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VICTOR VESCOVO: Only a
very few number of people

have actually been toTitanic, less than 50.

[dramatic music]

You had a lot of mystery about
why it went down so quickly,

who survived, and who didn't.

It's a fascinating
story, but people

should not risk their lives to
see this wreck at 4,000 meters.

That is not a
normal thing to do.

[suspenseful music]

It simply is adding to the
intrigue of the Titanic

that 100 years later, it's still
leading people to their death.

[dramatic music]

Hello.

And welcome to How
It Really Happened.

I'm Jesse L. Martin.

The RMS Titanic sank to the
frigid depths of the Atlantic

over a century ago, but
America's fascination

with the ill-fated wreck
never gets old because there

is always something new.

Within the last 40
years, amazing advances

in science and technology have
led to brilliant new discoveries

and uncovered hidden secrets.

Tonight, we look into how the
very latest Titanic learning

upends our previous thinking
about the ship's mysteries

and myths and, sadly, a
recent underwater voyage

to the wreck that put
more human lives at risk.

[dramatic music]

[engine whirring]

VICTOR VESCOVO: Diving toTitanic is, in many respects,

preparing to go to space
because it's an incredibly

hostile environment.

[tense music]

When we think
about risk taking

as it applies to exploration,
for me, it's the sea.

The reality is that
there's been fewer people

that have dove to
the Titanic than have

actually gone into space.

[whistling]

[creaking]

[tense music]

REPORTER: An urgent search
and rescue operation

is now underway in the
North Atlantic in the area

near the wreck of the Titanic
to find a lost submersible

with five people aboard.

CRAIG SOPIN: When
the Titan failed

to surface at its indicated
time, then there was an alarm.

And the Coast Guard was
notified, and the search ensued.

REPORTTER: The US
Coast Guard tells

CNN it's got a ship on
the scene and aircraft,

including C-130 planes,
Canadian ships and planes

joining the search as well.

CRAIG SOPIN: The Titan was a
submersible that was being used

to bring passengers to look
at and learn about the Titanic

firsthand.

[somber music]

Five people were
aboard the Titan,

including Stockton Rush, who
owned OceanGate, the company

that operated the Titan.

OREN LIEBERMANN: Pakistani
British billionaire

Shahzada Dawood, 48 years
old, and his 19-year-old

son, Sulaiman.

VICTOR VESCOVO: The other
members that were on board

were P.H. Nargeole.

He was involved in virtually
every major expedition

to Titanic.

And then Hamish Harding was
a passenger on the vessel.

Titanic was something
that he just

really, really wanted to see.

And he thought-- in
his own words to me,

he thought that the
Titan was safe enough.

[tense music]

OREN LIEBERMANN: OceanGate
explorations would give you

a few hours on the bottom of
the ocean with the Titanic

on board their sub, the Titan.

But 1 hour 45 minutes
into the dive,

communication with
the Titan was lost.

There was 96 hours of
oxygen on board the Titan,

so the timeline is ticking
from the very beginning.

There was hope that they
were possibly still alive.

It was truly a mystery
playing out in real time.

And we all wondered, did the
five people on board the Titan

lose their lives
on the very wreck

they were trying to explore?

[horn blaring]

PARKS STEPHENSON: I've heard it
said once that the three most

recognized words in
the English language

are �God,� �Coca-Cola,�
and �Titanic.�

What is it about theTitanic that makes it

so that we cannot get enough?

Why are we so obsessed
with this ship?

REPORTER: 73 years
after it sank,

a team of French and
American scientists

announced they'd found theTitanic 2 and 1/2 miles down.

TIM MALTIN: On the 1st
of September, 1985,

Bob Ballard from Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute

in the US, together with a team
of very experienced French Navy

diving experts, conducted
a joint mission to go

and try and find the Titanic.

The expedition really had to
search hard to find the location

of Titanic because it
wasn't where the distress

coordinates had stated it was.

They were surprised by
how far off the mark

the distress coordinates were.

VICTOR VESCOVO: TheTitanic is located

about three or
four days steaming

south of Newfoundland, Canada.

TAD FITCH: 350, 360 miles off
the coast of Newfoundland.

TIM MALTIN: Titanic lies
in the darkness 2 miles

below the surface.

[sonar beeping]

TAD FITCH: All those years,
it had sat there untouched.

Nobody had seen the ship in any
capacity since the day it sank.

ROBERT BALLARD: The
first thing that we

encountered were the boilers
that had gone through the bow.

The first image we
had was a boiler.

