1 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:59,460 I believe things can happen of such an intensity 2 00:00:59,538 --> 00:01:01,973 that they do resonate through time, 3 00:01:02,041 --> 00:01:04,202 create, like, an echo. 4 00:01:09,482 --> 00:01:12,144 The story of the "Titanic" is very personal 5 00:01:12,251 --> 00:01:16,415 to each person who hears it, almost like a biblical story. 6 00:01:16,522 --> 00:01:17,613 This giant ship, 7 00:01:17,723 --> 00:01:20,190 all these people in the middle of the ocean, 8 00:01:20,258 --> 00:01:22,818 this iceberg, the warnings. 9 00:01:24,028 --> 00:01:25,962 What would it have been like 10 00:01:26,030 --> 00:01:28,897 to be there on that fateful night? 11 00:01:50,988 --> 00:01:53,615 I knew Jim was going to go back to the "Titanic. " 12 00:01:53,689 --> 00:01:55,453 He had talked about it. 13 00:01:55,526 --> 00:01:57,550 He wanted to take another expedition 14 00:01:57,627 --> 00:02:00,289 since he had made the film. 15 00:02:00,363 --> 00:02:03,560 He had invited me in passing. 16 00:02:03,633 --> 00:02:06,499 But I guess I didn't really seriously consider 17 00:02:06,568 --> 00:02:08,433 I would actually go. 18 00:02:08,503 --> 00:02:09,561 - Hello! - Hello! 19 00:02:09,638 --> 00:02:11,629 You speak English? 20 00:02:11,706 --> 00:02:14,937 Great. I'm looking for my room. My cabin. 21 00:02:18,647 --> 00:02:19,908 Oh. 22 00:02:20,015 --> 00:02:22,881 Oh, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 23 00:02:22,950 --> 00:02:24,714 But then, when he actually said, 24 00:02:24,786 --> 00:02:29,245 "No, I really want you to come along and experience it 25 00:02:29,324 --> 00:02:32,349 for yourself and just take it all in"... 26 00:02:33,561 --> 00:02:36,928 I had to go. 27 00:03:01,587 --> 00:03:04,351 The "Keldysh" is the largest scientific research vessel 28 00:03:04,424 --> 00:03:05,356 in the world. 29 00:03:05,424 --> 00:03:08,291 And all the activity onboard is focused on the "Mirs" 30 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,760 and what they have to accomplish at the bottom of the ocean. 31 00:03:14,432 --> 00:03:16,731 They take their work extremely seriously. 32 00:03:16,801 --> 00:03:19,269 Everything is checked and rechecked, 33 00:03:19,337 --> 00:03:22,363 just like a space mission. 34 00:03:43,827 --> 00:03:45,020 Oh! 35 00:03:45,862 --> 00:03:47,591 My name is Lewis Abernathy. 36 00:03:47,664 --> 00:03:49,961 I'm an underwater explorer. 37 00:03:50,032 --> 00:03:51,966 I got them all. 38 00:03:52,034 --> 00:03:54,832 I have been trying to thumb a ride down to "Titanic" 39 00:03:54,903 --> 00:03:57,132 for probably 10 years now. 40 00:03:57,239 --> 00:03:58,228 What do you got? 41 00:03:58,340 --> 00:04:02,868 We got bots, slimy bots, and "A" deck, "B" deck, "C" deck. 42 00:04:02,977 --> 00:04:05,207 Huge rusticles, like this big around. 43 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:06,975 My name is Lori Johnston. 44 00:04:07,048 --> 00:04:09,414 My position was as a microbiologist, 45 00:04:09,484 --> 00:04:11,748 looking at the rusticles. 46 00:04:11,819 --> 00:04:15,550 The idea that she spiraled down, spitting objects. 47 00:04:15,623 --> 00:04:17,750 My name is Charles Pellegrino. 48 00:04:17,825 --> 00:04:22,557 I was one of the historians and biologists on the expedition. 49 00:04:22,629 --> 00:04:26,326 We tend to think of it in 21st-century eyes. 50 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,130 I'm Don Lynch, and I studied the "Titanic" 51 00:04:29,202 --> 00:04:32,660 based upon the testimony and accounts of passengers and crew. 52 00:04:32,772 --> 00:04:35,367 The people who were there and witnessed it. 53 00:04:36,676 --> 00:04:38,644 My name is Ken Marschall. 54 00:04:38,711 --> 00:04:42,647 I've been studying the "Titanic" for over three decades now. 55 00:04:42,715 --> 00:04:45,775 I checked it out. The Straus suite. 56 00:04:45,851 --> 00:04:47,648 Through those years and study, 57 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,313 I've sort of become a visual historian 58 00:04:50,388 --> 00:04:53,984 about the ship and her structure and appearance. 59 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,053 It was an amazing expedition 60 00:04:58,130 --> 00:05:02,259 in terms of all of the state-of-the-art technology 61 00:05:02,334 --> 00:05:05,962 and engineering we were using, in terms of the camera system. 62 00:05:06,071 --> 00:05:08,538 The R.O.V.S were amazing. 63 00:05:08,605 --> 00:05:11,006 On the cutting edge of technology. 64 00:05:11,076 --> 00:05:14,203 Just try to keep the light in right where I've gone in. 65 00:05:14,278 --> 00:05:15,870 I'm gonna explore these cabins. 66 00:05:15,946 --> 00:05:18,574 There is no script. We don't know what we're gonna see. 67 00:05:18,649 --> 00:05:21,379 We don't know what we're gonna encounter. 68 00:05:21,452 --> 00:05:24,750 The crucial thing about deep-sea photography 69 00:05:24,821 --> 00:05:26,345 is lighting. 70 00:05:26,422 --> 00:05:29,620 Just come up over and light all this business down here. 71 00:05:29,693 --> 00:05:31,626 - You see what I mean? - Yeah. 72 00:05:32,328 --> 00:05:36,662 So we had a sister ship on the expedition called the "EAS." 73 00:05:37,499 --> 00:05:39,968 The "EAS" had this giant lighting chandelier 74 00:05:40,069 --> 00:05:41,559 called Medusa. 75 00:05:42,638 --> 00:05:46,368 The theory was to lower the chandelier down over the wreck 76 00:05:46,441 --> 00:05:50,537 and do this overlighting, almost like moonlight. 77 00:05:50,612 --> 00:05:52,739 There was no manual for any of this. 78 00:05:52,814 --> 00:05:55,146 Nobody had ever combined this many elements 79 00:05:55,217 --> 00:05:58,811 into a single-dive operation before at these depths. 80 00:06:00,654 --> 00:06:03,646 We were pushing the limits of technology, 81 00:06:03,724 --> 00:06:05,191 which was a little eerie 82 00:06:05,259 --> 00:06:08,251 given the fate of the ship we had come to explore. 83 00:06:14,335 --> 00:06:17,327 This is where it all happened. 84 00:06:17,437 --> 00:06:19,098 It could be any other part of the ocean, 85 00:06:19,172 --> 00:06:20,640 but there's something special about knowing 86 00:06:20,740 --> 00:06:23,641 this is the spot and the wreck's down there. 87 00:06:23,710 --> 00:06:27,042 Why this shipwreck? Why not the "Lusitania"? 88 00:06:27,113 --> 00:06:29,980 Why not the "Moro Castle"? Why not the "Atlantic"? 89 00:06:30,049 --> 00:06:31,107 They're all good. 90 00:06:31,184 --> 00:06:33,151 They're all good, but why is this one? 91 00:06:33,219 --> 00:06:35,049 Look at the stuff that comes with this. 92 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,953 You've got the biggest ship on its maiden voyage, 93 00:06:38,023 --> 00:06:40,355 the president of the company onboard that owns it, 94 00:06:40,426 --> 00:06:41,893 the builder onboard. 95 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:44,757 And it hits an iceberg, and it sinks so slowly 96 00:06:44,863 --> 00:06:48,060 that you've got all these hours for drama to be acted out. 97 00:06:48,166 --> 00:06:50,134 You don't get that with other shipwrecks. 98 00:06:50,201 --> 00:06:53,193 It's really a Greek tragedy for real. 99 00:06:53,304 --> 00:06:56,467 She was so cheated. She was so beautiful. 100 00:06:56,541 --> 00:06:59,566 So much energy went into building this creation. 101 00:06:59,643 --> 00:07:02,545 You know, the epitome of human engineering 102 00:07:02,612 --> 00:07:05,672 and architecture, maritime architecture at that point. 103 00:07:05,749 --> 00:07:08,479 And to have it taken away, stolen, 104 00:07:08,552 --> 00:07:11,521 just four days out of England. 105 00:07:11,588 --> 00:07:16,490 And that's part, I guess, of the odd attraction to it. 106 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,653 The fact that you could never have such a thing happen 107 00:07:19,763 --> 00:07:21,458 before or since. 108 00:07:21,565 --> 00:07:24,534 The ship remains at the bottom of the sea 109 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,329 as an eternal memorial. 110 00:07:26,402 --> 00:07:28,495 And we can visit that memorial. 111 00:07:28,571 --> 00:07:31,597 We can bear witness to the event. 112 00:07:31,673 --> 00:07:34,142 And if we're gonna do interior exploration, 113 00:07:34,210 --> 00:07:36,677 we have to do it now, because five years from now, 114 00:07:36,745 --> 00:07:38,109 there might not be anything. 115 00:07:38,179 --> 00:07:40,477 Five years ago, the technology didn't exist. 116 00:07:40,549 --> 00:07:43,176 We had to will it into existence. 117 00:07:44,652 --> 00:07:48,019 "Monday, August 20, 2001. 118 00:07:48,089 --> 00:07:50,455 Tomorrow morning we will descend 21/2 miles 119 00:07:50,557 --> 00:07:53,185 into the cold, dark netherworld 120 00:07:53,294 --> 00:07:55,761 and see 'Titanic' for ourselves 121 00:07:55,830 --> 00:07:59,424 as she lies broken on the seafloor. 122 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:02,162 How do you prepare for such an experience?" 123 00:08:10,611 --> 00:08:12,202 Okay. Dive one. 124 00:08:12,278 --> 00:08:16,544 It's gonna be J. B. And Bill in "Mir-2," 125 00:08:16,616 --> 00:08:18,174 and me and Vince in "Mir-1." 126 00:08:18,251 --> 00:08:21,345 Pilots are gonna be Genya Chernaiev, "Mir-2," 127 00:08:21,420 --> 00:08:23,718 Anatoly Sagalevitch, "Mir-1." 128 00:08:30,662 --> 00:08:33,096 Okay. Here's your checklist. 129 00:08:33,164 --> 00:08:36,030 Have your last will and testament in order, 130 00:08:36,101 --> 00:08:38,501 make sure your insurance is paid up, 131 00:08:38,570 --> 00:08:40,731 write a final note to your family. 132 00:08:40,805 --> 00:08:43,671 These are the kind of things you think about. 133 00:08:52,750 --> 00:08:54,182 Next stop, "Titanic. " 134 00:08:54,251 --> 00:08:55,410 Happy hunting. 135 00:08:55,485 --> 00:08:57,147 Let's rock and roll. 136 00:08:58,988 --> 00:09:00,387 The moment of truth. 137 00:09:10,666 --> 00:09:12,396 See you in the sunshine. 138 00:09:28,616 --> 00:09:31,780 To get in a three-man submersible 139 00:09:31,886 --> 00:09:35,186 and descend 12,500 feet 140 00:09:35,257 --> 00:09:38,282 down into the bottom of the North Atlantic, 141 00:09:38,392 --> 00:09:44,262 it just was maybe a little more adventure than I wanted. 142 00:09:55,743 --> 00:09:56,674 Oxygen? 143 00:09:56,743 --> 00:09:57,675 Yeah. 144 00:09:57,744 --> 00:09:59,041 That's good. 145 00:09:59,112 --> 00:10:01,842 Yeah. Be sure to turn that on. 146 00:11:16,585 --> 00:11:19,917 Yeah, I can see how you get kind of queasy sitting up here. 147 00:12:01,893 --> 00:12:04,123 Look at the colors change. 148 00:12:15,340 --> 00:12:16,931 Boy, that's fast. 149 00:12:23,914 --> 00:12:26,610 This tells you the oxygen up here, right? 150 00:12:26,683 --> 00:12:27,741 Yes. 151 00:12:27,818 --> 00:12:30,013 So it's at 21. That's good. 152 00:12:30,087 --> 00:12:33,852 Now, if that gets below 19, then it's... 153 00:12:33,923 --> 00:12:36,222 What's the number you watch for? 154 00:12:36,293 --> 00:12:39,352 It's 19. It's good also. 155 00:12:39,429 --> 00:12:40,828 It's good. Yes. 156 00:12:40,897 --> 00:12:43,889 But if it gets below what? 157 00:12:50,439 --> 00:12:53,966 Does the battery sound okay? It sounds sluggish like that? 158 00:12:54,077 --> 00:12:56,044 - That's normal? - Yes, it's normal. 159 00:12:56,145 --> 00:12:58,613 Now, if you have a real emergency 160 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:00,580 and everything fails, 161 00:13:00,681 --> 00:13:02,343 I heard something about, 162 00:13:02,417 --> 00:13:06,786 you can disengage, drop the main battery? 163 00:13:06,855 --> 00:13:07,946 Just... 164 00:13:08,022 --> 00:13:11,082 Yes, we have many possibilities. 165 00:13:15,429 --> 00:13:21,560 I hope we never drop battery, because it's very expensive. 166 00:13:21,635 --> 00:13:22,625 How much? 167 00:13:22,703 --> 00:13:27,366 It's $250, 000, I think. 