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It began here in ireiand at the
Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
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Three thousand men would labor here
for more than 2 years.
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They were building a monster
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the largest ship the world
had ever seen.
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In the spring of 1909
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a mountain of steel began to
rise against the sky.
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The ship would weigh 66,000 tons
her hull would span 4 city blocks,
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each of her colossal steam engines
was the size of a 3-story house.
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The huge scale of these things was
a source of delight.
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It was a scene out of
Gulliver's Travels when
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20 draft horses were needed to haul
the ship's anchor
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through the streets of Belfast.
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Some few observers found
this giant threatening
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and wrote of her nightmare scale.
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But their forebodings fell short of
the event,
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for the fate of this ship still
fascinates the world
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and her name is a synonym for tragedy.
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In 1910 the huge ship taking shape
in Belfast was a supreme wonder
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in world accustomed to miracles.
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Every day it seemed something bigger
or better was invented.
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Never had so many people been so
prosperous,
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never had they taken such delight
in showing off
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so this was called, "The Gildde Age."
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This was a time when horses
still got most people around.
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But things were rapidly changing
thanks to the machines of a new age
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everything from rubber bands
to radios
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from lightbuibs
to automobiles.
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Progress and prosperity
money and machines,
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almost anything seemed possible
and often it was.
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May 31st, 1911,
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the Roual Mail Ship Titanic,
slipped gracefully into Belfast harbor.
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It was the largest moving object
ever made by man.
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The Titanic was designed for
the rich passenger trade
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on the North Atlantic.
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It was not only the biggest ocean liner
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it was by far the most luxurious.
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Aboard Titanic it was hard to
remember that this was indeed a ship.
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Advertising the delights it offered
the White Star Line called Titanic,
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"a floating palace."
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So confident were Titanic's builders
that her trial vouage
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lasted just 8 hours.
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Almost as an afterthought
she was said to be, "unsinkable."
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On April 10th, 1912,
Titanic's maiden vouage began.
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With their maids
valets and chauffeurs
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their mountains of baggage the rich
traveled in a style almost unknown today.
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In an age that worshipped wealth
the 325 first class passengers
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were an awesome assembly.
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Titanic was like a time capsule laden
with the splendors of the gilded Age.
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In 1912 these films were shown in
theaters to a public eager
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for any glimpse of Titanic
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in fact, this is actually Titanic's
smaller sister ship the Olympic.
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But the excitement and spectacle
were true to the event
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and many people couldn't
tell the difference.
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Titanic sailed from
Southampton at noon,
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she was expected to reach New York
just 7days,
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with 2,228 people aboard her.
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There are a few authentic pictures
taken aboard Titanic
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on her first and last voyage.
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A vacationing priest
Father Francis Brown,
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caught these poignant snapshots
of his fellow passengers.
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Most of them on a voyage to eternity.
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The next day Titanic made her last stop
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pausing off the coast at
Queenstown, Ireland.
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Here tenders brought out the
last passengers,
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mostly Irish immigrants headed for
new homes in America,
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and here the lucky Father Brown
disembarked,
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taking these pictures on his way.
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Father Brown caught Captain Smith
peering down from Titanic's bridge
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poised on the brink of destiny.
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Then Titanic sailed into the
twilight zone of legend
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she would not be photographed again
for 73 years,
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vanished in all but human memory.
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The event of Titanic's last hours
have not faded with the passage of time.
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The tragedy
irony and sheer terror of this night
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still seize the imagination.
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A British film, made in 1929
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was one of the first of
many Titanic movies:
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Full ahead.
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Full ahead, sir.
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Despite radioed warnings, Titanic
struck an iceberg.
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She carried only enough lifeboats
for about 1.200 people
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and not even that many were saved.
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In 1986 a new chapter in the
Titanic's story began.
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The men and machines involved did
not even exist when Titanic went down.
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From the Woods Hole
Oceanographic institution
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came the research submarine Alvin
and Dr. Robert Ballard
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a geologist and undersea explorer.
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For decades Ballard
had dreamed of being the man
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to explore the Titanic wreck.
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Now, if all goes well
he may succeed within a few days.
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On July 9th, Ballard's expedition
backed by the U.S. Navy
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and drawing on proven
underwater technology
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puts to sea from Woods Hole.
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One seven five.
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One seven five.
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The research vessel, Atlantis II
heads for Titanic's resting place
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about 1,000 miles due east.