The ship is in beautiful
condition where it is.

TAD FITCH: When Ballard
announced that he had found

the wreck of theTitanic, he immediately

caught the world's attention.

[suspenseful music]

OREN LIEBERMANN: The discovery
of the wreck helped answer some

of those questions, questions
that there was no other way

to figure out without finding
the remnants of the ship itself.

TAD FITCH: The images that
they retrieved were remarkable.

REPORTER: They
were aided by Jason

Junior, a sophisticated
underwater camera.

TAD FITCH: Seeing dishes and
shoes, some boiler or a piece

of equipment, pots and
things from the kitchens,

it was fascinating
to see these things

there on the floor of the ocean
right where they had landed.

The key was coming up with
the right search strategy

because it was a big area.

I realized that the key was
not to look for the Titanic.

Don't look for it.

Look for the debris
that comes off of it.

VICTOR VESCOVO: And
late on September 1,

they saw what appeared
to be a Titanic boiler.

TIM MALTIN: And then they found
the Titanic in two halves.

The bow was quite well
preserved, stuck in the mud.

And then the stern had
really completely imploded

and was like a junkyard.

The bow and the stern were
found about 1/2 a mile apart.

TAD FITCH: I remember thinking
we were disappointed that it

wasn't in better condition.

We'd had this fantasy
that it sunk in one piece,

regardless of what the
survivors remembered.

A lot of people,
including me, had

never realized it split in two.

That in itself was
quite a surprise.

I was seduced by the imagery
of Dr. Ballard's expeditions

and seeing the real
wreck on the bottom.

But I wanted a human
interface between that imagery

and the imagery of 1912.

And I wanted-- so it ultimately
becomes a story about memory.

[tense music]

Titanic was called
the ship of dreams.

And it was.

TIM MALTIN: When Bob
Ballard found the wreck,

it brought it to a
whole new audience.

When James Cameron did the film,
it really brought the disaster

home again to a whole
new generation of people

and, of course, to a
huge global audience.

We're going to make it, Rose.

Trust me.

Suddenly, you could
see Titanic in full color

brought back to life.

ANDREW WILSON: And because it
recounts a very human story,

a romance across the class
divide, I think that really

captures people's imagination.

PARKS STEPHENSON: It
literally took my breath away.

That ending just struck
me for some reason

to be able to go
down to the wreck

and see all the
ghosts walking around.

James Cameron got pulled
into this whole Titanic mania

and did his own
exploration and research

and uncovered new evidence.

LARRY KING: There areTitanic freaks, right,

people who collect items?

[laughs] Definitely.

Yeah, definitely.

There's a large number of them.

Mr. Cameron, have
you become one?

JAMES CAMERON: Yes, I think so.

This is not, then, just
another film you directed?

No, I'm a bona fide
rivet counter now.

I've been sucked into the vortex
of fascination with Titanic.

[crashing]

Titanic's sinking and her
entire story is shrouded

in incredible mysteries.

And that is partly why
we keep coming back.

We always want to know more.

We always want to
find those answers.

[radar beeps]

[dramatic music]

So tonight, we're
getting a never-before-seen

look of the Titanic wreckage
deep in the Atlantic Ocean.

It's the first
full-sized digital scan

of perhaps the history's
most famous shipwreck.

A team of scientists
carried out what

they called the largest
underwater scanning project

in history.

The difference between
the original grainy images

of the wreck that Bob
Ballard took in 1985

and nowadays where,
aided with CGI,

we've been able
to scan the seabed

almost as though the
water's been drained away.

And there she is.

And of course, we're
now able to see things

at the level of detail, for
example, of pieces of jewelry

on the seabed within the wreck.

REPORTER: They believe the
large-scale underwater scanning

project is a game changer,
and it may solve the mystery

of what exactly caused the
luxury passenger liner to sink

in the Atlantic in 1912.

[rumbling]

[sombermusic]

TIM MALTIN: On the
night of April 14, 1912,

the weather conditions
seemed to be perfect.

The visibility was excellent.

There was no wind.

The sea was as
calm as anyone had

known it on the North Atlantic.

I think they were
sort of comfortable

that they would see the ice
and get out of the way in time.

[crashing]

Titanic sank in what I
call a perfect storm of calm.

TAD FITCH: And you can see
where the ship broke apart.

It was much messier
than what has

been portrayed in the movies.

It was very violent.

[dramatic music]

The Titanic was
considered unsinkable

because it had these
watertight compartments sort

of, like, an ice cube tray.

