09,024 --> 00:25:11,958
HE'S TAKEN ON ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE.
436
00:25:11,993 --> 00:25:14,064
Tim: THAT NIGHT, THE WEATHER
WAS COMPLETELY CLEAR.
437
00:25:14,098 --> 00:25:15,721
SO CAPTAIN SMITH WAS DOING ONLY
438
00:25:15,755 --> 00:25:17,516
WHAT ALL THE OTHER CAPTAINS
WOULD HAVE BEEN DOING,
439
00:25:17,550 --> 00:25:19,759
WHICH IS KEEPING
A SHARP LOOKOUT.
440
00:25:22,728 --> 00:25:24,626
Narrator: THE ENTIRE
SAFETY OF TITANIC
441
00:25:24,661 --> 00:25:29,424
NOW DEPENDS ON THE SHARP EYES
OF THE LOOKOUTS ALOFT,
442
00:25:29,458 --> 00:25:32,910
FREDERICK FLEET
AND REGINALD LEE.
443
00:25:32,945 --> 00:25:35,499
Tim: ANOTHER THING THAT'S BEEN
BLAMED FOR THE TITANIC DISASTER
444
00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:37,397
IS THAT THE LOOKOUTS
DIDN'T HAVE BINOCULARS.
445
00:25:37,432 --> 00:25:38,847
AND IT IS TRUE THAT BINOCULARS
446
00:25:38,882 --> 00:25:40,573
WERE SCHEDULED TO BE
IN THE CROW'S NEST,
447
00:25:40,608 --> 00:25:43,645
BUT THEY WEREN'T IN IT
FOR THAT JOURNEY.
448
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,992
HOWEVER, HAVING READ
ALL OF THE INQUIRIES
449
00:25:46,027 --> 00:25:47,269
AND LISTENING TO TESTIMONY
450
00:25:47,304 --> 00:25:50,445
FROM THE CAPTAINS OF ALL
THE MAJOR TRANSATLANTIC LINERS,
451
00:25:50,479 --> 00:25:53,517
WHAT I KNOW IS THAT THE BEST WAY
OF SPOTTING ICE AT NIGHT
452
00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:55,795
IS WITH THE NAKED EYE.
453
00:25:55,830 --> 00:25:58,453
BINOCULARS ARE, IN FACT,
FOR INSPECTION OF AN OBJECT
454
00:25:58,487 --> 00:26:00,282
AND NOT FOR DETECTION
OF AN OBJECT.
455
00:26:00,317 --> 00:26:02,664
AND THE LAST THING THE OFFICER
ON THE TITANIC WANTED
456
00:26:02,699 --> 00:26:04,563
WAS THE LOOKOUTS MESSING AROUND
WITH BINOCULARS
457
00:26:04,597 --> 00:26:08,014
TRYING TO VERIFY
WHAT THEY WERE SEEING.
458
00:26:08,049 --> 00:26:10,223
Narrator: ON TITANIC,
A LOOKOUT'S SOLE JOB
459
00:26:10,258 --> 00:26:12,674
IS SEARCHING FOR POTENTIALLY
HAZARDOUS OBJECTS
460
00:26:12,709 --> 00:26:14,849
IN THE SHIP'S PATH.
461
00:26:14,883 --> 00:26:16,126
IN GOOD VISIBILITY,
462
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,473
THE NAKED EYE SHOULD BE ABLE
TO SPOT AN ICEBERG
463
00:26:18,507 --> 00:26:22,408
UP TO 12 MILES AWAY AND GIVE
THE BRIDGE A 30-MINUTE WARNING
464
00:26:22,442 --> 00:26:25,549
WHEN TRAVELING AT FULL SPEED.
465
00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:26,654
Tim: WHAT THEY WANTED WAS
466
00:26:26,688 --> 00:26:28,897
A QUICK THREE SHARP RINGS
OF THE BELL,
467
00:26:28,932 --> 00:26:31,762
WHICH MEANS
AN OBJECT DEAD AHEAD.
468
00:26:33,626 --> 00:26:36,008
Narrator: IT'S NOW 9:00 P.M.
469
00:26:36,042 --> 00:26:38,044
FOR SOME OF
TITANIC'S PASSENGERS,
470
00:26:38,079 --> 00:26:40,288
THE NIGHT IS STILL YOUNG.
471
00:26:44,672 --> 00:26:47,606
FOR OTHERS, LIKE SCHOOL TEACHER
LAWRENCE BEESLEY,
472
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,436
IT'S TIME TO TURN IN.
473
00:26:50,470 --> 00:26:52,265
HE'S IN HIS CABIN ON D DECK,
474
00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:55,096
RETURNED FROM THE SECOND-CLASS
READING ROOM.
475
00:26:58,340 --> 00:27:00,032
Beesley: THE QUIETNESS OF
THE NIGHT WAS BROKEN
476
00:27:00,066 --> 00:27:01,930
ONLY BY THE MUFFLED SOUNDS
477
00:27:01,965 --> 00:27:03,932
THAT CAME TO ME
THROUGH THE VENTILATORS
478
00:27:03,967 --> 00:27:08,834
OF STEWARDS TALKING AND
MOVING ALONG THE CORRIDORS.
479
00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:14,494
NEARLY ALL OF THE PASSENGERS
WERE IN THEIR CABINS,
480
00:27:14,529 --> 00:27:18,982
SOME ASLEEP IN BED,
OTHERS UNDRESSING,
481
00:27:19,016 --> 00:27:21,191
AND OTHERS ONLY JUST DOWN
FROM THE SMOKING ROOM
482
00:27:21,225 --> 00:27:23,952
AND STILL DISCUSSING
MANY THINGS.
483
00:27:26,990 --> 00:27:28,474
Narrator: UP ON THE BRIDGE,
484
00:27:28,508 --> 00:27:32,202
THE NIGHT WATCH IS ABOUT TO
STEP UP THEIR VIGILANCE A NOTCH.
485
00:27:32,236 --> 00:27:33,755
[MORSE CODE BEEPING]
486
00:27:33,790 --> 00:27:37,483
THE CALIFORNIAN,
A SMALLER, 450-FOOT STEAMER,
487
00:27:37,517 --> 00:27:39,485
HAS PASSED THREE LARGE ICEBERGS
488
00:27:39,519 --> 00:27:41,970
AND RADIOED A WARNING
TO ALL SHIPS.
489
00:27:42,005 --> 00:27:44,524
TITANIC ACKNOWLEDGES
THE MESSAGE.
490
00:27:45,940 --> 00:27:47,527
AT ABOUT 10:30 P.M.,
491
00:27:47,562 --> 00:27:51,186
THE CALIFORNIAN FINDS HERSELF
BLOCKED BY A HUGE ICE BARRIER,
492
00:27:51,221 --> 00:27:54,914
ALMOST 30 MILES LONG
AND THREE MILES WIDE.
493
00:27:59,125 --> 00:28:02,750
THE CALIFORNIAN IS CAPTAINED
BY STANLEY LORD.
494
00:28:04,027 --> 00:28:05,891
HE'S ONE OF THE YOUNGEST
AND BEST CAPTAINS
495
00:28:05,925 --> 00:28:07,962
ON THE NORTH ATLANTIC,
496
00:28:07,996 --> 00:28:11,413
AND HE'S ABOUT TO BEGIN
THE WORST NIGHT OF HIS LIFE.
497
00:28:14,244 --> 00:28:16,315
AS SOON AS HE STOPS
AT THE ICE BARRIER,
498
00:28:16,349 --> 00:28:19,490
HE NOTICES WHAT LOOKS LIKE
A SHIP APPROACHING.
499
00:28:22,493 --> 00:28:24,772
Stanley Lord: WHEN I CAME OFF
THE BRIDGE AT HALF PAST 10:00,
500
00:28:24,806 --> 00:28:26,152
I POINTED OUT TO THE OFFICER
501
00:28:26,187 --> 00:28:28,810
THAT I THOUGHT I SAW
A LIGHT COMING ALONG.
502
00:28:33,401 --> 00:28:35,368
HE SAID HE THOUGHT
IT WAS A STAR,
503
00:28:35,403 --> 00:28:37,992
AND I SAID "THERE IS
A STEAMER PASSING.
504
00:28:38,026 --> 00:28:40,822
LET US GO TO THE WIRELESS
AND SEE WHAT THE NEWS IS."
505
00:28:40,857 --> 00:28:43,376
BUT I MET THE OPERATOR COMING,
506
00:28:43,411 --> 00:28:45,862
AND I SAID, "DO YOU KNOW
OF ANYTHING AROUND?"
507
00:28:45,896 --> 00:28:47,311
HE SAID, "ONLY THE TITANIC."
508
00:28:47,346 --> 00:28:51,246
AND I SAID, "TO ME, IT DOESN'T
LOOK LIKE THE TITANIC,
509
00:28:51,281 --> 00:28:53,421
THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT."
510
00:28:57,252 --> 00:28:59,738
Narrator: LORD IS CONVINCED
HE'S LOOKING AT AN OLDER STEAMER
511
00:28:59,772 --> 00:29:01,291
WHICH HAS NO RADIO.
512
00:29:01,325 --> 00:29:03,362
[MORSE CODE BEEPING]
513
00:29:06,814 --> 00:29:10,058
HE TELLS HIS RADIO OPERATOR TO
PUT IN ANOTHER CALL TO TITANIC,
514
00:29:10,093 --> 00:29:12,336
WHICH MUST BE ELSEWHERE.
515
00:29:15,684 --> 00:29:19,654
BUT ON THE TITANIC,
THE OPERATOR IS UNDER PRESSURE.
516
00:29:19,688 --> 00:29:21,242
THE SHIP HAS JUST MOVED
WITHIN RANGE
517
00:29:21,276 --> 00:29:23,623
TO SEND TELEGRAMS TO
THE UNITED STATES,
518
00:29:23,658 --> 00:29:27,041
AND THERE'S A HUGE BACKLOG
OF MESSAGES.
519
00:29:27,075 --> 00:29:28,801
IN ORDER TO HEAR
THE DISTANT SIGNAL,
520
00:29:28,836 --> 00:29:32,598
JACK PHILLIPS HAS TURNED HIS
HEADPHONES UP TO FULL VOLUME.
521
00:29:36,533 --> 00:29:40,675
AT 10:55, THE CALIFORNIAN'S
RADIO OPERATOR, CYRIL EVANS,
522
00:29:40,709 --> 00:29:43,540
TYPES OUT CAPTAIN LORD'S
NEW ICE WARNING.
523
00:29:44,921 --> 00:29:46,819
BUT FOR SOME REASON,
HE BEGINS THE MESSAGE
524
00:29:46,854 --> 00:29:50,858
AS IF IT'S AN INFORMAL CHAT
BETWEEN RADIO OPERATORS.
525
00:29:50,892 --> 00:29:54,723
AND HE HAS NO IDEA
HOW CLOSE TITANIC IS.
526
00:29:57,519 --> 00:30:00,384
HIS EARS RINGING, TITANIC'S
PHILLIPS HAS NO PATIENCE
527
00:30:00,419 --> 00:30:02,352
FOR WHAT SOUNDS LIKE CHITCHAT.
528
00:30:06,770 --> 00:30:09,738
EVANS DOESN'T TRY TO
REPEAT THE WARNING.
529
00:30:11,395 --> 00:30:15,572
HE'S THE ONLY RADIO OPERATOR
ON THE CALIFORNIAN,
530
00:30:15,606 --> 00:30:18,333
AND SOON HIS 16-HOUR SHIFT
IS UP.
531
00:30:21,578 --> 00:30:24,581
TITANIC IS NOW CUT OFF
FROM THE NEAREST SHIP,
532
00:30:24,615 --> 00:30:27,032
PERHAPS JUST 10 MILES AWAY.
533
00:30:28,792 --> 00:30:30,380
WITH HIS HASTY BRUSH-OFF,
534
00:30:30,414 --> 00:30:33,762
RADIO OPERATOR JACK PHILLIPS
HAS JUST PLACED HIS SHIP
535
00:30:33,797 --> 00:30:35,868
IN DIRE JEOPARDY.
536
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,360
IN HIS MIND, AUTHOR TIM MALTIN
HAS REPLAYED THIS MOMENT
537
00:30:45,395 --> 00:30:47,155
COUNTLESS TIMES.
538
00:30:48,536 --> 00:30:51,539
BUT STILL, THE LOGIC OF IT
ESCAPES HIM.
539
00:30:55,232 --> 00:30:59,305
SUNDAY, APRIL 14th, 11:30 P.M.
540
00:30:59,340 --> 00:31:03,309
DAY FIVE OF TITANIC'S
MAIDEN VOYAGE.
541
00:31:03,344 --> 00:31:05,346
THE WORLD'S LARGEST SHIP
IS STEAMING THROUGH
542
00:31:05,380 --> 00:31:07,658
A MASSIVE ICE FIELD
IN THE DARKNESS,
543
00:31:07,693 --> 00:31:09,315
CONFIDENT HER LOOKOUTS
CAN PROVIDE
544
00:31:09,350 --> 00:31:12,801
AT LEAST 30 MINUTES' WARNING
OF ANY DANGER.
545
00:31:16,426 --> 00:31:20,568
10 MINUTES LATER,
THAT CONFIDENCE PROVES FATAL.
546
00:31:20,602 --> 00:31:22,708
Reginald Lee: ICE AHEAD!
547
00:31:22,742 --> 00:31:24,503
[BELL RINGS]
548
00:31:24,537 --> 00:31:27,368
Frederick Fleet:
ICE AHEAD, ICE AHEAD.
549
00:31:27,402 --> 00:31:30,336
Narrator: THE ICEBERG
ISN'T 30 MINUTES AWAY...
550
00:31:30,371 --> 00:31:33,581
MORE LIKE 30 SECONDS.
551
00:31:33,615 --> 00:31:35,894
[BELL RINGING, YELLING]
552
00:31:40,105 --> 00:31:42,970
ON THE BRIDGE,
THE CREW REACTS IMMEDIATELY.
553
00:31:43,004 --> 00:31:46,318
THEY THROW THE ENGINES INTO
REVERSE AND TURN THE WHEEL.
554
00:31:49,562 --> 00:31:52,289
DESPITE ITS SIZE, THE TITANIC
IS HIGHLY MANEUVERABLE.
555
00:31:52,324 --> 00:31:53,946
Lee: HARD OVER STARBOARD.
556
00:31:53,981 --> 00:31:56,466
Narrator: INSTEAD OF SLAMMING
STRAIGHT INTO THE ICEBERG,
557
00:31:56,500 --> 00:31:59,918
SHE MANAGES TO BEGIN
TURNING AWAY...
558
00:31:59,952 --> 00:32:02,127
BUT NOT FAST ENOUGH.
559
00:32:15,381 --> 00:32:18,384
BELOW THE WATER LINE,
THE ICE RIPS INTO HER HULL,
560
00:32:18,419 --> 00:32:22,457
OPENING UP A 300-FOOT SEAM
IN THE ONE-INCH STEEL PLATES.
561
00:32:28,187 --> 00:32:31,052
ONE SOURCE OF THE MYTH THAT
TITANIC WAS POORLY BUILT
562
00:32:31,087 --> 00:32:33,399
STEMS FROM THE MASSIVE DAMAGE
SHE SUSTAINS
563
00:32:33,434 --> 00:32:36,299
IN A MATTER OF SECONDS.
564
00:32:36,333 --> 00:32:38,922
Tim: THE DAMAGE THAT WAS CAUSED
BY THE ICEBERG TO TITANIC
565
00:32:38,957 --> 00:32:41,545
WAS EQUAL TO A MILLION
FOOT-TONS A SECOND,
566
00:32:41,580 --> 00:32:43,409
AND THAT'S LIKE AN EXPLOSION.
567
00:32:43,444 --> 00:32:46,102
AND BASICALLY, EVEN A MODERN
BATTLESHIP WOULD HAVE BEEN SUNK
568
00:32:46,136 --> 00:32:48,104
BY THAT SORT OF IMPACT.
569
00:32:50,761 --> 00:32:52,349
Narrator:
BUT THE SHIP IS SO LARGE,
570
00:32:52,384 --> 00:32:55,904
MANY PASSENGERS HAVE LITTLE IDEA
OF WHAT IS HAPPENING.
571
00:33:04,051 --> 00:33:08,676
LAWRENCE BEESLEY IS ON DECK D
NEAR THE CENTER OF THE SHIP.
572
00:33:08,710 --> 00:33:11,092
Beesley: THERE CAME TO ME
WHAT SEEMED NOTHING MORE
573
00:33:11,127 --> 00:33:14,578
THAN AN EXTRA
HEAVE OF THE ENGINES.
574
00:33:14,613 --> 00:33:17,961
NOTHING ELSE--
NO SENSE OF SHOCK,
575
00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:22,207
NO JAR THAT FELT LIKE
ONE HEAVY BODY MEETING ANOTHER.
576
00:33:25,210 --> 00:33:26,452
THE THOUGHT CAME TO ME THAT
577
00:33:26,487 --> 00:33:29,421
THEY MUST STILL HAVE
FURTHER INCREASED THE SPEED.
578
00:33:35,979 --> 00:33:38,844
AND ALL THIS TIME,
THE TITANIC WAS BEING CUT OPEN
579
00:33:38,878 --> 00:33:42,606
BY THE ICEBERG
AND WATER POURING IN HER SIDE.