168 00:13:28,108 --> 00:13:30,099 I mean, would you take a check? 169 00:13:36,950 --> 00:13:37,847 2, 000 meters? 170 00:13:37,917 --> 00:13:39,714 Yes. 2, 000. 171 00:13:58,136 --> 00:13:59,831 That's pretty deep. 172 00:14:12,549 --> 00:14:14,312 Something wrong? 173 00:14:14,384 --> 00:14:15,646 It's okay? 174 00:14:15,719 --> 00:14:17,050 Yes. 175 00:14:18,522 --> 00:14:19,454 That's handy. 176 00:14:19,523 --> 00:14:21,320 And it's fixed. 177 00:14:21,391 --> 00:14:23,187 I adjust for them for later. 178 00:14:23,260 --> 00:14:26,252 Oh, okay. Okay. Good. Yeah. 179 00:14:27,331 --> 00:14:30,595 "Mir-1," "Mir-1," this is "Mir-2." 180 00:14:30,667 --> 00:14:33,066 What is your depth? Over. 181 00:14:34,103 --> 00:14:36,970 "Mir-2," "Mir-2," this is "Mir-1." 182 00:14:37,039 --> 00:14:44,275 Depth is 3,353 meters. 183 00:14:44,347 --> 00:14:46,712 See you on the bottom. Jim out. 184 00:15:02,497 --> 00:15:05,829 I see bottom. It's bottom. 185 00:15:05,933 --> 00:15:07,059 Oh, yeah. 186 00:15:07,167 --> 00:15:08,099 You see it? 187 00:15:08,168 --> 00:15:10,500 Yeah. Just barely. 188 00:15:16,010 --> 00:15:18,705 Bottom of the ocean. Look at that. 189 00:15:18,778 --> 00:15:20,905 Look at that. 190 00:15:21,915 --> 00:15:24,748 It looks like the dark side of the moon. 191 00:15:35,727 --> 00:15:37,217 It wasn't just the idea 192 00:15:37,296 --> 00:15:39,992 of putting your faith in these little submarines 193 00:15:40,098 --> 00:15:42,430 and going to the bottom of the sea. 194 00:15:42,501 --> 00:15:45,561 There's thousands of tons of pressure against you. 195 00:15:45,671 --> 00:15:49,868 But where we were going, where we were going. 196 00:15:49,941 --> 00:15:53,877 We'll see more debris as we go. There's a piece right there. 197 00:15:57,648 --> 00:16:00,879 Yeah, look. There's some china. See the china? 198 00:16:02,819 --> 00:16:03,912 Yeah, we got her. 199 00:16:03,988 --> 00:16:06,455 You want to see "Titanic" on the sonar? 200 00:16:06,523 --> 00:16:07,991 You're gonna love this. 201 00:16:08,059 --> 00:16:10,652 - It's, like, there she is, baby. - Oh, man. 202 00:16:10,727 --> 00:16:13,195 Okay. 50 meters straight ahead. 203 00:16:29,379 --> 00:16:32,279 Bill, it's the bow. 204 00:16:33,048 --> 00:16:36,175 Oh, look at that. 205 00:16:37,252 --> 00:16:39,811 Oh, God. There it is. 206 00:16:39,887 --> 00:16:41,150 What a sight. 207 00:16:41,223 --> 00:16:43,019 What a sight! 208 00:16:45,827 --> 00:16:49,058 So Medusa is lighting it up. 209 00:17:03,076 --> 00:17:05,976 Look at that. 210 00:17:06,046 --> 00:17:07,376 Oh, man. 211 00:17:08,481 --> 00:17:11,781 Oh, now you get a sense of the size of this thing. 212 00:17:11,852 --> 00:17:13,614 My God! 213 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:15,714 This was the "Titanic. " 214 00:17:15,788 --> 00:17:19,383 This is the fabled liner that lies in its grave 215 00:17:19,492 --> 00:17:21,483 at the bottom of the North Atlantic. 216 00:17:21,594 --> 00:17:24,461 You approach it with incredible reverence. 217 00:17:24,530 --> 00:17:27,328 Bill, it is bow anchor. 218 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:28,693 Oh, God. 219 00:17:28,767 --> 00:17:31,167 Its port side in good conditions. 220 00:17:31,237 --> 00:17:33,727 That is incredible. Look at that. 221 00:17:35,073 --> 00:17:36,768 Look at that! 222 00:17:36,841 --> 00:17:40,537 It's dug in all the way up to the anchor. 223 00:18:03,232 --> 00:18:07,066 Oh, it's amazing just to be floating above it. 224 00:18:07,136 --> 00:18:10,128 Gosh, you could just reach out and touch it. 225 00:18:14,409 --> 00:18:17,538 We're near the anchor crane. It's right there. 226 00:18:17,613 --> 00:18:18,579 See it? 227 00:18:18,648 --> 00:18:20,012 Look. Right here. 228 00:18:20,082 --> 00:18:21,913 Okay. Oh, yes. 229 00:18:29,624 --> 00:18:32,387 Okay. Okay. You're clear. 230 00:18:32,460 --> 00:18:36,454 I knew we were gonna get close, but not this close. 231 00:18:45,306 --> 00:18:48,537 The experience of being in one of the submersibles 232 00:18:48,609 --> 00:18:52,170 is almost like an astral projection. 233 00:18:52,246 --> 00:18:53,712 The way you float around it, 234 00:18:53,780 --> 00:18:58,945 it really is an ethereal, kind of ghostly experience. 235 00:19:01,454 --> 00:19:03,615 We're here. It's Hatch Number One. 236 00:19:03,723 --> 00:19:04,849 Oh, yeah. Look. 237 00:19:04,957 --> 00:19:07,153 You can see right down the cargo hatch. 238 00:19:07,227 --> 00:19:10,923 Boy, it just falls into just a black well. 239 00:19:22,975 --> 00:19:25,773 Oh, there's the crow's-nest door right there. 240 00:19:25,843 --> 00:19:28,539 They climbed up inside the mast 241 00:19:28,613 --> 00:19:30,444 to get out to the crow's nest. 242 00:19:30,515 --> 00:19:32,415 That's where Fleet stood. 243 00:19:32,517 --> 00:19:34,576 Right there when he saw the iceberg. 244 00:19:36,187 --> 00:19:38,950 Iceberg right ahead! 245 00:19:39,023 --> 00:19:43,823 You see the... it looks like the port electric crane. 246 00:19:43,894 --> 00:19:45,156 What is that? 247 00:19:45,229 --> 00:19:46,593 Yeah, it's a gate. 248 00:19:46,663 --> 00:19:48,824 - Yes, it's gate. Yes. - Closed gate. 249 00:19:48,899 --> 00:19:50,196 Officers locked that 250 00:19:50,267 --> 00:19:54,636 to keep the steerage passengers down below decks. 251 00:19:54,703 --> 00:19:58,036 Of course, I'd have been just climbing over that thing. 252 00:20:10,953 --> 00:20:14,286 Oh, God. So that's right where the bridge was. 253 00:20:14,355 --> 00:20:16,516 And there's the telemotor. 254 00:20:16,591 --> 00:20:19,583 The helm. The helm of the ship. 255 00:20:22,096 --> 00:20:23,221 Try to imagine 256 00:20:23,297 --> 00:20:26,358 what it must have been like to be on the bridge that night. 257 00:20:26,434 --> 00:20:29,266 First Officer William Murdoch is on duty. 258 00:20:29,336 --> 00:20:32,499 Quartermaster Hichens at the wheel. 259 00:20:39,079 --> 00:20:41,740 That split-second decision Murdoch had to make. 260 00:20:43,183 --> 00:20:44,615 Iceberg right ahead! 261 00:20:44,684 --> 00:20:47,176 He can go left or he can go right. 262 00:20:50,256 --> 00:20:51,245 Quickly! 263 00:20:56,796 --> 00:20:59,424 Murdoch is suddenly staring an iceberg 264 00:20:59,497 --> 00:21:01,488 right down the barrel. 265 00:21:05,771 --> 00:21:08,762 Murdoch knows how many passengers are onboard, 266 00:21:08,841 --> 00:21:10,705 how few lifeboats there are, 267 00:21:10,775 --> 00:21:13,835 what grave danger the ship is in. 268 00:21:13,944 --> 00:21:14,934 Golly. 269 00:21:15,046 --> 00:21:19,039 That is history right there. We are touching the legend. 270 00:21:43,339 --> 00:21:46,933 Wow. Just like a cliff just falling in the abyss. 271 00:22:02,858 --> 00:22:05,724 "Mir-2," "Mir-2," be advised that we are... 272 00:22:05,794 --> 00:22:07,625 We're gonna be going up. 273 00:22:07,696 --> 00:22:09,356 Did they start up? 274 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:17,137 Well, let's clear "Titanic" before we turn the lights off. 275 00:22:17,204 --> 00:22:20,661 "Titanic" was good to us today. 276 00:22:30,850 --> 00:22:32,875 Goodbye, "Titanic. " 277 00:23:01,646 --> 00:23:04,012 Oh! Oh! 278 00:23:56,030 --> 00:23:57,292 Hello, again. 279 00:23:57,365 --> 00:23:59,161 Hello, Sergei. 280 00:23:59,267 --> 00:24:00,427 Whoo. 281 00:24:00,534 --> 00:24:02,502 Welcome to "Keldysh. " 282 00:24:03,671 --> 00:24:05,934 Quite a ride. 283 00:24:06,006 --> 00:24:09,669 If the bow is so dug in, you just don't get that depth. 284 00:24:09,743 --> 00:24:12,303 And seeing that wall going all the way down 285 00:24:12,379 --> 00:24:13,641 and falling into nothing, 286 00:24:13,714 --> 00:24:15,705 even just with the "Mir-2's" lights, 287 00:24:15,783 --> 00:24:20,310 really was like, "Holy cow. This thing is so big. " 288 00:24:21,487 --> 00:24:24,787 What exciting work. 289 00:24:24,857 --> 00:24:28,793 We were exploring the "Titanic" with new technologies 290 00:24:28,861 --> 00:24:30,761 and these incredible new cameras. 291 00:24:30,830 --> 00:24:32,421 Have you ever been in any sub? 292 00:24:32,532 --> 00:24:34,500 Only at Disneyland. 293 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,090 This is different. 294 00:24:41,006 --> 00:24:42,200 Good luck. 295 00:24:42,274 --> 00:24:44,834 See you later. 296 00:24:51,349 --> 00:24:54,112 These dives, every one is so precious. 297 00:24:54,185 --> 00:24:55,311 I want to make sure 298 00:24:55,386 --> 00:24:59,117 we pack as much information, visually and historically, 299 00:24:59,190 --> 00:25:01,283 as I can possibly get into these eyeballs. 300 00:25:01,358 --> 00:25:03,690 Ha! Ha! Ha! 301 00:25:06,864 --> 00:25:09,832 You know, you have historians, scientists. 302 00:25:09,899 --> 00:25:12,333 It was a great camaraderie. 303 00:25:20,710 --> 00:25:23,269 I screamed like a girl the whole time. 304 00:25:23,346 --> 00:25:24,870 Crying like a kid? 305 00:25:24,948 --> 00:25:26,916 Cried like a baby. 306 00:25:28,751 --> 00:25:31,514 The R.O.V.S were fascinating. 307 00:25:31,587 --> 00:25:34,420 Initially they were called Bot 1 and Bot 2. 308 00:25:34,490 --> 00:25:38,517 But ultimately they were named Jake and Elwood. 309 00:25:45,766 --> 00:25:47,700 My name is Mike Cameron. 310 00:25:47,768 --> 00:25:50,328 I'm the R.O.V. Creator. 311 00:25:50,404 --> 00:25:53,305 The vehicle is not unlike a little creature. 312 00:25:53,374 --> 00:25:56,707 It's got a brain. It's got a computer onboard. 313 00:25:56,776 --> 00:25:59,268 It's got eyes in a couple cameras up front. 314 00:25:59,346 --> 00:26:01,178 Give it a little forward. 315 00:26:01,249 --> 00:26:04,046 You are in, Daddy-O. You're in. 316 00:26:04,117 --> 00:26:07,712 It's got this character about it that's alive. 317 00:26:08,687 --> 00:26:12,317 The real revolutionary part is the fiber-optic spool. 318 00:26:12,425 --> 00:26:14,949 It's like a spider spinning out its own silk. 319 00:26:15,061 --> 00:26:17,790 Come in here, explore these rooms, 320 00:26:17,863 --> 00:26:18,955 come back out. 321 00:26:19,064 --> 00:26:22,227 If these bots worked like we were hoping they would, 322 00:26:22,301 --> 00:26:24,825 we could go through the entire ship. 323 00:26:26,438 --> 00:26:28,668 The bots are finally going to "Titanic. " 324 00:26:28,741 --> 00:26:30,436 Three years in the making. 325 00:26:35,580 --> 00:26:39,311 "Mir-1," Jake's just coming out of his hooch. Over. 326 00:26:39,384 --> 00:26:41,818 Here he comes. He's out. 327 00:26:43,922 --> 00:26:47,618 I think we were so intent on watching the screens. 328 00:26:47,725 --> 00:26:51,559 Very quickly, I forgot where I was. 329 00:26:53,797 --> 00:26:58,062 The R. O.V. Had just unconsciously become our eyes. 330 00:26:59,469 --> 00:27:04,406 This is what it's all about. Cruising around at 12, 000 feet. 331 00:27:05,775 --> 00:27:07,107 Jeff, stand by. 332 00:27:07,176 --> 00:27:11,169 We're about to launch Bot 1, a. K. A. Elwood. 333 00:27:12,348 --> 00:27:14,213 Sight enabler. 334 00:27:15,585 --> 00:27:17,951 Com link. Camera power. 335 00:27:18,020 --> 00:27:20,614 All right. I think we're ready to fly. 336 00:27:21,891 --> 00:27:24,586 Elwood's coming out. 337 00:27:31,333 --> 00:27:32,823 Pretty cool. 338 00:27:34,302 --> 00:27:36,293 Looking good, Elwood. 339 00:27:37,237 --> 00:27:40,764 Tell them we'll meet in the center of the grand staircase. 340 00:27:40,841 --> 00:27:44,641 We're gonna meet in the center of the grand staircase. 341 00:27:44,712 --> 00:27:46,873 Copy that. 342 00:27:46,947 --> 00:27:49,471 The grand staircase on "Titanic" 343 00:27:49,550 --> 00:27:52,951 was, in my opinion, the most beautiful feature of the ship. 344 00:27:53,052 --> 00:27:54,451 And the dome, 345 00:27:54,521 --> 00:27:58,854 the wrought-iron dome overhead, was just beautiful. 