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A rare alchemy of talent
desire and circumstance,
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has led Ballard to this adventure.
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Many led Ballard to this adventure.
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Many have called it foolish and
at any rate, impossible,
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it's been a hard sell.
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No one person, no one organization
on one shared my dream.
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There was pieces of it
the technology part,
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the ship part, the submarine part.
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It's very much like Cinderella
going to the ball.
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So I had to go around and get the
shoes from somebody
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and the dress from somebody
and the coach and the coachman
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and then I knew everything
by midnight,
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I'd turn back into a big pumpkin
so I had a sense of urgency
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to get it done before
I ran out of time.
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The year before
a joint French American expedition
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with Ballard as co-leader
sought to locate Titanic.
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A 150 square mile area was searched
by sonar devices and remote TV cameras
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towed along the bottom
over 2 miles down.
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But Titanic and not lie where
she was thought to be.
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TV pictures revealed only a
monotonous plain of sediment
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sometimes enlivened by a
sluggish fish or empty beer bottle.
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Days of futile search dragged on.
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It is 1 a.m., September 1st, 1985.
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The search has been going on
for 56 days.
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#1:Wreckage. Bingo. Yeah!
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#2:Somebody ought to go get Bob.
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#3:Bob's gone love this.
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#4:This is it! Look at that thing.
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All: Oh, alright! Yahoo!
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#1:What is it?
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#2:I don't know but it's manmade.
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#3:There's more stuff coming.
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#4:lt's the boiler!
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#1: Yes, yes, that's fantastic!
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#1:I'll be goddam.
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The sucker exists! Gooddam!
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#2:Has Cathy got the champagne?
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There was an immediate outpouring
of excitement
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a bunch of kids yelling and
screaming and jumping up and down,
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very unprofessional.
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And then the whole force of
actually being at the very spot
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where this tragedy had
taken place and seeing the ship,
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it was very... everyone just cracked.
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Emotionally everyone just went down
into a big trough.
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And we had a simple
quiet service on the fantail.
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We felt better and
it was that time realized that
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I was deeply affected by it.
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When we came back I wouldn't
talk about the Titanic for 4 months.
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I just wouldn't talk about
it with anybody.
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I just went and hid.
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But Ballard's
Woods Hole laboratory soon
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recaptured the thrill of discovery.
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Reviewing pictures taken by
remote cameras,
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Ballard was eager to get a
closer look.
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Ballard was confident that the
submarine Alvin couldn reach the wreck
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and the U.S. Navy agreed
to sponsor an expedition.
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They say the name of the ship is on
one of the capstans.
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Oh, it is?
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On the top, yeah.
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It should be visible.
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We'll have to go and take a look.
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A tiny TV camera serves as the
single eye of Jason Jr.,
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a robot submarine developed for the
navy in Ballard's lab.
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Jason is ideal for exploring wrecks;
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getting TV pictures in places
too confined and dangerous
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for manned submarines.
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Preparing for the Titanic expedition
Jason and his operator, Martin Bowen,
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go into intensive training.
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Jason is powered by 4 electric motors.
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He can venture as far as 200 feet
away from Alvin, the manned submarine.
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Jason is much like a dog on a
long leash,
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moving on commands from his master.
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Here in the lab it's easy to navigate
but deep on the Titanic wreck,
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in pitch darkness
it will be another matter.
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Often Martin's only viewpoint
will be Jason's electronic eye.
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Now some 11months after Ballard
discovered Titanic's resting place
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he is returning aboard Atlantis II.
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It's clear by now
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that no one knew Titanic's precise
location when she sank.
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This original confusion explains why
the wreck was so difficult to locate.
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There are no landmarks
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the coast of Nova Scotia
is some 350 miles away.
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The sea tolerates
no gravestones or monuments
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only the knowledge of what
lies 21/2 miles below
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gives this place identity.
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When you're out at sea
it's just a big, monstrousthing.
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It has no dimensions.
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You tend to wander around in the
ocean and not feel that you're
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any where at any on time.
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Then when you find the Titanic
it rivets you to that one spot.
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You know exactly where you are and
you know exactly what took place
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right where you are and that's eerie.
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You want to see lifeboats or people
in the water that you can
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take drowned right around you.
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Yeah, you hear them, you feel it.
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Very much so.
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The grey down of April 15th,1912
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revealed a scattered
fleet of life boats.