You fill one cube compartment
in an ice cube tray,

it doesn't flow into the next
one until it rises high enough.

OREN LIEBERMANN: TheTitanic was built with 16

watertight compartments.

This was revolutionary
for its day.

So everyone believed
that this was one

of the safest ships ever built.

DON LYNCH: You have the
largest ship in the world.

It's on its maiden voyage.

I seem to recall that
it was 883 feet long.

DON LYNCH: Which is
like three football

fields, which was enormous.

TIM MALTIN: She was
several stories high.

She had 11 decks in total.

DON LYNCH: I believe it
weighed around 53,000 tons.

TIM MALTIN: She had 900 crew.

She could take 2,500 passengers.

DON LYNCH: And it's
supposed to be unsinkable.

TIM MALTIN: There was
this sense of excitement

about the newest, biggest.

CRAIG SOPIN: If people
wanted to travel in luxury,

Titanic was it.

TIM MALTIN: Titanic had
many of the luxuries

that you would associate with
a five-star hotel on land.

She had a state-of-the-art
for the time gymnasium.

KELLIE CARTER JACKSON: And
there's the top-of-the-line

chefs and cuisines.

Titanic attracted a lot of
millionaire passengers,

so it really was sort of a
who's who among passenger lists.

[smooth music]

Most famously, John Jacob
Astor, who was the richest

man in the world at the time--

His fortune then
was equivalent

today of about $2.3 billion.

TOM MEYERS: John Jacob
Astor and his cousin,

William, ran the most
profitable hotel in the city

for decades, the
Waldorf Astoria.

CRAIG SOPIN: Isidor Strauss
was a very rich man.

GREG DAUGHERTY: He made his
wealth as a co-owner of the big

department store Macy's.

DON LYNCH: And you had
Benjamin Guggenheim on board.

GREG DAUGHERTY:
Benjamin Guggenheim was

a 46-year-old industrialist.

Benjamin Guggenheim
was born into a fortune.

He was not new money.

He was old money.

TIM MALTIN: There
was a very attractive

actress on the Titanic.

GREG DAUGHERTY: Dorothy Gibson.

She had been a model
for an illustrator,

did a lot of magazine covers.

CRAIG SOPIN: She was also one
of the highest-paid silent film

actresses at the time, well
known for quite a few films,

even though she was in her early
20s at the time of the Titanic .

[melancholic music]

JULIAN FELLOWES: The first
class on a ship like Titanic

were considered a
kind of golden race,

these marvelous men and women
with their wonderful cars

and chauffeurs and ladies
maids and-- they were

all gods and goddesses, really.

TIM MALTIN: But let's not forget
that that same excitement went

for even the third
class passengers,

from the richest people
to the poorest people.

All of them were
having a great time

and reveling in the
wonders of the ship.

SHELLY BINDER: Leah Aks
is my great-grandmother.

She was traveling
in third class.

[upbeat music]

The party that Jack
Dawson brought roads to

in third class in
the movie Titanic

actually happened, and my
great-grandmother was there.

[rousing music]

KELLIE CARTER JACKSON:
Joseph Philippe

Lemercier Laroche was the
only Black man on the Titanic.

Joseph was a
second-class passenger.

I believed he always sort
of wanted to return to Haiti

and to be with his family.

JULIAN FELLOWES: Titanic was
that society in miniature.

Everyone was aboard immigrants
as well as high-born noble women

in their diamonds.

They were all there.

I think the Titanic was
the last known real moment

in history where everybody
knew their place.

And I think that's why people
love it, love to talk about it,

love to think about it,
because it's an era that is

literally frozen in time there.

And things were never
the same afterwards.

[theme music]

[engine humming]

[ominous music]

ANDERSON COOPER: The desperate
search for the OceanGate Titan

the experimental
submersible, essentially

a miniature submarine,
with five people inside.

They had hoped to visit the
wreck of the Titanic sitting

on the ocean floor in
the North Atlantic,

but now they face a
disaster of their own--

their air slowly running out.

Locating a vessel the size
of a large car in an area

twice the size of
Connecticut will simply

take more time than they have.

REPORTER: It is
this tiny vessel.

It's very cramped.

It's small.

It can only fit five
people on board.

You can see how tightly
packed they are, people

facing in different directions.

JOSH GATES: You get inside.

You sit down on
the floor of Titan.

They close this big,
heavy door, and they

bolt it shut from the outside.

So once you're in Titan,
somebody has to let you out

of the sub from the outside.

They have no control
over what's going

on and almost helplessness.