580
00:33:42,641 --> 00:33:45,230
AND YET NO EVIDENCE THAT WOULD
INDICATE SUCH A DISASTER
581
00:33:45,264 --> 00:33:47,784
HAD BEEN PRESENTED TO US.
582
00:33:53,755 --> 00:33:55,102
Narrator: NEAR THE STERN,
583
00:33:55,136 --> 00:33:59,796
QUARTERMASTER THOMAS ROWE IS
UNAWARE THAT ANYTHING IS WRONG.
584
00:33:59,830 --> 00:34:02,833
HE'S MESMERIZED BY
THE NEW ELECTRIC LIGHTS,
585
00:34:02,868 --> 00:34:05,974
AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE FLICKERING
OIL LAMPS OF OLD.
586
00:34:07,183 --> 00:34:09,185
THEY'RE SURROUNDED
BY BIZARRE HALOES
587
00:34:09,219 --> 00:34:12,050
CAUSED BY ICE CRYSTALS
IN THE AIR.
588
00:34:12,084 --> 00:34:15,950
ROWE CALLS THEM
"WHISKERS ROUND THE LIGHTS."
589
00:34:15,984 --> 00:34:17,503
Thomas Rowe: I GLANCED FORWARD.
590
00:34:17,538 --> 00:34:19,160
A WINDJAMMER, SAILS SET,
591
00:34:19,195 --> 00:34:22,267
SEEMED TO BE PASSING
ON THE STARBOARD SIDE.
592
00:34:24,062 --> 00:34:26,167
THEN I REALIZED
IT WAS AN ICEBERG,
593
00:34:26,202 --> 00:34:29,067
TOWERING PERHAPS
100 FEET ABOVE THE WATER.
594
00:34:31,034 --> 00:34:35,245
THE NEXT INSTANT IT WAS GONE,
DRIFTING ASTERN INTO THE DARK.
595
00:34:40,733 --> 00:34:42,666
Narrator:
30 SECONDS AFTER IMPACT,
596
00:34:42,701 --> 00:34:46,014
THE WATERTIGHT DOORS SEPARATING
TITANIC'S MAIN COMPARTMENTS
597
00:34:46,049 --> 00:34:48,672
ARE CLOSED.
598
00:34:48,707 --> 00:34:51,951
BUT THEY CAN ONLY DELAY
THE INEVITABLE.
599
00:34:51,986 --> 00:34:54,126
THE SHIP TOUTED TO BE
"UNSINKABLE"
600
00:34:54,161 --> 00:34:56,818
IS NOW FATALLY WOUNDED.
601
00:34:56,853 --> 00:34:58,441
Tim: I THINK MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE
602
00:34:58,475 --> 00:35:00,719
THAT IT WAS PURELY
P.R. AND ADVERTISING
603
00:35:00,753 --> 00:35:02,134
ON BEHALF OF THE WHITE STAR LINE
604
00:35:02,169 --> 00:35:05,827
THAT THEY CLAIMED THAT
TITANIC WAS UNSINKABLE.
605
00:35:05,862 --> 00:35:08,451
BUT, ACTUALLY, WHAT WE GET
FROM READING ALL THE EVIDENCE
606
00:35:08,485 --> 00:35:10,384
IS THAT HER BUILDER,
THOMAS ANDREWS,
607
00:35:10,418 --> 00:35:12,524
ACTUALLY BELIEVED
SHE WAS UNSINKABLE,
608
00:35:12,558 --> 00:35:14,974
AND EVEN CAPTAIN SMITH
ON THE SUNDAY NIGHT
609
00:35:15,009 --> 00:35:17,460
WAS EXPLAINING TO
HIS DINNER GUESTS ON TITANIC
610
00:35:17,494 --> 00:35:20,428
HOW SHE COULD BE CUT CROSSWISE
INTO THREE PIECES,
611
00:35:20,463 --> 00:35:23,638
AND EACH SEPARATE PIECE
WOULD FLOAT.
612
00:35:23,673 --> 00:35:26,503
Narrator:
WITH 16 WATERTIGHT COMPARTMENTS,
613
00:35:26,538 --> 00:35:28,160
TITANIC IS BUILT TO STAY AFLOAT
614
00:35:28,195 --> 00:35:31,888
UNDER VIRTUALLY
EVERY ACCIDENT SCENARIO.
615
00:35:31,922 --> 00:35:33,614
THE WORST THE DESIGNERS
COULD IMAGINE
616
00:35:33,648 --> 00:35:36,927
WAS A COLLISION FLOODING
TWO COMPARTMENTS.
617
00:35:36,962 --> 00:35:38,929
EVEN IF HER FIRST FOUR
HAD BEEN FLOODED,
618
00:35:38,964 --> 00:35:41,104
SHE WOULD HAVE STAYED AFLOAT.
619
00:35:41,139 --> 00:35:42,105
Tim: BUT WHAT HAPPENED
THAT NIGHT
620
00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:44,038
WAS A FREAK SIDESWIPE DISASTER
621
00:35:44,072 --> 00:35:46,489
WHICH TOOK OUT SIX
WATERTIGHT COMPARTMENTS.
622
00:35:46,523 --> 00:35:48,284
AND THAT KIND OF
SIDESWIPE DISASTER
623
00:35:48,318 --> 00:35:50,078
HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE
OR SINCE
624
00:35:50,113 --> 00:35:52,288
IN RECORDED MARITIME HISTORY.
625
00:35:54,048 --> 00:35:56,913
Narrator: IRONICALLY, IF TITANIC
HAD HIT THE ICEBERG HEAD-ON,
626
00:35:56,947 --> 00:35:58,777
IT WOULD HAVE SURVIVED.
627
00:35:58,811 --> 00:36:00,744
BUT THE DAMAGE
CAUSED BY THE ICEBERG
628
00:36:00,779 --> 00:36:03,299
WAS LITERALLY UNIMAGINABLE.
629
00:36:05,887 --> 00:36:07,717
SIX MINUTES AFTER THE IMPACT,
630
00:36:07,751 --> 00:36:10,133
THE EVER-OBSERVANT
LAWRENCE BEESLEY REALIZES
631
00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:12,239
THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG.
632
00:36:15,380 --> 00:36:18,210
Beesley: AND SO WITH NO THOUGHT
OF ANYTHING SERIOUS
633
00:36:18,245 --> 00:36:20,316
HAVING HAPPENED TO THE SHIP,
634
00:36:20,350 --> 00:36:22,939
I CONTINUED MY READING.
635
00:36:22,973 --> 00:36:25,562
AND STILL THE MURMUR
FROM THE STEWARDS
636
00:36:25,597 --> 00:36:29,980
AND FROM ADJOINING CABINS,
AND NO OTHER NOISE.
637
00:36:30,015 --> 00:36:34,951
NO CRY IN THE NIGHT,
NO ALARM GIVEN,
638
00:36:34,985 --> 00:36:36,884
NO ONE AFRAID.
639
00:36:41,578 --> 00:36:42,959
BUT IN A FEW MOMENTS,
640
00:36:42,993 --> 00:36:46,997
I FELT THE DANCING MOTION AND
VIBRATION CEASE SUDDENLY.
641
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,039
THE ENGINES,
642
00:36:54,073 --> 00:36:57,284
THAT PART OF THE SHIP THAT
DROVE US THROUGH THE SEA,
643
00:36:57,318 --> 00:36:59,286
HAD STOPPED DEAD.
644
00:37:07,501 --> 00:37:09,261
Narrator: BEESLEY MAKES HIS WAY
TO THE UPPER DECKS
645
00:37:09,296 --> 00:37:11,021
TO FIND OUT MORE.
646
00:37:12,782 --> 00:37:15,440
DOWN BELOW, THE SHIP'S DESIGNER
IS WORKING FEVERISHLY
647
00:37:15,474 --> 00:37:17,890
TO ASSESS THE DAMAGE.
648
00:37:17,925 --> 00:37:21,722
HE DELIVERS HIS TERRIBLE
CALCULATION--
649
00:37:21,756 --> 00:37:25,277
TITANIC HAS LESS THAN
TWO HOURS TO LIVE.
650
00:37:25,312 --> 00:37:27,245
[YELLING]
651
00:37:28,936 --> 00:37:30,386
30 MINUTES AFTER IMPACT,
652
00:37:30,420 --> 00:37:33,768
CAPTAIN SMITH GIVES ORDERS TO
SEND OUT A RADIO DISTRESS SIGNAL
653
00:37:33,803 --> 00:37:36,944
AND BEGIN LOADING THE LIFEBOATS
WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
654
00:37:39,153 --> 00:37:41,569
MEANWHILE, COLONEL GRACIE
HAS MADE HIS WAY
655
00:37:41,604 --> 00:37:43,157
UP TO THE BOAT DECK,
656
00:37:43,191 --> 00:37:46,160
WHERE SOMETHING ON THE HORIZON
CATCHES HIS EYE.
657
00:37:47,472 --> 00:37:49,163
Gracie: TO REASSURE THE LADIES
658
00:37:49,197 --> 00:37:52,304
OF WHOM I HAD ASSUMED
SPECIAL CHARGE,
659
00:37:52,339 --> 00:37:55,169
I SHOWED THEM
A BRIGHT, WHITE LIGHT
660
00:37:55,203 --> 00:37:58,310
THAT I TOOK TO BE A SHIP
ABOUT FIVE MILES OFF,
661
00:37:58,345 --> 00:38:02,038
AND WHICH I FELT SURE
WAS COMING TO OUR RESCUE.
662
00:38:07,457 --> 00:38:09,045
Narrator: CAPTAIN SMITH
ORDERS AN ATTEMPT
663
00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:12,393
TO SIGNAL THE SAME
DISTANT LIGHT.
664
00:38:15,327 --> 00:38:16,777
Tim: WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE
DON'T REALIZE IS THAT,
665
00:38:16,811 --> 00:38:18,572
WITHIN SIGHT OF
THE SINKING TITANIC,
666
00:38:18,606 --> 00:38:21,022
WAS A LIGHT OF ANOTHER VESSEL
WHICH COULD CLEARLY BE SEEN
667
00:38:21,057 --> 00:38:23,887
BY HUNDREDS OF HER PASSENGERS
ON THE DECKS.
668
00:38:26,925 --> 00:38:30,066
Gracie: BUT, INSTEAD OF
GROWING BRIGHTER,
669
00:38:30,100 --> 00:38:33,932
THE LIGHT GREW DIM AND
LESS AND LESS AND DISTINCT,
670
00:38:33,966 --> 00:38:36,244
AND PASSED AWAY ALTOGETHER.
671
00:38:39,075 --> 00:38:42,458
Narrator: IT WILL BECOME KNOWN
AS THE MYSTERY SHIP.
672
00:38:42,492 --> 00:38:44,322
[YELLING]
673
00:38:46,462 --> 00:38:49,188
TITANIC IS LEFT ALL ALONE.
674
00:38:52,122 --> 00:38:54,366
A COMMON BELIEF IS THAT
SHE SIMPLY DOESN'T HAVE
675
00:38:54,401 --> 00:38:58,163
ENOUGH LIFEBOATS FOR ALL HER
PASSENGERS AND CREW.
676
00:38:58,197 --> 00:39:00,993
THE TRUTH IS MORE COMPLICATED.
677
00:39:01,028 --> 00:39:03,099
Tim: IN 1912,
THE BOARD OF TRADE
678
00:39:03,133 --> 00:39:06,344
WAS TRYING TO MAKE SHIPS
BECOME WATERTIGHT
679
00:39:06,378 --> 00:39:08,518
AND BECOME LIFEBOATS
IN THEMSELVES.
680
00:39:08,553 --> 00:39:11,176
AND THE BOARD OF TRADE
ACTUALLY REWARDED YOU
681
00:39:11,210 --> 00:39:13,212
WITH HAVING TO CARRY
LESS LIFEBOATS
682
00:39:13,247 --> 00:39:15,767
IF YOUR SHIP WAS
PROPERLY SUBDIVIDED.
683
00:39:18,597 --> 00:39:21,428
THEY BELIEVED THAT THE BEST WAY
TO SAVE LIFE AT SEA
684
00:39:21,462 --> 00:39:23,775
WAS PREVENTING SHIPS FROM
SINKING IN THE FIRST PLACE,
685
00:39:23,809 --> 00:39:26,916
NOT HAVING DANGEROUS SHIPS
WITH LOTS OF LIFEBOATS ON THEM.
686
00:39:26,950 --> 00:39:29,194
[YELLING]
687
00:39:32,404 --> 00:39:34,199
Narrator: OVER THE NEXT
ONE AND A HALF HOURS,
688
00:39:34,233 --> 00:39:35,959
18 LIFEBOATS AND RAFTS
ARE LOWERED
689
00:39:35,994 --> 00:39:38,376
DOWN THE SIDE OF TITANIC.
690
00:39:40,205 --> 00:39:44,002
ONLY 700 PASSENGERS AND CREW
EVENTUALLY BOARD THEM,
691
00:39:44,036 --> 00:39:47,971
ALTHOUGH THERE'S ROOM
FOR AT LEAST 400 MORE.
692
00:39:48,006 --> 00:39:49,559
Tim: BECAUSE EVERYONE
ON THE TITANIC,
693
00:39:49,594 --> 00:39:50,802
INCLUDING THE PASSENGERS,
694
00:39:50,836 --> 00:39:52,700
REALLY BELIEVED THAT
SHE WAS UNSINKABLE,
695
00:39:52,735 --> 00:39:55,254
THERE WAS A HUGE RELUCTANCE
TO GET INTO THE LIFEBOATS,
696
00:39:55,289 --> 00:39:58,706
BECAUSE THE TITANIC SEEMED
TO BE A MUCH SAFER BET
697
00:39:58,741 --> 00:40:00,398
ON A DARK NIGHT
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC
698
00:40:00,432 --> 00:40:02,227
THAN A TINY, LITTLE
ROWING BOAT.
699
00:40:02,261 --> 00:40:05,126
AND IN FACT, THE FIRST TWO
LIFEBOATS TO BE LAUNCHED
700
00:40:05,161 --> 00:40:08,164
WERE FILLED EQUALLY
WITH MEN AND WOMEN,
701
00:40:08,198 --> 00:40:09,545
AND THIS IS BECAUSE NO WOMEN
702
00:40:09,579 --> 00:40:11,132
WOULD GO INTO
THE FIRST TWO LIFEBOATS
703
00:40:11,167 --> 00:40:12,617
WITHOUT MEN BEING WITH THEM.
704
00:40:12,651 --> 00:40:16,828
AND IT WAS ACTUALLY AN ACT OF
HEROISM FOR MEN TO TAKE THE LEAD
705
00:40:16,862 --> 00:40:19,934
AND GO IN WITH THEIR WIVES
INTO THE LIFEBOATS.
706
00:40:21,522 --> 00:40:24,422
Narrator: WITH NO MORE WOMEN
AND CHILDREN TO FILL BOAT 13,
707
00:40:24,456 --> 00:40:28,080
LAWRENCE BEESLEY IS
ORDERED TO JUMP IN.
708
00:40:28,115 --> 00:40:32,326
LOOKING UP, HE IS APPALLED
BY WHAT HE SEES.
709
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,708
Beesley: AS THE OARSMEN
PULLED SLOWLY AWAY,
710
00:40:34,742 --> 00:40:38,056
WE ALL TURNED AND TOOK
A LONG LOOK AT THE MIGHTY VESSEL
711
00:40:38,090 --> 00:40:41,231
TOWERING HIGH ABOVE
OUR MIDGET BOAT.
712
00:40:47,168 --> 00:40:50,068
I KNOW IT MUST HAVE BEEN
THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY SIGHT
713
00:40:50,102 --> 00:40:53,071
THAT I SHALL EVER BE
CALLED UPON TO WITNESS.
714
00:41:00,561 --> 00:41:01,873
Narrator: ON THE GIANT TITANIC,
715
00:41:01,907 --> 00:41:05,532
MORE THAN 1,500 PEOPLE
ARE LEFT STRANDED.
716
00:41:09,294 --> 00:41:13,471
COLONEL GRACIE MANAGES TO MAKE
HIS WAY TO THE REAR DECK.
717
00:41:13,505 --> 00:41:17,302
Gracie: AHEAD OF US
WAS A MASS OF HUMANITY,
718
00:41:17,336 --> 00:41:20,512
TRAPPED AGAINST A RAILING
UNABLE TO MOVE.
719
00:41:32,075 --> 00:41:37,184
AS THE SHIP KEELED OVER FORWARD,
720
00:41:37,218 --> 00:41:39,013
I BELIEVE THEIR BODIES
WERE CAUGHT
721
00:41:39,048 --> 00:41:44,640
IN THE ANGLES OF THE DECK,
OR ENTANGLED IN THE ROPES,
722
00:41:44,674 --> 00:41:46,780
AND SANK WITH THE SHIP.
723
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:02,174
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
724
00:42:02,209 --> 00:42:04,729
Narrator: AS TITANIC PLUNGES
BENEATH THE SURFACE,
725
00:42:04,763 --> 00:42:08,940
OVER 1,000 DESPERATE SOULS ARE
STILL CLINGING TO HER STERN,
726
00:42:08,974 --> 00:42:12,460
MANY OF THEM CREW AND
THIRD-CLASS PASSENGERS.