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Hundreds of bodies floated
in the surrounding waters.
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The boats contained just
705 survivors.
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Aboard the liner Carpathia
amazed passengers took these snapshots
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as the survivors were rescued.
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Her compliment of passengers
doubled Carpathia raced for New York.
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Everything was quiet calm and orderly.
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It was too soon to explain and
too late to cry.
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Tragically rumors and confusion
kept hope alive that others might
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have been saved by other ships.
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Slowiy, as fragmented and
conflicting radio reports came in
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the world began to realize
what had happened overnight.
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In London, silent crowds gathered
at the offices of the White Star Line
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Here many of Titanic's passengers
had bought their tickets
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and here a precious few were
reported alive.
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In Liverpool, homeport of Titanic
the streets were full of dazed
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and grief-stricken families
begging for news
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and reeling in shock when it came.
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In New York wild rumors circulated
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one paper reported Titanic
still afloat and everyone safe.
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Anxious and incredulous crowds
gathered in front of newspapers
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and offices of White Star.
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Suspense and uncertainty grew
for 4 days.
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Finally, on the evening of April 18th,
Carpathia arrived at last.
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Then as night fell there followed
a chilling pantomime which
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brought home the full impact
of what had happened.
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In the glare of photographers
flashlights survivors
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lined Carpathia's rails
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but as thousands waited Carpathia
first unloaded Titanic's lifeboats.
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Seeing finally was believing
13 small boats,
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all that remained of the greatest
ocean liner in the world.
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By the next day survivors
had dispersed.
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Frustrated newsreel cameramen were
left to film mere boys,
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young stewards who clowned
and laughed even as the rest
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of the world mourned.
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There remained the task of bringing
in bodies
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only some 300 were found out
of 1,523 people lost.
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In fear and superstition
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Many ships avoided these waters for
years afterward.
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Brought ashore at Halifax some
victims were claimed and shipped home
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For others the maiden voyage of
Titanic ended here in Canada
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just a few miles from
the North Atlanic shore.
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Today these graves still are tended
at the expense of the
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shipping line which took over
from the owners of Titanic.
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The disaster is memorialized
like a great battle which
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changed the course of history.
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But what was the meaning of it all?
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It caused only an instant's
hesitation in the march of technology.
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But, somehow, Titanic made people
think and they are thinking still.
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Every 5 years the valiant dwindling
band of Titanic survivors
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is invited to attend a convention
of the Titanic Historical Society.
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Thank you very much.
247
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You look pretty good.
248
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Thank you.
249
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There are only about 24 known
survivors alive today.
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But the number of people
interested in Titanic is growing
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and this fascination reached
a fever pitch when
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the wreck of Titanic was found.
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July 13th, 1986.
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The first attempt
to reach Titanic by submarine is
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planned for this morning.
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Bob Ballard and 2 companions will
ride to the bottom
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in the research submarine, Alvin.
258
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In his enthusiasm Bob Ballard has
perhaps made things seem too easy.
259
00:23:56,566 --> 00:23:59,262
This morning he has
many promises to keep.
260
00:24:09,312 --> 00:24:11,974
The crew compartment of Alvin
is a sealed,
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7-foot, titanium sphere jammed with
equipment and 3 uncomfortable humans.
262
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Alvin is a tried and trusted design.
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It has mapped underwea mountains
located a lost H-bomb,
264
00:24:29,265 --> 00:24:34,362
and now is poised over the most
celebrated shipwreck of modern times.
265
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Once launched Alvin is independent
of its mothership.
266
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The crew can communicate
with the surface,
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but in the deep they are
so far from help,
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they might as well be on the moon.
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To conserve electrical power Alvin
will fall to the ocean bottom
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only as fast as gravity allows.
271
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The slow plunge will take 21/2 hours
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a time of tedium and growing suspense.
273
00:25:36,666 --> 00:25:38,463
Alvin, this is A-two, over.
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00:25:42,805 --> 00:25:43,863
Go ahead.
275
00:25:44,173 --> 00:25:46,641
Roger. Ralph
we have the tracking running well
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00:25:46,876 --> 00:25:51,609
and the bow section should be a
range of about 800 meters,
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bearing two three zero degrees, over
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00:25:59,689 --> 00:26:02,522
Ballard reports that Alvin's
batteries are leaking and
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its sonar system has failed.