It doesn't matter what they do.

They cannot find
their own solution

within the submersible itself.

They have to wait for
somebody else to find them.

REPORTER: The crew now has
less than 30 hours of oxygen.

If you panic on board
and hyperventilate,

you use more oxygen.
So these were

all the questions on how much
oxygen is really available.

Easy.

Don't stress.

Don't panic.

Use as little energy as you can.

Which is obviously easier said
than done in this situation.

It would be hard not
to be freaked out.

INTERVIEWEE: It could have been
an electrical failure on board,

so therefore, systems
are shut down.

If they are alive
and they're in there,

they're going to be at
almost freezing temperatures.

The conditions would be
horrendous, pitch-black,

freezing-cold, and
dwindling oxygen.

All three of those things
make for a nightmare scenario.

MICHELLE TURMAN: I don't
think until I actually

dove the wreck did I
understand the gravity

and the responsibility
of telling the story.

I felt like I was
in a sacred space.

You start trolling
around the ship,

you start trolling
around the ocean bottom

and trying to see things
that you could extract.

Many of the artifacts, whether
it was a first-class officer

uniform, whether it was a
suitcase that we brought up that

had a pipe in there that still
had tobacco, whether it was

a champagne bottle
that was still corked

or a bottle of olives or telling
the story in a respectful way

of passengers, of real lives.

When one sees some
of these artifacts,

like a soap dish
or a plate, it does

go through your mind of, who
was the last person to use this?

And what was it like being
them over 100 years ago

and going down the ship
on that fateful night?

[stirring music]

GREG DAUGHERTY: John Jacob Astor
IV was returning to the United

States from Europe, where
he'd been honeymooning with

his pregnant 18-year-old wife.

CRAIG SOPIN:
Madeleine Force Astor.

GREG DAUGHERTY:
And so they wanted

to get home in plenty of time
before the baby was born.

ANDREW WILSON: Ida
and Isidor Straus

had been married for
more than four decades.

They'd had an incredibly happy
marriage throughout that time.

The Straus' had been
traveling in Europe,

and they thought
the return voyage

would be a wonderfully pleasant,
relaxing trip back to America.

[suspenseful music]

One of the things
people question

is, was Titanic going too
fast into a known ice field.

DON LYNCH: At the
time of the collision,

they were going the fastest they
had ever gone during the voyage.

Captain Smith was the
premier White Star captain.

He'd had an excellent career.

TIM MALTIN: He was known as
The Millionaire's Captain,

and he actually
loved going fast.

[waves crashing]

There is some evidence
that they were trying

to break the maiden voyage
crossing time of Titanic's

sister ship, RMS Olympic.

There's some pretty credible
evidence to that effect.

TIM MALTIN: What they thought
was, we'll surprise them,

and we'll arrive a day early
so that when the papers wake up

in the morning in New
York, the mist will lift,

and the Titanic will be there.

[ominous music]

DON LYNCH: The Titanic had
been receiving ice warnings

for several days from
ships that had been

traveling through that region.

I think they
had received seven

ice warnings during the day.

GREG DAUGHERTY: Some were
heeded, but others were not.

TAD FITCH: The
wireless operators--

they were backed up
on correspondence

and were under pressure
to get that sent.

[suspenseful music]

DON LYNCH: People were
wiring ahead to book

their hotels for when they
got to New York and things

like that.

There was one particular
one which would have suggested

to Titanic on April
14 the Titanic was

heading into a heavy ice floe.

They were basically
saying, we're

stopped and surrounded by ice.

BILL WORMSTEDT: Phillips
just stuck it off to the side

to get to it in a few minutes,
but he never got back to it.

He didn't deliver this
message to Captain Smith.

[waves crashing]

TIM MALTIN: The
weather conditions

were so extraordinarily
clear that they

caused people to make
some errors of judgment

about navigation.

GREG DAUGHERTY: The
two lookouts on duty

at the time in the crow's
nest were Frederick

Fleet and Reginald Lee.

TIM MALTIN: There was what the
lookouts described as a "slight

haze" all around the horizon.

That's called a refraction
haze, and that delayed

the sighting of the iceberg.

OREN LIEBERMANN: They didn't
see the iceberg until they were

just practically right upon it.

BILL WORMSTEDT: Kind of
rose up out of the ocean.

TIM MALTIN: The lookouts
described it as a dark mass

that came through that haze.

[horn sounds]

TAD FITCH: They realized
it was an iceberg

and rang the warning bell.

