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NARRATOR: The sinking
on its first crossing

created the most extraordinary
sense of loss and reversal

of fortune.

People did think
Titanic was unsinkable,

and yet it would end up
at the bottom of the sea.

It's very haunting.

And you think of that
staircase lying fathoms

deep, when only a few hours
before beautiful women

in their garments had
been parading down it.

Guggenheim asked the
people at the time

dreamt of leading their lives.

They were so glamorous
and marvelous.

And suddenly there they
were in the icy sea.

It sort of shakes you.

And I think that Titanic going
down shook the Western world.

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Hello.

And welcome to How
it Really Happened.

I'm Jesse L. Martin.

The final calls for
help from Titanic

revealed the distress of the
ship's last moments afloat.

First, "cannot last much
longer," then "losing power."

Finally, just before the
ship went down, "come quick."

Who on the ship will survive
the Titanic disaster?

And how will they be saved?

Tonight, Titanic Part 2,
the dreadful last moments

of the ship and all its people.

This is how it really happened.

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I was asked to
write a version about

the Titanic for television for
the 100th anniversary in 2012.

But I just got more and
more curious about the drama

and the fates that
engulfed them all.

The lookouts described
it as a dark mass

that came through that haze.

And realized it was
an iceberg and--

They started
turning to the left.

It looked like it
was going to miss

the iceberg entirely at first.

And that's when they
heard a grinding noise.

At the time of the
collision, they

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

Titanic's top speed was 24
or 25 knots, which is about 28

or 29 miles an hour.

Now when she struck the iceberg,
she was doing 22 knots, which

is about 25 miles an hour.

It's extremely fast for a
ship weighing 72,000 tons.

They had sideswiped
the iceberg too

where they flooded enough,
fast enough, that they couldn't

keep up with the pumps.

It was a series of punctures
in the hull of the ship.

Everyone really felt the
collision in a different way.

If you were away in the
stern, you didn't even feel it.

There were other passengers
that actually slept through it.

If you were close to
it, you felt a big jerk.

But to the people in
the one boiler room,

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

The clock in the
wheelhouse said

that it was 11:40 PM precisely.

One person that
felt the collision

was Captain Smith himself.

Smith came forward onto
the bridge and says,

"What was that?"

Dorothy Gibson and her
mother were in first class

and was walking
back to her cabin,

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

And soon, she came
across Thomas Andrews who

was the chief engineer
in what she described

as a palish green complexion.

And she knew then something
was terribly wrong.

Her survival instinct
was incredibly strong.

So she pushed forward
with her mother Pauline

to get on that very
first lifeboat.

Titanic's officers thought the
ship would only last one hour

or an hour and a half maximum.

The first distress call went
out at 12:37 Titanic time,

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

"Please come, we need help."

Chaos starts to ensue.

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

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Tragically, as the last
lifeboat left the side

of Titanic, there
were still 1,500

souls remaining on the ship.

As the Titanic sank,
Guggenheim and his valet

were on the deck
chairs of Titanic

sipping brandy and smoking
a cigar, dressed, of course,

in their best.

Guggenheim and his valet
did not even attempt to try

to get into the lifeboat.

And there was a
code of honor that

existed within first class
men, that they would not behave

in such a dastardly fashion.

John Jacob Astor, of course,
would never see Madeleine again.

And he would never see their
child too whom she was carrying.

Isidor and Ida Straus
were still on board.

Ida Straus refused to leave
her husband Isidor aside.

My great grandmother saw them
sitting together holding hands.

--arm in arm on deck
chairs on the deck

of Titanic as it went down.

Throughout the
sinking, the band

was on board playing
ragtime tunes

to try to keep the spirits up.

But things grew more dire.

And at about five minutes
before the actual Titanic

fully went down, they
played one final song.

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There's a
controversy as to what

the last song was that the
band played on the ship.

If I had to give
my own opinion, it

would be Nearer my God
to Thee because that's

what Wallace Hartley
said he would play if he

was ever on a sinking ship.

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Not one single member
of the band survived.

They all died.

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The sinking really
accelerated around 2:15

when water reached the bridge.

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

you still had this very
buoyant stern of the Titanic.