280
00:26:05,128 --> 00:26:08,154
He must rely on
imprecise directions from above
281
00:26:08,398 --> 00:26:10,832
and he cannot stay down much longer.
282
00:26:11,467 --> 00:26:13,196
Alvin, this is A-two.
283
00:26:13,503 --> 00:26:18,566
According to tracking you just
drove over the forward section.
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Suggest you come to course 280
and travel for 200-300 meters, over.
285
00:26:28,851 --> 00:26:30,443
I can't believe they can't see it.
286
00:26:30,687 --> 00:26:32,518
I can't believe they cannot see it.
287
00:26:32,755 --> 00:26:36,020
They can only see 30 or 30 feet.
288
00:26:36,459 --> 00:26:39,519
It's... of water.
289
00:26:39,929 --> 00:26:41,487
Atlantis II, Atlantis II
this is Alvin.
290
00:26:41,731 --> 00:26:43,824
We are at the Titanic, over.
291
00:26:45,902 --> 00:26:49,394
Roger, Alvin, we understand
you found the Titanic, over.
292
00:26:51,874 --> 00:26:55,173
Roger, we're sitting at the base
it appears be near the stern
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or the midsection.
294
00:26:58,715 --> 00:27:03,982
We are deciding what to do next
because we're running low on power.
295
00:27:04,954 --> 00:27:09,755
No sooner is Titanic found than
the dive must be abandoned.
296
00:27:09,993 --> 00:27:14,157
It takes another 21/2 hours for
Ballard to regain the surface.
297
00:27:17,166 --> 00:27:20,624
We had problems with the submarine
so we had to abort the dive
298
00:27:20,870 --> 00:27:23,065
and immediately head up.
299
00:27:23,306 --> 00:27:27,402
So I saw it for 10 seconds
and that was it.
300
00:27:27,810 --> 00:27:31,268
So, well have to go back and
do it tomorrow.
301
00:27:31,981 --> 00:27:32,879
What happens next?
302
00:27:33,116 --> 00:27:35,482
Well, they're gonna be up all night.
303
00:27:35,718 --> 00:27:38,983
They've got a sick puppy and they
got to fix it,
304
00:27:39,255 --> 00:27:41,519
and it's gonna take them all night.
305
00:27:42,959 --> 00:27:47,225
Alvin is quickly repaired but
the mood next morning is uncertain.
306
00:27:47,463 --> 00:27:49,829
Everyone has been reminded
that technical problems,
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bad weather, or a combination of
both could terminate the expedition.
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00:28:08,384 --> 00:28:11,842
This time everything goes according to plean
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Titanic, no longer lost,
no longer legend.
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There are people aboard the great
ship once again after
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74 dark and silent years.
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00:29:43,279 --> 00:29:47,113
Now, like astronauts newly arrived
on a distant planet
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00:29:47,350 --> 00:29:50,808
Alvin's crew is learning
something new every second.
314
00:29:54,257 --> 00:29:58,125
A disappointment; Titanic's decks
thought to be intact
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00:29:58,361 --> 00:30:01,228
have been consumed by
wood-boring organisms.
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00:30:01,464 --> 00:30:05,093
What speared to be planks turns
out to be ridges of caulking.
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00:30:14,710 --> 00:30:18,840
A revelation; standing all alone
is the bronze peaestal
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00:30:19,081 --> 00:30:21,072
where Titanic's wheel was mounted.
319
00:30:21,317 --> 00:30:23,717
It gleams as if brand new.
320
00:30:53,649 --> 00:30:58,746
What we thought was organic growth
appears to be rust.
321
00:30:59,322 --> 00:31:03,850
The ship looks like it's
bleeding steel
322
00:31:04,093 --> 00:31:06,789
and it's rusting down its entire side.
323
00:31:07,096 --> 00:31:09,792
All over it's draped in rust.
324
00:31:10,032 --> 00:31:15,470
It's formed a river and little veins
that flow down the side
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00:31:15,705 --> 00:31:17,138
and out onto the sediment.
326
00:31:41,397 --> 00:31:44,195
All right,
let's terminate conversation.
327
00:31:44,433 --> 00:31:49,496
We are losing our light energy
and we'll see you on the surface, over
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00:31:56,178 --> 00:31:59,341
On the return to the surface a near disaster
329
00:31:59,582 --> 00:32:01,709
the robot submarine Jason,
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00:32:01,951 --> 00:32:07,014
is dislodged from its garage
on the front of Alvin and almost lost.