[bell rings]

Three rings on the
bell for an obstacle

directly ahead and then
telephoned the bridge.

BILL WORMSTEDT: Fleet
called down and said,

iceberg dead ahead.

DON LYNCH: And so they
immediately began maneuvers.

BILL WORMSTEDT: They
started turning to the left,

around the iceberg.

TAD FITCH: And it
looked like it was going

to miss the iceberg
entirely at first,

and that's when they
heard a grinding noise.

[metallic scraping]

[dramatic music]

BILL WORMSTEDT: The iceberg
contacted the Titanic

up very close to the bow.

[metallic scraping]

To the people in
the one boiler room,

they said it was like the whole
side of the ship gave away.

The clock in the wheelhouse said
that it was 11:40 PM precisely.

[waves crashing]

[theme music]

Welcome back to HowIt Really Happened.

The night of the Titanic
disaster, the lookout

scanning the ice
field did not have

the advantage of binoculars.

Titanic's binoculars were
locked away, stashed in a locker

in the crow's nest, and the key
to the locker was not on board.

A sailor reassigned
to another ship

at the last minute
forgot to leave

the key behind when he left.

Lookout Fred Fleet, who
survived the Titanic sinking,

would later insist that if
binoculars had been available,

the iceberg would have
been spotted in enough time

for the ship to
take evasive action,

saving the lives of
everyone on board.

[dramatic music]

After the Titanic hit
the iceberg, shards of ice

dropped onto the boat deck.

Some people were seen
throwing them around,

having a bit of snow fight.

There was one passenger that
said, oh, get me some ice

so I can put it in my drink.

TIM MALTIN: And as soon
as the collision occurred,

Smith came forward
onto the bridge.

[suspenseful music]

TAD FITCH: The first
thing in his mind

was, how badly are we damaged?

Is it something that the
ship's pumps can keep ahead of?

Can they get that water
out and prevent it

from flooding catastrophically?

ANDREW WILSON: Captain Smith
met with Thomas Andrews, who's

the chief engineer,
and they went

down to the bowels of the
ship to inspect the damage.

They saw the water pouring in.

DON LYNCH: TheTitanic was considered

unthinkable because it had
these watertight compartments.

If you fill one, it doesn't
flow into the next one

until it rises high enough.

[ominous music]

TIM MALTIN: If she had
a head-on collision--

[crashing]

--she could float with four
of her first watertight

compartments flooded.

didn't hit the iceberg head-on.

DON LYNCH: They had sideswiped
the iceberg to where

the first five
compartments were flooded,

and they flooded enough fast
enough that they couldn't

keep up with the pumps.

JULIAN FELLOWES: It
was an odd thing.

If they hadn't tried to
pull the liner to one side

to avoid the iceberg, they
would have hit it dead on,

and they wouldn't have sunk
because the compartments

built into the design would
have contained the incoming sea.

But by turning, the iceberg had
the opportunity to slash right

down the side.

[metallic scraping]

TIM MALTIN: And that
caused an enormous amount

of underwater damage.

It's a mathematical certainty
that she would sink.

TAD FITCH: Thomas Andrews
was actually seen racing up

the grand staircase three stairs
at a time with a look of terror

on his face and at 12:25
delivers that devastating

news that the ship was doomed.

GREG DAUGHERTY: Hundreds
and hundreds of people

were going to die.

It must just have been
an awful realization.

[metallic scraping]

BILL WORMSTEDT: Captain
Smith told the Marconi

operators, Jack
Phillips mainly, to send

out the call for distress.

The first distress call went
out at 12:15 Titanic time,

which is about 40 minutes
after the iceberg hit, saying,

"Please come, we need help."

One of the messages
says, "Water getting

up to the top of the boilers."

GREG DAUGHERTY: Dorothy
Gibson and her mother

were in first class--

[metallic scraping]

--and was walking
back to her cabin

when she heard this "scraping"
sound as she described it.

ANDREW WILSON: Her survival
instinct was incredibly strong,

so she pushed forward
with her mother, Pauline,

to get on that very
first lifeboat.

DON LYNCH: John Jacob Astor was
mingling with some other people

on the grand staircase,
and he actually

was told, get your wife
out of bed, get up on deck,

and get your life jackets.

But his wife, being
pregnant-- he was more

concerned about her condition.

And so they went into the
gymnasium to get warm.

[suspenseful music]

TIM MALTIN: And at
that point, stewards

went all around the ship,
knocking on doors, saying,

get up, get dressed,
put warm things

on, and calmly go up to the
deck with your life jackets on.