All of a sudden, a wave
sort of came over them

and engulfed them.

They felt the ship
really sinking.

People were trying to run
up the decks to the stern

to stay out of the water.

People tried to cling
onto anything they could.

And at a certain point, unless
you're holding on to something,

you're just going to slip
down the decks into the sea.

People were falling,
dropping into the ocean.

There was screams.

There was panic.

There was hysteria.

Some of the lifeboats
that were very close in

could see the ship rearing up
over their heads, which must

have been very frightening.

And survivors were
able at quite close range

to just observe Titanic
as she slowly sank.

And they noticed the portholes
blazing with light, one

after another dipping down
under the water, one by one

disappearing under
the North Atlantic.

And then the lights went out.

And suddenly, all they could see
was the black hull of Titanic

silhouetted against the stars.

There was a
mention of the stern

sticking straight up like a
finger pointing at the sky.

When suddenly you've got all
this weight out of the water,

it had to break.

This is a massive amount of
pressure to the tune of like

2 million foot-tons of pressure.

The stress is concentrated
on a specific area

right about where
the third funnel is.

The bow and stern would
separate and they pulling

apart like a party popper.

And a few moments after
that, the ship broke in half.

Madeleine Astor was very
upset in the lifeboat.

And I think she even
stood up at one point

because with all the screaming
going on when the ship went

down, she thought
she heard her husband

John Jacob Astor calling her.

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My great grandmother,
she saw the ship sink

from these lifeboats.

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It plummeted into
the sea 2 hours

and 40 minutes
after the collision.

Titanic slipped
beneath the waves

for the last time at 2:20 AM.

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As its sinking, the
ship itself breaks apart

and begins to go down faster.

The RMS Titanic is lost.

As water fills in,
the air rushes out.

The stern goes down slower,
spinning as it falls

and scattering its debris over
a larger area on the bottom.

As the two pieces fall,
the bow and the stern

land an incredible
distance apart

on the bottom of the ocean.

On the surface of the Atlantic,
it would have been horrifying

a scene of absolute despair.

One of the more horrific
details about the sinking

are the stories of the
people in the lifeboats

and what they were
hearing after the sinking.

Their loved ones are people
they knew in the water,

and they could do
nothing to save them.

People screaming at
a pitch of hysteria

they could never imagine.

And many of the survivors
were haunted by this sound

for the rest of their lives.

All the screams from 1,500
people saying, help, come now.

A team of scientists
carried out what

they called the largest
underwater scanning project

in history.

In order to do this, Magellan
took over 700,000 images

of the entire wreck site--

the bow, the stern, and the
debris field in between.

And then they used AI to
stitch all of these images

together to create this digital
twin of the Titanic wreck site.

When I first saw it, it
literally blew me away.

These 3D scans
that have been done.

They're getting better and
better and more in depth.

It really shows the
ship actually as it is.

We're now able to see
things at the level of detail

within the wreck, almost
as though the water

has been drained away.

They believe the large scale
underwater scanning project may

solve the mystery
of what exactly

caused the luxury passenger
liner to sink in the Atlantic

in 1912.

Steel doesn't lie.

You can see where it broke.

It actually helps you explain
this is what happened,

how it actually came apart.

--where the bow broke off.

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When the Titanic went
down, it was about 2:20.

And you had all these
people in the water.

The temperature
of the sea meant

that nobody was going to
live more than a few minutes.

The conditions in the
water were absolutely brutal.

The air temperature
was 30 some degrees,

but the water temperature
was 28 degrees.

But if you swam to
one of these lifeboats,

you stood a chance
because you could

get completely out of
the water, and that

was critical to survival.

And there was one woman
who swam to a lifeboat.

And she was the only woman to go
down with the ship and survive.

But if you were in the
water, it was just going

to suck the heat out of you.

You were going to freeze.

There were eyewitness reports
at the time of working class

mothers in the water
holding their babies

aloft trying to save them, to
keep them out of the icy water.

There are boats that were
virtually more than half empty.

They could have gone back and
just chose not to and didn't.

It's very hard for
a modern audience

to understand why the
lifeboats didn't go

back to rescue more passengers.