331
00:32:07,356 --> 00:32:11,383
Only quick word by divers saves
the million dollar robot.
332
00:32:20,703 --> 00:32:22,603
Well, that's one way to come home
Jason-swimming.
333
00:32:22,838 --> 00:32:23,236
That's right.
334
00:32:27,343 --> 00:32:31,040
Repairs will go on all night as
Ballard reports what he's seen
335
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,646
and prepares for tomorrow's dive.
336
00:32:34,884 --> 00:32:37,682
We come in on the debris field,
right through here.
337
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,548
Titanic is a frightening place
to explore.
338
00:32:40,790 --> 00:32:44,385
Everywhere there are wires,
rails and tubing which could trap.
339
00:32:44,627 --> 00:32:49,655
Coming in along the mud line toward
the ship should be fairly safe.
340
00:32:49,899 --> 00:32:52,993
But the robot, Jason
can get close to such hazards
341
00:32:53,235 --> 00:32:56,636
and venture inside the wreck
without risking human lives.
342
00:32:56,872 --> 00:33:03,937
Alvin's crew is skeptical about robots
in general and Jason in particular.
343
00:33:04,180 --> 00:33:07,343
But, Ballard ignores today's
problems and plans to send
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00:33:07,583 --> 00:33:11,747
Jason deep into Titanic's interior
on the next dive.
345
00:33:11,988 --> 00:33:14,855
The funnels are all gone.
346
00:33:15,091 --> 00:33:17,787
We've never even seen one
in the debris field.
347
00:33:18,027 --> 00:33:21,019
The idea is to bring Alvin down
in a vertical sense
348
00:33:21,263 --> 00:33:23,163
and land at certain places.
349
00:33:23,399 --> 00:33:25,924
Naturally we'd like to enter the
bridge and we'd like to go
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00:33:26,168 --> 00:33:29,626
down the staircase and there's a
nice landing pad right here.
351
00:33:29,872 --> 00:33:32,898
That staircase goes down many
many flights
352
00:33:33,142 --> 00:33:35,201
so it would be a question of
how deep you wanted to go in.
353
00:33:35,444 --> 00:33:38,208
But certainly at least 2 to 3 decks in
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00:33:42,051 --> 00:33:45,487
On succeeding dives special
cameras aboard Alvin pierce
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00:33:45,721 --> 00:33:48,690
the darkness and reveal
spectacular aerial views
356
00:33:48,924 --> 00:33:49,891
of the wreck;
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00:33:52,328 --> 00:33:56,822
traveling aft, passing over the cargo
holds and cranes...
358
00:34:07,543 --> 00:34:11,479
the bridge area
where the wheel pedestal stands alone
359
00:34:18,621 --> 00:34:21,249
the hole where the first
funnel once stood
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00:34:21,490 --> 00:34:24,653
big enough to admit a locomotive.
361
00:34:48,517 --> 00:34:52,009
Now on the third dive Alvin
makes a landing at the edge
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00:34:52,254 --> 00:34:54,779
of Titanic's grand staircase.
363
00:34:55,024 --> 00:34:58,755
Make sure that that lip won't
jam J. J so he can't get out.
364
00:34:58,994 --> 00:35:01,554
Don't get too close.
Right.
365
00:35:03,766 --> 00:35:07,202
Jason is launched with
Martin Bowen at the controls.
366
00:35:09,972 --> 00:35:12,805
Go forward. Tethering out.
367
00:35:13,476 --> 00:35:18,004
I'll be taking shots periodically.
368
00:35:18,314 --> 00:35:20,043
Further out.
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00:35:20,382 --> 00:35:21,906
That lip is right in front of me.
370
00:35:22,151 --> 00:35:23,345
Yeah okay.
371
00:35:23,586 --> 00:35:26,521
If you can just head out over the edge
372
00:35:31,660 --> 00:35:35,255
Like a frightened puppy
Jason seems to want to dive back
373
00:35:35,498 --> 00:35:38,262
into his garage and go home.
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00:35:49,845 --> 00:35:53,906
Gaining control and confidence
Bowen sends Jason down
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00:35:54,150 --> 00:35:56,277
into the grand staircase.
376
00:36:10,366 --> 00:36:13,665
Seventy for years have taken
their toll
377
00:36:13,903 --> 00:36:19,364
this is what Jason's camera sees
this is what once was.