346 00:27:58,925 --> 00:28:00,290 It's really a blessing 347 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:03,557 that this staircase did break apart and float out, 348 00:28:03,630 --> 00:28:08,726 because it allows easy access to the interior of the ship. 349 00:28:12,070 --> 00:28:13,628 What's Elwood's 20? 350 00:28:13,705 --> 00:28:15,104 Right above you. 351 00:28:15,174 --> 00:28:18,006 Getting ready to start our descent. Over. 352 00:28:20,846 --> 00:28:22,279 Okay. We see him. 353 00:28:22,347 --> 00:28:23,439 That's them. 354 00:28:23,514 --> 00:28:24,504 Okay. We see you. 355 00:28:24,583 --> 00:28:25,515 Okay. 356 00:28:25,617 --> 00:28:27,778 Proceed slowly. 357 00:28:27,885 --> 00:28:30,217 Proceeding slowly. 358 00:28:36,260 --> 00:28:39,285 This is so much like flying a helicopter. 359 00:28:48,171 --> 00:28:51,538 We knew the beauty of the grand staircase was gone. 360 00:28:51,608 --> 00:28:55,100 But no one knew what we'd find deep inside the ship. 361 00:28:57,947 --> 00:28:59,710 Continue down one. 362 00:28:59,815 --> 00:29:02,751 You're crossing the floor of "B" deck right now. 363 00:29:02,852 --> 00:29:05,115 You're looking into "C" deck right now. 364 00:29:05,187 --> 00:29:07,951 - Do not go into "C" deck. - Awaiting instructions. 365 00:29:08,023 --> 00:29:10,514 "C" deck. "D" deck. There's "D" deck. 366 00:29:13,628 --> 00:29:16,928 All right. He's in position to enter "D" deck. 367 00:29:16,999 --> 00:29:18,898 Stand by there, Jeff. 368 00:29:18,967 --> 00:29:22,231 Your first move would be to enter "D" deck. 369 00:29:22,304 --> 00:29:24,294 Roger that. 370 00:29:24,372 --> 00:29:26,465 You getting ready to go down there? 371 00:29:26,541 --> 00:29:29,635 Do I want to be pointed aft or what? 372 00:29:29,711 --> 00:29:30,972 Yeah. Okay. 373 00:29:31,044 --> 00:29:32,636 Okay. Tell him to move ahead slow. 374 00:29:32,747 --> 00:29:34,806 Move ahead slow. 375 00:29:35,515 --> 00:29:37,484 Moving ahead slow. 376 00:29:56,035 --> 00:29:59,527 Tell him to move real, real, real, real easy. 377 00:29:59,605 --> 00:30:03,234 Move real, real, real, real easy. 378 00:30:03,309 --> 00:30:05,243 Real easy. 379 00:30:05,310 --> 00:30:07,141 Moving real easy. 380 00:30:09,681 --> 00:30:12,650 Believe we are heading toward starboard. 381 00:30:15,687 --> 00:30:18,280 We're looking at a light fixture. 382 00:30:18,355 --> 00:30:21,484 Looks like it had four or five bulbs on it. 383 00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:23,651 We should come to the right. 384 00:30:23,727 --> 00:30:25,126 Come to the right, Jeff. 385 00:30:25,195 --> 00:30:27,823 And we'll head for the boiler uptake. 386 00:30:27,898 --> 00:30:30,264 Copy that. 387 00:30:30,334 --> 00:30:33,303 So far, the vehicle is handling like a champ. 388 00:30:39,275 --> 00:30:42,336 It's performing beautifully. How much tether do we have out? 389 00:30:42,445 --> 00:30:44,471 Just shy of 200 feet out. 390 00:30:44,580 --> 00:30:45,512 Okay. 391 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,582 Move forward to that doorframe. 392 00:30:57,459 --> 00:31:00,257 We are inside the "Titanic. " 393 00:31:02,264 --> 00:31:04,858 - Tell him to slow down. - I still can't get over it. 394 00:31:04,933 --> 00:31:06,264 Slow down. 395 00:31:06,334 --> 00:31:07,733 Copy that. 396 00:31:07,802 --> 00:31:10,965 I still can't believe that we're actually here. 397 00:31:14,041 --> 00:31:16,010 I keep waiting for somebody to yell, "Cut," 398 00:31:16,111 --> 00:31:18,476 and I'm gonna go back to my trailer. 399 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,477 I don't think I can get out of this and get back to my trailer. 400 00:31:22,550 --> 00:31:24,074 My trailer! 401 00:31:24,885 --> 00:31:26,876 I need to call my agent. 402 00:31:28,822 --> 00:31:31,758 It's getting a little skinny right in here. 403 00:31:31,825 --> 00:31:35,852 Looks like Carlsbad Caverns in there. 404 00:31:35,928 --> 00:31:37,226 Is he pinned? 405 00:31:37,297 --> 00:31:40,266 Is there no way forward from there? 406 00:31:40,333 --> 00:31:41,594 Go left. 407 00:31:41,667 --> 00:31:42,656 Go left. 408 00:31:42,735 --> 00:31:44,726 Making the turn. 409 00:31:48,774 --> 00:31:51,538 That's too close to the bottom. Tell them to come up. 410 00:31:51,610 --> 00:31:53,578 You're too close to the bottom. 411 00:31:53,645 --> 00:31:54,907 Copy that. 412 00:31:54,980 --> 00:31:56,572 Oh! 413 00:31:57,482 --> 00:31:59,506 Boy, this is nerve-racking. 414 00:32:01,419 --> 00:32:04,479 There's something there. See what that is? 415 00:32:04,555 --> 00:32:06,046 Windows, windows. 416 00:32:06,123 --> 00:32:07,681 Dining-room windows. 417 00:32:07,758 --> 00:32:10,727 - We're going for the window. - We're going for the windows. 418 00:32:10,795 --> 00:32:11,762 Look at that. 419 00:32:11,829 --> 00:32:13,694 - Unbelievable. - That's amazing. 420 00:32:13,764 --> 00:32:15,061 Take it real slow here. 421 00:32:15,131 --> 00:32:17,566 Those are the lead-glass windows. 422 00:32:17,634 --> 00:32:20,603 Try to get your light up on those. 423 00:32:21,238 --> 00:32:22,933 - Amazing, huh? - Yes. 424 00:32:23,039 --> 00:32:24,563 Turn off his spotlight. 425 00:32:24,674 --> 00:32:26,164 Turn off your spotlight. 426 00:32:26,276 --> 00:32:28,244 Make a nice image of the windows. 427 00:32:28,311 --> 00:32:31,336 Make a nice picture of the windows in front of you. 428 00:32:31,413 --> 00:32:33,381 Look at that. Look at that. 429 00:32:33,449 --> 00:32:34,575 Oh, boy! 430 00:32:34,650 --> 00:32:37,983 Beautiful. Still intact. 431 00:32:38,054 --> 00:32:39,384 Very much intact. 432 00:32:39,455 --> 00:32:40,888 Looks like the glass, 433 00:32:40,956 --> 00:32:42,889 all the leaded glass, it's all there. 434 00:32:42,958 --> 00:32:44,448 It's not broken. 435 00:32:54,035 --> 00:32:57,436 The first-class dining room was beautiful. 436 00:32:57,505 --> 00:33:00,406 Among the passengers who ate here were John Jacob Astor 437 00:33:00,508 --> 00:33:03,773 and his wife, Madeline, who were on their honeymoon. 438 00:33:03,845 --> 00:33:06,746 She would be widowed before the end of the voyage. 439 00:33:08,282 --> 00:33:11,479 We are not in Kansas anymore. 440 00:33:15,522 --> 00:33:17,387 I think you got a friend. 441 00:33:17,457 --> 00:33:20,983 Oh. There's Sam. 442 00:33:21,060 --> 00:33:23,154 Sam stopped by to say hello. 443 00:33:23,230 --> 00:33:25,823 He's giving us the tour. 444 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,259 "Follow me," he says. 445 00:33:49,587 --> 00:33:52,681 It's like a fantasy in here, isn't it? 446 00:33:52,757 --> 00:33:55,954 The craftsmanship. The delicate beauty. 447 00:33:56,027 --> 00:33:58,187 That human hands created these windows, 448 00:33:58,262 --> 00:34:01,197 that human eyes looked at these windows. 449 00:34:01,265 --> 00:34:03,233 And then you realize 450 00:34:03,334 --> 00:34:07,668 that you're 12, 500 feet beneath the sea. 451 00:34:08,872 --> 00:34:11,306 Oh, look at that woodwork. 452 00:34:11,375 --> 00:34:15,435 That's all wood, Genya. That's all carved wood. 453 00:34:15,511 --> 00:34:17,945 But these things created by man, 454 00:34:18,014 --> 00:34:21,711 in this dark abyss, where they just shouldn't be. 455 00:34:21,783 --> 00:34:23,648 They're not supposed to be here. 456 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:24,947 Unbelievable. 457 00:34:25,020 --> 00:34:27,454 Who would've thought that would still be there? 458 00:34:27,522 --> 00:34:29,683 It's the dream come true for me. 459 00:34:32,928 --> 00:34:35,795 What's significant about the reception room 460 00:34:35,864 --> 00:34:38,332 is that this is where Elizabeth Lines 461 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:39,764 overheard a conversation 462 00:34:39,834 --> 00:34:41,631 between Captain Smith and Bruce Ismay, 463 00:34:41,702 --> 00:34:43,432 the owner of the "Titanic. " 464 00:34:43,505 --> 00:34:45,666 And she heard Ismay telling Smith 465 00:34:45,741 --> 00:34:49,301 to have the "Titanic" arrive in New York a day early. 466 00:34:49,377 --> 00:34:51,504 I think we're going to beat "Olympic's" time 467 00:34:51,579 --> 00:34:53,843 and arrive in New York Tuesday night. 468 00:35:06,292 --> 00:35:08,487 We're holding at the first-class entrance, 469 00:35:08,595 --> 00:35:10,495 starboard side. 470 00:35:13,732 --> 00:35:16,826 Isn't that beautiful? Gosh. 471 00:35:16,902 --> 00:35:20,498 It looks like it's just been made more beautiful by time. 472 00:35:20,573 --> 00:35:23,440 "Titanic's" main first-class entrance 473 00:35:23,509 --> 00:35:24,703 was on "D" deck. 474 00:35:24,777 --> 00:35:28,007 And she had two large gangway doors 475 00:35:28,079 --> 00:35:30,674 on both the port and the starboard side. 476 00:35:30,749 --> 00:35:33,081 Through the eyes of the R. O.V., 477 00:35:33,152 --> 00:35:36,610 we could see the wrought-iron gates just inside the doors, 478 00:35:36,687 --> 00:35:39,918 which were unknown to historians until this expedition. 479 00:35:40,024 --> 00:35:42,925 We had no idea what was inside, and now we know. 480 00:35:42,994 --> 00:35:45,428 This is the way they boarded the ship. 481 00:35:45,495 --> 00:35:49,364 They came in through that door, and then this inner door. 482 00:35:55,705 --> 00:35:58,196 And in this entrance vestibule, 483 00:35:58,275 --> 00:36:00,903 there was a large sideboard against the aft wall 484 00:36:00,977 --> 00:36:03,376 where lots of first-class china was stored. 485 00:36:03,446 --> 00:36:06,746 The dish cabinet had more or less rotted away. 486 00:36:06,816 --> 00:36:09,718 But you could see the teacups and the little dishes 487 00:36:09,785 --> 00:36:11,275 stacked perfectly there. 488 00:36:11,353 --> 00:36:13,753 I wish I had those dishes, you know? 489 00:36:13,856 --> 00:36:15,824 Give it up on eBay. 490 00:36:17,193 --> 00:36:19,660 There's the elevators. 491 00:36:21,696 --> 00:36:22,754 There's... 492 00:36:22,831 --> 00:36:25,265 There's the shaft. 493 00:36:27,336 --> 00:36:29,326 Look at that. 494 00:36:30,805 --> 00:36:33,638 I thought they called them "lifts," but you know what? 495 00:36:33,708 --> 00:36:36,370 The ship was owned by an American company. 496 00:36:37,312 --> 00:36:38,744 Hmm. 497 00:36:38,813 --> 00:36:41,076 Like you could just call them now. 498 00:36:41,148 --> 00:36:43,844 Whenever you're looking at the elevator grilles, 499 00:36:43,917 --> 00:36:46,511 try to remember to turn and look forward and see. 500 00:36:46,620 --> 00:36:49,111 There may still be paneling right amidships, 501 00:36:49,223 --> 00:36:51,248 and there will be brass letters that say 502 00:36:51,358 --> 00:36:53,553 "A" deck, "B" deck, "C" deck, or "D" deck. 503 00:36:53,627 --> 00:36:55,150 When you come out of the elevators. 504 00:36:55,262 --> 00:36:58,163 Most likely that paneling is down. But you never know. 505 00:36:58,232 --> 00:36:59,596 That would be a classic shot 506 00:36:59,665 --> 00:37:01,826 to have that lettering still clinging. 507 00:37:01,901 --> 00:37:04,027 Ken loves this stuff. 508 00:37:04,103 --> 00:37:09,507 I feel like I'm making a film for one person. Ken Marschall. 509 00:37:09,574 --> 00:37:12,237 And there it is. Bingo, baby. 510 00:37:12,311 --> 00:37:14,870 - Tell him "bingo. " Bingo. 511 00:37:14,946 --> 00:37:18,347 The "A" had recently fallen from its own weight. 512 00:37:18,450 --> 00:37:22,443 That brass letter was heavier than the "D," "E," "C," "K." 513 00:37:23,221 --> 00:37:26,190 Okay. I see where we are. We just peeked into "D" 35. 514 00:37:26,291 --> 00:37:29,158 We were methodical exploring the interior. 515 00:37:29,226 --> 00:37:33,128 We had to be because the wreck can be very disorienting. 516 00:37:33,197 --> 00:37:34,859 It was spooky. 517 00:37:37,001 --> 00:37:38,434 "D" 33 was the cabin 518 00:37:38,502 --> 00:37:41,436 of Henry Sleeper Harper and his wife. 519 00:37:41,505 --> 00:37:44,372 Sitting on the remains of the wardrobe cabinet 520 00:37:44,441 --> 00:37:47,069 is Henry Harper's bowler hat. 521 00:37:47,144 --> 00:37:51,341 Just the idea that we know whose it was. 522 00:37:54,884 --> 00:37:57,444 Hey, look. There's some kind of glass. 