A lot of them had rowed as far
away from the ship as possible.

They would have seen
people drowning around them

and had that awful pressure
thinking, shall we go and help

these people, or shall
we keep our lifeboat

safe, secure, emptier without
more people, so we survive.

The other thing is
they're in a lifeboat

in the North Atlantic.

You can hardly imagine how
scary that would be in the dark

with thousands of people
screaming for help.

And what they did
believe is they

would be immediately swamped.

One lifeboat perhaps heroically
rowed back towards the wreck

to see if there
were any survivors.

The famous event is
lifeboat number 14 commanded

by fifth officer Lowe, he went
back to the scene of the sinking

after it quieted down.

They were amongst
all kinds of bodies

by the time they got there.

One of the crewmen said
he just couldn't look over

the side of the lifeboat because
he just thought he'd break down.

Very sadly, about
1,500 people drowned

in the Titanic disaster.

All that remained of
the majestic RMS Titanic

was a handful of lifeboats and
some survivors clinging to life.

Even on board the lifeboats,
there was still danger.

The sea started
to pick up as they

were floating around for hours.

It wouldn't have taken
a whole lot to swamp

the 16 wooden lifeboats.

It was very, very
cold in the lifeboats.

They had no water.

They had no food.

They barely had any light.

And your mind goes
to a dark place.

Am I going to float around
until I freeze to death?

They have no idea that
the Carpathia's steaming

towards them full steam ahead.

Some people perished in the
lifeboats from hypothermia.

I can imagine Juliet trying
to keep her daughters warm.

It's hard enough to
keep yourself warm,

let alone trying to keep two
little girls warm and calm

and not panic or freak out.

All of a sudden, they're
seeing icebergs everywhere,

huge icebergs--

70 feet, 100 feet icebergs--
looming over them.

And they think, we're all dead.

Carpathia was captained
by Captain Rostron.

Captain Rostron
prepared for the worst.

He had extra lookouts.

He knew that Titanic
had encountered ice.

And so he wanted to make
sure that in his dash

to the disaster scene, he didn't
fall victim to the same fate.

When the Carpathia
got the message,

it was about 59 miles away.

So Captain Rostron
knew it's going to take

me several hours to get there.

But he didn't know how quickly
the Titanic was going to sink.

All he could do was
just go and hope.

His first priority was
to close the distance

and then followed it up with
all those other decisions

that you had to make
in a rescue situation.

Captain Rostron said, "Do
not wake our passengers."

I want you to wake up all of
the extra stokers we have.

Put them stoking the fires.

Captain Rostron
actually cut the heating

on hot water for
his own passengers

to make sure that all the
steam power of his boilers

went into the propellers
in order to get

there as fast as possible.

He raced through the night.

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Happening right now, the
extensive search in the North

Atlantic Ocean is
growing even more urgent,

as experts believe the missing
Titan submersible is nearly out

of oxygen. On board, OceanGate
CEO and founder Stockton Rush,

British adventurer and
businessman Hamish Harding,

one of Pakistan's richest men,
British businessman Shahzada

Dawood and his 19-year-old
son Suleman Dawood,

and French submariner
and ex-navy

officer Paul-Henri Nargeolet.

With what could be less than
24 hours of oxygen left on board

Titan, hope at this
point may rest on banging

noises detected by sonar.

There were reports of knocking
sounds at regular intervals

coming from underwater.

Banging noises that
makes people think,

well, human beings perhaps
in that submersible

are making them, desperately
trying to signal where they are.

It gave hope that they
were trying to communicate.

If the missing sub is trapped
at the bottom of the ocean,

it could be in water many
times deeper than any rescue

ever successfully done before.

Underwater rescues
are inherently

complicated, dangerous, and the
deep sea makes it all harder.

They need another submersible
with an artificial arm

that can tie the submarine
to the other one.

And then they would
surface together.

There's only a
handful of machines

that are capable of reaching
down to these enormous depths.

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With the Titanic's distress
call, a handful of ships

tried to get there as
quickly as possible.

It was the Carpathia
that saved the day.

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Titanic passengers were
just in the lifeboats,

hoping somebody was
going to show up.