ANDREW WILSON: Guggenheim
is in his cabin,

and he is awakened
by his Steward.

And he's given a life preserver.

TAD FITCH: The officers
and crew members

didn't tell everybody the
ship was sinking because they

were trying to prevent a panic.

KELLIE CARTER JACKSON: Some are
in their PJs, their slippers.

Some people are barefoot.

TAD FITCH: The early
stages of the sinking,

it was relatively calm.

[upbeat violin music]

TIM MALTIN: The
musicians were brought

up onto the deck
to play relaxing

and actually quite fun music.

Most people were actually trying
to make light and make a brave

face of what was going on.

[somber music]

TAD FITCH: One of the biggest
controversies regarding

the night of the
disaster is there

was a ship that
was on the horizon

that was seen from Titanic.

They tried calling
through wireless.

They tried signaling
it with Morse lamp.

We are the Titanic sinking .

Have your boats ready.

But that ship
just didn't react,

and Captain Smith at one point
said, what's wrong with them?

Why aren't they coming to help?

TIM MALTIN: What's become known
as the mystery ship that never

came to her rescue, we now know
that the mystery ship-- she

was actually the Californian.

OREN LIEBERMANN: Apparently,
the captain of the Californian

could have seen the Titanic
from his binoculars.

This is still hotly contested to
this very day, the question of,

why wasn't the Californian
there as quickly as possible?

It's just
unfortunate that they

missed out completely on any
opportunity to possibly help.

KELLIE CARTER JACKSON:
Slowly and surely,

though, the ship is taking on
water, more and more water.

People are panicking,
and now they

have to utilize the lifeboats
that they have on the ship.

[theme music]

REPORTER: Rescue operations to
find the missing Titanic tour

submersible is underway,
and with every passing hour,

the situation becomes more dire.

[ominous music]

Right now, all of our efforts
are focused on finding the sub.

REPORTER: Experts
estimate life support

for the five passengers
on board could

run out by Thursday morning.

Friends of those on board
are holding out hope.

They were sealed inside
the submersible, Titan,

and lowered into the
ocean for their descent

to the seabed some 13,000
feet below, about two miles.

There was banging
and these noises

that they were hearing
that they we're

trying to decipher
what those were.

--the banging noise
perhaps from inside--

REPORTER: Indistinct
sounds from the ocean

depths could be a sign of life.

[banging]

REPORTER: The banging was
heard every 30 minutes Tuesday.

It's quite inconceivable that
nature would be so perfectly

attuned to send banging
noises on the half an hour,

and in fact, it
is common practice

within naval
distressed situations

that you bang on the hour
and on the half an hour.

You do have on board
the French navy

person, Pierre-Henri Nargeolet,
and he would know that.

They are most likely alive, and
we are-- even with a chance,

a fighting chance.

ANDERSON COOPER:
Hope at this point

may rest on noises
detected by sonar.

The rescue window
continues to shrink.

[dramatic music]

There was a number
of ships that responded

to Titanic's distress calls.

PARKS STEPHENSON: Jack Phillips,
the senior operator on Titanic

he first started talking to a
German vessel, the Frankfurt,

who had, according to
Phillips, too many questions,

and what Phillips
wanted was action.

So he basically cut Frankfurt
off and said, just shut up.

Stay out of this.

BILL WORMSTEDT: There was
another ship, the Mount Temple

which was about 59 miles away.

It immediately turned around
and started heading back.

TAD FITCH: But were too far away
to provide immediate assistance,

and those aboardTitanic-- they knew

if they didn't get
a hold of somebody

closer that almost
certainly there was going

to be a massive loss of life.

TIM MALTIN: The Carpathia--
she was actually traveling back

from New York to Europe,
about 60 miles south

of Titanic's westerly route.

OREN LIEBERMANN: The
response to the Titanic

should have been faster.

The Titanic started putting
out its SOS, its distress call,

but the wireless room on
the Carpathia was empty.

It was very close to
the middle of the night.

PARKS STEPHENSON: Carpathia
was roughly 60 miles away.

Frankfurt was over twice
that distance away,

so it really did make
sense for Carpathia

to be the ship that
Phillips would prioritize.

[suspenseful music]

OREN LIEBERMANN: Some
time after the distress

signals from theTitanic first went out,

the Carpathia responded.

It was on its way.

ANDREW WILSON: Phillips and
Bride cut in from Titanic

and basically said,
where have you been?

We're sinking.
Come now.

Come immediately.