523 00:37:57,554 --> 00:38:00,921 Maybe a mirror. Let's see if that's a mirror. 524 00:38:01,024 --> 00:38:04,356 It is. We're gonna go see ourselves. 525 00:38:07,996 --> 00:38:11,158 "A" 11 was occupied by Edith Russell. 526 00:38:11,232 --> 00:38:13,167 Before getting into a lifeboat, 527 00:38:13,235 --> 00:38:15,998 she went back to her cabin to lock her 19 trunks 528 00:38:16,070 --> 00:38:18,904 because she didn't trust the stewards onboard. 529 00:38:24,712 --> 00:38:27,579 Jim was looking for Molly Brown's stateroom. 530 00:38:27,682 --> 00:38:30,446 We had a good idea where that stateroom would be. 531 00:38:30,551 --> 00:38:33,781 And he was searching for a forward-facing window. 532 00:38:33,853 --> 00:38:36,687 The R. O.V. Is narrow enough to scoot through that. 533 00:38:36,757 --> 00:38:40,886 And I saw there was jagged glass at the bottom of the windowsill. 534 00:38:40,961 --> 00:38:44,021 That could sever the tether, commit suicide. 535 00:38:44,097 --> 00:38:45,689 Ken says we can do this. 536 00:38:45,765 --> 00:38:47,095 It's a gamble. 537 00:38:47,166 --> 00:38:48,690 Don't do it. Don't do it. 538 00:38:48,767 --> 00:38:52,032 You're gonna be laying your tether right across the glass. 539 00:38:52,104 --> 00:38:54,868 There he goes. He's in there. 540 00:38:54,940 --> 00:38:57,171 That's what I'm talking about. 541 00:38:57,244 --> 00:39:01,179 Okay, now that you're in, it's not that bad of an idea. 542 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,147 That's not a brass bed. That's a wooden bed. 543 00:39:04,215 --> 00:39:05,706 It's kind of creepy. 544 00:39:05,818 --> 00:39:06,580 I don't know. 545 00:39:06,652 --> 00:39:09,382 Molly Brown said she was in a brass bed. 546 00:39:09,455 --> 00:39:11,479 I don't see a brass bed. 547 00:39:11,556 --> 00:39:13,457 Molly Brown was a character. 548 00:39:13,524 --> 00:39:16,516 She and her husband had made their fortune mining out west. 549 00:39:16,594 --> 00:39:20,223 And she was desperate to be accepted by high society. 550 00:39:20,298 --> 00:39:23,233 The "Titanic" tragedy made her a legend. 551 00:39:27,671 --> 00:39:29,502 Uh, Genya? 552 00:39:29,573 --> 00:39:30,505 Yes? 553 00:39:30,574 --> 00:39:32,667 Um, I need to pee. 554 00:39:32,776 --> 00:39:36,576 I don't think I can hold it much longer. 555 00:39:36,647 --> 00:39:37,705 - No problem. - Okay. 556 00:39:37,813 --> 00:39:39,212 For me, personally, 557 00:39:39,283 --> 00:39:43,343 I've always been kind of a nervous, you know, pisser. 558 00:39:43,419 --> 00:39:45,217 I need a little privacy. 559 00:39:45,288 --> 00:39:47,882 But when you got to go and you're 21/2 miles down, 560 00:39:47,957 --> 00:39:49,948 you got to go. 561 00:39:51,294 --> 00:39:52,625 It's okay? 562 00:40:05,740 --> 00:40:07,401 Um, I'll turn around. 563 00:40:07,509 --> 00:40:09,033 - Can you turn around? - Okay. 564 00:40:09,144 --> 00:40:11,704 Thank you. Thank you. 565 00:40:11,812 --> 00:40:13,211 Let's see here. 566 00:40:15,383 --> 00:40:17,612 Point your lights straight into "A" deck. 567 00:40:17,685 --> 00:40:18,879 My God. Look at that. 568 00:40:18,952 --> 00:40:20,112 Look at that, Tolya. 569 00:40:20,187 --> 00:40:23,020 A brass bed sitting right in there. 570 00:40:25,692 --> 00:40:28,457 Maybe Molly Brown did stay in a brass bed. 571 00:40:28,529 --> 00:40:30,189 But which one? 572 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,364 They've built bigger ships since "Titanic," 573 00:40:37,437 --> 00:40:41,032 but I don't know that they'll ever build one as luxurious. 574 00:40:41,140 --> 00:40:42,402 And even now, 575 00:40:42,508 --> 00:40:45,204 after 90 years of laying on the bottom of the ocean, 576 00:40:45,311 --> 00:40:47,744 its beauty came to light. 577 00:40:55,487 --> 00:40:57,477 Okay. We're in. 578 00:40:57,555 --> 00:41:00,389 Okay. Tell them we're in the promenade. 579 00:41:00,459 --> 00:41:02,086 Jake's in the promenade. 580 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,560 We did get into one of the millionaire suites 581 00:41:04,628 --> 00:41:06,027 on "B" deck. 582 00:41:06,097 --> 00:41:07,190 Private promenade. 583 00:41:07,264 --> 00:41:09,198 They call them "private promenade. " 584 00:41:09,266 --> 00:41:12,757 These were the fanciest, most expensive lodgings on the ship. 585 00:41:12,870 --> 00:41:14,201 And in April 1912, 586 00:41:14,304 --> 00:41:18,366 you would have paid over $3, 000 to book your passage. 587 00:41:18,475 --> 00:41:21,569 This must be some of the facing. 588 00:41:21,644 --> 00:41:24,307 Yeah, it's some of the Tudor facing. 589 00:41:31,788 --> 00:41:33,449 We are in the room. 590 00:41:33,523 --> 00:41:34,922 Jake's in the room. 591 00:41:34,990 --> 00:41:36,788 This is Bruce Ismay's suite. 592 00:41:36,860 --> 00:41:38,759 This is the guy that left the ship 593 00:41:38,828 --> 00:41:41,887 with 1, 500 people still onboard. 594 00:41:41,964 --> 00:41:43,591 Ooh, that's a beauty. 595 00:41:43,665 --> 00:41:46,498 We are in the sitting room, looking at the fireplace. 596 00:41:46,602 --> 00:41:50,537 Isn't that amazing? That ribbon design is still there. 597 00:41:50,605 --> 00:41:52,801 These little touches of elegance. 598 00:41:52,875 --> 00:41:56,310 You can almost feel the hands of the guy that made that. 599 00:42:01,983 --> 00:42:03,109 J. Bruce Ismay 600 00:42:03,184 --> 00:42:05,584 was managing director of the White Star Line, 601 00:42:05,653 --> 00:42:08,451 and he vetoed the idea of having 48 lifeboats. 602 00:42:08,523 --> 00:42:09,955 He felt fewer would be fine, 603 00:42:10,024 --> 00:42:13,322 that as long as they met the law, they were okay. 604 00:42:19,065 --> 00:42:20,862 It is Smith's bathtub. 605 00:42:20,967 --> 00:42:22,593 Oh, Captain Smith. 606 00:42:22,702 --> 00:42:23,930 Wow. 607 00:42:24,036 --> 00:42:25,628 The captain of the "Titanic" 608 00:42:25,738 --> 00:42:28,866 used to take his baths right there. 609 00:42:28,941 --> 00:42:32,672 His little pink butt sitting right there in the tub. 610 00:42:32,745 --> 00:42:35,407 Captain Smith was called "the millionaire's captain" 611 00:42:35,481 --> 00:42:38,814 because he was so popular with the first-class passengers. 612 00:42:38,884 --> 00:42:41,875 30 years at sea. Perfect record. 613 00:42:41,954 --> 00:42:44,547 This voyage was to be his crowning achievement. 614 00:42:44,622 --> 00:42:48,490 He was going to take the biggest, most beautiful ship 615 00:42:48,561 --> 00:42:53,190 across the ocean on her maiden voyage and then retire. 616 00:42:54,732 --> 00:42:56,164 I n archeology, 617 00:42:56,234 --> 00:42:59,226 we carry these ghosts of the imagination with us. 618 00:42:59,336 --> 00:43:01,861 And I was kind of imagining 619 00:43:01,939 --> 00:43:04,703 Thomas Andrews out there on the deck. 620 00:43:06,310 --> 00:43:08,642 Thomas Andrews was managing director 621 00:43:08,712 --> 00:43:11,237 and president of Harland and Wolff Shipbuilders. 622 00:43:11,315 --> 00:43:14,011 He designed and built the "Titanic" from the ground up. 623 00:43:14,084 --> 00:43:15,641 He knew the ship better than anyone. 624 00:43:15,718 --> 00:43:18,585 He put davits on the ship that were designed 625 00:43:18,655 --> 00:43:21,521 to take a lifeboat from here and lift it outward 626 00:43:21,591 --> 00:43:23,752 and then go inward and pick up a second lifeboat 627 00:43:23,826 --> 00:43:25,384 in a second position and go out. 628 00:43:25,461 --> 00:43:27,088 I n his own hand, 629 00:43:27,195 --> 00:43:30,187 in his notebook, he has the number of lifeboats 630 00:43:30,299 --> 00:43:33,529 that are supposed to go on the ship that he designed it for. 631 00:43:33,602 --> 00:43:35,069 He was overruled 632 00:43:35,170 --> 00:43:37,935 and forced to comply only to the minimum 633 00:43:38,006 --> 00:43:41,407 of the Board of Trade requirement. 634 00:43:42,711 --> 00:43:45,201 Andrews cared about the ship and crew 635 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,248 and was onboard to make last-minute improvements 636 00:43:48,315 --> 00:43:50,443 and make sure everything ran smoothly. 637 00:43:50,518 --> 00:43:53,009 If only there were a way to let him see 638 00:43:53,087 --> 00:43:56,920 these submersibles sending these incredible robots 639 00:43:56,991 --> 00:43:59,322 into his creation. 640 00:44:20,145 --> 00:44:22,306 Move a little right to avoid the arm. 641 00:44:22,381 --> 00:44:23,747 There you go. Okay. 642 00:44:23,815 --> 00:44:26,249 We're good. We're coming out. 643 00:44:26,318 --> 00:44:28,684 It's coming out, folks. 644 00:44:28,754 --> 00:44:30,618 - Okay. Ease it forward. - Okay. 645 00:44:30,689 --> 00:44:33,817 We explored all three forward cargo hatches 646 00:44:33,926 --> 00:44:36,793 and made it into several crew and third-class spaces 647 00:44:36,861 --> 00:44:39,091 that had never even been photographed before. 648 00:44:39,163 --> 00:44:41,131 Is that the "D" deck? 649 00:44:41,232 --> 00:44:42,164 I think so. 650 00:44:42,233 --> 00:44:43,962 Yeah. I think you're right. 651 00:44:44,035 --> 00:44:46,799 All right. That's it. There's the other hatch. 652 00:44:46,871 --> 00:44:50,238 So just ease on in there. Ease it on in there. 653 00:44:52,977 --> 00:44:54,443 Okay. Here's our stairwell. 654 00:44:54,511 --> 00:44:56,308 It should go right up to it. 655 00:44:59,282 --> 00:45:00,909 So we got into third class. 656 00:45:00,984 --> 00:45:04,681 We were in the general room in the bow under the well deck. 657 00:45:04,754 --> 00:45:08,120 There wasn't a lot of detail in this room, 658 00:45:08,223 --> 00:45:11,659 because it was never a well-decorated room. 659 00:45:11,727 --> 00:45:14,890 The bar at one end that still had the little tap there. 660 00:45:14,964 --> 00:45:17,694 There were table bases still there in place. 661 00:45:17,766 --> 00:45:20,860 The tables and bench bases rising up from the floor. 662 00:45:20,936 --> 00:45:22,733 It was neat to see those. 663 00:45:22,805 --> 00:45:25,069 That's a very big table. 664 00:45:25,140 --> 00:45:26,903 The place where they all ate. 665 00:45:26,976 --> 00:45:29,205 They would've sat here and played cards. 666 00:45:29,277 --> 00:45:31,404 This was where there was a party held 667 00:45:31,479 --> 00:45:34,505 by many of the third-class passengers on Sunday night. 668 00:45:34,582 --> 00:45:37,642 And it really was moving to be able see this room 669 00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,950 where so many of them spent their last few happy hours. 670 00:45:46,527 --> 00:45:49,859 There was a brand-new Renault, beautiful car, 671 00:45:49,930 --> 00:45:52,228 that was strapped down in the cargo hold. 672 00:45:52,299 --> 00:45:55,962 And we have some fairly good historical projections 673 00:45:56,036 --> 00:45:57,798 of what it would look like now. 674 00:45:57,870 --> 00:46:01,101 Going from "F" deck to "G" deck. 675 00:46:02,375 --> 00:46:05,640 A solid hatch cover, as advertised. 676 00:46:05,711 --> 00:46:06,837 But it's open. 677 00:46:06,912 --> 00:46:09,539 And it would be barely recognizable as a car. 678 00:46:09,614 --> 00:46:13,574 Only a few items would show up recognizable as a vehicle. 679 00:46:13,685 --> 00:46:16,519 We were on "G" deck. We went through the hatch cover. 680 00:46:16,588 --> 00:46:18,749 We are now on the orlop deck. 681 00:46:18,857 --> 00:46:19,881 Correct. You are. 682 00:46:19,991 --> 00:46:21,982 Tilt up, and you'll see the car. 683 00:46:24,129 --> 00:46:27,189 Tilt up, and we see some gak. 684 00:46:27,265 --> 00:46:29,061 I see some light back there. 