And at that point, they were
just surrounded by icebergs.

And they're starting to
be lit by the dawn's light.

People wrote afterwards, they
were like coral-colored icebergs

as the sun rose, and
pinks and faint blues,

just the most incredible
sunrise if you lived to see it.

It was spectacular.

It took the Carpathia
four hours to reach Titanic.

Captain Rostron
aboard the Carpathia

sees a green flare fired up
from one of the lifeboats.

The Carpathia was
not in a safe position.

Because they were in the same
ice field that sank the Titanic.

And then he can start to pick
out the lifeboats on the water.

And they're all making
their way to Carpathia.

Mrs. Ogden was traveling on
the Carpathia with her husband,

and they're the ones that
had the camera aboard.

They had just gotten it.

It was brand new and
took the only pictures

of Titanic's lifeboats
coming up to the Carpathia.

So those pictures exist today
because Captain Rostron actually

asked Mr. Ogden personally, "Can
you record this for history."

The first lifeboat that
reached the Carpathia

had an officer in it.

And it was officer Boxhall.

Captain Rostron said,
"Hello, young man.

Can you tell me what
happened to the Titanic?"

He just bawled his eyes
out, just started crying.

And all Boxhall could tell
him is the ship's gone down.

All these people are dead.

And at that point, that's
the first time anybody outside

of the people that were
directly impacted realized

how significant the
disaster really was.

Remarkably, for
that time, there

was a second camera on
board the Carpathia,

and that is part of
what led us to see

the shellshocked survivors as
they were pulled from the water.

They were given food, drink,
found a place for them to stay.

Quite a few of the
Carpathia passengers

started helping the Titanic
people, taking them below decks.

And some are crying,
some are screaming.

The things people
saw that night would

have been absolutely horrific.

Welcome back to How
it Really Happened.

The last section of the Titanic
hull still floating before she

finally sank was the stern.

It was standing on
end out of the water.

The last people still aboard
Titanic were at the stern,

hanging on for life.

Titanic movie
director James Cameron

meticulously researched
the human drama

at the back of the ship.

And he made room in
his film for several

of those miraculous
survivor stories.

Many movie watchers wondered
if they could possibly be true.

One of the most famous
stories features

the Titanic's baker,
who incredibly found

a way to survive the sinking.

Did that, could that
have really happened?

We have to move.

When James Cameron's
movie came out in 1997--

--suddenly you could see
Titanic as it were in full

color brought back to life.

Give me your hand.

Will pull you over.

Come on.

Give me your hand.

Very few people
that were on the stern

after it broke
actually survived.

One I can think
of who did survive

was baker Joughin.

You can actually see
him in Cameron's movie.

He's right next to Rose
and Jack on the stern,

wearing a white baker suit.

And according to his account, he
was right on the end of the ship

when it went under.

He just stood up and he
didn't even get his hair wet.

And he was pulled out of
the water into a lifeboat.

There were a few other
passengers in the water, who

miraculously made it to safety.

When the Titanic
went down, you had

all these people in the water.

Some of them did swim.

And a few people got
on some wreckage,

so that they were found.

There was one man who
tied himself to a door.

He was a sailor.

And so he lashed himself to a
door, and he was found that way

and rescued.

I'll never let go.

Fans of the movie
have been going

on endlessly about the fact
that Jack could have lived.

He could have
gotten on that door.

What brought you to Titanic?

Did an interview with
Bob, with Dr. Ballard when

I was doing The Abyss
because I was fascinated

by deep submergence technology
and ROVs and all the stuff

that he was doing.

I'm kind of a
gearhead, so I get--

I got fascinated by
that aspect of it.

And then I had to go
back and do the history.

And the more you got into
it, the more you got into it.

Right.

He's become an expert
himself and is not

afraid to critically
look back and see

if new information has
changed the story that he

himself has so expertly crafted.

I've discovered surprising
new things about the ship.

We'll look back to see what we
got right and what we didn't.

We found that you can have
the stern sink vertically,

and you can have the stern
pull back with a big splash,

but you can't have both.

So the film is wrong on
one point or the other.