727
00:42:16,223 --> 00:42:18,605
COLONEL GRACIE IS ONE OF THEM.
728
00:42:19,744 --> 00:42:23,264
Gracie: DOWN, DOWN, I WENT.
729
00:42:23,299 --> 00:42:25,266
IT SEEMED A GREAT DISTANCE.
730
00:42:34,724 --> 00:42:38,176
I HELD MY BREATH FOR WHAT SEEMED
AN INTERMINABLE TIME
731
00:42:38,210 --> 00:42:40,903
UNTIL I COULD SCARCELY
STAND IT ANY LONGER.
732
00:42:43,975 --> 00:42:45,735
AND IT WAS THEN
733
00:42:45,770 --> 00:42:50,671
THE THOUGHT THAT
THIS WAS MY LAST MOMENT
734
00:42:50,706 --> 00:42:52,570
CAME UPON ME.
735
00:42:54,433 --> 00:42:56,366
JUST WHEN I THOUGHT
736
00:42:56,401 --> 00:42:59,335
THAT FOR LACK OF BREATH
I WOULD HAVE TO GIVE IN,
737
00:42:59,369 --> 00:43:02,200
I WAS GIVEN A SECOND WIND.
738
00:43:02,234 --> 00:43:05,341
FINALLY I NOTICED BY
THE INCREASE OF LIGHT
739
00:43:05,375 --> 00:43:07,170
THAT I WAS DRAWING
NEAR THE SURFACE.
740
00:43:07,205 --> 00:43:12,624
NOW, THOUGH IT WAS NOT DAYLIGHT,
THE CLEAR, STARLIT NIGHT
741
00:43:12,659 --> 00:43:15,247
MADE A NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE
IN THE DEGREE OF LIGHT
742
00:43:15,282 --> 00:43:18,457
JUST BELOW THE SURFACE
OF THE WATER.
743
00:43:24,774 --> 00:43:26,396
[SCREAMING]
744
00:43:26,431 --> 00:43:29,261
[GASPS, COUGHS]
745
00:43:33,369 --> 00:43:37,373
Narrator: MIRACULOUSLY, GRACIE
FINDS HIS WAY INTO A LIFEBOAT.
746
00:43:39,478 --> 00:43:43,310
HUNDREDS OF OTHERS
ARE NOT AS LUCKY.
747
00:43:43,344 --> 00:43:46,485
THE SEA TEMPERATURE
IS 28 DEGREES.
748
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,316
IF IT WERE FRESH WATER,
IT'D BE ICE.
749
00:43:50,731 --> 00:43:55,874
AS THEIR CORE BODY TEMPERATURE
DROPS, HYPOTHERMIA SETS IN.
750
00:43:55,909 --> 00:44:00,672
FIRST THE EXTREMITIES GO,
THEN THE VITAL ORGANS SHUT DOWN.
751
00:44:00,707 --> 00:44:02,294
EVEN THE FITTEST
CAN ONLY SURVIVE
752
00:44:02,329 --> 00:44:04,918
15 OR 20 MINUTES AT BEST.
753
00:44:07,058 --> 00:44:08,611
SECOND OFFICER LIGHTOLLER,
754
00:44:08,646 --> 00:44:12,132
WHO, LIKE GRACIE, SURVIVED A
PLUNGE INTO THE SUBZERO WATERS,
755
00:44:12,166 --> 00:44:13,547
DESCRIBED IT AS LIKE
756
00:44:13,581 --> 00:44:17,309
"1,000 KNIVES BEING DRIVEN
INTO ONE'S BODY."
757
00:44:24,627 --> 00:44:27,526
16-YEAR-OLD JEAN HIPPACH
WITNESSES THE HORROR
758
00:44:27,561 --> 00:44:29,563
FROM LIFEBOAT FOUR.
759
00:44:33,015 --> 00:44:34,982
Hippach: YOU CAN'T THINK
WHAT IT FELT OUT THERE ALONE
760
00:44:35,017 --> 00:44:37,364
BY OURSELVES IN THE ATLANTIC.
761
00:44:41,782 --> 00:44:43,888
YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY,
WHEN YOU SEE A SHOOTING STAR,
762
00:44:43,922 --> 00:44:46,200
SOMEONE IS DYING.
763
00:44:46,235 --> 00:44:47,615
AND WE THOUGHT OF THAT,
764
00:44:47,650 --> 00:44:50,791
FOR THERE WERE SO MANY DYING
NOT FAR FROM US.
765
00:45:01,008 --> 00:45:03,804
Narrator: THE SURVIVORS CAN ONLY
THINK OF THE MYSTERY SHIP
766
00:45:03,839 --> 00:45:06,151
WHOSE LIGHT THEY BRIEFLY SAW,
767
00:45:06,186 --> 00:45:08,844
BUT WHICH FAILED TO COME
TO THEIR RESCUE.
768
00:45:08,878 --> 00:45:11,225
[CRYING]
769
00:45:11,260 --> 00:45:13,434
Beesley: THE PITY OF IT!
770
00:45:13,469 --> 00:45:18,129
SO NEAR, AND SO MANY PEOPLE
WAITING FOR THE SHELTER
771
00:45:18,163 --> 00:45:20,821
ITS DECKS COULD HAVE GIVEN
SO EASILY.
772
00:45:22,305 --> 00:45:25,930
IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE
THAT THE CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS
773
00:45:25,964 --> 00:45:29,347
KNEW OF OUR DISTRESS
AND DELIBERATELY IGNORED IT.
774
00:45:32,626 --> 00:45:34,455
Narrator: CAPTAIN LORD
OF THE CALIFORNIAN
775
00:45:34,490 --> 00:45:37,596
WOULD SPEND THE REST OF HIS DAYS
FENDING OFF ACCUSATIONS
776
00:45:37,631 --> 00:45:40,565
THAT HE ABANDONED
TITANIC THAT NIGHT.
777
00:45:48,884 --> 00:45:55,545
IN THE END, 1,496 PEOPLE DIE--
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
778
00:45:58,376 --> 00:46:02,829
THE IMPACT OF THE DISASTER
REVERBERATES AROUND THE WORLD.
779
00:46:02,863 --> 00:46:06,073
THE TITANIC--THE GREAT SYMBOL
OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROWESS
780
00:46:06,108 --> 00:46:09,042
FOR A GENERATION--HAS FAILED.
781
00:46:21,882 --> 00:46:23,988
Tim: FROM HERE,
JUST STRAIGHT DOWN THERE,
782
00:46:24,022 --> 00:46:26,231
IS ACTUALLY CAPE RACE,
WHICH WAS THE FIRST PLACE
783
00:46:26,266 --> 00:46:29,372
WHICH RECEIVED THE DISTRESS
SIGNAL FROM THE TITANIC.
784
00:46:31,650 --> 00:46:33,445
IN NOVA SCOTIA,
WHICH IS NOT FAR FROM HERE,
785
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,068
IN THE TOWN OF HALIFAX,
786
00:46:35,102 --> 00:46:37,484
ALL OF THE BODIES RECOVERED
FROM THE TITANIC WERE BROUGHT,
787
00:46:37,518 --> 00:46:40,970
AND SADLY, THEY ONLY RECOVERED
ABOUT 350 BODIES.
788
00:46:44,180 --> 00:46:46,044
Narrator: AMONG THEM WAS
THE AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE
789
00:46:46,079 --> 00:46:48,840
JOHN JACOB ASTOR,
790
00:46:48,875 --> 00:46:51,601
THE RICHEST PASSENGER
ON BOARD TITANIC.
791
00:46:53,258 --> 00:46:55,847
ALSO, PROBABLY
ONE OF THE POOREST,
792
00:46:55,882 --> 00:46:57,953
AN UNKNOWN TWO-YEAR-OLD BOY,
793
00:46:57,987 --> 00:47:03,165
BURIED ALONG WITH 122 OTHERS
IN HALIFAX'S FAIRVIEW CEMETERY.
794
00:47:10,206 --> 00:47:13,037
EARLY MORNING, APRIL 15th.
795
00:47:14,624 --> 00:47:18,214
THE SURVIVORS ARE PICKED UP
BY THE STEAMER CARPATHIA.
796
00:47:20,285 --> 00:47:24,186
OF THE OVER 2,000 PASSENGERS AND
CREW WHO WERE ABOARD TITANIC,
797
00:47:24,220 --> 00:47:28,224
JUST 712 ARE RESCUED
AND TAKEN TO NEW YORK.
798
00:47:30,502 --> 00:47:32,470
AS SOON AS THE SURVIVORS
COME ASHORE,
799
00:47:32,504 --> 00:47:35,162
THEY BEGIN TELLING
THEIR GRIM TALE.
800
00:47:36,819 --> 00:47:40,236
Tim: STRAIGHT AFTER THEY CAME
OFF THE RESCUE SHIP,
801
00:47:40,271 --> 00:47:42,929
LOTS AND LOTS OF SURVIVORS
WERE INTERVIEWED
802
00:47:42,963 --> 00:47:44,758
BY SENATOR SMITH IN AMERICA.
803
00:47:44,792 --> 00:47:46,760
AND THIS IS
THE EXACT TRANSCRIPTS
804
00:47:46,794 --> 00:47:49,107
OF PRECISELY WHAT THEY SAID.
805
00:47:49,142 --> 00:47:50,764
AND, NOT SATISFIED WITH THAT,
806
00:47:50,798 --> 00:47:53,008
THE BRITISH THEN HAD
THEIR OWN INQUIRY
807
00:47:53,042 --> 00:47:54,595
INTO THE TITANIC DISASTER
808
00:47:54,630 --> 00:47:58,530
WHERE, IN TOTAL,
50,000 QUESTIONS WERE ASKED
809
00:47:58,565 --> 00:48:01,879
TO MORE THAN 150
IMPORTANT EYEWITNESSES.
810
00:48:04,398 --> 00:48:08,299
Narrator: BOTH INQUIRIES MADE
IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS--
811
00:48:08,333 --> 00:48:12,613
IN THE FUTURE, THERE WERE TO BE
ENOUGH LIFEBOATS FOR ALL,
812
00:48:12,648 --> 00:48:16,065
BETTER DESIGNED
WATERTIGHT COMPARTMENTS,
813
00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:20,069
BETTER RADIO COMMUNICATIONS
BETWEEN SHIPS,
814
00:48:20,104 --> 00:48:21,726
AND BETTER LOOKOUT PROCEDURES,
815
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,591
INCLUDING AN END TO THE PRACTICE
OF TRAVELING AT FULL SPEED
816
00:48:24,625 --> 00:48:26,731
THROUGH WATERS WITH ICE.
817
00:48:28,767 --> 00:48:30,010
BUT, IN THE END,
818
00:48:30,045 --> 00:48:32,737
THEY COULD FIND NO CLEAR CAUSE
FOR THE DISASTER...
819
00:48:32,771 --> 00:48:34,428
LEAVING ROOM ONLY
FOR THE THEORIES
820
00:48:34,463 --> 00:48:37,155
TIM HAS SPENT DECADES
DIGGING INTO.
821
00:48:38,674 --> 00:48:42,402
WAS TITANIC TRAVELING TOO FAST?
822
00:48:42,436 --> 00:48:45,163
WAS THE CAPTAIN DRUNK?
823
00:48:45,198 --> 00:48:48,580
SHOULD THE LOOKOUTS
HAVE HAD BINOCULARS?
824
00:48:48,615 --> 00:48:51,480
OR WAS THE SHIP'S HULL TOO WEAK?
825
00:48:53,827 --> 00:48:55,484
Tim: HAVING LOOKED AT
ALL OF THESE THEORIES
826
00:48:55,518 --> 00:48:57,831
OF WHAT MAY HAVE CAUSED
THE TITANIC DISASTER,
827
00:48:57,865 --> 00:48:59,591
YOU CAN ACTUALLY
SEE THAT EACH ONE
828
00:48:59,626 --> 00:49:02,215
FALLS APART
ON CLOSE SCRUTINY.
829
00:49:02,249 --> 00:49:04,044
SO WE'RE STILL LEFT
WITH A QUESTION--
830
00:49:04,079 --> 00:49:05,977
WHAT REALLY WAS
THE UNDERLYING CAUSE
831
00:49:06,012 --> 00:49:07,875
OF THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC?
832
00:49:09,601 --> 00:49:11,810
Narrator: HAVING WORKED THROUGH
TITANIC'S TIMELINE,
833
00:49:11,845 --> 00:49:14,952
TIM BELIEVES HE CAN NOW SEE
AN INTRIGUING PATTERN EMERGING
834
00:49:14,986 --> 00:49:16,712
IN THE EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY
835
00:49:16,746 --> 00:49:19,853
WHICH NO ONE ELSE HAS
PICKED UP ON BEFORE.
836
00:49:21,441 --> 00:49:23,719
Lord: IT WAS A MOST
PECULIAR NIGHT.
837
00:49:23,753 --> 00:49:26,411
Hippach: AND THE SKY,
SO MANY STARS.
838
00:49:26,446 --> 00:49:30,070
Beesley: AND TO TWINKLE AND
SPARKLE WITH A STACCATO FLASH.
839
00:49:30,105 --> 00:49:34,488
Gracie: THE CLEAR, STARLIT NIGHT
MADE A NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE.
840
00:49:34,523 --> 00:49:35,765
Fleet: THERE WAS
A SLIGHT HAZE COMING.
841
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,285
Lord: COULD NOT DISTINGUISH
WHERE THE SKY ENDED
842
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,425
AND THE WATER COMMENCED.
843
00:49:40,460 --> 00:49:43,152
THERE WAS WHAT YOU CALL
A SOFT HORIZON.
844
00:49:44,740 --> 00:49:47,985
Narrator: FOR ONE PERSON,
IT WAS CLEAR--
845
00:49:48,019 --> 00:49:51,574
FOR ANOTHER,
THERE WAS A SOFT HORIZON.
846
00:49:51,609 --> 00:49:53,128
Tim: SO THAT LED ME TO ASK, WHY?
847
00:49:53,162 --> 00:49:55,613
WHY WERE WITNESSES AT
THE SAME CRIME SCENE
848
00:49:55,647 --> 00:49:57,615
DESCRIBING THINGS
SO DIFFERENTLY?
849
00:49:57,649 --> 00:49:59,065
AND THAT LED ME TO
LOOK AT THE SCIENCE
850
00:49:59,099 --> 00:50:01,619
AND LOOK TO SEE IF ANYTHING
ABOUT THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
851
00:50:01,653 --> 00:50:03,655
IN WHICH TITANIC SANK
WOULD GIVE US A CLUE
852
00:50:03,690 --> 00:50:05,933
TO UNLOCK THE APPARENT
INCONSISTENCIES
853
00:50:05,968 --> 00:50:08,246
IN THE TESTIMONY.
854
00:50:08,281 --> 00:50:10,248
Narrator: THAT PHYSICAL
ENVIRONMENT BEGINS WITH
855
00:50:10,283 --> 00:50:13,493
THE LABRADOR CURRENT
IN WHICH TITANIC SANK.
856
00:50:18,394 --> 00:50:20,569
TIM HAS COME TO EXAMINE
THE CONDITIONS
857
00:50:20,603 --> 00:50:23,951
THE TITANIC VICTIMS ENDURED
THAT NIGHT FOR HIMSELF.
858
00:50:23,986 --> 00:50:26,333
Tim: OKAY. RIGHT.
859
00:50:26,368 --> 00:50:27,645
SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO TAKE
THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER,
860
00:50:27,679 --> 00:50:29,957
BECAUSE IN 1912,
EVERY FOUR HOURS
861
00:50:29,992 --> 00:50:31,821
THEY USED TO TAKE
THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER.
862
00:50:31,856 --> 00:50:33,409
Man: OKAY.
863
00:50:34,893 --> 00:50:37,448
Narrator: ONE OF THE KEY FACTS
FROM THE EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY
864
00:50:37,482 --> 00:50:39,277
IS THE SUDDEN DROP
IN TEMPERATURE
865
00:50:39,312 --> 00:50:42,901
AS THEY APPROACHED
THE LABRADOR CURRENT.
866
00:50:42,936 --> 00:50:46,629
Beesley: IT WAS JUST A KEEN,
BITTER, ICY, MOTIONLESS COLD
867
00:50:46,664 --> 00:50:50,564
THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE,
AND YET WAS THERE ALL THE TIME.
868
00:50:51,876 --> 00:50:53,222
Man: AHA, IT'S PRETTY FULL.
869
00:50:53,257 --> 00:50:55,190
Tim: YEAH.
870
00:50:55,224 --> 00:50:57,640
GIVEN THAT THE TEMPERATURE AND
THE STILLNESS OF THE AIR
871
00:50:57,675 --> 00:50:59,090
WAS SO UNUSUAL,
872
00:50:59,125 --> 00:51:01,713
I WAS DETERMINED TO BUILD
A COMPLETE PICTURE
873
00:51:01,748 --> 00:51:04,820
OF THE THERMAL GEOGRAPHY
AT TITANIC'S WRECK SITE.
874
00:51:08,341 --> 00:51:09,825
IT'S DROPPING.
875
00:51:09,859 --> 00:51:13,311
IT'S TAKING A BIT OF TIME FOR
THE THERMOMETER TO RESPOND.
876
00:51:13,346 --> 00:51:16,797
THAT IS REALLY,
REALLY COLD WATER.