685 00:46:29,133 --> 00:46:31,068 Yeah. 686 00:46:31,136 --> 00:46:32,535 Maybe that is the car. 687 00:46:32,603 --> 00:46:34,070 It is. 688 00:46:34,138 --> 00:46:35,935 - I think that's the car. - It is. 689 00:46:36,006 --> 00:46:37,906 It's the car. 690 00:46:37,975 --> 00:46:39,704 No. 691 00:46:40,644 --> 00:46:42,737 No! 692 00:46:42,813 --> 00:46:44,074 It can't be that easy. 693 00:46:44,147 --> 00:46:45,308 It is. 694 00:46:45,382 --> 00:46:47,212 I don't think that's the car. 695 00:46:47,316 --> 00:46:49,512 I think we're seeing cars. 696 00:46:49,619 --> 00:46:51,348 - Shiny piece of... - Oh, my God. 697 00:46:51,454 --> 00:46:53,547 I'm thinking... 698 00:46:53,656 --> 00:46:55,351 That looks like wheel. 699 00:46:55,425 --> 00:46:57,222 Jim, that's a fender. 700 00:46:57,292 --> 00:47:01,354 I don't care what planet you're on, that's a tire and fender. 701 00:47:01,431 --> 00:47:03,261 This is headlight. 702 00:47:04,433 --> 00:47:07,800 We're seeing cars, boy. 703 00:47:07,869 --> 00:47:09,632 All right, the best thing to do 704 00:47:09,705 --> 00:47:14,141 now that we're here is to just look everywhere. 705 00:47:14,943 --> 00:47:15,875 There's a car. 706 00:47:15,944 --> 00:47:17,377 That's a car. 707 00:47:17,446 --> 00:47:21,279 No, those are... That's a trunk right there. 708 00:47:21,382 --> 00:47:22,407 Wicker trunk. 709 00:47:22,516 --> 00:47:23,881 That's a tire. 710 00:47:23,952 --> 00:47:27,819 There were some pretty interesting-looking structures, 711 00:47:27,888 --> 00:47:29,412 obviously man-made stuff, 712 00:47:29,523 --> 00:47:32,980 but nothing clearly identifiable as a car. 713 00:47:35,062 --> 00:47:38,463 Yeah, we should be able to get all the way forward. 714 00:47:43,770 --> 00:47:44,828 - Are you in? - Yes. 715 00:47:44,904 --> 00:47:46,132 Oh, baby. 716 00:47:47,173 --> 00:47:51,108 That's awesome. Oh, dude, this is so cool! 717 00:47:51,177 --> 00:47:54,202 Count doors on the right. That's how we'll orient ourselves. 718 00:47:54,314 --> 00:47:56,304 There should be two doors side by side. 719 00:47:56,415 --> 00:47:59,407 The first door should take you into the firemen's mess. 720 00:47:59,518 --> 00:48:01,145 You want to go in there? 721 00:48:01,220 --> 00:48:03,051 Yeah. 722 00:48:03,121 --> 00:48:06,148 That's definitely the firemen's mess. 723 00:48:06,225 --> 00:48:08,886 Oh, look at that. Table after table. 724 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,191 You can see the bow tapering in. 725 00:48:11,263 --> 00:48:12,229 Exactly. 726 00:48:12,296 --> 00:48:13,594 Shape of the ship. 727 00:48:13,665 --> 00:48:16,656 You can imagine exactly what this place looked like. 728 00:48:17,735 --> 00:48:19,600 The firemen were segregated 729 00:48:19,670 --> 00:48:21,069 from the rest of the crew, 730 00:48:21,139 --> 00:48:23,835 probably because they had the dirtiest job. 731 00:48:23,908 --> 00:48:26,274 So their quarters are in the tip of the bow. 732 00:48:26,376 --> 00:48:27,844 They had two staircases, 733 00:48:27,944 --> 00:48:30,708 which took them to the very bottom of the ship 734 00:48:30,814 --> 00:48:32,839 and to the boiler rooms. 735 00:48:33,717 --> 00:48:35,651 Imagine spiraling your way down 736 00:48:35,718 --> 00:48:38,279 to the furnaces of this hungry leviathan 737 00:48:38,355 --> 00:48:41,051 to join hundreds of men shoveling coal 738 00:48:41,123 --> 00:48:44,058 into the gaping maws of the boilers. 739 00:48:48,097 --> 00:48:50,224 That's kind of spooky. 740 00:49:08,483 --> 00:49:11,281 And when you finish your shift hours later, 741 00:49:11,352 --> 00:49:14,287 you climb back up into your little world below decks 742 00:49:14,354 --> 00:49:18,017 at the very bow of the ship, where you eat, you sleep, 743 00:49:18,091 --> 00:49:20,526 then you do it all over again. 744 00:49:22,197 --> 00:49:26,064 Even here, we could feel the hand of Thomas Andrews. 745 00:49:26,133 --> 00:49:28,533 At the top of one of the spiral staircases, 746 00:49:28,601 --> 00:49:30,831 we found a drinking fountain. 747 00:49:30,904 --> 00:49:33,565 I'm sure that even this small kindness 748 00:49:33,674 --> 00:49:36,164 must have been greatly appreciated. 749 00:49:40,947 --> 00:49:46,180 Here we've got a plan that illustrates pretty well 750 00:49:46,252 --> 00:49:47,912 what happened that night. 751 00:49:47,986 --> 00:49:52,616 The "Titanic" was divided into 16 watertight compartments 752 00:49:52,691 --> 00:49:55,956 separated by 15 watertight bulkheads. 753 00:49:56,027 --> 00:49:58,154 That's these white lines here. 754 00:49:58,229 --> 00:50:01,927 And the ship was designed to be as unsinkable as they could. 755 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,092 The worst they could imagine is a collision 756 00:50:04,168 --> 00:50:05,659 at the juncture of two compartments, 757 00:50:05,736 --> 00:50:08,296 which would flood two adjacent compartments. 758 00:50:08,406 --> 00:50:11,431 The ship would only sink so far and still be safe. 759 00:50:11,542 --> 00:50:14,204 She was also designed to float 760 00:50:14,278 --> 00:50:18,270 with any three of the first five compartments flooded. 761 00:50:18,349 --> 00:50:21,613 Or the first four in a row could still flood 762 00:50:21,684 --> 00:50:23,549 if they were in some traumatic... 763 00:50:23,620 --> 00:50:25,850 That was the worst-case scenario. 764 00:50:25,922 --> 00:50:28,914 Run into a rock or something like that, just full-on. 765 00:50:28,992 --> 00:50:31,654 She'd buckle back, and the ship could still float. 766 00:50:31,728 --> 00:50:35,219 With all of this combination of safety factors, 767 00:50:35,298 --> 00:50:36,958 she was considered virtually unsinkable. 768 00:50:37,032 --> 00:50:40,524 What they didn't envision is what happened that night. 769 00:50:44,139 --> 00:50:46,004 "Titanic" struck the iceberg, 770 00:50:46,074 --> 00:50:48,372 a glancing blow along the starboard side, 771 00:50:48,443 --> 00:50:51,571 scraped along and ruptured plates or split the seams, 772 00:50:51,647 --> 00:50:53,706 moving along into this cargo compartment, 773 00:50:53,782 --> 00:50:56,682 into this cargo compartment, and this baggage and cargo, 774 00:50:56,751 --> 00:50:58,116 into Boiler Room Number 6 775 00:50:58,185 --> 00:51:00,813 and two feet into the coal bunker 776 00:51:00,888 --> 00:51:02,446 of Boiler Room Number 5. 777 00:51:02,523 --> 00:51:03,716 And as the ship sank, 778 00:51:03,790 --> 00:51:06,486 just at the point where it was about ready to stabilize, 779 00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,085 it reached the top of this watertight subdivision, 780 00:51:09,162 --> 00:51:11,596 and started flowing up the stairways, across the deck 781 00:51:11,665 --> 00:51:13,633 and down into the next compartment. 782 00:51:13,733 --> 00:51:15,894 It was just a mathematical certainty. 783 00:51:16,003 --> 00:51:18,436 There was no way, no matter how you slice it, 784 00:51:18,505 --> 00:51:20,735 that the ship is going to make it. 785 00:51:22,742 --> 00:51:24,801 So where exactly did it split? 786 00:51:24,878 --> 00:51:28,108 Well, it broke in two right back here. 787 00:51:28,180 --> 00:51:31,775 Just right about at the third funnel and after that. 788 00:51:31,850 --> 00:51:35,946 There's a natural weak spot here in the hull 789 00:51:36,021 --> 00:51:38,114 right above the reciprocating engine room. 790 00:51:38,190 --> 00:51:41,216 There is a large air shaft here for light and air 791 00:51:41,292 --> 00:51:44,126 to ventilate the reciprocating engine room. 792 00:51:44,929 --> 00:51:46,659 My God. 793 00:51:46,764 --> 00:51:49,996 What that must have sounded like, looked like. 794 00:51:50,101 --> 00:51:52,934 What that must have been like. 795 00:51:53,004 --> 00:51:56,871 What a deathblow to this great ship. 796 00:52:02,412 --> 00:52:06,314 Imagine the vortex to create that kind of twisting. 797 00:52:06,383 --> 00:52:07,510 That's what gets me. 798 00:52:07,584 --> 00:52:10,485 Seeing the end of the stern piece, and seeing how... 799 00:52:10,553 --> 00:52:15,388 Can't you just see one of those fish swimming along? 800 00:52:15,458 --> 00:52:16,949 And then... 801 00:52:19,429 --> 00:52:21,692 And you know what the fish would've done? 802 00:52:21,797 --> 00:52:23,788 "Whoa," you know? 803 00:52:25,067 --> 00:52:25,726 Exactly. 804 00:52:25,835 --> 00:52:28,861 Our best shot is probably of the reciprocating engines 805 00:52:28,971 --> 00:52:30,835 on the starboard side, right? 806 00:52:30,906 --> 00:52:32,134 That's the guts of it. 807 00:52:32,208 --> 00:52:33,436 Starboard side. 808 00:52:33,509 --> 00:52:36,842 Sometimes I see him come here and come up. 809 00:52:36,911 --> 00:52:38,401 Yes. That's good. 810 00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:39,708 - Good. - Like that. 811 00:52:39,781 --> 00:52:45,549 And I lose, sometimes, good shots when Victor stays here. 812 00:52:45,620 --> 00:52:46,711 Right. 813 00:52:46,788 --> 00:52:49,483 But the thing is that Victor can't face us. 814 00:52:49,556 --> 00:52:52,423 He can't, otherwise his lights will hit the camera. 815 00:52:52,493 --> 00:52:55,724 He has to be above with the lights down, 816 00:52:55,829 --> 00:52:57,592 or like this. 817 00:52:57,698 --> 00:53:00,599 Yes. Maybe here. 818 00:53:01,335 --> 00:53:05,600 So sort of this. This sort of thing. 819 00:53:05,671 --> 00:53:08,232 See, if the water is clear, that'll make a good shot. 820 00:53:08,308 --> 00:53:10,469 The engine room, where those guys were fighting 821 00:53:10,544 --> 00:53:12,033 to keep that thing alive. 822 00:53:12,111 --> 00:53:15,911 They were "Titanic. " They knew it was dying. 823 00:53:15,982 --> 00:53:17,916 They didn't die with a brandy glass in hand. 824 00:53:17,984 --> 00:53:22,613 They died with a monkey wrench, trying to stop the bleeding. 825 00:53:31,430 --> 00:53:34,399 That is the starboard engine. 826 00:53:34,499 --> 00:53:35,931 Look at that. 827 00:53:36,001 --> 00:53:38,162 Oh, man! 828 00:53:38,236 --> 00:53:41,170 Look at the size of that thing. 829 00:53:47,578 --> 00:53:51,275 Okay, keep panning, because I'm gonna be coming around this way. 830 00:53:55,218 --> 00:53:56,742 Oh, man. 831 00:53:56,821 --> 00:53:59,653 It does give you the scale, seeing that little bot 832 00:53:59,756 --> 00:54:02,657 next to that giant sphinx of an engine. 833 00:54:18,974 --> 00:54:22,704 When you see the stern section where it tore in half, 834 00:54:22,777 --> 00:54:25,041 and there are the two reciprocating engines 835 00:54:25,113 --> 00:54:27,480 standing four stories high, 836 00:54:27,549 --> 00:54:31,644 they really do look like these twin sphinxes 837 00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:34,950 that are guarding the forbidden tomb. 838 00:54:57,277 --> 00:54:59,905 When the historians look at "Titanic," 839 00:54:59,980 --> 00:55:03,438 they think of the lives that were lost. 840 00:55:03,517 --> 00:55:06,007 When I look at the ship as a scientist, 841 00:55:06,085 --> 00:55:10,112 I look at the life that still is on "Titanic. " 842 00:55:10,222 --> 00:55:12,952 "Titanic" is very much alive. 843 00:55:15,026 --> 00:55:20,589 Rusticles are bacteria... microscopic organisms, bugs... 844 00:55:20,665 --> 00:55:23,293 that are actually eating the steel 845 00:55:23,368 --> 00:55:25,359 and the insides of the ship. 846 00:55:25,436 --> 00:55:30,635 I look at a rail and think, "Oh, look at the bacteria. 847 00:55:30,708 --> 00:55:34,371 They're breaking 'Titanic' down and taking her back to nature. " 848 00:55:34,445 --> 00:55:36,935 But then you immediately go back and think, 849 00:55:37,015 --> 00:55:39,505 "Who touched this railing last?" 850 00:55:42,819 --> 00:55:46,311 Helen Candee is one of my favorite passengers. 851 00:55:46,423 --> 00:55:49,858 She had written one of the century's first best sellers. 852 00:55:49,926 --> 00:55:51,450 Basically, the theme being 853 00:55:51,527 --> 00:55:54,394 how a woman can get along in life successfully 854 00:55:54,463 --> 00:55:55,623 without a man. 855 00:55:55,698 --> 00:55:59,566 And that's how she was traveling first-class on the "Titanic. " 856 00:55:59,635 --> 00:56:02,468 And on the very last sunrise 857 00:56:02,538 --> 00:56:04,471 that the "Titanic" would ever see, 858 00:56:04,540 --> 00:56:07,906 she snuck out to the very point of the bow 859 00:56:07,976 --> 00:56:10,240 just to greet the sunrise alone. 