I tend to think it's wrong
on the fallback of the stern

because of what we see
at the bow of the wreck.

He's actually
joked, maybe I need

to remake the movie now because
the scenario has changed a bit.

To me, the most
lasting legacy is

that James Cameron was able to
launch numerous expeditions.

I've made 33 dives
to the wreck site.

James Cameron didn't stop his
research with his film in 1997.

He wanted answers to many more
of the mysteries of the ship.

He wanted to see
the interior, and he

wanted to show that in his
film Ghosts of the Abyss.

Inside Titanic, some things
were perfectly frozen in time,

while others had fallen apart.

73 years after it sank, a
team of French and American

scientists announced
they'd found the Titanic

2 and 1/2 miles down.

It's not commonly known that
the search for the Titanic

was part of a secret
military mission.

The expedition that
found Titanic was really

the product of a deal
with the US government

that was searching for
lost nuclear submarines.

In the 1960s, the US
lost two nuclear submarines

in the North Atlantic--

USS Thresher and USS Scorpion.

The Navy wanted Ballard to
document the submarines.

It was also going to see if
they'd been tampered with.

The US had tried to lift a
Soviet sub off the bottom

of the ocean, why
shouldn't the Soviets

try to do the exact same thing.

There was obviously nuclear
material on those subs,

and that was covered
up during the Cold War.

And the cover story was that
he was looking for the Titanic,

but the agreement was if you
find them, take the extra time

to go looking for the Titanic.

And that's
exactly what he did.

In 2000, I became
the youngest female

to dive the wreck of the Titanic
in a deep sea submersible.

And it was an
incredible opportunity

because I was at the
time, the curator

of exhibitions and expeditions
for RMS Titanic, Incorporated.

It's RMST's stated purpose to
educate the public about Titanic

and preserve these artifacts
to maintain that physical link

to the story.

We felt that responsibility
to make sure we

were recording the history.

Some of the artifacts that
really do well down there

in terms of the elements are
glass, porcelain, anything that

is textile or paper or writing.

Why?

Because you don't
have light down there.

It's dark.

It's cool conditions.

They're perfectly
preserved to an extent.

Jewelry conserves really well.

We would see shoes at
the bottom of the ocean.

A lot of shoes were found
in pairs on the ocean bed.

And they thought
how extraordinary

these shoes sitting in pairs.

How could that be?

Well, of course, what it
was was they were the shoes

of people who had gone down.

And the ocean life had destroyed
the bodies that left the shoes.

So that's why they
were together in pairs.

There was nothing else there.

The tannic acid in leather
keeps the little organisms

from eating the shoes.

There are fish down
there, tiny organisms.

And so where a body had landed,
everything else would be gone,

but the shoes would
still be there.

Titanic's iron and
steel is actually

being eaten away by microbes.

When the ship was found, the
gymnasium was a lot more intact.

And now it's
completely opened up.

The roof over the Marconi
room is now a big gaping hole.

These bacteria that are
eating the steel, they poop out

essentially is what's been
termed rusticles because they

look like icicles
hanging off the wreck,

but they're actually
made of rust byproducts.

And gradually these
microbes will munch their way

through the wreck until
there is nothing left

at all, apart from a rusting.

It will slowly
deteriorate, like a house

crumbling down on itself.

While I don't believe that
the wreck should be plundered

on a routine basis until
there is nothing left,

it would be a shame
if after 100 years,

the sea has consumed all
of the relics worth having.

One of the shocking
things about the Titanic

is that if you were
in first class,

you were very, very much more
likely to survive than if you

were in third class.

Which is a fact
that is brought home

by the rate of survival
for the children

who were passengers on the
Titanic by their social class.

All but one of the
children in the first class

survived, whereas all the
children in second

class survived.

The number of children from
third class took a real hit,

about 2/3 of them passed away.

50 children died in
the Titanic disaster.

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And as you can imagine, the
mood on board the Carpathia

was somber and terrible.

People were in shock.

There were a number of
widows on board the Carpathia.

Juliet does not
speak English at all,

neither do her daughters.

And she has no idea
how she is going

to navigate this new
country without Joseph

Laroche, her husband.