877
00:51:16,832 --> 00:51:18,661
NO WONDER THEY DIDN'T
HAVE A CHANCE.
878
00:51:18,696 --> 00:51:21,699
THEY ONLY SURVIVED
FOR ABOUT 15 TO 20 MINUTES
879
00:51:21,733 --> 00:51:24,081
BEFORE THEY WENT UNCONSCIOUS
WITH THE COLD THAT NIGHT.
880
00:51:24,115 --> 00:51:25,185
AND I CAN REALLY SEE WHY,
881
00:51:25,220 --> 00:51:27,705
BECAUSE MY HAND IS GOING
UNCONSCIOUS ALREADY.
882
00:51:27,739 --> 00:51:31,088
AGH! THAT IS REALLY COLD.
883
00:51:33,297 --> 00:51:36,231
YEAH, THAT WATER IS ONLY
TWO DEGREES CENTIGRADE HERE.
884
00:51:36,265 --> 00:51:37,611
AND THAT'S...
885
00:51:37,646 --> 00:51:39,613
IT'S STILL WARMER THAN IT WAS
THE NIGHT TITANIC SANK,
886
00:51:39,648 --> 00:51:41,305
BUT THAT'S VERY COLD WATER.
887
00:51:41,339 --> 00:51:42,961
AND IT'D BE INTERESTING
TO GO A BIT FURTHER
888
00:51:42,996 --> 00:51:44,515
OUTSIDE THE LABRADOR CURRENT,
889
00:51:44,549 --> 00:51:46,620
AND SEE HOW WARM IT IS
OVER THERE.
890
00:51:55,181 --> 00:51:56,734
Narrator: LESS THAN A MILE AWAY,
891
00:51:56,768 --> 00:51:59,150
HE GETS A VERY DIFFERENT
READING.
892
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:06,330
Tim: HERE IT IS 60 FAHRENHEIT,
SO IT'S MUCH WARMER HERE
893
00:52:06,364 --> 00:52:08,194
THAN IT WAS WHEN
WE WERE OVER THERE
894
00:52:08,228 --> 00:52:10,127
IN THE LABRADOR CURRENT.
895
00:52:11,852 --> 00:52:14,545
Narrator: COULD A DRAMATIC
VARIATION IN WATER TEMPERATURE
896
00:52:14,579 --> 00:52:17,375
SHED LIGHT ON THE OTHER
STRANGE VISUAL PHENOMENA
897
00:52:17,410 --> 00:52:20,206
REPORTED BY EYEWITNESSES?
898
00:52:20,240 --> 00:52:24,348
THE MAGICAL AURAS SURROUNDING
THE ELECTRIC LIGHTS,
899
00:52:24,382 --> 00:52:26,971
THE FAILURE OF SIGNALING LAMPS.
900
00:52:27,005 --> 00:52:30,388
Lord: I CALLED HER UP,
AND GOT NO ANSWER.
901
00:52:30,423 --> 00:52:32,356
Narrator: OR THIS...
902
00:52:32,390 --> 00:52:39,086
Gracie: A THIN, LIGHT GRAY SMOKY
VAPOR THAT HUNG LIKE A PALL
903
00:52:39,121 --> 00:52:41,296
JUST A FEW FEET
ABOVE THE SURFACE
904
00:52:41,330 --> 00:52:44,885
OF THE BROAD EXPANSE OF SEA.
905
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:46,715
Narrator: THIS STRANGE
PHENOMENON WAS OBSERVED
906
00:52:46,749 --> 00:52:49,580
BY SURVIVORS
AS THE SHIP WAS SINKING.
907
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:55,310
UNFORTUNATELY,
NONE OF TITANIC'S LOGS
908
00:52:55,344 --> 00:52:58,830
RECORDING AIR AND WATER
TEMPERATURE HAVE SURVIVED.
909
00:53:00,418 --> 00:53:03,421
BUT TIM IS UNDETERRED.
910
00:53:03,456 --> 00:53:06,804
Tim: UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE
BEHIND TITANIC'S WRECK SITE
911
00:53:06,838 --> 00:53:09,565
IS ABSOLUTELY KEY TO
UNLOCKING THE TESTIMONIES,
912
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,016
BECAUSE YOU CANNOT WEIGH
THE EVIDENCE CORRECTLY
913
00:53:12,050 --> 00:53:13,466
UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND
THE ENVIRONMENT
914
00:53:13,500 --> 00:53:15,571
IN WHICH THE EVIDENCE WAS GIVEN.
915
00:53:17,642 --> 00:53:21,750
Narrator: AT LEAST ONE
IMPORTANT FACT IS KNOWN.
916
00:53:21,784 --> 00:53:25,271
ALTHOUGH IT HAD REMAINED
A MYSTERY FOR OVER 70 YEARS,
917
00:53:25,305 --> 00:53:29,896
IN 1985, TITANIC'S RESTING PLACE
WAS FINALLY DISCOVERED.
918
00:53:31,898 --> 00:53:34,659
HER BOW AND STERN
LIE IN SEPARATE PIECES
919
00:53:34,694 --> 00:53:37,731
TWO AND A HALF MILES
DOWN ON THE OCEAN FLOOR.
920
00:53:40,493 --> 00:53:42,046
THE COORDINATES
OF THE WRECK SITE
921
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,187
PROVIDE TIM WITH THE CENTER
OF HIS CRIME SCENE.
922
00:53:47,948 --> 00:53:51,055
NOW HE NEEDS TO RECONSTRUCT
THE EXACT CONDITIONS
923
00:53:51,089 --> 00:53:55,335
ON THE NIGHT OF THE TRAGEDY,
A CENTURY AGO.
924
00:53:55,370 --> 00:53:57,648
BUT WITH NO SURVIVING
SHIPS' LOGS,
925
00:53:57,682 --> 00:53:59,374
THE QUESTION IS...
926
00:53:59,408 --> 00:54:01,030
HOW?
927
00:54:08,383 --> 00:54:11,006
Tim: SO I STARTED LOOKING
EVERYWHERE ON THE INTERNET
928
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,146
FOR WHERE COULD I GET EVIDENCE?
929
00:54:13,180 --> 00:54:16,149
I LOOKED AT, COULD I GET IT
FROM BARRAGE BALLOONS?
930
00:54:16,183 --> 00:54:19,186
COULD I GET IT FROM
SHIPS' REPORTS?
931
00:54:19,221 --> 00:54:21,465
WERE THESE SHIPS' REPORTS
STILL EXISTING?
932
00:54:21,499 --> 00:54:25,089
AND WHAT I DISCOVERED WAS THAT
THERE IS STILL A PLACE
933
00:54:25,123 --> 00:54:27,574
WHERE THEY KEEP
THE RECORDS FROM 1912
934
00:54:27,609 --> 00:54:29,956
OF THE AIR AND SEA TEMPERATURES.
935
00:54:38,240 --> 00:54:39,345
Narrator: TIM MALTIN'S SEARCH
936
00:54:39,379 --> 00:54:42,140
LEADS HIM TO
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA,
937
00:54:42,175 --> 00:54:43,556
HOME TO A BRANCH OF NOAA,
938
00:54:43,590 --> 00:54:46,904
THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND
ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION,
939
00:54:46,938 --> 00:54:50,735
WHICH STORES THE WEATHER DATA
SENT BY THOUSANDS OF SHIPS.
940
00:54:53,359 --> 00:54:57,052
Tim: WHAT I'VE COME HERE TO GET
IS DATA FROM 1912,
941
00:54:57,086 --> 00:54:59,123
FROM THE POSITION
WHERE TITANIC SANK,
942
00:54:59,157 --> 00:55:02,678
TO ACTUALLY BUILD A MAP
OF TITANIC'S CRASH SITE,
943
00:55:02,713 --> 00:55:06,303
A BIT LIKE A SORT OF
TITANIC CSI, IF YOU LIKE.
944
00:55:09,789 --> 00:55:12,343
Narrator: SCOTT WOODRUFF IS
THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
945
00:55:12,378 --> 00:55:15,173
AT THE RESEARCH LABORATORY.
946
00:55:15,208 --> 00:55:18,211
Tim: I'M CONVINCED THAT
THE WEATHER HOLDS THE KEY
947
00:55:18,245 --> 00:55:21,387
TO ACTUALLY WHAT CAUSED
THE DISASTER THAT NIGHT.
948
00:55:21,421 --> 00:55:25,494
SO WHAT WOULD BE GREAT IS IF WE
COULD GO BACK IN TIME 100 YEARS
949
00:55:25,529 --> 00:55:28,359
AND ACTUALLY LOOK AT WHAT
THE SEA AND AIR TEMPERATURES
950
00:55:28,394 --> 00:55:30,672
WERE DOING
AT TITANIC'S WRECK SITE.
951
00:55:30,706 --> 00:55:32,363
Scott Woodruff:
WELL, LET'S TAKE A LOOK, TIM.
952
00:55:32,398 --> 00:55:35,297
YEAH, HERE'S SOME DATA
WE'VE PULLED UP FOR YOU.
953
00:55:35,332 --> 00:55:36,471
Tim: WOW.
954
00:55:36,505 --> 00:55:39,197
SO THESE ARE ALL SHIPS
THAT WERE IN THE AREA?
955
00:55:39,232 --> 00:55:41,234
Scott: THOSE SHIPS IN THE AREA.
RIGHT.
956
00:55:41,268 --> 00:55:42,684
Tim: WOW.
957
00:55:47,792 --> 00:55:50,139
Narrator: BUT THE DATA
ON THESE EARLY COMPUTER CARDS
958
00:55:50,174 --> 00:55:53,350
IS NOT AS DETAILED
AS TIM WOULD LIKE.
959
00:55:53,384 --> 00:55:55,006
Scott: THE LIMITED
WIDTH OF THESE
960
00:55:55,041 --> 00:55:58,147
MEANS THAT THEY COULD ONLY
SQUEEZE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DATA
961
00:55:58,182 --> 00:56:00,909
ONTO THE COMPUTER CARD,
962
00:56:00,943 --> 00:56:03,394
AND THUS, LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
963
00:56:03,429 --> 00:56:06,673
ARE ONLY RECORDED TO
A LIMITED PRECISION.
964
00:56:06,708 --> 00:56:08,054
Tim: IS THERE ANY WAY
THAT YOU CAN THINK OF
965
00:56:08,088 --> 00:56:10,746
THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY GET HIGHER
RESOLUTION DATA THAN THIS?
966
00:56:10,781 --> 00:56:12,127
Scott: WELL, I THINK WE'RE
GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK
967
00:56:12,161 --> 00:56:14,819
FOR THE ORIGINAL
METEOROLOGICAL FORMS
968
00:56:14,854 --> 00:56:19,030
AND ORIGINAL LOGBOOKS OF
THE SHIPS THAT WERE OUT THERE.
969
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:22,896
Narrator: THAT MEANS CONTACTING
MARITIME ARCHIVES
970
00:56:22,931 --> 00:56:25,243
IN A DOZEN COUNTRIES.
971
00:56:25,278 --> 00:56:27,245
TITANIC WAS ON
A BUSY SHIPPING LANE
972
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,801
ROUTINELY FREQUENTED BY VESSELS
FROM ALL OVER EUROPE...
973
00:56:30,835 --> 00:56:34,114
SOME OF THEM LIKELY CARRYING
USEFUL WITNESSES.
974
00:56:38,705 --> 00:56:40,431
TWO WEEKS LATER,
TIM GETS A CALL
975
00:56:40,466 --> 00:56:43,676
FROM THE GERMAN METEOROLOGICAL
OFFICE IN HAMBURG.
976
00:56:45,712 --> 00:56:48,439
THE DIRECTOR IS
WOLFGANG GLOEDEN.
977
00:56:52,443 --> 00:56:56,861
Wolfgang Gloeden: SO HERE WE
ARE, GOING DOWN TO OUR ARCHIVE,
978
00:56:56,896 --> 00:57:00,865
WHERE WE STORE ALL OUR JOURNALS
FROM SAILING SHIPS,
979
00:57:00,900 --> 00:57:05,560
AND FROM STEAMERS,
AND IT BEGINS IN 1829.
980
00:57:05,594 --> 00:57:08,770
Tim: YES. AND HOW MANY RECORDS
DO YOU HAVE DOWN HERE?
981
00:57:08,804 --> 00:57:14,051
Wolfgang: WE STORE ABOUT 37,000
JOURNALS IN THESE ARCHIVES.
982
00:57:20,885 --> 00:57:22,162
Tim: WELL, I HAVE TO SAY THAT
983
00:57:22,197 --> 00:57:24,026
I'M A BIT LIKE A KID
IN A SWEETSHOP DOWN HERE,
984
00:57:24,061 --> 00:57:27,961
BECAUSE THESE ARE THE HOLY GRAIL
OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.
985
00:57:27,996 --> 00:57:30,205
WE'VE BEEN TRACKING DOWN
THIS DATA ALL OVER THE WORLD,
986
00:57:30,239 --> 00:57:31,482
AND IT'S ONLY BECAUSE
987
00:57:31,517 --> 00:57:33,415
THE GERMANS HAVE KEPT
SUCH GOOD RECORDS,
988
00:57:33,450 --> 00:57:35,382
AND BECAUSE THEY'VE KEPT THEM
DOWN HERE IN THIS BUNKER,
989
00:57:35,417 --> 00:57:37,592
THAT THEY'VE ACTUALLY SURVIVED
TWO WORLD WARS,
990
00:57:37,626 --> 00:57:40,387
AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY AVAILABLE
FOR US TO ACCESS THEM.
991
00:57:41,837 --> 00:57:46,635
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR IS
SHIPS FROM 41 TO 43 NORTH,
992
00:57:46,670 --> 00:57:50,984
AND FROM 49 TO 51 WEST,
ALL IN APRIL 1912.
993
00:57:52,365 --> 00:57:54,747
Narrator: SOME OF THESE LOGS,
A CENTURY OLD,
994
00:57:54,781 --> 00:57:58,958
HAVEN'T BEEN OPENED SINCE THEIR
CAPTAINS WROTE THEIR REPORTS.
995
00:57:58,992 --> 00:58:01,823
THE FIRST ONE IS
FROM THE SS BREMEN.
996
00:58:01,857 --> 00:58:06,931
IT SET OFF FOR AMERICA JUST FOUR
DAYS AFTER THE TITANIC DISASTER.
997
00:58:06,966 --> 00:58:13,904
Wolfgang: ON 4/30 THEY ARE
PASSING DRIFTING WRECK PIECES...
998
00:58:13,938 --> 00:58:15,077
Tim: WOW, WRECKAGE, YEAH.
999
00:58:15,112 --> 00:58:17,045
Wolfgang:
...AND "VIELE LEICHEN."
1000
00:58:17,079 --> 00:58:19,185
AND THAT IS THE REASON BECAUSE
1001
00:58:19,219 --> 00:58:21,221
THESE CROSSES ARE
WRITTEN DOWN HERE.
1002
00:58:21,256 --> 00:58:23,154
Tim: WHAT DOES
"VIELE LEICHEN" MEAN?
1003
00:58:23,189 --> 00:58:26,019
Wolfgang: "VIELE LEICHEN"
IS A LOT OF DEAD BODIES.
1004
00:58:26,054 --> 00:58:27,469
Tim: WOW!
1005
00:58:27,504 --> 00:58:29,540
SO THEY'RE ACTUALLY PASSING
TITANIC'S WRECK SITE.
1006
00:58:29,575 --> 00:58:31,266
Wolfgang: MUST BE.
1007
00:58:33,889 --> 00:58:36,374
Narrator: A PASSENGER,
MRS. JOHANNA STUNKE,
1008
00:58:36,409 --> 00:58:39,067
LATER DESCRIBED THE SCENE
FROM THE BREMEN.
1009
00:58:40,413 --> 00:58:42,346
Johanna Stunke:
LOOKING DOWN OVER THE RAIL,
1010
00:58:42,380 --> 00:58:46,177
WE DISTINCTLY SAW A NUMBER
OF BODIES SO CLEARLY
1011
00:58:46,212 --> 00:58:48,628
THAT WE COULD MAKE OUT
WHAT THEY WERE WEARING,
1012
00:58:48,663 --> 00:58:51,148
AND WHETHER THEY WERE
MEN OR WOMEN.
1013
00:58:52,701 --> 00:58:55,014
WE SAW ONE WOMAN
IN HER NIGHTDRESS
1014
00:58:55,048 --> 00:58:58,189
WITH A BABY CLASPED
TO HER BREAST.
1015
00:59:00,916 --> 00:59:02,746
THE BODIES OF THREE MEN
IN A GROUP,
1016
00:59:02,780 --> 00:59:06,404
ALL CLINGING TO ONE
STEAMSHIP CHAIR, FLOATED NEARBY,
1017
00:59:06,439 --> 00:59:07,647
CLINGING TOGETHER,
1018
00:59:07,682 --> 00:59:11,548
AS THOUGH IN A LAST DESPERATE
STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.
1019
00:59:17,864 --> 00:59:19,728
Narrator: SURROUNDED BY
THIS WEALTH OF NEW EVIDENCE
1020
00:59:19,763 --> 00:59:24,008
ABOUT THE DISASTER,
TIM SEARCHES DEEPER.