BILL WORMSTEDT:
On the Carpathia,

Captain Rostron
immediately ordered

the ship to be turned around
and headed toward the Titanic.

TAD FITCH: He knew it
was a desperate race.

BILL WORMSTEDT: All he could
do was just go and hope,

and they came to the rescue.

[eerie music]

There's a lot of conversation
about why Titanic didn't have

enough lifeboats for everyone.

DON LYNCH: They were
required to have 16

by law but they had four extra

CRAIG SOPIN: There
were 20 lifeboats,

so if we do the math--

DON LYNCH: If they
had filled all

20 lifeboats to capacity, they
could have carried 1,100 people.

But there were more than
2,200 people on the Titanic.

BILL WORMSTEDT: 712
people were saved,

so there was a lot
of empty spaces.

GREG DAUGHERTY: I believe that
lifeboat drills were fairly

common on ships in those days.

The Titanic didn't have
one, unfortunately,

but was supposed to have one
on the 14th, which is the date

that it hit the iceberg.

For some reason
it was called off.

TAD FITCH: It was
intended for the crew,

and they might have mustered
certain crew members on deck

and made sure that
they knew which

lifeboat they were to go to.

The most senior surviving
officer from the Titanic

was in charge.

He was very strict about
women and children only.

No men allowed in the boat.

There was a man who was
trying to dress like a woman

or at least appear
to be a woman,

and he wore, like, a
floor-length Mackintosh, which

was, like, a
raincoat, which would

have passed as a woman's coat.

And then he did
pull, like, a towel

over his head to look like
a scarf and got into a boat.

ANDREW WILSON: After the order
was given to abandon ship,

Joseph and Juliet Laroche
hurriedly got their girls

ready to go up on deck.

KELLIE CARTER JACKSON:
Joseph scoops up Simone,

and Juliet scoops up Louise.

And they make their way up
to the top deck of the ship.

The two of them are separated.

[indistinct shouting]

A crew person sees
Juliet and Louise,

and he ushers them
onto the lifeboat.

Juliet is panicking because
she cannot find Joseph,

and she cannot find Simon.

They lost each other.

By some miracle, they were
able to find each other

as they boarded the lifeboats.

KELLIE CARTER JACKSON:
And there's commotion.

A crew member simply takes,
Simone hands her to her mother,

and within moments, the
lifeboat plunges toward the sea

without her husband.

[ominous music]

BILL WORMSTEDT: And most
of the forward lifeboats

that left early in the sequence
went down only partway full.

[stirring music]

TIM MALTIN: Titanic,
although she sank slowly,

she was actually sinking
faster and faster and faster

as she was settling deeper
and deeper in the water,

and crowds started to form
around the last lifeboats.

And that's where order
started to break down.

TAD FITCH: Pushing and shoving
and people panicking, trying

to force their way in, and then
it deteriorated that quickly

into, like, a horrific scene.

We know that several officers
did have revolvers with them.

TIM MALTIN: And many of them
shot them into the air--

[gunshot]

--in order to startle
passengers and calm them down

and bring them to their senses.

Fifth Officer Lowe
had his own revolver,

and he actually did fire it at--

[gunshot]

--lifeboat number 14.

TAD FITCH: He was afraid that
the passengers were going

to jump from the
promenade deck and cause

the boat to buckle or collapse.

CRAIG SOPIN: John Jacob
Astor had his lifebelt on.

TAD FITCH: And so
he took his wife,

and they went up to
the starboard side.

GREG DAUGHERTY: He did usher
his bride into a lifeboat.

And even when we have Astor
asking to sit next to his very

young and very
frightened pregnant wife

and he's turned down,
he doesn't remonstrate.

He just steps back
and throws her his gloves

so she wouldn't have cold hands,
which I find rather touching.

TAD FITCH: Isidor
and Ida Straus were

a couple that had been married
for an extremely long time.

GREG DAUGHERTY:
Their story is one

of the classic Titanic stories.

He tried to get her
to go into a lifeboat.

DON LYNCH: Lifeboat 8.

But she wouldn't get in and
went up to her husband and said,

we've been together
too many years.

Where you go, I go.

[suspenseful music]

Third class at that time
was mostly immigrants.

Leah Aks was a lady from
England and had a child.

SHELLEY BINDER: So here she is,
trying to get up the stairs,

trying to go up into
the Aft Well Deck.

ANDREW WILSON: There
were some reports

of when people in
steerage, third class,

tried to get up from
the bowels of the ship.

Some of the gates were
locked to the top deck, where

they could find a lifeboat.