There were children
without parents.

There were parents
without children,

husbands without wives,
wives without husbands.

It was truly a ship of sorrow.

Leah Aks was praying that
somebody had rescued her boy

and that somehow, somewhere she
would be able to meet him again.

My great grandmother Leah,
she was just walking around

in a kind of
dissociative state, when

out of the corner
of her eye, she sees

a baby reaching out for her.

And she goes, that's my baby.

But this woman was not going
to just hand over this baby.

And they said, OK, take
both women and the baby

up to Captain Rostron's cabin.

He's like, how can you
tell me this is your child?

Well, he has a strawberry
birthmark on his chest.

And he did indeed
have those markings.

And so Leah Aks
was able to reunite

with her baby on the Carpathia.

It took several days before
a cable-laying ship called

the Mackay-Bennett stocked
with ice and embalming fluid

went out to the wreck
site and recovered

a number of the bodies.

The Mackay-Bennett
was based in Halifax.

And it was the
first ship that was

chartered by the White
Star Line to recover

the bodies of Titanic's dead.

John Jacob Astor, the
richest man in the world

died in the tragedy.

His body was recovered.

He had the modern day
equivalent of $75,000

in US cash on him, plus British
pounds, plus gold, plus francs.

--and a gold pocket watch
with his initials on it.

Isidor Straus, his
body was recovered.

It was picked up in Halifax and
then brought back to New York

by special train.

There was no sign of his
wife's body ever being found.

The Mackay-Bennett ultimately
recovered 306 bodies.

When the bodies
were picked up, they

tried to identify who the person
was and even what class

they were.

The first class passengers,
they would store

them on board in a coffin.

Lower class passengers were,
if they had coffins available,

they would use them.

And after that, they
put them in bags.

The decayed bodies, most of
them were just put in a bag

and buried at sea.

So even in death, the
class distinction existed.

For many of the
victims of the Titanic

that were recovered
from the wreck site,

their last resting
place is Halifax

in Nova Scotia in Canada.

John Jacob Astor, his body was
brought back to New York State,

where there was a funeral.

--in Trinity Church
to much fanfare.

In his death, he became
sort of a hero of the Titanic

because he died in
what people considered

a very sort of gentlemanly way,
the women in first tradition.

The world literally was
eager for any morsel of news

about the Titanic coming
from the Carpathia.

When it finally
broke, the story

was about the scale
of the disaster.

Immediately, it was
a global phenomenon.

Dorothy Gibson,
the silent film star

almost immediately went to work
on a film about the sinking

of the Titanic.

She wrote and directed
a film, where she relived

her experiences on Titanic.

It was called Saved
From the Titanic,

starring none other than
Dorothy Gibson herself,

wearing the very same
dress that she wore

that night the ship went down.

It's the only Titanic movie
to star an actual survivor.

The movie was a huge hit.

people queued around
the block to see it.

And it made Dorothy Gibson,
in effect, a superstar.

The bad part about her story
is that the studio burned down

and the only known copy of
her film was lost forever.

So all we have remaining are
publicity shots from the film.

It's a great shame because
she was on the Titanic,

and the way things
were represented

in the film would probably
have contained details

that are lost forever now.

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Descending into the very
deepest points of the ocean

is extraordinary because
within a thousand meters,

you basically lose all light.

It is like staring
truly into the abyss.

What is fun to do
is you can flash

the lights of the submarine
at high intensity,

and when you turn them
off, all the life that's

in the ocean that
has bioluminescence,

they see the light
of the submersible,

and it's like having
creatures in a confused way

trying to talk back to you.

It's very cool to see that.

It's a totally alien way
of trying to communicate.

So it's a very peaceful
journey all the way down.

And it can take about 2.5
hours to go down to 4,000

meters where the Titanic lies.

The pressure at that depth
is pretty extraordinary,

4,000 or more pounds
per square inch,

which is almost like having two
automobiles on your fingernail,

and that's on every
portion of the submersible.

This morning, an ROV or remote
operated vehicle from the vessel

Horizon Arctic discovered
the tail comb of the Titan

submersible, approximately
1,600 feet from the bow

of the Titanic on the seafloor.