1021
00:59:24,043 --> 00:59:26,770
Tim: AND I'M WONDERING IF YOU'VE
GOT THINGS LIKE THE PAULA,
1022
00:59:26,804 --> 00:59:29,773
AND THE TRAUTENFELS
AND THE DEUTSCHLAND.
1023
00:59:31,464 --> 00:59:32,603
Wolfgang: HERE WE ARE.
1024
00:59:32,638 --> 00:59:33,846
IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT,
1025
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:36,573
BECAUSE IT'S IN
OLD GERMAN HANDWRITING,
1026
00:59:36,607 --> 00:59:40,818
AND I'M NOT SO EASILY
USED TO IT,
1027
00:59:40,853 --> 00:59:43,165
BUT I CAN TRY TO.
1028
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:46,444
SAY BIG ICEBERGS
ON THIS POSITION.
1029
00:59:46,479 --> 00:59:48,585
Tim: OKAY, AND WHICH POSITION
IS THIS ONE?
1030
00:59:48,619 --> 00:59:52,865
Wolfgang: THE NOON POSITION IS
ON 41, 58 NORTH AND 49, 36 WEST.
1031
00:59:52,899 --> 00:59:55,315
Tim: THAT'S TITANIC'S LATITUDE.
THAT'S TITANIC'S LONGITUDE.
1032
00:59:55,350 --> 00:59:57,317
SO SHE'S AT TITANIC'S
WRECK SITE--THAT'S INCREDIBLE.
1033
00:59:57,352 --> 00:59:59,457
I BELIEVE THAT THE PAULA
IS THE LAST SHIP
1034
00:59:59,492 --> 01:00:00,735
THAT WE HAVE RECORDS FROM
1035
01:00:00,769 --> 01:00:02,633
THAT WENT THROUGH
WHERE TITANIC SANK.
1036
01:00:02,668 --> 01:00:06,188
WHAT DO THESE REMARKS HERE IN
THE WATER TEMPERATURE SHOW US?
1037
01:00:06,223 --> 01:00:07,673
Wolfgang:
TEMPERATURE IS GOING DOWN
1038
01:00:07,707 --> 01:00:11,469
FROM 12.8 TO 2.2, 1.1.
1039
01:00:11,504 --> 01:00:13,057
Tim: 1.1? WOW.
1040
01:00:13,092 --> 01:00:14,576
AND WHAT'S AMAZING HERE IS THAT
1041
01:00:14,611 --> 01:00:18,200
IT'S GOING FROM 12 DEGREES
IN THE EVENING THE DAY BEFORE
1042
01:00:18,235 --> 01:00:20,617
RIGHT THE WAY DOWN TO MINUS 1.4.
1043
01:00:20,651 --> 01:00:22,653
SO IT'S ACTUALLY GONE
TO BELOW FREEZING,
1044
01:00:22,688 --> 01:00:26,312
AND THEN IT JUMPS STRAIGHT
BACK UP AGAIN TO 13 DEGREES.
1045
01:00:29,695 --> 01:00:32,629
Narrator: INTERESTINGLY, THESE
LARGE TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS
1046
01:00:32,663 --> 01:00:35,148
AT THE VERY SPOT
WHERE TITANIC SANK
1047
01:00:35,183 --> 01:00:39,014
ARE SIMILAR TO THE ONES TIM
RECORDED IN HIS OWN SAMPLING.
1048
01:00:40,464 --> 01:00:42,431
IT'S BEGINNING TO GIVE HIM
A CLEAR PICTURE
1049
01:00:42,466 --> 01:00:46,056
OF THE THERMAL GEOGRAPHY OF
THE WRECK SITE A CENTURY AGO.
1050
01:00:46,090 --> 01:00:48,575
Tim: COULD YOU GIVE ME
THESE TEMPERATURE READINGS,
1051
01:00:48,610 --> 01:00:50,957
AND I'LL PUT THEM
INTO THE COMPUTER?
1052
01:00:53,201 --> 01:00:55,099
Narrator:
LIKE A FORENSIC DETECTIVE,
1053
01:00:55,134 --> 01:00:56,722
TIM IS UNCOVERING
A CLEAR PICTURE
1054
01:00:56,756 --> 01:00:59,828
OF HOW THE KILLER
LABRADOR CURRENT IS MOVING SOUTH
1055
01:00:59,863 --> 01:01:04,108
TOWARD THE PATH OF THE SHIPPING
LANES IN TITANIC'S FINAL HOURS.
1056
01:01:06,007 --> 01:01:09,769
Tim: THE MORE THAT I LOOKED
INTO THE DETAIL
1057
01:01:09,804 --> 01:01:12,116
OF THE TEMPERATURES
AT TITANIC WRECK SITE,
1058
01:01:12,151 --> 01:01:16,155
AND THE BETTER RESOLUTION I GOT
BY THE CLEARER AND CLEARER DATA,
1059
01:01:16,189 --> 01:01:19,192
WHAT I COULD SEE WAS THAT
NOT ONLY DID TITANIC SINK
1060
01:01:19,227 --> 01:01:21,332
REALLY, REALLY CLOSE
TO THE BARRIER
1061
01:01:21,367 --> 01:01:23,472
BETWEEN THE WARM WATER
AND THE COLD WATER,
1062
01:01:23,507 --> 01:01:26,717
BUT THAT THAT BOUNDARY
WAS VERY CLEARLY DEFINED.
1063
01:01:28,063 --> 01:01:29,962
Narrator: THE QUESTION NOW IS,
1064
01:01:29,996 --> 01:01:32,861
AS TITANIC IS ENCOUNTERING
THE LABRADOR CURRENT,
1065
01:01:32,896 --> 01:01:36,451
WHAT EFFECT IS THE WALL OF
FRIGID AIR ABOVE IT CAUSING?
1066
01:01:38,177 --> 01:01:41,249
WE KNOW THAT
THE PASSENGERS FELT IT.
1067
01:01:41,283 --> 01:01:44,010
DID IT CAUSE THE LOOKOUTS TO
TEMPORARILY LEAVE THEIR POSTS
1068
01:01:44,045 --> 01:01:46,703
IN SEARCH OF WARMER CLOTHES?
1069
01:01:46,737 --> 01:01:48,635
THE RECORD SAYS NO.
1070
01:01:50,085 --> 01:01:54,158
COULD IT HAVE EVEN PUSHED THE
ICEBERG FASTER TOWARD TITANIC?
1071
01:01:54,193 --> 01:01:56,229
AGAIN, UNLIKELY.
1072
01:01:58,853 --> 01:02:01,165
BUT TIM IS GROWING
INCREASINGLY CONVINCED
1073
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:02,719
THAT THE REAL CULPRIT
IN THE CRIME
1074
01:02:02,753 --> 01:02:06,550
WAS NOT THE ICEBERG ITSELF,
BUT THIS SUDDEN WALL OF COLD AIR
1075
01:02:06,584 --> 01:02:08,379
ACCOMPANYING THE KILLER CURRENT.
1076
01:02:08,414 --> 01:02:10,209
Lord: IT WAS A MOST
PECULIAR NIGHT.
1077
01:02:10,243 --> 01:02:12,659
Gracie: THE CLEAR,
STARLIT NIGHT...
1078
01:02:12,694 --> 01:02:14,972
Lord: COULD NOT DISTINGUISH
WHERE THE SKY ENDED.
1079
01:02:15,007 --> 01:02:17,354
Narrator:
THIS WEATHER PHENOMENON
MUST HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO DO
1080
01:02:17,388 --> 01:02:19,287
WITH ALL THE CONFLICTING
VISUAL IMPRESSIONS
1081
01:02:19,321 --> 01:02:20,667
REPORTED THAT NIGHT.
1082
01:02:20,702 --> 01:02:21,703
Hippach: AND THE SKY,
SO MANY STARS.
1083
01:02:21,738 --> 01:02:23,601
Fleet: THERE WAS
A SLIGHT HAZE COMING.
1084
01:02:31,817 --> 01:02:34,958
Narrator: AS TIM CONTINUES
HIS JOURNEY TO GATHER EVIDENCE,
1085
01:02:34,992 --> 01:02:37,754
HE RECALLS THAT ONE OF
THE SURVIVORS SHARED HIS BELIEF
1086
01:02:37,788 --> 01:02:40,998
THAT FORENSIC SCIENCE COULD
ULTIMATELY PROVIDE AN ANSWER
1087
01:02:41,033 --> 01:02:43,242
TO WHY TITANIC SANK...
1088
01:02:44,968 --> 01:02:47,522
SECOND-CLASS PASSENGER
AND SCIENCE TEACHER
1089
01:02:47,556 --> 01:02:49,938
LAWRENCE BEESLEY.
1090
01:02:49,973 --> 01:02:51,802
Tim: AND BEESLEY LEAVES US
WITH THIS TANTALIZING LINE.
1091
01:02:51,837 --> 01:02:54,287
HE SAYS, "I KNOW THERE MUST BE
SOME MISSING EVIDENCE,
1092
01:02:54,322 --> 01:02:55,530
BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS,
1093
01:02:55,564 --> 01:02:57,843
AND WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT
UNTIL IT ARRIVES."
1094
01:03:00,673 --> 01:03:02,951
Narrator: TIM HOPES HE'LL FIND
THAT MISSING PIECE OF EVIDENCE
1095
01:03:02,986 --> 01:03:05,091
AT HIS NEXT STOP--
1096
01:03:05,126 --> 01:03:06,817
THE BRITISH
METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE
1097
01:03:06,852 --> 01:03:09,164
IN EXETER,
SOUTHWEST ENGLAND.
1098
01:03:11,201 --> 01:03:15,239
HE'S HEARD IT CONTAINS
ONE MORE UNIQUE SET OF LOGS.
1099
01:03:15,274 --> 01:03:18,380
PERHAPS THIS ONE WILL
CRACK OPEN THE MYSTERY.
1100
01:03:22,281 --> 01:03:24,904
Tim: THE AMAZING THING IS THAT
THERE ARE VERY, VERY FEW SHIPS
1101
01:03:24,939 --> 01:03:27,251
THAT WERE IN THE RIGHT PLACE
AT THE RIGHT TIME.
1102
01:03:27,286 --> 01:03:29,875
AND, IN FACT,
THIS IS THE ONLY LOG
1103
01:03:29,909 --> 01:03:31,531
IN THE WHOLE OF THE MET OFFICE
1104
01:03:31,566 --> 01:03:35,846
THAT IS IN THE RIGHT PLACE
AT THE RIGHT TIME.
1105
01:03:35,881 --> 01:03:37,848
THIS IS THE LOG
OF THE MARENGO.
1106
01:03:37,883 --> 01:03:42,025
SHE LEFT NEW YORK ON
THE 11th OF APRIL, 1912.
1107
01:03:42,059 --> 01:03:43,578
40, 56...
1108
01:03:43,612 --> 01:03:45,338
THIS IS VERY, VERY NEAR
TITANIC'S WRECK SITE
1109
01:03:45,373 --> 01:03:47,616
THE DAY TITANIC COLLIDED.
1110
01:03:49,032 --> 01:03:51,482
THE SEA TEMPERATURE IS
DROPPING DRAMATICALLY.
1111
01:03:51,517 --> 01:03:54,865
AND LET'S SEE WHAT IT SAYS
IN THE REMARKS SECTION.
1112
01:03:54,900 --> 01:03:56,246
GOSH, THIS IS AMAZING.
1113
01:03:56,280 --> 01:04:01,527
HERE, AT 8:00 O'CLOCK,
IT SAYS, "MUCH REFRACTION,"
1114
01:04:01,561 --> 01:04:05,220
AND THEN AT NOON,
"MUCH REFRACTION ON HORIZON."
1115
01:04:06,566 --> 01:04:09,500
AND THEN, "GREAT REFRACTION,"
AT 4:00 P.M.
1116
01:04:09,535 --> 01:04:11,261
AND AT MIDNIGHT SHE SAYS,
1117
01:04:11,295 --> 01:04:14,678
"MUCH REFRACTION,
STARS VERY CLEAR AND BRIGHT."
1118
01:04:14,712 --> 01:04:16,680
AND THAT'S WHAT
THE SURVIVORS NOTICED,
1119
01:04:16,714 --> 01:04:19,786
IS HOW CLEAR AND BRIGHT
THE STARS WERE.
1120
01:04:19,821 --> 01:04:22,099
Hippach:
THE SEA WAS SO VERY STILL,
1121
01:04:22,134 --> 01:04:25,102
AND THE SKY, SO MANY STARS.
1122
01:04:25,137 --> 01:04:27,829
Beesley: AND TO TWINKLE AND
SPARKLE WITH A STACCATO FLASH
1123
01:04:27,864 --> 01:04:31,039
THAT MADE THE SKY SEEM
NOTHING BUT A SETTING
1124
01:04:31,074 --> 01:04:33,766
MADE FOR THEM IN WHICH
TO DISPLAY THEIR WONDER.
1125
01:04:36,286 --> 01:04:38,391
Narrator: UNTIL NOW,
TIM HAS BEEN FINDING DATA
1126
01:04:38,426 --> 01:04:40,738
CONFIRMING A MASSIVE
DROP IN TEMPERATURE
1127
01:04:40,773 --> 01:04:43,534
AS TITANIC ENTERED
THE KILLING ZONE.
1128
01:04:43,569 --> 01:04:47,159
BUT THIS LOG INDICATES SOMETHING
FAR MORE SIGNIFICANT.
1129
01:04:48,677 --> 01:04:52,371
THE PASSENGERS AND CREW WEREN'T
JUST SUDDENLY GETTING COLDER.
1130
01:04:52,405 --> 01:04:54,683
THE VERY ATMOSPHERE WAS
BEGINNING TO PLAY TRICKS
1131
01:04:54,718 --> 01:04:56,306
ON THEIR EYES.
1132
01:04:58,342 --> 01:05:01,552
WHEN MARINERS RECORD
"REFRACTION" IN THEIR LOGS,
1133
01:05:01,587 --> 01:05:03,900
THEY'RE DESCRIBING
STRANGE OPTICAL EFFECTS
1134
01:05:03,934 --> 01:05:06,730
AND DISTORTIONS IN THE AIR.
1135
01:05:06,764 --> 01:05:09,629
WHAT DIFFERENCE COULD SUCH
VISUAL PHENOMENA HAVE MADE
1136
01:05:09,664 --> 01:05:12,701
IN THE MINUTES BEFORE
TITANIC HIT THE ICEBERG?
1137
01:05:14,531 --> 01:05:16,464
TIM IS THE FIRST PERSON
TO HAVE UNCOVERED
1138
01:05:16,498 --> 01:05:19,398
THESE STRANGE OPTICAL EFFECTS
AT THE CRIME SCENE
1139
01:05:19,432 --> 01:05:21,745
AND AT THE EXACT TIME
IT OCCURRED.
1140
01:05:24,403 --> 01:05:28,994
NOW HE SCOURS THE OTHER ARCHIVES
TO CONFIRM HIS BREAKTHROUGH.
1141
01:05:29,028 --> 01:05:31,134
Wolfgang: YES, THIS IS THE WORD
"LUFTSPEIGELUNG."
1142
01:05:31,168 --> 01:05:33,895
Tim: AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
WHAT DOES "LUFTSPIEGELUNG" MEAN?
1143
01:05:33,930 --> 01:05:38,175
Wolfgang: "LUFT" IS AIR,
AND "SPIEGEL" IS MIRROR,
1144
01:05:38,210 --> 01:05:41,282
AND ALTOGETHER
IT'S AIR MIRROR.
1145
01:05:41,316 --> 01:05:42,352
Tim: LIKE A MIRAGE!
1146
01:05:42,386 --> 01:05:43,422
Wolfgang: YES.
1147
01:05:43,456 --> 01:05:44,906
Tim: THAT'S ABSOLUTELY
INCREDIBLE.
1148
01:05:44,941 --> 01:05:47,909
Wolfgang: I THINK THIS IS
WHAT THEY MEANT.
1149
01:05:47,944 --> 01:05:49,669
Narrator: A MIRAGE...
1150
01:05:51,050 --> 01:05:53,018
AT LAST, SOMETHING
THAT MIGHT EXPLAIN
1151
01:05:53,052 --> 01:05:54,881
WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT.
1152
01:05:54,916 --> 01:05:57,436
Tim: CLEAR HORIZON WITH MIRAGE.
1153
01:05:57,470 --> 01:05:58,713
IN THE AFTERNOON.
1154
01:05:58,747 --> 01:06:00,784
CLEAR HORIZON WITH MIRAGE.
1155
01:06:02,682 --> 01:06:04,477
Narrator: WHEN PEOPLE
THINK OF MIRAGES,
1156
01:06:04,512 --> 01:06:07,411
THEY THINK OF SEEING
SOMETHING THAT ISN'T THERE.
1157
01:06:07,446 --> 01:06:09,034
BUT IN TITANIC'S CASE,
1158
01:06:09,068 --> 01:06:10,587
THE LOOKOUTS FAILED
TO SEE SOMETHING
1159
01:06:10,621 --> 01:06:13,314
THAT CLEARLY WAS THERE.
1160
01:06:13,348 --> 01:06:16,696
SO HOW COULD A MIRAGE EXPLAIN
A MISTAKE LIKE THAT?