[metal rattling]

TIM MALTIN: And they
were shaking the gate

and asking for the
gates to be opened.

[indistinct shouting]

SHELLEY BINDER:
There were hundreds

of people pushing their way up
there, and there was a logjam.

Leah literally had to
fight for her life.

And nobody was
sort of on top of it.

The one that Lady Duff-Gordon
got into with her husband--

they only had 12 people in a
boat that should have had 60.

It wasn't so much evil
as a kind of incompetence

that saddens me that so many
more people died than need have.

JULIE COOK: There were
a good 2 and 1/2 hours,

three hours before it sank,
and so you have all this time

to be fearful, to be terrified.

And I think that's the
true horror of what

happened on the Titanic.

[screaming]

[theme music]

[eerie music]

These are the only
pictures we know

of of the Titanic's lifeboats
with the survivors on board.

It's hard to imagine the trauma
they have just been through,

the horror of the sinking
itself, families ripped apart.

Mothers were separated
from their children.

It happened.

[dramatic music]

KELLIE CARTER JACKSON:
Chaos starts to ensue.

It creeps up and then slowly
spreads to the rest of the ship.

[indistinct shouting]

OREN LIEBERMANN: As
the ship is going down,

Leah Aks hands her 10-month-old
baby boy to another man,

who helps her try to make her
way along the deck and along

the ship towards the lifeboats.

But he's moving much
faster than her on board

a ship that is
sinking, and she loses

sight of her 10-month-old boy.

When she got to
the top, they didn't

wait for her with the baby.

SHELLEY BINDER: And out
of the corner of her eye,

she sees what she thinks is
someone throwing her baby

into the ocean, and she
ran around the deck,

looking, asking everybody,
have you seen my baby?

Have you seen my baby?

No, no, no.

And she said she contemplated
jumping after him.

She was so upset that she was
on the verge of a dead faint,

and she lost her mind.

And then she was
in this lifeboat,

floating around in the
middle of the North Atlantic.

OREN LIEBERMANN: Benjamin
Guggenheim-- he was

traveling with his mistress.

TIM MALTIN: A young French
singer, L�ontine Aubart.

GREG DAUGHERTY: He managed
to get her and her maid

into a lifeboat.

CRAIG SOPIN: He is one of
those characters on Titanic

that makes it into
almost every book

and every film because of one
particular thing that occurred.

GREG DAUGHERTY: The story goes
that he and his manservant--

CRAIG SOPIN: --go
back to the stateroom,

and they change into their best.

I mean, who was getting
dressed in tuxedos

when the ship is going down?

And somebody said, what are
you doing dressed as you are?

And he said, we've
dressed in our best,

and we are prepared to
go down like gentlemen.

GREG DAUGHERTY: There was a
story that John Jacob Astor let

all the dogs out of
the Titanic's kennels

so they wouldn't be trapped
in the sinking ship.

He was a big dog lover.

[dogs barking]

[eerie music]

TIM MALTIN: Captain
Smith during the sinking

remained very calm
and very brave.

After all the
lifeboats have left,

he goes around
releasing the crew.

He basically puts a hand
on their shoulder and says,

you've done all you can.

It's every man for himself now.

[indistinct shouting]

As the weight of water pulled
the bow lower and lower,

you still had this very
buoyant stern of the Titanic.

DON LYNCH: The stern began
to rise a little bit.

GREG DAUGHERTY: People
were still on board.

DON LYNCH: All of
a sudden, a wave

came over them
and engulfed them.

They felt the ship
really sinking.

Some people started running.

[screaming]

TIM MALTIN: Most passengers had
run to the back of the ship,

and they thought
they might survive.

DON LYNCH: People headed up
there just to higher ground.

They began grabbing onto things.

People were, like, clinging
like bees in clumps

to the different things.

[indistinct shouting]

It was total pandemonium.

[ominous music]

2 and 1/2 hours after
striking the iceberg,

more than seven tons of
frigid water was pouring

into the ship every
second, far more than

the pumps could force back out.

As the bow steadily
plunged below the surface,

the last of Titanic ' s lifeboas
were being loaded and launched.

But there were 1,500
souls still stranded

aboard who realized
there will be

no chance of a rescue for them.

And there was no real
guarantee for the people

adrift in the rowboats.

Do any vessels know
they're out there?

Is aid on the way?

The frightening ordeal
continues for the refugees

of the doomed ocean liner
in part 2 of Titanic.

I'm Jesse L. Martin.

Thank you for watching.

[dramatic music]

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