What we didn't know at the
time was that all along when we

were praying that they
may have survived,

that the US Navy due to an
underwater acoustic program,

which was in secret,
actually heard

what they believed to be an
implosion soon after the Titan

went down on June 18.

The Navy picked up
on an audio signature

similar to an implosion
or an explosion

on Sunday, around the
time that the Titan

submersible went missing and
roughly the same location.

So an hour and 45 into a 9-hour
dive, it implodes at that point,

bursts into pieces essentially
and narrowly missing

the hull of the Titanic.

All five passengers on
board the Titan were lost.

An implosion at
that depth would

happen so quickly that the
human mind cannot react to it.

And so one minute they were
there, and then the next,

they were not.

The US Coast Guard announced
that it had found what

it presumed to be human
remains on the sea floor

that would be from
the submersible Titan.

They did recover large
pieces of that debris.

It is amazing to think in
1912, the Titanic sank and now

in 2023, you have more people,
lives being claimed right

at the site of the Titanic.

And I think it simply
is adding to the intrigue

of the Titanic that 100
years later, it's still

leading people to their death.

To see the Titanic
with your own eyes

and go down to the
depths of the wreck

requires an acceptance
of some level of danger.

That doesn't change
whether you're

an explorer, a scientist, or the
curator of Titanic artifacts.

There are numerous artifacts
that have come off the ship.

And I can ascribe very
high values to any of them.

Relics recovered
from the Titanic

aren't just in
exhibits and museums,

many of them are
sold at auction.

And I know certain things
went for vast amounts of money.

Wallace Hartley's violin
sold at auction one time,

and it went for
$1.7 million, which

is the highest amount
paid for any artifact

that came off of that ship.

The person who got
this violin acquired it

because of the history and
emotion that goes with it.

The artifacts that
have been recovered

from the wreck of the Titanic
are simply incredible,

and many generate a
powerful emotional reaction.

There were 865
artifacts that we

cataloged in a six-week period.

This particular basket
sort of came out.

And we noticed that it was
a small leather satchel.

We transported it to the lab.

A perfume seller
was coming to the US

to try to market
vials of perfume.

And somehow those vials
survived the wreck.

All of a sudden, the
fragrance of heaven kind of

goes through the room.

So instead of being surrounded
by all of these dead

things, of--

given that half of
those few minutes,

the ship was alive again.

To be able to
display the vials

and actually have a small
holes drilled into the cases,

so people could smell
Titanic at that point

82 years later was
absolutely extraordinary.

And now, we have a new
generation of people being

acquainted with Titanic,
from CGI and computer games,

where you can have
very realistic

3D experience of the ship.

The technology is so
good now that we can

relive the Titanic experience.

What better way
to tell a story

than to place the
person within it.

We are creating this time
machine to this incredible era

and to rebuild Titanic frame
by frame, plate by plate,

rivet by rivet almost in a
virtual setting, where people

can jump on a computer in a VR
headset and explore the shipyard

and see Titanic built
before their eyes,

and as she is finished,
explore the ship herself.

We've put the VR headset
on Titanic historians, who

have spent their whole
life researching Titanic

and let them stand in the grand
staircase for the first time,

and it brings them to tears.

It makes them emotional because
they are in a place they

never thought they could be.

What we're doing, I'd like to
think, preserves her story.

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I suppose with
my modern brain,

I had expected to find out
how badly they had behaved--

people scrabbling for survival
and hurling women out of boats,

so they could jump in instead.

Really, it was the discovery
of how well people had behaved.

I think they were less
selfish than we are.

The bravery was
quite extraordinary.

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Over a century
after the wreck,

Titanic is still coming
up with amazing stories

about her passengers and crew.

A nurse in the Titanic infirmary
was ordered into a lifeboat

to show passengers the
small craft was safe,

so she was picked
up by the Carpathia

and became a lucky survivor.

Then undeterred by the ordeal,
she signed on during the First

World War with the Britannica,
an ocean liner converted

into a floating hospital.

And when it hit a
German sea mine,

remarkably, the nurse
survived the second time.

I'm Jesse L. Martin,
thank you for watching.

Good night.

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