1161
01:06:19,734 --> 01:06:22,288
TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT
THESE VISUAL PHENOMENA,
1162
01:06:22,323 --> 01:06:25,291
TIM TRAVELS TO A PLACE
THAT IS THE VERY OPPOSITE
1163
01:06:25,326 --> 01:06:28,087
OF TITANIC'S CRIME SCENE--
1164
01:06:28,122 --> 01:06:29,537
THE DESERT.
1165
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:38,546
Tim: WELL, I'M OUT HERE
IN THE DESERT,
1166
01:06:38,580 --> 01:06:41,963
BECAUSE WHEN YOU THINK OF
MIRAGE, YOU THINK OF THE DESERT.
1167
01:06:41,998 --> 01:06:43,378
YOU THINK OF THIRSTY PEOPLE
1168
01:06:43,413 --> 01:06:46,071
TREKKING THOUSANDS OF MILES
ACROSS THE DESERT,
1169
01:06:46,105 --> 01:06:49,212
TRYING TO FILL UP
THEIR WATER BOTTLES.
1170
01:06:49,246 --> 01:06:50,937
AND THEY CAN SEE A SHIMMERING...
1171
01:06:50,972 --> 01:06:52,974
WHAT LOOKS LIKE A SHIMMERING
LAKE OF WATER IN THE DISTANCE.
1172
01:06:53,009 --> 01:06:55,632
AND THEY WALK AND WALK AND WALK,
BUT THEY NEVER GET THERE.
1173
01:06:55,666 --> 01:06:57,668
AND THAT'S THE CLASSIC MIRAGE.
1174
01:06:59,498 --> 01:07:01,672
Narrator: IN CALIFORNIA'S
MOJAVE DESERT,
1175
01:07:01,707 --> 01:07:04,158
TIM HAS COME TO MEET A MAN
WHO SPECIALIZES
1176
01:07:04,192 --> 01:07:08,196
IN CAPTURING EXTRAORDINARY
VISUAL PHENOMENA.
1177
01:07:08,231 --> 01:07:10,267
AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER
ED DARACK
1178
01:07:10,302 --> 01:07:12,959
CHASES MIRAGES ACROSS THE WORLD.
1179
01:07:14,271 --> 01:07:15,514
Ed Darack: THE WAY IT'LL START,
LIKE IT DID TODAY,
1180
01:07:15,548 --> 01:07:16,963
IS I'LL BE DRIVING
DOWN A ROAD,
1181
01:07:16,998 --> 01:07:19,000
I'LL NOTICE THAT THE CONDITIONS
ARE RIGHT FOR A MIRAGE,
1182
01:07:19,035 --> 01:07:20,312
'CAUSE I'LL SEE THEM
ON THE ROAD.
1183
01:07:20,346 --> 01:07:22,210
YOU'LL SEE THE TYPICAL
SORT OF WATER MIRAGE,
1184
01:07:22,245 --> 01:07:23,487
WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE
THERE'S WATER,
1185
01:07:23,522 --> 01:07:25,903
BUT ONCE YOU GET UP TO IT,
IT'S NOT.
1186
01:07:25,938 --> 01:07:28,285
Tim: AND WHAT CAUSES, YOU KNOW,
THAT SORT OF SHIMMERING EFFECT?
1187
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:29,528
WHAT CAUSES THAT?
1188
01:07:29,562 --> 01:07:30,839
Ed: MOST PEOPLE WHEN
THEY LOOK THROUGH THE SKY,
1189
01:07:30,874 --> 01:07:32,082
THROUGH CLEAR AIR,
THEY JUST THINK,
1190
01:07:32,117 --> 01:07:33,704
OH, IT'S CLEAR AIR,
IT'S NOTHING THERE.
1191
01:07:33,739 --> 01:07:35,706
IT'S NOT THE CASE. IT'S A LENS.
1192
01:07:35,741 --> 01:07:38,502
AND HOW MUCH
IT WILL DISTORT OR EFFECT
1193
01:07:38,537 --> 01:07:41,057
WHAT THE VIEWER SEES
OF AN OBJECT
1194
01:07:41,091 --> 01:07:43,990
CAN VARY DEPENDING ON
ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS.
1195
01:07:47,373 --> 01:07:49,996
Narrator: TO DEMONSTRATE HOW
THAT LENS BENDS LIGHT WAVES
1196
01:07:50,031 --> 01:07:52,965
TO CREATE A MIRAGE,
ED BRINGS IN A HELICOPTER.
1197
01:07:52,999 --> 01:07:54,518
Ed: OKAY, COME TOWARD US
AT MAYBE 10 KNOTS,
1198
01:07:54,553 --> 01:07:57,280
AT FIVE FEET ATL,
IF YOU CAN, OVER.
1199
01:07:57,314 --> 01:07:59,247
Narrator: JUST NOW,
THE GROUND IS MUCH WARMER
1200
01:07:59,282 --> 01:08:01,422
THAN THE AIR ABOVE IT.
1201
01:08:01,456 --> 01:08:05,011
THIS CREATES A GRADIENT
OF HOT TO COLD AIR,
1202
01:08:05,046 --> 01:08:08,532
AND SINCE COLD AIR IS DENSER
OR HEAVIER THAN WARM AIR,
1203
01:08:08,567 --> 01:08:12,364
THE TWO AIR MASSES
CREATE DISTINCT LAYERS.
1204
01:08:12,398 --> 01:08:14,262
THOSE LAYERS ACT LIKE A LENS
1205
01:08:14,297 --> 01:08:17,714
BENDING AND DISTORTING
OUR FAMILIAR REALITY.
1206
01:08:18,853 --> 01:08:20,924
THE RESULT IS A CLASSIC MIRAGE
1207
01:08:20,958 --> 01:08:24,169
WHERE OBJECTS APPEAR BELOW
THEIR ACTUAL POSITION.
1208
01:08:29,174 --> 01:08:33,039
Ed: THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE
SEQUENCES WITH MIRAGES.
1209
01:08:35,421 --> 01:08:37,699
YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE DISTANCE,
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS,
1210
01:08:37,734 --> 01:08:39,253
IT LOOKS LIKE A SPACESHIP
COMING AT YOU.
1211
01:08:39,287 --> 01:08:40,978
IT'S A BLACK BLOB.
1212
01:08:41,013 --> 01:08:44,085
AND THIS IS ON A HIGHWAY
IN NEW MEXICO.
1213
01:08:46,052 --> 01:08:47,985
YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS
AND SLOWLY IT EMERGES...
1214
01:08:48,020 --> 01:08:49,608
IT STILL LOOKS LIKE A SPACESHIP
RIGHT THERE.
1215
01:08:49,642 --> 01:08:51,437
Tim: YEAH,
IT'S FLOATING IN THE AIR.
1216
01:08:51,472 --> 01:08:52,473
Ed: IT'S FLOATING IN THE AIR.
1217
01:08:52,507 --> 01:08:55,924
IT SEEMS TO BE FLOATING
IN THE AIR.
1218
01:08:55,959 --> 01:08:57,547
BUT THEN WHEN YOU GET UP HERE,
YOU SEE IT,
1219
01:08:57,581 --> 01:09:01,033
IT'S A CAR WITH
TWO TRUCKS BEHIND IT.
1220
01:09:01,067 --> 01:09:02,793
Tim: YEAH, THAT'S AMAZING,
ISN'T IT?
1221
01:09:02,828 --> 01:09:05,037
THAT JUST SHOWS THAT YOUR EYES
CAN DECEIVE YOU SO MUCH
1222
01:09:05,071 --> 01:09:06,383
WITH THIS SORT OF STUFF.
1223
01:09:06,418 --> 01:09:08,040
Ed: WELL, IT'S NOT YOUR EYES
THAT ARE DECEIVING YOU.
1224
01:09:08,074 --> 01:09:09,421
YOUR EYES AREN'T
DECEIVING ANYTHING.
1225
01:09:09,455 --> 01:09:11,285
WHAT IT IS,
IS THE LENS OF THE AIR
1226
01:09:11,319 --> 01:09:14,150
BETWEEN THE OBJECT
AND WHAT YOU'RE SEEING.
1227
01:09:14,184 --> 01:09:15,875
THAT'S THE DECEPTION.
1228
01:09:18,257 --> 01:09:20,190
Tim: HOW IS IT SIMILAR,
THIS HOT DESERT,
1229
01:09:20,225 --> 01:09:21,985
TO THE COLD ENVIRONMENT
OF THE TITANIC?
1230
01:09:22,019 --> 01:09:24,953
Ed: THE SIMILARITIES ARE THAT
THERE ARE LAYERS OF AIR
1231
01:09:24,988 --> 01:09:26,921
THAT ARE VERY DIFFERENT
IN AIR DENSITY
1232
01:09:26,955 --> 01:09:29,406
BECAUSE OF
THE TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES.
1233
01:09:29,441 --> 01:09:30,235
Tim: THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE.
1234
01:09:30,269 --> 01:09:31,615
BECAUSE, FOR EXAMPLE,
1235
01:09:31,650 --> 01:09:33,893
WHEN THEY WERE COLLECTING
THE BODIES FROM THE TITANIC,
1236
01:09:33,928 --> 01:09:35,274
THEY ACTUALLY NOTED THAT
1237
01:09:35,309 --> 01:09:39,934
THE AIR CHANGED FROM 56 TO 32
IN HALF A MILE.
1238
01:09:39,968 --> 01:09:41,763
Ed: THAT'S A TREMENDOUS
DIFFERENCE IN AIR TEMPERATURE.
1239
01:09:41,798 --> 01:09:44,939
SO YOU HAD VERY DIFFERENT
MASSES OF AIR,
1240
01:09:44,973 --> 01:09:46,975
RIGHT NEXT TO ONE ANOTHER,
ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER,
1241
01:09:47,010 --> 01:09:48,253
AND SO THAT WOULD
REALLY DRAMATICALLY
1242
01:09:48,287 --> 01:09:50,082
BEND THE LIGHT RAYS.
1243
01:09:53,119 --> 01:09:56,364
Narrator: NOW EVERYTHING
IS CLICKING INTO PLACE.
1244
01:09:56,399 --> 01:09:59,850
ED'S MIRAGE OBSERVATIONS CONFIRM
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DATA
1245
01:09:59,885 --> 01:10:02,405
TIM HAS GATHERED FROM
EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY
1246
01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:04,096
AND SHIPS' LOGS.
1247
01:10:05,477 --> 01:10:08,100
THE CRUCIAL DIFFERENCE IS
THAT HERE IN THE DESERT,
1248
01:10:08,134 --> 01:10:12,656
TIM HAS OBSERVED THE EFFECT
OF COLD AIR ON TOP OF WARM.
1249
01:10:12,691 --> 01:10:15,245
FOR TITANIC SAILING
100 YEARS AGO,
1250
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:18,973
THOSE CONDITIONS WERE REVERSED
BUT EQUALLY DECEIVING.
1251
01:10:21,631 --> 01:10:24,461
AHEAD OF HER WAS THE WARM WATER
OF THE GULF STREAM,
1252
01:10:24,496 --> 01:10:26,360
WARMING THE AIR ABOVE.
1253
01:10:27,637 --> 01:10:29,915
THE LABRADOR CURRENT
BROUGHT FREEZING WATER
1254
01:10:29,949 --> 01:10:32,020
UNDERNEATH THE WARM AIR.
1255
01:10:33,574 --> 01:10:38,268
SOON, THE WARM AIR CLOSE TO
THE SEA WAS REPLACED BY COLD.
1256
01:10:38,303 --> 01:10:41,098
COLD AIR UNDER WARM--
1257
01:10:41,133 --> 01:10:44,274
PERFECT CONDITIONS FOR
A COLD WATER MIRAGE.
1258
01:10:48,658 --> 01:10:50,073
AT THE SPEED
THEY WERE TRAVELING,
1259
01:10:50,107 --> 01:10:52,248
IN THE CLEAR CONDITIONS
OF THAT NIGHT,
1260
01:10:52,282 --> 01:10:55,285
LOOKOUTS LEE AND FLEET SHOULD'VE
BEEN ABLE TO SPOT AN ICEBERG
1261
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:57,977
30 MINUTES AWAY--
1262
01:10:58,012 --> 01:11:01,636
PLENTY OF TIME TO WARN THE SHIP.
1263
01:11:01,671 --> 01:11:06,158
BUT ON THAT NIGHT,
THEY HAD JUST 37 SECONDS.
1264
01:11:06,192 --> 01:11:07,401
Lee: ICE AHEAD!
1265
01:11:07,435 --> 01:11:08,505
[BELL RINGS]
1266
01:11:08,540 --> 01:11:10,369
Fleet: ICE AHEAD, ICE AHEAD.
1267
01:11:14,131 --> 01:11:16,582
Narrator: WAS IT POSSIBLE
THAT A COLD WATER MIRAGE
1268
01:11:16,617 --> 01:11:19,482
HAD RENDERED THE ICEBERG
EFFECTIVELY INVISIBLE
1269
01:11:19,516 --> 01:11:21,484
FOR ALMOST 30 MINUTES?
1270
01:11:25,350 --> 01:11:29,354
TIM RETURNS TO NEWFOUNDLAND
TO FIND OUT.
1271
01:11:29,388 --> 01:11:32,840
Tim: HAVE YOU EVER SEEN
ANY WEIRD EFFECTS OF LIGHT?
1272
01:11:32,874 --> 01:11:35,429
Captain: WHEN THE SEA CONDITIONS
ARE QUITE COLD,
1273
01:11:35,463 --> 01:11:36,844
WE'LL GET A MIRAGE EECT,
1274
01:11:36,878 --> 01:11:39,916
YOU GET A SHIFTING IN
THE OVERALL LOOK OF THE ICE.
1275
01:11:39,950 --> 01:11:41,573
SOMETIMES COMPARATIVELY
VERY SMALL,
1276
01:11:41,607 --> 01:11:44,472
SOMETIMES IT CAN BE
A MONSTROUS-LOOKING
1277
01:11:44,507 --> 01:11:46,371
TYPE OF ICEBERG.
1278
01:11:46,405 --> 01:11:48,131
YOU KNOW, A LOT OF
OUR GUESTS ON BOARD,
1279
01:11:48,165 --> 01:11:51,030
THEY THINK IT'S A 300-FOOT-HIGH
ICEBERG COMING THIS WAY,
1280
01:11:51,065 --> 01:11:52,204
AND, OF COURSE,
WE EXPLAIN TO THEM
1281
01:11:52,238 --> 01:11:53,964
THAT IT'S PROBABLY
A MIRAGE EFFECT.
1282
01:11:53,999 --> 01:11:55,518
AND WITHIN THE HOUR IN THE TOUR,
1283
01:11:55,552 --> 01:11:57,899
SURE ENOUGH, YOU'LL SEE IT'S
ALMOST LIKE A FLAT PIECE OF ICE,
1284
01:11:57,934 --> 01:11:59,832
BECAUSE IT HAD
SHIFTED THAT MUCH,
1285
01:11:59,867 --> 01:12:03,629
AND THEY CAN'T BELIEVE
HOW IT HAD CHANGED.
1286
01:12:03,664 --> 01:12:08,151
Narrator:
A 300-FOOT ICEBERG TRANSFORMED
INTO A FLAT PIECE OF ICE
1287
01:12:08,185 --> 01:12:11,396
JUST BY THE POWER OF A MIRAGE.
1288
01:12:11,430 --> 01:12:13,018
Captain: WHAT'S INTERESTING,
TOO, I THINK,
1289
01:12:13,052 --> 01:12:15,261
WHAT WE FIND, TOO,
WHEN THE SEA IS CALM,
1290
01:12:15,296 --> 01:12:19,749
IT'S HARD TO KNOW WHERE THE SEA
ENDS AND THE SKY ENDS, REALLY,
1291
01:12:19,783 --> 01:12:22,786
IT ALL SEEMS TO BLEND IN, SO
YOU CAN IMAGINE A CALM NIGHT...
1292
01:12:22,821 --> 01:12:24,029
Tim: DO YOU KNOW
WHAT YOU'VE JUST SAID THERE,
1293
01:12:24,063 --> 01:12:25,927
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT
CAPTAIN LORD SAID.
1294
01:12:25,962 --> 01:12:28,102
HE SAID THAT THAT NIGHT
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL
1295
01:12:28,136 --> 01:12:30,691
WHERE THE SKY ENDED
AND WHERE THE SEA BEGAN.
1296
01:12:32,934 --> 01:12:34,453
Narrator:
THIS FROM CAPTAIN LORD,
1297
01:12:34,488 --> 01:12:36,006
OBSERVING THE SAME PHENOMENON
1298
01:12:36,041 --> 01:12:38,940
FROM THE DECK OF
THE CALIFORNIAN.
1299
01:12:38,975 --> 01:12:41,046
Lord: IT WAS A VERY
STRANGE NIGHT.
1300
01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:43,255
IT WAS HARD TO DEFINE
WHERE THE SKY ENDED
1301
01:12:43,289 --> 01:12:44,912
AND THE SEA COMMENCED.
1302
01:12:44,946 --> 01:12:47,570
THERE WAS WHAT YOU CALL
A SOFT HORIZON.
1303
01:12:49,192 --> 01:12:51,608
Narrator: AND NOT ONLY LORD.
1304
01:12:51,643 --> 01:12:53,714
TITANIC LOOKOUT
FREDERICK FLEET
1305
01:12:53,748 --> 01:12:57,062
ALSO DESCRIBED
AN INDISTINCT HORIZON.