378
00:36:27,516 --> 00:36:30,679
Seem-ingly there's nothing
recognizable here
379
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,855
but, then, pillars define a room.
380
00:36:42,131 --> 00:36:45,567
One of these light fixtures still
hangs from the ceiling
381
00:36:45,801 --> 00:36:49,168
suspended both in space and time.
382
00:37:02,718 --> 00:37:05,585
The elaborate ornamental clock is gone
383
00:37:05,821 --> 00:37:08,619
leaving only its outline on the wall.
384
00:37:21,837 --> 00:37:25,603
Jason bumps into something
causing an avalanche of rust.
385
00:37:25,841 --> 00:37:29,868
Alarmed, Ballard and
Martin Bowen decide to withdraw.
386
00:37:31,247 --> 00:37:32,714
Keep knocking that rust off.
387
00:37:32,948 --> 00:37:33,972
Yeah
388
00:37:46,061 --> 00:37:50,521
Now, 2 miles down
Jason salutes his creator.
389
00:37:50,766 --> 00:37:55,032
For man and machine
it's a moment of eerie victory.
390
00:38:08,217 --> 00:38:09,309
In further tests
391
00:38:09,551 --> 00:38:13,317
Jason skims over the wreck like an
inquisitive humming-bird.
392
00:38:13,555 --> 00:38:15,716
He can move more safely and
quickly than Alvin and
393
00:38:15,958 --> 00:38:20,088
get in close to capture small details.
394
00:38:35,177 --> 00:38:37,042
Something door for use...
395
00:38:37,279 --> 00:38:38,610
This door for bridge...
396
00:38:38,847 --> 00:38:42,476
This door for use of crew only.
397
00:38:46,855 --> 00:38:57,993
Napier Brothers Company Engineers,
Glasgow. Napier Brothers Limimted.
398
00:39:09,144 --> 00:39:12,580
Some parts of the ship seem almost new
399
00:39:12,881 --> 00:39:16,339
paint still clings to
these window frames
400
00:39:16,585 --> 00:39:19,611
handles and hinges still turn,
401
00:39:20,322 --> 00:39:23,257
and the awesome steel anchors
402
00:39:23,492 --> 00:39:25,983
still hang from Titanic's bow.
403
00:39:33,569 --> 00:39:36,595
Soon Baliard's work for the Navy
may produce robots
404
00:39:36,839 --> 00:39:42,038
so sophisticated everything can be
seen and controlled from the surface.
405
00:39:42,277 --> 00:39:46,509
On some jobs manned submarines
like Alvin may not be needed.
406
00:39:46,749 --> 00:39:52,949
The success of Jason on Titanic
is a major step toward that goal.
407
00:39:54,289 --> 00:40:06,565
Bring it around A little more,
there we go.
408
00:40:11,039 --> 00:40:13,837
Okay, if we want to drop
weights I'm happy.
409
00:40:14,076 --> 00:40:14,872
Okay.
410
00:40:36,198 --> 00:40:37,688
Success.
411
00:40:38,100 --> 00:40:42,594
God, that was not easy.
412
00:40:42,838 --> 00:40:46,831
In one spectacular dive
Robert Ballard and Martin Bowen
413
00:40:47,075 --> 00:40:50,044
have accomplished all
their major objec-tives.
414
00:40:53,148 --> 00:40:54,410
We had a chandalier right there!
415
00:40:54,650 --> 00:40:58,416
We were taking pictures, of it.
416
00:40:58,654 --> 00:41:01,122
We went dancing in the ballroom.
417
00:41:07,596 --> 00:41:13,091
Now for 9 days
Atlantis gather information on Titanic
418
00:41:18,574 --> 00:41:19,472
Deployed each night,
419
00:41:19,708 --> 00:41:23,735
an unmanned instrument package
captures some 57,000
420
00:41:23,979 --> 00:41:26,038
photos of the wreck site.
421
00:41:33,055 --> 00:41:35,489
I want to go through regions,
not specific targets.
422
00:41:35,724 --> 00:41:37,351
There's only a couple targets left.
423
00:41:37,593 --> 00:41:40,357
Ballard and his colleague
Dr. Elizar Yuchupe,
424
00:41:40,596 --> 00:41:44,532
begin to create a detailed map
of Titanic's remains.