860 00:56:10,312 --> 00:56:12,144 And she wrote about it 861 00:56:12,215 --> 00:56:15,342 and how she felt the power and the beauty of this ship 862 00:56:15,450 --> 00:56:18,613 and that it was stronger than nature itself, 863 00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,211 maybe even stronger than God itself. 864 00:56:21,322 --> 00:56:23,621 And then, suddenly, she felt very darkened, 865 00:56:23,692 --> 00:56:27,627 as if she had thought something sacrilegious. 866 00:56:40,974 --> 00:56:42,839 Mmm. It's good. What's in borscht? 867 00:56:42,909 --> 00:56:44,035 That's good borscht. 868 00:56:44,110 --> 00:56:47,011 - Borscht in Russian. - What is in borscht? 869 00:56:47,113 --> 00:56:49,081 Borscht. 870 00:56:51,484 --> 00:56:55,113 Cabbage, potatoes, bouillon. 871 00:56:55,188 --> 00:56:57,418 Everybody eat borscht. 872 00:57:03,695 --> 00:57:07,426 Anatoly has a song that he wrote 873 00:57:07,499 --> 00:57:09,729 about the blue sky that you see 874 00:57:09,801 --> 00:57:13,201 when you return to the surface and the hatch opens. 875 00:57:13,271 --> 00:57:16,400 And I think that's very apropos, because it's something 876 00:57:16,475 --> 00:57:20,433 that you didn't think you would miss, but you do. 877 00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,987 It's very difficult to wander through the "Keldysh" 878 00:57:33,057 --> 00:57:37,425 and not think of the "Titanic" and draw some parallel. 879 00:57:39,329 --> 00:57:41,819 You know, what would've happened if the engineers 880 00:57:41,898 --> 00:57:43,194 hadn't stayed at their station 881 00:57:43,265 --> 00:57:46,996 when the "Titanic" had gone dark, say, an hour earlier? 882 00:57:47,069 --> 00:57:49,664 It would have been absolute pandemonium. 883 00:57:52,142 --> 00:57:55,668 I became very close with the men in the engineering section. 884 00:57:55,778 --> 00:57:58,302 It's quieter in here. Hello, my friends! 885 00:57:58,414 --> 00:58:00,711 There wasn't a lot said. 886 00:58:00,782 --> 00:58:04,844 But there was still very much a bonding that went on. 887 00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:06,387 Tell me. 888 00:58:06,454 --> 00:58:10,481 If we were going full speed, okay, 889 00:58:10,558 --> 00:58:13,721 and all of a sudden, the bridge said, "Iceberg!" 890 00:58:13,795 --> 00:58:17,355 Or "Drunken fishing-boat captain in our way!" 891 00:58:17,431 --> 00:58:21,390 And they ring alarm, what do you do? 892 00:58:27,641 --> 00:58:28,608 Ah. 893 00:58:31,011 --> 00:58:33,274 Full speed. 894 00:58:35,382 --> 00:58:37,542 The engines all stop? 895 00:58:44,890 --> 00:58:45,879 Whoo! 896 00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:50,087 Yay! 897 00:59:18,122 --> 00:59:19,350 Ah. 898 00:59:21,191 --> 00:59:24,092 Anatoly! Dal Dal 899 00:59:40,208 --> 00:59:42,574 On our last dive to "Titanic," 900 00:59:42,644 --> 00:59:44,942 we found some interesting organisms. 901 00:59:45,014 --> 00:59:47,140 - Inside, yeah? - Yes, inside the ship. 902 00:59:47,215 --> 00:59:48,807 It almost has wings. 903 00:59:48,884 --> 00:59:51,443 See the wings that are flying? 904 00:59:51,519 --> 00:59:54,852 The oddest creature that was seen down there 905 00:59:54,923 --> 00:59:57,288 was something we call the batwing. 906 00:59:57,358 --> 01:00:01,887 And to my knowledge, nobody has identified it yet. 907 01:00:03,931 --> 01:00:05,523 Several creatures down there 908 01:00:05,599 --> 01:00:08,727 that I don't think are known to science. 909 01:00:08,835 --> 01:00:10,098 "Titanic," 910 01:00:10,204 --> 01:00:13,104 because there is so much interest in it, 911 01:00:13,173 --> 01:00:18,110 has really allowed us to do a great deal of research. 912 01:00:18,178 --> 01:00:19,839 You could actually see 913 01:00:19,913 --> 01:00:23,872 gelatinous-type clouds of bacteria as they floated by 914 01:00:23,950 --> 01:00:25,941 and fingerlike structures 915 01:00:26,019 --> 01:00:28,578 that were hanging from the ceilings. 916 01:00:30,757 --> 01:00:33,020 Intertwined with this woodwork, 917 01:00:33,091 --> 01:00:35,559 we'll see these lavender worms. 918 01:00:35,627 --> 01:00:39,495 Shimmery, strange things, almost transparent sometimes. 919 01:00:39,564 --> 01:00:43,331 And they particularly like the mahogany paneling. 920 01:00:46,205 --> 01:00:48,001 Let's go up to him. 921 01:00:48,073 --> 01:00:50,666 Even the fish don't look like the same rattails 922 01:00:50,741 --> 01:00:52,038 that are found outside. 923 01:00:52,109 --> 01:00:56,569 To me, they appear to live exclusively inside the ship. 924 01:00:56,647 --> 01:00:59,114 He's heading for the elevator shaft. 925 01:00:59,183 --> 01:01:01,310 Hey, he knows where he's going. 926 01:01:06,023 --> 01:01:09,014 Wow. I can't believe it. 927 01:01:09,093 --> 01:01:11,959 I didn't think I'd see the boilers on this dive. 928 01:01:12,028 --> 01:01:12,960 I had no idea 929 01:01:13,029 --> 01:01:15,998 we were approaching the bow from this angle. 930 01:01:16,065 --> 01:01:18,226 We're awful close to this stuff. 931 01:01:18,335 --> 01:01:20,802 "Mir-2," you got a steam pipe above you. 932 01:01:20,903 --> 01:01:21,700 Be careful. 933 01:01:21,771 --> 01:01:25,332 - It's safe to be this close? - What are you worried about? 934 01:01:25,407 --> 01:01:28,899 If something happens to us, your artwork will be worth millions. 935 01:01:28,978 --> 01:01:31,845 Oh, great. That'll do me a lot of good. 936 01:01:33,916 --> 01:01:37,043 I see a real shiny thing straight ahead. 937 01:01:37,118 --> 01:01:40,747 Oh, these are whistles, Genya. Whistles from the funnel. 938 01:01:40,822 --> 01:01:43,552 Oh, my goodness. Right under me. 939 01:01:47,528 --> 01:01:50,191 Ooh, look at this. What is that, Genya? 940 01:01:50,298 --> 01:01:51,230 Yes. 941 01:01:51,299 --> 01:01:53,892 Like a hatch cover. It's a hatch cover, I think. 942 01:01:54,002 --> 01:01:54,968 Yes. 943 01:01:55,035 --> 01:01:56,900 I don't think we've ever seen a hatch cover. 944 01:01:56,971 --> 01:01:58,198 I saw it earlier. 945 01:01:58,272 --> 01:01:59,864 Yeah. So that's Hatch One. 946 01:01:59,907 --> 01:02:02,034 It got blown off when the ship hit the bottom. 947 01:02:02,109 --> 01:02:05,010 It's just blown right out here in front of the ship. 948 01:02:06,213 --> 01:02:07,372 Oh, my God. 949 01:02:07,446 --> 01:02:10,848 - What? What? - Here's a glass carafe. 950 01:02:10,917 --> 01:02:13,182 - Oh, look at that. - Unbelievable. 951 01:02:13,252 --> 01:02:15,550 Can you believe it survived? 952 01:02:15,621 --> 01:02:18,384 That's a first-class stateroom... 953 01:02:18,457 --> 01:02:20,890 - Water decanter. - Yeah. 954 01:02:20,993 --> 01:02:23,051 I was pretty calm going down. 955 01:02:23,162 --> 01:02:25,687 As a matter of fact, we saw, in my porthole, 956 01:02:25,797 --> 01:02:27,264 there was this woman's shoe. 957 01:02:27,333 --> 01:02:29,095 It was perfectly preserved. 958 01:02:29,167 --> 01:02:30,930 And it was laced up. 959 01:02:31,002 --> 01:02:33,971 You know, I was just like, "Oh, my God. " 960 01:02:34,039 --> 01:02:35,836 That's somebody's grave marker. 961 01:02:35,907 --> 01:02:38,500 That's the only grave marker they have. 962 01:02:41,580 --> 01:02:44,549 You see now that we are coming to the davit. 963 01:02:44,615 --> 01:02:47,277 Yeah. Davit Number One. 964 01:02:47,351 --> 01:02:49,546 This was Lifeboat One, 965 01:02:49,620 --> 01:02:52,110 where Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon had escaped 966 01:02:52,189 --> 01:02:54,089 with only 10 other people 967 01:02:54,191 --> 01:02:57,524 in a lifeboat that could have held two dozen more. 968 01:03:02,865 --> 01:03:05,493 The law of the sea is women and children first 969 01:03:05,568 --> 01:03:07,364 when you go to evacuate a ship. 970 01:03:07,437 --> 01:03:08,734 For the time being, 971 01:03:08,805 --> 01:03:11,569 I shall require only women and children. 972 01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:14,632 On the port side of the ship, Second Officer Lightoller 973 01:03:14,710 --> 01:03:16,611 took it to mean women and children only, 974 01:03:16,679 --> 01:03:19,203 and he only let women and children into the boats, 975 01:03:19,282 --> 01:03:22,182 and then as few crewmen as possible to navigate it. 976 01:03:22,250 --> 01:03:24,013 Please! Daddy! 977 01:03:24,086 --> 01:03:25,747 Don't you worry. 978 01:03:28,656 --> 01:03:31,090 Working on the other side, here's Murdoch, 979 01:03:31,158 --> 01:03:33,627 getting the boats in the water as quick as he can, 980 01:03:33,694 --> 01:03:36,686 shoving men, women, children, first-class, third-class. 981 01:03:36,797 --> 01:03:37,729 He didn't care. 982 01:03:37,798 --> 01:03:40,266 - May I get in the boat? - I wish you would. 983 01:03:40,334 --> 01:03:42,325 Yes, ma'am. I n you go. 984 01:03:42,403 --> 01:03:44,427 Lower away! 985 01:03:44,504 --> 01:03:46,769 Almost 2/3 of everyone who survived 986 01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:48,899 have Murdoch to thank for it. 987 01:03:58,451 --> 01:04:02,386 Moving into the "A" deck promenade with the R. O.V., 988 01:04:02,489 --> 01:04:05,651 it really looked familiar. 989 01:04:05,759 --> 01:04:08,853 A long, sweeping, open deck. Half of it was open. 990 01:04:08,961 --> 01:04:12,124 The forward end was enclosed by large glass windows. 991 01:04:12,197 --> 01:04:14,825 This is right where they walked, you know? 992 01:04:14,900 --> 01:04:17,630 John Jacob Astor put Madeline Astor into the lifeboat 993 01:04:17,703 --> 01:04:20,399 right through one of those windows right there. 994 01:04:21,572 --> 01:04:23,335 Because she was pregnant, 995 01:04:23,408 --> 01:04:25,376 he asked Second Officer Lightoller... 996 01:04:25,443 --> 01:04:26,808 May I accompany my wife? 997 01:04:26,878 --> 01:04:28,846 No, sir. Women and children only. 998 01:04:28,913 --> 01:04:29,470 Come on. 999 01:04:29,547 --> 01:04:31,515 Here, darling. Take these. 1000 01:04:31,582 --> 01:04:34,414 And so he told her he'd be seeing her in New York. 1001 01:04:34,518 --> 01:04:36,248 No, sir. Step aside. 1002 01:04:38,556 --> 01:04:42,514 I've been thinking about my family a lot being out here, 1003 01:04:42,627 --> 01:04:44,389 and we're going on these dives. 1004 01:04:44,461 --> 01:04:47,020 There's an element of risk involved. 1005 01:04:47,097 --> 01:04:48,325 It's a calculated risk. 1006 01:04:48,397 --> 01:04:51,366 But I think the idea of suddenly being on the deck 1007 01:04:51,434 --> 01:04:54,097 and saying, "I love you," you know, 1008 01:04:54,171 --> 01:04:55,798 and trying to bear up. 1009 01:04:55,872 --> 01:04:57,600 "Now, just go in the lifeboats. 1010 01:04:57,673 --> 01:04:59,834 Daddy will be along in a little while. " 1011 01:04:59,909 --> 01:05:01,706 That's just torturous. 1012 01:05:01,777 --> 01:05:04,769 Trying to make your family think that it's okay. 1013 01:05:04,847 --> 01:05:07,940 You're just keeping up a brave face. 1014 01:05:08,050 --> 01:05:09,017 Exactly. 1015 01:05:09,117 --> 01:05:11,677 Also, it's the question of personal character 1016 01:05:11,787 --> 01:05:13,549 that you keep going back to. 1017 01:05:13,621 --> 01:05:16,522 For me, ever since I was a teenager, 1018 01:05:16,591 --> 01:05:19,924 the whole idea is the question of, 1019 01:05:19,994 --> 01:05:21,894 how would I have beared up? 1020 01:05:21,963 --> 01:05:24,328 Would I have had the character to stand back 1021 01:05:24,398 --> 01:05:27,800 and shown that kind of nobility, shown that kind of courage? 1022 01:05:27,868 --> 01:05:33,170 And as we romanticize the image of "Titanic," 1023 01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:35,800 and it's such a romantic time and everything, 1024 01:05:35,876 --> 01:05:37,343 you want to put yourself 1025 01:05:37,411 --> 01:05:39,470 with the men standing there with dignity. 