1306
01:12:57,096 --> 01:12:59,720
Fleet: WHEN THE HAZE CAME,
1307
01:12:59,754 --> 01:13:03,240
IT DID NOT STRETCH
ACROSS THE HORIZON.
1308
01:13:03,275 --> 01:13:05,035
IT WAS RIGHT IN FRONT.
1309
01:13:05,070 --> 01:13:07,175
TWO POINTS ON EACH BOW.
1310
01:13:09,350 --> 01:13:12,836
I TOLD MY MATE LEE
THERE WAS A SLIGHT HAZE COMING.
1311
01:13:14,459 --> 01:13:18,117
WHEN I NOTICED THE HAZE,
THERE WAS NOTHING IN SIGHT.
1312
01:13:22,363 --> 01:13:24,123
Tim: AND NATURALLY,
A LOT OF PEOPLE BLAMED HIM
1313
01:13:24,158 --> 01:13:25,849
FOR BEING ASLEEP OR WHATEVER.
1314
01:13:25,884 --> 01:13:27,541
NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER
FROM THE TRUTH.
1315
01:13:27,575 --> 01:13:30,785
HE WAS STRAINING HIS EYES
TO SEE AHEAD.
1316
01:13:32,131 --> 01:13:33,478
AND WHEN THE COMMISSIONER
WAS GRILLING HIM
1317
01:13:33,512 --> 01:13:35,169
AT THE BRITISH TITANIC INQUIRY,
1318
01:13:35,203 --> 01:13:38,241
HE SAID, "THERE WAS A SLIGHT
HAZE ON THE HORIZON."
1319
01:13:38,275 --> 01:13:40,174
SO THE COMMISSIONER SAID, "WELL,
YOU SHOULD HAVE SLOWED DOWN THEN
1320
01:13:40,208 --> 01:13:41,796
IF THERE WAS A HAZE,
YOU SHOULD HAVE REPORTED IT."
1321
01:13:41,831 --> 01:13:44,765
AND HE SAID, "WELL, IT DIDN'T
REALLY AFFECT OUR VIEW AHEAD."
1322
01:13:44,799 --> 01:13:47,008
AND THE COMMISSIONER GOES,
"WELL, HOW CAN IT BE A HAZE
1323
01:13:47,043 --> 01:13:50,426
IF IT DIDN'T AFFECT
YOUR VIEW AHEAD?"
1324
01:13:50,460 --> 01:13:53,567
Narrator: THE "HAZE" FLEET WAS
DESCRIBING WAS IN FACT EVIDENCE
1325
01:13:53,601 --> 01:13:55,845
THAT TITANIC WAS HEADING
DIRECTLY TOWARDS
1326
01:13:55,879 --> 01:13:58,019
A COLD WATER MIRAGE.
1327
01:13:59,745 --> 01:14:02,196
AND AS THE SHIPS' LOGS
OF THE TIME PROVE,
1328
01:14:02,230 --> 01:14:05,026
CAPTAINS KNEW ABOUT REFRACTION.
1329
01:14:05,061 --> 01:14:08,478
SO HERE WAS ANOTHER ARGUMENT
FOR THE NEED TO SLOW DOWN.
1330
01:14:10,169 --> 01:14:11,619
Tim: HAVE A LOOK AT THESE.
1331
01:14:11,654 --> 01:14:13,379
THESE WERE TAKEN IN FINLAND.
1332
01:14:13,414 --> 01:14:17,487
AND WHAT THEY SHOW IS A HORIZON
THAT HAS JUST BEEN ELEVATED
1333
01:14:17,522 --> 01:14:20,110
WAY ABOVE WHERE
IT SHOULD NORMALLY BE.
1334
01:14:20,145 --> 01:14:23,251
AND YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW
CONFUSING THAT WOULD BE AT NIGHT
1335
01:14:23,286 --> 01:14:27,324
TO A SAILOR WHO DIDN'T KNOW THAT
THAT WAS WHAT WAS GOING ON.
1336
01:14:27,359 --> 01:14:30,293
Narrator: IT'S THE REVERSE OF
WHAT TIM SAW IN THE DESERT.
1337
01:14:30,327 --> 01:14:35,056
INSTEAD OF THE SKY BEING
BENT DOWN TO APPEAR AS WATER,
1338
01:14:35,091 --> 01:14:39,164
HERE, A FLAT HORIZON IS
LIFTED UP LIKE A CLIFF.
1339
01:14:40,786 --> 01:14:43,064
IN THE DAYTIME,
IT'S EASY TO SEE.
1340
01:14:43,099 --> 01:14:46,792
THE ISLAND AND TREES ARE
RAISED, SMEARED AND DISTORTED.
1341
01:14:48,932 --> 01:14:52,660
ON A MOONLIT NIGHT, IT CAN BE
HARDER TO MAKE THINGS OUT.
1342
01:14:52,695 --> 01:14:56,733
ON THIS HORIZON, THE MIRAGE
LIFTS UP A BAND OF WATER.
1343
01:14:56,768 --> 01:15:00,806
THAT'S THE MYSTERIOUS HAZE
LOOKOUT FLEET SAW.
1344
01:15:00,841 --> 01:15:03,015
AND WITHIN IT
LIES A POSSIBLE ANSWER
1345
01:15:03,050 --> 01:15:05,604
TO THE GREATEST
MYSTERY OF TITANIC.
1346
01:15:08,296 --> 01:15:11,230
THERE WAS NO MOON THAT NIGHT.
1347
01:15:11,265 --> 01:15:13,509
THE ONLY WAY THE LOOKOUTS
COULD SPOT THE ICEBERG
1348
01:15:13,543 --> 01:15:16,719
WAS AGAINST THE BACKDROP
OF THE BLANKET OF STARS.
1349
01:15:18,099 --> 01:15:21,586
BUT WHEN THE LENS OF HOT AND
COLD AIR CAUSES A MIRAGE,
1350
01:15:21,620 --> 01:15:23,173
IT DISTORTS THE SEA,
1351
01:15:23,208 --> 01:15:26,349
AND RAISES UP THE HORIZON
BEHIND THE ICEBERG.
1352
01:15:26,383 --> 01:15:28,316
IT'S NOW CLOAKED.
1353
01:15:28,351 --> 01:15:31,630
THE BACKGROUND OF STARS
DISAPPEARS.
1354
01:15:31,665 --> 01:15:34,530
THE ICEBERG BECOMES INVISIBLE.
1355
01:15:38,464 --> 01:15:41,467
THE BEST CREW OF ITS DAY,
IN THE BEST SHIP.
1356
01:15:41,502 --> 01:15:43,193
Lee: ICE AHEAD!
1357
01:15:44,229 --> 01:15:45,506
[BELL RINGS]
1358
01:15:45,541 --> 01:15:48,129
Narrator: BUT AGAINST NATURE,
ACTING IN THIS WAY,
1359
01:15:48,164 --> 01:15:50,062
IT HAD NO CHANCE.
1360
01:15:58,174 --> 01:16:00,210
IT'S A COMPELLING THEORY.
1361
01:16:01,936 --> 01:16:04,870
BUT IS THERE ANY MORE EVIDENCE
TO BACK IT UP?
1362
01:16:07,632 --> 01:16:10,151
Tim: A COUPLE OF SURVIVORS GIVE
VERY INTERESTING TESTIMONY
1363
01:16:10,186 --> 01:16:15,847
ABOUT SMOKE THAT NIGHT SEEMING
TO HANG IN A FLAT, LEVEL PLANE.
1364
01:16:15,881 --> 01:16:18,850
THE FIRST PERSON WHO DOES THIS
IS COLONEL ARCHIBALD GRACIE,
1365
01:16:18,884 --> 01:16:22,232
AND HE NOTICES IT
JUST ABOVE THE WRECK SITE.
1366
01:16:22,267 --> 01:16:25,166
[SCREAMING]
1367
01:16:29,585 --> 01:16:31,517
Gracie: WHAT IMPRESSED ME
1368
01:16:31,552 --> 01:16:35,763
AT THE TIME MY EYES BEHELD
THE HORRIBLE SCENE
1369
01:16:35,798 --> 01:16:42,632
WAS A THIN, LIGHT GRAY SMOKY
VAPOR THAT HUNG LIKE A PALL
1370
01:16:42,667 --> 01:16:44,772
JUST A FEW FEET
ABOVE THE SURFACE
1371
01:16:44,807 --> 01:16:46,947
OF THE BROAD EXPANSE OF SEA
1372
01:16:46,981 --> 01:16:50,467
THAT WAS COVERED WITH A MASS
OF TANGLED WRECKAGE.
1373
01:16:53,609 --> 01:16:56,577
THAT IT WAS A TANGIBLE VAPOR,
1374
01:16:56,612 --> 01:16:59,856
NOT A PRODUCT OF IMAGINATION,
I FEEL ASSURED.
1375
01:17:02,238 --> 01:17:04,067
Tim: BUT THEN,
FROM MUCH FURTHER AWAY,
1376
01:17:04,102 --> 01:17:07,346
FIRST-CLASS PASSENGER
PHILIP MOCK, IN HIS LIFEBOAT,
1377
01:17:07,381 --> 01:17:10,039
HE DESCRIBES THAT
AS TITANIC SANK,
1378
01:17:10,073 --> 01:17:13,007
A COLUMN OF BLACK SMOKE
ROSE HIGH INTO THE AIR
1379
01:17:13,042 --> 01:17:16,114
AND THEN FLATTENED OUT
AT THE TOP LIKE A MUSHROOM.
1380
01:17:17,494 --> 01:17:20,187
Narrator: WHAT PHILIP MOCK
DESCRIBES FROM HIS LIFEBOAT
1381
01:17:20,221 --> 01:17:22,189
IS HOW THE SMOKE
FROM THE DOOMED SHIP
1382
01:17:22,223 --> 01:17:26,296
IS CLEARLY HITTING A JUNCTURE OF
THE LAYERS OF COLD AND HOT AIR.
1383
01:17:28,264 --> 01:17:31,198
FINAL PROOF THAT
THE CONDITIONS FOR A MIRAGE
1384
01:17:31,232 --> 01:17:33,407
EXISTED ABOVE TITANIC.
1385
01:17:38,895 --> 01:17:43,279
TIM'S MIRAGE THEORY HAS SOLVED
THE FIRST MYSTERY--
1386
01:17:43,313 --> 01:17:46,627
WHY THE LOOKOUTS FAILED
TO SEE THE INVISIBLE ICEBERG.
1387
01:17:47,904 --> 01:17:50,010
BUT CAN IT DO MORE?
1388
01:17:52,875 --> 01:17:55,809
CAN IT EXPLAIN THE SECOND
MYSTERY THAT NIGHT?
1389
01:17:57,293 --> 01:17:59,882
WHY THE NEARBY SHIP,
THE CALIFORNIAN,
1390
01:17:59,916 --> 01:18:02,505
DIDN'T COME TO
TITANIC'S RESCUE,
1391
01:18:02,539 --> 01:18:06,440
AS COLONEL GRACIE AND MANY OTHER
PASSENGERS PRAYED IT WOULD.
1392
01:18:08,269 --> 01:18:11,031
Gracie: I SHOWED THEM
A BRIGHT, WHITE LIGHT
1393
01:18:11,065 --> 01:18:14,413
THAT I TOOK TO BE A SHIP
ABOUT FIVE MILES OFF,
1394
01:18:14,448 --> 01:18:17,623
AND WHICH I FELT SURE WAS
COMING TO OUR RESCUE.
1395
01:18:18,866 --> 01:18:20,523
Narrator: BUT WHEN
THE CALIFORNIAN'S CAPTAIN,
1396
01:18:20,557 --> 01:18:23,664
STANLEY LORD, WAS BROUGHT
BEFORE THE COURT OF INQUIRY,
1397
01:18:23,699 --> 01:18:26,494
HE CONTINUED TO INSIST THAT
THE SHIP WITHIN SIGHT
1398
01:18:26,529 --> 01:18:28,842
WASN'T THE TITANIC.
1399
01:18:28,876 --> 01:18:30,913
Man: YOU HAD SEEN THIS SHIP
FOR QUITE A LONG TIME?
1400
01:18:30,947 --> 01:18:32,535
Lord: THAT'S RIGHT, YES.
1401
01:18:32,569 --> 01:18:34,744
Man: AND IN YOUR OPINION,
WHAT SORT OF SHIP WAS SHE?
1402
01:18:34,779 --> 01:18:36,815
Lord: SHE WAS SOMETHING
LIKE OURSELVES--
1403
01:18:36,850 --> 01:18:39,818
A MODERATELY LARGE
PASSENGER STEAMER,
1404
01:18:39,853 --> 01:18:41,613
BUT NOTHING LIKE THE TITANIC
1405
01:18:41,647 --> 01:18:44,996
OR ANY LARGE WHITE STAR
OR CUNARD LINER.
1406
01:18:45,030 --> 01:18:46,411
SHE MIGHT HAVE HAD SOME
PASSENGERS ABOARD,
1407
01:18:46,445 --> 01:18:49,552
BUT SHE WASN'T STEAMING
LIKE A BIG SHIP.
1408
01:18:52,831 --> 01:18:54,937
Man: AND YOU COULDN'T,
OR COULD YOU, HAVE BEEN MISTAKEN
1409
01:18:54,971 --> 01:18:57,180
ABOUT THE LARGEST SHIP
IN THE WORLD?
1410
01:18:57,215 --> 01:18:58,388
Lord: I'M POSITIVE THAT
1411
01:18:58,423 --> 01:19:00,908
IT WASN'T THE LARGEST SHIP
IN THE WORLD,
1412
01:19:00,943 --> 01:19:03,808
OR ANY LARGE
PASSENGER STEAMER AT ALL.
1413
01:19:07,915 --> 01:19:11,781
I SAID, "TO ME, IT DOESN'T
LOOK LIKE THE TITANIC.
1414
01:19:11,816 --> 01:19:13,749
THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT."
1415
01:19:15,060 --> 01:19:17,891
IT WAS A MOST DECEIVING NIGHT.
1416
01:19:17,925 --> 01:19:20,272
THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THAT.
1417
01:19:23,137 --> 01:19:25,105
Narrator: LORD EVENTUALLY
HANDED OVER THE WATCH,
1418
01:19:25,139 --> 01:19:27,901
CONFIDENT IN HIS JUDGMENT.
1419
01:19:27,935 --> 01:19:30,696
FOR THE NEXT SIX HOURS,
HE SLEPT.
1420
01:19:34,459 --> 01:19:38,877
IN THE MORNING HE WAS TOLD THE
AWFUL NEWS--TITANIC HAD SUNK.
1421
01:19:41,190 --> 01:19:42,536
AND THE CHANCE
FOR THE CALIFORNIAN
1422
01:19:42,570 --> 01:19:46,609
TO RESCUE MOST, IF NOT ALL
THE SURVIVORS, WAS GONE.
1423
01:19:51,787 --> 01:19:53,374
Tim: THE TRAGEDY
WITH CAPTAIN LORD IS
1424
01:19:53,409 --> 01:19:54,824
THAT HE WAS ONE OF
THE YOUNGEST CAPTAINS
1425
01:19:54,859 --> 01:19:58,069
ON THE NORTH ATLANTIC, BECAUSE
HE WAS ONE OF THE ABLEST.
1426
01:19:58,103 --> 01:19:59,484
HOWEVER, THAT NIGHT,
1427
01:19:59,518 --> 01:20:03,557
HE WAS VERY MUCH IN THE
WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME.
1428
01:20:03,591 --> 01:20:06,215
BUT BECAUSE OF
THE ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS,
1429
01:20:06,249 --> 01:20:09,011
HE WASN'T AWARE OF
WHAT HE WAS WATCHING.
1430
01:20:12,428 --> 01:20:15,396
Narrator: LORD ALWAYS
MAINTAINED HIS INNOCENCE.
1431
01:20:15,431 --> 01:20:17,951
BUT WHAT EXACTLY
WAS HE LOOKING AT?
1432
01:20:19,642 --> 01:20:22,748
IT IS, OF COURSE,
IMPOSSIBLE TO ASK HIM.
1433
01:20:22,783 --> 01:20:26,787
BUT TODAY THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO
TIM CAN GO TO AS WITNESSES--
1434
01:20:26,822 --> 01:20:29,341
THE SAILORS OF NEWFOUNDLAND
WHO DAILY SEE SHIPS
1435
01:20:29,376 --> 01:20:32,897
NAVIGATING THE FREEZING WATERS
OF THE LABRADOR CURRENT.
1436
01:20:34,899 --> 01:20:36,038
Man: THE MOST PRONOUNCED
I'VE SEEN
1437
01:20:36,072 --> 01:20:39,351
IS A CRUISE SHIP LEAVING
THIS PORT AT ONE TIME.
1438
01:20:39,386 --> 01:20:40,628
AND THIS CRUISE SHIP,
1439
01:20:40,663 --> 01:20:43,183
WHICH I FOUND OUT LATER
WAS LEAVING THIS PORT,
1440
01:20:43,217 --> 01:20:45,530
WHICH I NORMALLY WOULDN'T SEE,
1441
01:20:45,564 --> 01:20:48,050
SHOWED UP HUGE
FROM WHERE I WAS SEEING.