425
00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:46,663
That's it
There's nothing else but that.
426
00:41:46,902 --> 00:41:50,167
It reveals new information
and sometimes contradicts
427
00:41:50,405 --> 00:41:52,839
accepted accounts of the disaster.
428
00:41:53,542 --> 00:41:56,136
That's right down here, you see
that's where it would be.
429
00:41:56,378 --> 00:41:59,939
So south of the...
South of the wine bottles.
430
00:42:00,782 --> 00:42:04,309
Most strikingly the wreck lies
in 2 major sections,
431
00:42:04,553 --> 00:42:07,044
1,800 feet apart.
432
00:42:07,422 --> 00:42:10,823
This supports some
eye witnesses who said the ship broke
433
00:42:11,059 --> 00:42:12,424
in 2 as it went down.
434
00:42:14,229 --> 00:42:18,461
Between the 2 sections of the
wreck lies a vast field of debris
435
00:42:18,700 --> 00:42:22,693
and scattered throughout the wreckage
are many common place objects;
436
00:42:57,639 --> 00:43:00,904
a bottle of champagne still corked
437
00:43:01,910 --> 00:43:05,402
and a cup, sitting on a 57 ton boiler
438
00:43:05,647 --> 00:43:09,708
where it gently came
to rest 74 years ago.
439
00:43:12,187 --> 00:43:15,588
Ballard brought nothing up from
Titanic and had vowed not to
440
00:43:15,824 --> 00:43:17,883
interfere with the wreck.
441
00:43:19,761 --> 00:43:24,596
But that was before Alvin came upon
the assistant purser's safe
442
00:43:48,056 --> 00:43:51,219
The handle turns
but the door won't open.
443
00:43:51,460 --> 00:43:53,655
At any rate,
experts say it was emptied
444
00:43:53,895 --> 00:43:56,659
by the crew before Titanic went down.
445
00:43:59,668 --> 00:44:03,729
As the wreck is explored
the Titanic story is relived
446
00:44:03,972 --> 00:44:07,772
and in some cases revised
to suit new evidence.
447
00:44:08,844 --> 00:44:13,941
It is 11:40 p.m., April 14th, 1912.
448
00:44:15,350 --> 00:44:18,114
From the crow's nest
an iceberg is spotted dead ahead
449
00:44:18,353 --> 00:44:20,583
by lookout, Fredrick Fleet.
450
00:44:22,257 --> 00:44:26,193
Fleet immediately rings on alarm bell
and calls the bridge
451
00:44:26,428 --> 00:44:29,864
where the First Officer
William Murdoch, orders the wheel,
452
00:44:30,098 --> 00:44:32,965
"Hard a starboard,"
and the engines, "Full astern."
453
00:44:39,007 --> 00:44:40,998
Titanic grazes the ice,
454
00:44:41,243 --> 00:44:44,508
possibly causing only
a few crumpled hull plates
455
00:44:44,746 --> 00:44:49,706
but enough to tell Captain
Edward Smith that his ship is doomed.
456
00:44:52,821 --> 00:44:56,780
Captain Smith personally walks back
from the bridge to the radio room
457
00:44:57,025 --> 00:45:00,927
where, soon after midnight
the first distress call is sent.
458
00:45:01,997 --> 00:45:06,991
Radio is its infancy and the newly
adopted signal, S.O.S.
459
00:45:07,235 --> 00:45:09,999
Is a novelty to operator
jack Phillips.
460
00:45:14,309 --> 00:45:17,938
Orders are given that women and
children must board lifeboats.
461
00:45:18,180 --> 00:45:20,910
Near the boats
some first class passengers
462
00:45:21,149 --> 00:45:23,413
gather here in the gymnasium.
463
00:45:25,487 --> 00:45:28,979
One is multi-millionaire
John Jacob Astor,
464
00:45:29,224 --> 00:45:33,126
on an extended honeymoon with
his young second wife, Madeline.
465
00:45:34,663 --> 00:45:38,224
Astor's wife boards a lifeboat here,
on Titanic's port side.
466
00:45:38,467 --> 00:45:41,197
But an officer
refuses Astor and so,
467
00:45:41,436 --> 00:45:44,837
he meekly chooses to stand aside,
and die.
468
00:45:46,975 --> 00:45:50,376
Few yet realize that
because of inadequate laws
469
00:45:50,612 --> 00:45:54,946
there are only enough boats for
half the people aboard.