1026 01:05:39,546 --> 01:05:42,811 But you really can't assume 1027 01:05:42,916 --> 01:05:45,679 what your character would be in that moment 1028 01:05:45,752 --> 01:05:48,380 unless you've been through that kind of thing. 1029 01:05:48,454 --> 01:05:50,251 Absolutely. 1030 01:05:50,322 --> 01:05:53,315 You see the doors, the entrance to first class? 1031 01:05:53,391 --> 01:05:54,825 Yeah. That's the entrance. 1032 01:05:54,894 --> 01:05:58,489 This is where the band played. This open area right here. 1033 01:05:58,564 --> 01:06:00,156 The orchestra would have gathered, 1034 01:06:00,232 --> 01:06:02,598 and they started playing ragtime. 1035 01:06:06,605 --> 01:06:09,836 You think of the band in terms of how heroic they were. 1036 01:06:09,908 --> 01:06:12,307 They played, knowing that everyone else 1037 01:06:12,376 --> 01:06:14,606 was getting into a lifeboat except them. 1038 01:06:14,712 --> 01:06:16,738 But how calming that band music was 1039 01:06:16,847 --> 01:06:19,315 to the people who were onboard. 1040 01:06:24,321 --> 01:06:25,515 Okay. 1041 01:06:25,589 --> 01:06:29,991 This right over here should be the Marconi Room. 1042 01:06:30,059 --> 01:06:32,619 Everyone knows the important role 1043 01:06:32,695 --> 01:06:35,664 that the Marconi Wireless played that night. 1044 01:06:35,732 --> 01:06:38,758 Senior Marconi Wireless Operator Jack Phillips 1045 01:06:38,835 --> 01:06:42,099 and Junior Operator Harold Bride worked in tandem 1046 01:06:42,172 --> 01:06:43,502 until the very end. 1047 01:06:43,572 --> 01:06:46,473 You should try S. O. S. It's the new signal. 1048 01:06:46,542 --> 01:06:50,376 Yes, it might be our last chance to use it. 1049 01:06:50,479 --> 01:06:52,970 During the final moments of the sinking, 1050 01:06:53,081 --> 01:06:55,948 the ship's power was becoming unstable. 1051 01:06:56,018 --> 01:06:58,384 Harold Bride was in the Silent Room, 1052 01:06:58,453 --> 01:07:02,752 trying to compensate for this loss of power. 1053 01:07:02,825 --> 01:07:06,226 To our great astonishment are the handles, 1054 01:07:06,294 --> 01:07:09,821 the settings still visible on these two field regulators. 1055 01:07:09,897 --> 01:07:14,266 They are in the final settings that this man manipulated. 1056 01:07:14,335 --> 01:07:15,597 Hey, that's better! 1057 01:07:15,670 --> 01:07:18,002 They have the human touch to them. 1058 01:07:23,343 --> 01:07:24,742 Pull! 1059 01:07:25,679 --> 01:07:26,873 Pull together! 1060 01:07:26,980 --> 01:07:29,312 Many of the boats had been launched half-full. 1061 01:07:31,718 --> 01:07:33,743 Return to the ship! 1062 01:07:33,820 --> 01:07:36,687 - Boat 6! Return. - We need to go back! 1063 01:07:36,755 --> 01:07:38,087 No! 1064 01:07:38,791 --> 01:07:41,988 It's our lives now. Now, row! 1065 01:07:42,061 --> 01:07:45,462 The suction will pull us down if we don't keep going. 1066 01:07:45,531 --> 01:07:47,829 "Titanic" was a stage where God says, 1067 01:07:47,900 --> 01:07:51,494 "You have 21/2 hours to act out the rest of your life. 1068 01:07:51,569 --> 01:07:53,332 What are you gonna be? 1069 01:07:53,404 --> 01:07:56,669 Will you be a hero? Will you be a coward?" 1070 01:07:56,774 --> 01:07:58,708 Time for one more hand. 1071 01:07:58,776 --> 01:08:01,973 Poker. Five card draw. 1072 01:08:04,115 --> 01:08:05,878 Would you fight to survive? 1073 01:08:05,950 --> 01:08:08,384 Would you take your place meekly with the people 1074 01:08:08,453 --> 01:08:11,149 that were relegated to the third-class spaces 1075 01:08:11,222 --> 01:08:13,850 and wait patiently until someone unlocks a gate 1076 01:08:13,925 --> 01:08:15,153 and lets you free? 1077 01:08:15,226 --> 01:08:16,954 - Help us! - What would you do? 1078 01:08:17,027 --> 01:08:19,153 - Please! - How would you act? 1079 01:08:19,228 --> 01:08:21,356 I think it's fortunate that most of us 1080 01:08:21,431 --> 01:08:23,421 will never be put to that test. 1081 01:08:24,568 --> 01:08:27,468 Any more women or children? 1082 01:08:27,570 --> 01:08:30,095 Anyone else, men? Anyone else? 1083 01:08:30,206 --> 01:08:33,039 Quickly! Quickly, men, quickly! 1084 01:08:33,110 --> 01:08:36,772 Prepare to lower! Ready on the left? 1085 01:08:36,846 --> 01:08:38,279 Bruce Ismay. 1086 01:08:38,347 --> 01:08:40,872 He's the guy who was responsible. 1087 01:08:40,950 --> 01:08:44,613 And yet he did survive, when others died. 1088 01:08:44,686 --> 01:08:46,415 Right and left together! 1089 01:08:46,488 --> 01:08:49,514 I don't know which man would've felt worse that night. 1090 01:08:49,592 --> 01:08:53,186 Bruce Ismay, for vetoing more lifeboats, 1091 01:08:53,261 --> 01:08:54,352 or Thomas Andrews, 1092 01:08:54,428 --> 01:08:57,091 for not having fought that decision harder. 1093 01:09:02,469 --> 01:09:04,801 There was absolute pandemonium, 1094 01:09:04,873 --> 01:09:07,840 just chaos as those last boats went down. 1095 01:09:07,908 --> 01:09:09,569 Get back, I say! 1096 01:09:11,578 --> 01:09:15,014 Get back! Link arms! Form a chain! 1097 01:09:15,081 --> 01:09:17,573 Women and children only, please! 1098 01:09:18,852 --> 01:09:19,840 It was precarious. 1099 01:09:19,919 --> 01:09:24,413 There was one lifeboat where they weren't letting adults in. 1100 01:09:24,490 --> 01:09:26,582 This forced women to decide 1101 01:09:26,659 --> 01:09:28,957 whether they were gonna be separated from their children. 1102 01:09:29,028 --> 01:09:30,962 They were trying to take children only. 1103 01:09:31,030 --> 01:09:33,623 There were so many people and a few lifeboats. 1104 01:09:33,733 --> 01:09:37,760 Several women said, " I am not going without my children. 1105 01:09:37,869 --> 01:09:39,769 They're not leaving without me. " 1106 01:09:39,838 --> 01:09:41,533 They overcrowded that lifeboat, 1107 01:09:41,606 --> 01:09:43,403 but the water was so calm, it made it. 1108 01:09:43,475 --> 01:09:46,740 It had over 70 people, but the water was calm enough. 1109 01:09:46,812 --> 01:09:48,608 It must have been up to the gunwales. 1110 01:09:48,679 --> 01:09:50,476 It was that far above the water. 1111 01:09:50,548 --> 01:09:53,847 You could've put your hand over and trailed it in the water. 1112 01:09:54,919 --> 01:09:56,443 At the very end, 1113 01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:59,216 Murdoch was trying to get collapsible "A" off the roof 1114 01:09:59,290 --> 01:10:01,780 while the ship was sinking out from under it. 1115 01:10:01,859 --> 01:10:03,417 Get back! Get back! 1116 01:10:03,493 --> 01:10:05,689 Step away! Get back! 1117 01:10:09,632 --> 01:10:11,031 Crank this down there, men! 1118 01:10:11,101 --> 01:10:12,568 They cranked the davits in 1119 01:10:12,669 --> 01:10:14,864 to drag the collapsible over the side. 1120 01:10:14,938 --> 01:10:17,406 But by then, it was too late. 1121 01:10:26,249 --> 01:10:30,014 The number-one davit remains in that cranked-in position, 1122 01:10:30,085 --> 01:10:31,416 an unspoken monument 1123 01:10:31,487 --> 01:10:34,513 to Murdoch's dedication and heroism. 1124 01:10:35,723 --> 01:10:37,418 After the lifeboats had gone, 1125 01:10:37,492 --> 01:10:40,087 we have evidence of some third-class passengers 1126 01:10:40,161 --> 01:10:41,890 just going back to their cabins. 1127 01:10:41,997 --> 01:10:45,762 They had no hope of surviving, and they took it gracefully. 1128 01:11:21,667 --> 01:11:24,431 To me, it must have been tough for the people who survived, 1129 01:11:24,503 --> 01:11:26,993 knowing they could have possibly gone back 1130 01:11:27,073 --> 01:11:29,734 and rescued some of the people in the water 1131 01:11:29,808 --> 01:11:31,742 once the ship had gone under. 1132 01:11:31,811 --> 01:11:33,937 To go in there would have been suicide 1133 01:11:34,012 --> 01:11:35,104 and nothing less. 1134 01:11:35,180 --> 01:11:37,774 We've got 1, 500 people in the water 1135 01:11:37,848 --> 01:11:40,749 all screaming for help, fighting for their lives. 1136 01:11:40,818 --> 01:11:43,117 You could easily have 50, 100 people 1137 01:11:43,188 --> 01:11:45,121 trying to climb onboard at once. 1138 01:11:45,189 --> 01:11:48,647 They're sitting in a lifeboat, safe. 1139 01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:51,956 To not row back or to have that not in your mind, 1140 01:11:52,062 --> 01:11:54,121 I can't believe that of somebody. 1141 01:11:54,231 --> 01:11:56,096 How safe are you in a lifeboat 1142 01:11:56,166 --> 01:11:58,396 in the middle of the North Atlantic? 1143 01:11:58,469 --> 01:11:59,595 "Titanic" is that thing 1144 01:11:59,670 --> 01:12:02,002 you always try to measure yourself against. 1145 01:12:02,071 --> 01:12:05,370 "What would I have done if I would have been on the deck?" 1146 01:12:05,441 --> 01:12:06,908 Heroism and character 1147 01:12:06,976 --> 01:12:10,377 will always be the domain of the individual, not the group. 1148 01:12:10,445 --> 01:12:12,937 That's what will never change. 1149 01:12:16,384 --> 01:12:17,783 On one of the later dives, 1150 01:12:17,853 --> 01:12:21,381 Jim decided to go back into the first-class spaces on "D" deck 1151 01:12:21,490 --> 01:12:23,117 and have "Mir-2" shine lights 1152 01:12:23,225 --> 01:12:25,785 through those leaded-glass windows from the outside. 1153 01:12:25,894 --> 01:12:27,828 - Getting ready? - Yes. 1154 01:12:27,896 --> 01:12:29,523 Here comes the light. 1155 01:12:29,598 --> 01:12:31,565 Nice. 1156 01:12:31,665 --> 01:12:33,327 Perfect. 1157 01:12:43,444 --> 01:12:46,174 Not since April 14, 1912, 1158 01:12:46,247 --> 01:12:48,806 had human eyes seen light 1159 01:12:48,882 --> 01:12:52,318 pouring through these beautiful windows. 1160 01:12:56,389 --> 01:12:59,358 A lot of the washstands have fallen over, 1161 01:12:59,425 --> 01:13:02,154 yet here was one that was still upright. 1162 01:13:02,227 --> 01:13:04,321 And so someone took a drink of water, 1163 01:13:04,397 --> 01:13:07,298 set that glass down, and walked out of that room, 1164 01:13:07,367 --> 01:13:11,132 and 90 years later, that glass and that carafe are still there. 1165 01:13:11,203 --> 01:13:15,264 I n the middle of this, you see this perfect object. 1166 01:13:15,340 --> 01:13:17,103 It really ties you to the people. 1167 01:13:17,176 --> 01:13:18,733 It does. 1168 01:13:18,810 --> 01:13:20,835 You still see things 1169 01:13:20,912 --> 01:13:23,848 where people had last left them. 1170 01:13:25,683 --> 01:13:29,084 Lamps still plugged in. 1171 01:13:30,221 --> 01:13:34,623 The medicine bottles still in place. 1172 01:13:36,060 --> 01:13:37,755 It's the things people touched 1173 01:13:37,828 --> 01:13:41,456 that bring the pictures alive in your mind. 1174 01:13:45,202 --> 01:13:47,796 So we're looking at it right here, like this. 1175 01:13:47,871 --> 01:13:48,929 I need more power. 1176 01:13:49,005 --> 01:13:51,235 Come on, baby. React, react, react. 1177 01:13:51,308 --> 01:13:52,706 - We have a problem. - What? 1178 01:13:52,775 --> 01:13:54,710 We got a low-battery warning here. 1179 01:13:54,778 --> 01:13:57,645 Whoa, there's something really terribly wrong here. 1180 01:13:57,713 --> 01:13:59,704 Uh-oh. Are we gonna lose this thing? 1181 01:13:59,783 --> 01:14:00,841 Oh, Jesus. 1182 01:14:00,916 --> 01:14:03,180 - Did we crash? - We're dead. We're dead. 1183 01:14:03,285 --> 01:14:04,752 We're dead and buoyant. 1184 01:14:04,853 --> 01:14:07,514 Drop it. Drop it. Buoyancy right now. 1185 01:14:07,623 --> 01:14:10,888 - Easy, easy, easy. - Battery is starting to die. 1186 01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:13,018 Oh, we're not gonna live. 1187 01:14:14,029 --> 01:14:17,464 Guys, get a visual on us, because we just lost power. 1188 01:14:17,532 --> 01:14:19,728 You're headed for the ceiling. 