1442
01:20:48,084 --> 01:20:51,432
AND THEN,
WITHIN 10 TO 15 SECONDS,
1443
01:20:51,467 --> 01:20:56,506
IT JUST SANK AND SANK AND
ALMOST DISAPPEARED COMPLETELY,
1444
01:20:56,541 --> 01:20:59,889
AND ALL I COULD SEE WAS
THE TOP OF THE SUPERSTRUCTURE.
1445
01:20:59,924 --> 01:21:03,030
AND IT SO ALARMED THE TWO OF US
ON BOARD THE BOAT,
1446
01:21:03,065 --> 01:21:05,722
ON BOARD MY BOAT,
THAT I CALLED THE CRUISE SHIP
1447
01:21:05,757 --> 01:21:07,966
AND ASKED IF THEY WERE FINE,
1448
01:21:08,001 --> 01:21:09,830
THEY WERE OKAY,
THE SHIP WAS SINKING.
1449
01:21:09,865 --> 01:21:11,728
THEY SAID,
"NO, NO, NO, NO, WE'RE FINE."
1450
01:21:11,763 --> 01:21:13,040
SO THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT
EMBARRASSING
1451
01:21:13,075 --> 01:21:14,352
TO CALL THE CRUISE SHIP
1452
01:21:14,386 --> 01:21:16,526
THEN FIND OUT THAT IT WAS JUST
AN OPTICAL ILLUSION
1453
01:21:16,561 --> 01:21:18,356
THAT I WAS LOOKING AT.
1454
01:21:19,875 --> 01:21:22,222
Narrator: NO ONE HAS EVER BEFORE
MADE THE CONNECTION
1455
01:21:22,256 --> 01:21:24,120
BETWEEN COLD WATER MIRAGES,
1456
01:21:24,155 --> 01:21:26,295
COMMONLY SEEN IN
THE RIGHT CONDITIONS,
1457
01:21:26,329 --> 01:21:29,919
AND THE EVIDENCE FROM
THE TITANIC TRAGEDY.
1458
01:21:29,954 --> 01:21:33,129
BUT NOW, TIM IS USING THIS
NEW RESEARCH TO HELP EXPLAIN
1459
01:21:33,164 --> 01:21:36,788
THE PREDICAMENT FACED BY
STANLEY LORD THAT NIGHT.
1460
01:21:36,822 --> 01:21:38,514
Tim: IT'S REALLY HARD
FOR US TO UNDERSTAND
1461
01:21:38,548 --> 01:21:41,517
HOW CAPTAIN LORD COULD MISTAKE
THE BIGGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD
1462
01:21:41,551 --> 01:21:43,105
FOR A CARGO SHIP.
1463
01:21:43,139 --> 01:21:45,383
BUT LOOK AT THIS.
LOOK AT THIS.
1464
01:21:45,417 --> 01:21:48,282
THIS LOOKS EXACTLY
LIKE A CARGO SHIP.
1465
01:21:48,317 --> 01:21:51,527
AND YET THIS LOOKS
LIKE AN OIL TANKER.
1466
01:21:51,561 --> 01:21:54,461
BUT, IN FACT, WHAT WE REALIZE
IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS
1467
01:21:54,495 --> 01:21:55,841
IT'S A MIRAGE,
1468
01:21:55,876 --> 01:21:57,774
WHICH IS CAUSING AN OIL TANKER
1469
01:21:57,809 --> 01:22:01,261
TO LOOK EXACTLY LIKE
A CARGO SHIP.
1470
01:22:06,611 --> 01:22:08,302
Narrator:
IT'S A RARE PHENOMENON,
1471
01:22:08,337 --> 01:22:11,823
BUT IT HAS BEEN CAPTURED
IN THIS VIDEO.
1472
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AMAZINGLY, THIS IS
ONE AND THE SAME SHIP.
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A SINGLE SHIP IS DISTORTED
BY A COLD WEATHER MIRAGE.
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SUPERIMPOSING A VIRTUAL IMAGE
ABOVE IT.
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01:22:25,009 --> 01:22:27,356
THESE SHOTS WERE TAKEN
OFF THE COAST OF FINLAND
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01:22:27,390 --> 01:22:29,185
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
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01:22:34,328 --> 01:22:38,125
AT NIGHT A CENTURY AGO,
IT NOW SEEMS PERFECTLY CLEAR
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01:22:38,160 --> 01:22:40,921
CAPTAIN LORD COULD EASILY
HAVE MISTAKEN TITANIC
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FOR ANOTHER,
VERY DIFFERENT VESSEL.
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Tim: IT DOES ACTUALLY MAKE ME
FEEL SORRY FOR CAPTAIN LORD,
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KNOWING NOW WHAT I KNOW
ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF THAT NIGHT.
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01:22:51,173 --> 01:22:53,451
WHEN HE IS APPARENTLY
MAKING EXCUSES,
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01:22:53,485 --> 01:22:54,866
SAYING THE SHIP
HE WAS LOOKING AT
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01:22:54,900 --> 01:22:56,937
DIDN'T LOOK ANYTHING
LIKE THE TITANIC,
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01:22:56,972 --> 01:23:00,354
WHAT I NOW UNDERSTAND IS THAT
HE WAS TELLING THE EXACT TRUTH.
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01:23:00,389 --> 01:23:01,597
AND, IN FACT,
WHAT HE WAS LOOKING AT
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DIDN'T LOOK ANYTHING
LIKE THE TITANIC AT ALL.
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Narrator: IN 1962, AGED 84,
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CAPTAIN STANLEY LORD DIED STILL
HAVING FAILED TO CLEAR HIS NAME.
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01:23:16,163 --> 01:23:19,028
HE WENT TO HIS GRAVE CARRYING
THE ENTIRE BURDEN OF BLAME
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01:23:19,063 --> 01:23:22,342
FOR WHY CALIFORNIAN DIDN'T GO
TO TITANIC'S AID.
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01:23:26,311 --> 01:23:28,589
BUT LORD WASN'T THE ONLY ONE
DECEIVED THAT NIGHT
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01:23:28,624 --> 01:23:31,075
ON THE CALIFORNIAN.
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01:23:31,109 --> 01:23:34,009
THERE WERE OTHERS,
AND ON THE TITANIC, TOO,
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01:23:34,043 --> 01:23:35,907
WHO MADE FATAL ERRORS
OF JUDGMENT
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01:23:35,941 --> 01:23:37,943
BECAUSE OF OPTICAL ILLUSIONS.
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REWINDING THE CLOCK...
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IT'S A LITTLE AFTER MIDNIGHT,
APRIL 15, 1912.
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TITANIC IS SINKING AND
CALLING OUT FOR HELP.
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[MORSE CODE BEEPING]
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ONLY 10 MILES AWAY
ON THE CALIFORNIAN,
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THE RADIO OPERATOR CYRIL EVANS
IS ASLEEP.
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01:24:02,382 --> 01:24:05,833
BUT TITANIC WASN'T BEING
COMPLETELY IGNORED.
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APPRENTICE JAMES GIBSON
WAS ON DUTY.
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NOT YET QUALIFIED
TO OPERATE THE RADIO,
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HE DOES, HOWEVER,
KNOW MORSE CODE.
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James Gibson: IT BEING MY WATCH
ON DECK AT 12:00,
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I WENT ONTO THE BRIDGE
ABOUT 15 MINUTES AFTER 12:00
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AND SAW THAT
THE SHIP HAD STOPPED
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AND THAT SHE WAS SURROUNDED
BY LIGHT FIELD ICE.
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01:24:32,239 --> 01:24:34,690
WHILE THE SECOND OFFICER AND I
WERE HAVING A COFFEE,
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AFTER A FEW MINUTES,
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I ASKED HIM IF THERE WAS
ANY SHIPS AROUND US.
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HE SAID THERE WAS ONE
ON THE STARBOARD BEAM.
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SO, LOOKING OVER,
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I COULD SEE, LIKE,
THIS WHITE LIGHT FLICKERING,
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WHICH I TOOK TO BE
MORSE CALLING US UP.
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I WENT OVER AND GAVE ONE LONG
FLASH OF LIGHT BACK IN ANSWER,
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BUT THE LIGHT
CONTINUED TO FLICKER.
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SO THEN I...WELL, I GAVE HER
THE CALLING UP SIGN.
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Narrator: BUT WHY DIDN'T
TITANIC TAKE ADVANTAGE
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OF THE CALIFORNIAN'S SIGNAL?
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HOW DID THEY MISS THIS
LAST CHANCE FOR RESCUE?
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ON BOARD TITANIC, MANY OF
THE PASSENGERS CATCH SIGHT
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OF SOMETHING THAT STIRS
THEIR HOPES OF ESCAPE.
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Gracie: I SHOWED THEM
A BRIGHT, WHITE LIGHT
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THAT I TOOK TO BE A SHIP
ABOUT FIVE MILES OFF,
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AND WHICH I FELT SURE
WAS COMING TO OUR RESCUE.
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Narrator: FOURTH OFFICER
JOSEPH BOXHALL
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IS AT THE MORSE LAMP.
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HIS TARGET IS THE MYSTERIOUS
FLICKERING LIGHT
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OF A DISTANT SHIP.
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Joseph Boxhall: CAPTAIN SMITH
WAS STANDING BY MY SIDE,
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AND WE BOTH CAME TO
THE CONCLUSION
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THAT SHE WAS CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
SIGNALED BY THE MORSE LAMP.
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SO I SIGNALED TO HER.
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I CALLED HER UP,
AND GOT NO ANSWER.
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THE CAPTAIN SAID,
"TELL THEM TO COME AT ONCE,
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WE ARE SINKING."
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SO I SENT A SIGNAL OUT,
"COME AT ONCE, WE ARE SINKING."
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Tim: AT THE VERY MOMENT THAT
BOXHALL HAD HIS BINOCULARS UP
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TRYING TO READ THE MORSE SIGNALS
FROM CALIFORNIAN,
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SO GIBSON ON CALIFORNIAN
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ALSO WAS LOOKING THROUGH
HIS BINOCULARS
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TRYING TO READ
THE FLASHING LIGHT
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THAT HE COULD SEE ON TITANIC.
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AND THERE'S A SENSE
THAT BOTH OF THEM KNEW
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IT COULD HAVE BEEN CODE,
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BUT BOTH OF THEM,
ON INSPECTING IT,
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DECIDED IT WAS JUST
RANDOM FLASHES.
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Gibson: THE LIGHT ON
THE OTHER SHIP, HOWEVER,
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REMAINED THE SAME.
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SO THEN I LOOKED
THROUGH THE BINOCULARS
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AND FOUND THAT IT WAS
THE MASTHEAD LIGHT FLICKERING.
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Narrator: GIBSON THINKS THE
RANDOM FLASHING LIGHT HE SEES
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IS COMING FROM
A FLICKERING OIL LAMP
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ON THE MAST OF A SMALL STEAMER.
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IT ISN'T THE STRICT DOTS
AND DASHES OF MORSE--
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JUST RANDOM NOISE.
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BOXHALL ON THE TITANIC
IS EQUALLY CONFUSED.
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EVENTUALLY THE STRANGE,
FLICKERING LIGHT
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SPOTTED BY THE CALIFORNIAN
DISAPPEARS.
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IT IS TITANIC,
SINKING TO THE OCEAN FLOOR.
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TIM BEGAN HIS INVESTIGATION
IN LAS VEGAS,
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EXAMINING THE PIECE
OF TITANIC'S HULL
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DREDGED UP FROM THE BOTTOM
OF THE OCEAN.
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AND IT'S HERE IN LAS VEGAS
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THAT HE FINDS THE FINAL
PIECE OF THE PUZZLE.
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Tim: I HAVE SPENT YEARS
WONDERING WHY THESE TWO SHIPS,
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WHICH WERE TRYING TO MORSE
EACH OTHER ALL NIGHT,
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COULDN'T COMMUNICATE.
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RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW,
IS THE ANSWER.
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IT'S SIMPLY THAT THESE LIGHTS
WHICH WE CAN SEE HERE,
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WE KNOW THEY'RE CONSTANT,
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BECAUSE THERE'S NO PROBLEMS WITH
THE POWER SUPPLY IN VEGAS,
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BUT WE CAN CLEARLY SEE THEM
FLICKERING ON AND OFF
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WITH A STACCATO FLASH.
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AND THAT REMINDS ME OF WHAT
BEESLEY WAS TALKING ABOUT
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WHEN HE SAID, "THE STARS
REALLY SEEMED TO BE ALIVE,
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AND TO TALK THAT NIGHT."
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01:28:40,384 --> 01:28:43,352
AND HERE WE ARE,
THESE LIGHTS SEEM TO BE ALIVE,
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AND THEY ALMOST
SEEM TO BE TALKING.
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01:28:48,288 --> 01:28:50,773
AND THE TRAGIC THING ABOUT
THIS BEAUTIFUL SIGHT
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IS IT'S EXACTLY THAT PHENOMENON,
KNOWN AS SCINTILLATION,
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01:28:54,294 --> 01:28:57,297
WHICH SCRAMBLED TITANIC'S
MORSE LAMP SIGNALS.
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01:28:57,332 --> 01:28:59,989
AND IT MEANT THAT
THE NEARBY SHIP,
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INSTEAD OF REALIZING
IT WAS TITANIC
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AND COMING STRAIGHT TO HER AID,
NEVER, EVER CAME TO HER AID.
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Narrator: LIKE A MIRAGE,
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SCINTILLATION IS CAUSED
BY LIGHT WAVES
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01:29:11,207 --> 01:29:14,659
TRAVELING THROUGH LAYERS
OF WARM AND COLD AIR.
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01:29:14,694 --> 01:29:17,869
BUT HERE THEY'RE MOVING IN FRONT
OF DISTANT POINTS OF LIGHT
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01:29:17,904 --> 01:29:22,702
WHICH RESPOND BY GROWING RAPIDLY
BRIGHTER OR DIMMER...
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01:29:22,736 --> 01:29:26,015
EXACTLY AS THEY DID IN THE
FREEZING NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
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01:29:26,050 --> 01:29:28,052
A CENTURY AGO.
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01:29:30,813 --> 01:29:32,194
BUT ON THAT NIGHT,
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THE SAME PHENOMENON RENDERED
THE MORSE LAMP SIGNALS
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01:29:35,577 --> 01:29:39,028
BETWEEN THE TWO SHIPS
UTTERLY MEANINGLESS.
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01:29:46,450 --> 01:29:48,590
ULTIMATELY,
THE TRAGEDY OF THE TITANIC
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01:29:48,624 --> 01:29:51,489
WAS THE RESULT OF A SIMPLE
TRICK OF THE LIGHT,
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BEAUTIFUL, AND AT
THE SAME TIME, LETHAL.
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01:29:56,425 --> 01:29:58,634
Hippach: SO MANY STARS.
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01:29:58,669 --> 01:30:01,257
NEVER SAW SO MANY
IN MY WHOLE LIFE.
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01:30:02,880 --> 01:30:06,573
Gracie: THE CLEAR, STARLIT NIGHT
MADE A NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE
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01:30:06,608 --> 01:30:10,405
IN THE DEGREE OF LIGHT JUST
BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE WATER.
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01:30:18,413 --> 01:30:19,552
Narrator: FOR 100 YEARS,
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PEOPLE HAVE WONDERED AND ARGUED
OVER TITANIC...
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01:30:23,625 --> 01:30:26,524
A GREAT SYMBOL OF
HUMAN INGENUITY,
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01:30:26,559 --> 01:30:30,459
YET STILL SOMEHOW A VICTIM
OF HUMAN FALLIBILITY.
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01:30:32,910 --> 01:30:35,153
WITH THE UNUSUAL CONDITIONS
THAT NIGHT,
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01:30:35,188 --> 01:30:37,224
THE LOOKOUTS AND CAPTAIN
SHOULD HAVE SENSED
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01:30:37,259 --> 01:30:39,261
THE NEED TO SLOW DOWN.
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01:30:41,608 --> 01:30:45,370
AND THE RADIO OPERATORS ON BOTH
THE TITANIC AND THE CALIFORNIAN
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01:30:45,405 --> 01:30:47,614
SHOWED FATAL LAPSES, TOO.
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01:30:50,272 --> 01:30:54,379
THE REAL CULPRITS, THOUGH, WERE
FORCES BEYOND HUMAN CONTROL.
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01:30:55,691 --> 01:30:58,383
Tim: IT'S ALMOST AS THOUGH
TITANIC SANK
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01:30:58,418 --> 01:31:00,385
IN A KILLING ZONE OF NATURE,
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01:31:00,420 --> 01:31:04,528
WHERE ALL THESE VERY DANGEROUS
ELEMENTS COMBINED
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01:31:04,562 --> 01:31:06,530
TO MAKE IT FATAL.
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01:31:07,634 --> 01:31:09,464
Narrator: A SERIES
OF FREAK PHENOMENA
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01:31:09,498 --> 01:31:13,847
CONVERGING AT A TIME AND A PLACE
TO MAKE DISASTER INEVITABLE.
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01:31:17,161 --> 01:31:19,163
THE WORDS OF SURVIVORS
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01:31:19,197 --> 01:31:21,648
COMBINED WITH A MODERN
SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION
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01:31:21,683 --> 01:31:27,136
HAVE AT LAST SOLVED
THE GREAT MYSTERIES OF TITANIC.
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