470
00:45:59,187 --> 00:46:02,987
Distress rockets are fired from
the starboard wing of the bridge.
471
00:46:12,634 --> 00:46:16,730
To the north there is a ship,
the British steamer, Califarnion
472
00:46:17,105 --> 00:46:19,437
Titanic's rockets are
reported to her captain,
473
00:46:19,674 --> 00:46:23,667
Stanley Lord, but he does nothing
goes back to sleep
474
00:46:23,912 --> 00:46:27,905
and will spend the rest of his life
trying to explain.
475
00:46:30,752 --> 00:46:34,586
Many lifeboats are still being
lowered half empty.
476
00:46:34,823 --> 00:46:38,759
Few understand that Titanic
is actually sinking.
477
00:46:44,599 --> 00:46:48,695
The lifeboat davits are still
extended here at boat station 2,
478
00:46:48,937 --> 00:46:52,304
where Second Officer
C.H. Lietauer is in charge.
479
00:46:52,574 --> 00:46:55,634
Lietauer sends half a dozen
crewmen to open doors
480
00:46:55,877 --> 00:46:58,846
and help fill the boats
from decks lower down.
481
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:04,677
The men were never seen again
but one set of doors still hangs open.
482
00:47:08,456 --> 00:47:12,222
Here a twisted davit once
held boat number B
483
00:47:12,794 --> 00:47:15,627
and here stood an aging
distinguished couple,
484
00:47:15,864 --> 00:47:18,526
Mr. And Mrs. Isadore Strauss.
485
00:47:19,668 --> 00:47:22,501
Offered a place on the boats
Mr. Strauss refused it,
486
00:47:22,737 --> 00:47:26,730
then Mrs. Strauss refuse to leave him,
487
00:47:27,075 --> 00:47:30,374
and so, they perished together.
488
00:47:34,850 --> 00:47:36,715
In a single first class cabin
489
00:47:36,952 --> 00:47:39,648
there was a wealthy woman
traveling along.
490
00:47:40,155 --> 00:47:44,285
She was a tough and earthy character,
requiring no assistance.
491
00:47:44,526 --> 00:47:48,394
She boarded a lifeboat
boldly took over command
492
00:47:48,630 --> 00:47:53,431
and was known from then on as
"the unsinkable Molly Brown."
493
00:47:55,570 --> 00:48:00,530
And now, at last, 1,500 people
began to realize that
494
00:48:00,775 --> 00:48:03,676
soon they were going go die.
495
00:48:04,446 --> 00:48:06,539
But on the boat deck near the entrance
496
00:48:06,781 --> 00:48:10,512
to the grand staircase
the band played on.
497
00:48:12,354 --> 00:48:15,346
No one could agree later what
tunes were played
498
00:48:15,590 --> 00:48:17,353
and all the musicians drowned.
499
00:48:17,592 --> 00:48:20,891
But Titanic's band,
and its leader Wallace Harltey,
500
00:48:21,129 --> 00:48:25,930
became immortal heroes of
this disaster on the sea.
501
00:48:33,675 --> 00:48:36,803
Few honored Captain Smith
who had ignored many warnings
502
00:48:37,045 --> 00:48:39,775
as he sailed boldly into history.
503
00:48:40,181 --> 00:48:44,447
He went down with his ship
his last words disputed.
504
00:48:45,153 --> 00:48:47,986
Some said he told the crew
"be British,"
505
00:48:48,223 --> 00:48:51,920
others, "it's every man for himself."
506
00:49:20,989 --> 00:49:22,820
When the Titanic expedition ended
507
00:49:23,058 --> 00:49:27,051
Bob Ballard left behind
a plaque honoring those who died here.
508
00:49:27,295 --> 00:49:32,528
Titanic is their monument
more than 2 miles beneath the sea.
509
00:49:33,134 --> 00:49:36,365
It's memorial to this period of time
510
00:49:36,604 --> 00:49:40,404
to that mistake of arrogance.
511
00:49:40,642 --> 00:49:44,237
It's a whole bunch of things
all bundled up
512
00:49:44,479 --> 00:49:46,913
and now,
down at the bottom of the ocean
513
00:49:47,148 --> 00:49:51,710
it's a very peaceful place
a very quiet place.
514
00:49:52,287 --> 00:49:59,455
It's sitting upright on the bottom
very nobly and at rest.
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