1189 01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:21,792 You're sitting on the ceiling, Jim. 1190 01:14:21,869 --> 01:14:24,599 We're dead in the water. We have a dead battery. 1191 01:14:24,672 --> 01:14:27,232 We're watching you. We're gonna sit and watch you. 1192 01:14:27,307 --> 01:14:29,435 The whole thing was melting down. 1193 01:14:29,510 --> 01:14:32,502 The batteries, they were melting down and venting. 1194 01:14:32,580 --> 01:14:33,603 It was very bizarre. 1195 01:14:33,681 --> 01:14:36,547 It was like, "Houston, we have a problem. " 1196 01:14:38,685 --> 01:14:41,710 They flew beautifully right up until the point 1197 01:14:41,822 --> 01:14:46,155 that we had an absolute, total major-malfunction system crash. 1198 01:14:48,661 --> 01:14:50,288 I've had a debate with myself 1199 01:14:50,363 --> 01:14:52,889 as to whether I would even ever try a rescue, 1200 01:14:52,965 --> 01:14:54,990 because better to lose one than two. 1201 01:14:55,067 --> 01:14:56,397 It's almost a straight shot, 1202 01:14:56,469 --> 01:14:58,699 except there's a couple of columns in the way. 1203 01:14:58,771 --> 01:15:01,171 I think there's a way to bring it back. 1204 01:15:01,239 --> 01:15:04,037 Yeah, it's not too far from the stairwell. 1205 01:15:04,109 --> 01:15:05,041 No. 1206 01:15:05,110 --> 01:15:08,705 But the first thing we got to do is get some weight on it. 1207 01:15:08,813 --> 01:15:10,940 The weight with a piece of Velcro on top. 1208 01:15:11,049 --> 01:15:12,641 I want to fly up underneath it 1209 01:15:12,751 --> 01:15:14,718 and stick the weight to the bottom, 1210 01:15:14,786 --> 01:15:15,980 sink it to the floor, 1211 01:15:16,054 --> 01:15:18,521 then come up, dock with it and carry it out. 1212 01:15:18,590 --> 01:15:20,751 That's the only way to do it. 1213 01:15:20,825 --> 01:15:23,292 Let me know if I'm going too fast. 1214 01:15:27,898 --> 01:15:29,866 We had to rescue Elwood, 1215 01:15:29,933 --> 01:15:32,401 not just because these bots are expensive, 1216 01:15:32,469 --> 01:15:34,663 but because, in some strange way, 1217 01:15:34,737 --> 01:15:36,796 he'd become part of the crew. 1218 01:15:36,873 --> 01:15:39,842 Oh, where, oh, where is my little bot now? 1219 01:15:41,344 --> 01:15:43,278 Look up. Look up. 1220 01:15:43,346 --> 01:15:44,836 Hello, Elwood. 1221 01:15:44,947 --> 01:15:48,747 We tried to attach weights to the R. O.V. 1222 01:15:48,817 --> 01:15:51,411 To make it come down off the ceiling. 1223 01:15:51,486 --> 01:15:53,647 If I can just go forward. 1224 01:15:57,359 --> 01:15:59,156 What the hell was that? 1225 01:15:59,227 --> 01:16:01,695 Something fell. I don't know. 1226 01:16:03,298 --> 01:16:05,232 See, we're thrusting up against it, 1227 01:16:05,299 --> 01:16:08,326 so it may not come down right away. 1228 01:16:08,403 --> 01:16:12,031 All right, so let me get set for the separation maneuver. 1229 01:16:15,776 --> 01:16:17,471 It's on there. 1230 01:16:17,578 --> 01:16:20,011 It's on there. We have it. 1231 01:16:21,314 --> 01:16:25,410 I'm gonna have to get out of this no matter what. 1232 01:16:25,485 --> 01:16:28,545 Otherwise, we're not coming home. 1233 01:16:28,621 --> 01:16:30,248 I'm going out. 1234 01:16:34,394 --> 01:16:36,021 Oh! 1235 01:16:37,229 --> 01:16:38,322 Link error. 1236 01:16:38,398 --> 01:16:40,228 We lost... 1237 01:16:41,967 --> 01:16:43,958 It's gonna come past us in a second. 1238 01:16:44,036 --> 01:16:46,004 We might as well get it on tape. 1239 01:16:47,539 --> 01:16:49,302 Here she comes. 1240 01:16:51,676 --> 01:16:53,541 Say goodbye. 1241 01:16:54,513 --> 01:16:57,640 Probably two hours without radio contact from Jim. 1242 01:16:57,715 --> 01:16:59,307 All we hear over the radio is... 1243 01:16:59,384 --> 01:17:00,818 Say goodbye to Jake. 1244 01:17:00,885 --> 01:17:03,046 "Say goodbye to Jake"? 1245 01:17:05,323 --> 01:17:06,880 What's happened? 1246 01:17:06,957 --> 01:17:08,720 Hit our own tether. 1247 01:17:08,793 --> 01:17:10,158 Cable broke. 1248 01:17:10,228 --> 01:17:12,923 I can't imagine what it was like in Jim's sub. 1249 01:17:12,996 --> 01:17:14,861 He goes through a range of emotions. 1250 01:17:14,931 --> 01:17:19,266 He loses one robot. Then he loses a second robot. 1251 01:17:20,704 --> 01:17:22,763 Well, we got our ceiling scenario, 1252 01:17:22,872 --> 01:17:24,841 and we got our kite scenario. 1253 01:17:26,476 --> 01:17:30,775 The two ways we thought we could actually lose these things. 1254 01:17:34,650 --> 01:17:37,312 And after a quick exchange, 1255 01:17:37,386 --> 01:17:39,911 we noticed the tether coming up past our sub. 1256 01:17:39,989 --> 01:17:43,924 Genya grabs the joysticks that control the sub manipulators. 1257 01:17:43,992 --> 01:17:47,121 And he grabs the tether and starts winding the tether up 1258 01:17:47,196 --> 01:17:49,095 around the arms of the manipulators. 1259 01:17:49,165 --> 01:17:51,496 This is scary. See what he's doing? 1260 01:17:51,567 --> 01:17:54,399 If he breaks it before he gets a wrap on it... 1261 01:17:56,004 --> 01:17:59,599 Oh, my God. I can't watch this. 1262 01:17:59,707 --> 01:18:01,901 You're scaring me now, Genya. 1263 01:18:01,975 --> 01:18:04,671 To wind up this tether, it took 30, 35 minutes 1264 01:18:04,745 --> 01:18:07,179 of the same motion over and over and over, 1265 01:18:07,247 --> 01:18:08,339 winding this up. 1266 01:18:08,415 --> 01:18:11,975 35 minutes that we've been at this. 1267 01:18:12,051 --> 01:18:14,679 - Hey! - Let's see it. 1268 01:18:14,755 --> 01:18:16,916 I thought it was on the ground. 1269 01:18:16,990 --> 01:18:18,923 You got him. All stop. All stop. 1270 01:18:18,991 --> 01:18:22,188 Our next task is to take a Velcro patch 1271 01:18:22,261 --> 01:18:24,457 and slap it on top of the robot 1272 01:18:24,531 --> 01:18:28,727 with the manipulator arms and pull the robot in that way. 1273 01:18:28,835 --> 01:18:30,928 - You got him. - Still got it. 1274 01:18:32,572 --> 01:18:34,335 As Genya is pulling up on it, 1275 01:18:34,407 --> 01:18:37,375 the Velcro rips off the robot, and for this brief second, 1276 01:18:37,442 --> 01:18:40,378 the entire robot was free and starts floating back up. 1277 01:18:40,445 --> 01:18:42,414 There's no tether holding it. 1278 01:18:42,481 --> 01:18:44,972 It's free. Grab it. Grab it any way you can. 1279 01:18:45,050 --> 01:18:48,144 Genya, the most amazing operator of any machinery 1280 01:18:48,220 --> 01:18:51,814 I've ever seen in my life, grabbed these manipulators. 1281 01:18:51,889 --> 01:18:54,756 He pulls it back in and hugs it tight to the "Mir. " 1282 01:18:54,825 --> 01:18:56,690 I'm going gray over here. 1283 01:18:58,762 --> 01:19:00,753 I think he's got it in that garage. 1284 01:19:00,865 --> 01:19:03,731 He's got the tool out. I saw the tool. Yes! 1285 01:19:03,801 --> 01:19:04,927 Whoo! 1286 01:19:05,034 --> 01:19:06,899 Garage closed. 1287 01:19:06,970 --> 01:19:08,369 He lives another day! 1288 01:19:08,438 --> 01:19:10,406 Oh, my God! 1289 01:19:11,108 --> 01:19:13,632 I do believe Genya deserves a raise. 1290 01:19:13,710 --> 01:19:17,168 I do believe you owe everybody here a beer. 1291 01:19:17,247 --> 01:19:20,444 Dude, I'll buy you a brewery. 1292 01:19:20,517 --> 01:19:24,180 That was incredible. That was absolutely incredible. 1293 01:19:27,356 --> 01:19:30,223 The R. O.V. Department was almost out of a job. 1294 01:19:30,292 --> 01:19:31,657 Was that amazing? 1295 01:19:31,727 --> 01:19:35,321 That was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. 1296 01:19:35,430 --> 01:19:37,398 I think I aged a year. 1297 01:19:37,499 --> 01:19:39,899 And we sat there, and we just watched him 1298 01:19:39,968 --> 01:19:42,197 just fly up out of the grand staircase 1299 01:19:42,270 --> 01:19:43,396 and keep on going. 1300 01:19:43,471 --> 01:19:47,737 Genya wound it all in like a kid winding up a kite string. 1301 01:19:47,808 --> 01:19:49,400 Great job, man. Good job. 1302 01:19:49,477 --> 01:19:51,570 So we got the rescue half done. 1303 01:19:51,646 --> 01:19:54,944 We installed the weight, and then we had a problem. 1304 01:19:55,015 --> 01:19:58,314 We saw it with the weight hanging on it. 1305 01:19:58,385 --> 01:20:00,376 I don't know if it came down or not. 1306 01:20:00,454 --> 01:20:03,911 I think metal hooks would work if you get a fishing lure 1307 01:20:03,991 --> 01:20:05,958 that you can stab into the screen 1308 01:20:06,026 --> 01:20:08,494 and pull it out by the screen. 1309 01:20:19,672 --> 01:20:22,163 I told you we'd nab him. 1310 01:20:23,242 --> 01:20:24,834 Just remember, when you hook up, 1311 01:20:24,910 --> 01:20:27,173 peel away to your right. 1312 01:20:31,951 --> 01:20:33,212 Come on, baby. 1313 01:20:35,720 --> 01:20:37,278 - We're in. - We're in. 1314 01:20:37,355 --> 01:20:38,754 - I n? - We're in. 1315 01:20:38,823 --> 01:20:42,520 Now I'm gonna sit for a minute. 1316 01:20:44,796 --> 01:20:46,855 Take a little break. 1317 01:20:46,964 --> 01:20:50,161 Very good. Excellent. Excellent. 1318 01:20:50,233 --> 01:20:51,700 We're halfway. 1319 01:20:52,869 --> 01:20:55,167 There's nothing in front of him. 1320 01:20:55,238 --> 01:20:58,799 Push him a little bit, and I think we busted loose. 1321 01:20:58,875 --> 01:21:01,036 - Hooks pulled out. - Put him in the cage. 1322 01:21:01,111 --> 01:21:02,135 Hooks pulled out. 1323 01:21:02,212 --> 01:21:05,908 And I think we knocked him off his weight. 1324 01:21:07,249 --> 01:21:10,116 Yeah, the weight would've come off anyway, though. 1325 01:21:11,654 --> 01:21:12,813 All right. 1326 01:21:12,887 --> 01:21:15,118 The question is, do we have another try? 1327 01:21:15,223 --> 01:21:16,690 Something's right over me. 1328 01:21:16,759 --> 01:21:18,851 Oh, there we go. Got rid of that. 1329 01:21:18,961 --> 01:21:19,984 Now we're rising. 1330 01:21:20,096 --> 01:21:22,859 All right. Time to go for the kill. 1331 01:21:22,931 --> 01:21:24,990 Okay. Not the center. 1332 01:21:25,066 --> 01:21:26,931 We could bend our hooks on the... 1333 01:21:27,002 --> 01:21:28,162 Oh, that looked good. 1334 01:21:28,236 --> 01:21:32,535 Push him a little bit, then all back full, yaw right. 1335 01:21:32,607 --> 01:21:33,869 The hooks still there? 1336 01:21:33,941 --> 01:21:35,000 Negative. 1337 01:21:35,076 --> 01:21:35,973 It looks good. 1338 01:21:36,043 --> 01:21:38,876 Let's go for a drive and see if he comes with us. 1339 01:21:40,849 --> 01:21:44,249 Oh, I'm yawing in a weird way, so that must mean I have him, 1340 01:21:44,318 --> 01:21:46,479 so I'm just gonna keep playing him. 1341 01:21:46,553 --> 01:21:49,181 I'm gonna play the hand. 1342 01:21:49,288 --> 01:21:52,224 I think the door is down there. Tell him we're here. 1343 01:21:52,292 --> 01:21:54,691 "Mir-1," we see the door. We're on station. 1344 01:21:54,761 --> 01:21:56,524 There's the light. 1345 01:21:56,596 --> 01:21:58,086 Tell them we see them. 1346 01:21:58,197 --> 01:22:00,461 "Mir-2," "Mir-2," we see your lights. 1347 01:22:00,533 --> 01:22:02,160 Maintain position. 1348 01:22:02,235 --> 01:22:04,362 - All right. - There's the way out. 1349 01:22:04,437 --> 01:22:06,200 Hanging up. 1350 01:22:06,272 --> 01:22:08,296 I'm hung up. We're stopped. 1351 01:22:08,373 --> 01:22:10,740 And we're stuck. 1352 01:22:10,809 --> 01:22:14,267 See it? It's like hitting a wall. 1353 01:22:15,280 --> 01:22:19,614 We are hung up solid. Absolutely solid. 1354 01:22:19,685 --> 01:22:20,982 Nothing. 1355 01:22:23,287 --> 01:22:25,085 I think we lost it. 1356 01:22:32,596 --> 01:22:34,757 I don't know what to do. 1357 01:22:38,735 --> 01:22:42,398 I'm sure nothing's changed, but we'll try it again. 1358 01:22:43,740 --> 01:22:47,574 Okay. I'm gonna back up, take a little leash. 1359 01:22:49,345 --> 01:22:51,506 And then charge it. 1360 01:22:56,653 --> 01:22:59,587 Now we get to the same spot, and... 1361 01:23:00,489 --> 01:23:01,456 Hey. 1362 01:23:03,025 --> 01:23:05,050 - We're going. You're going. 1363 01:23:05,127 --> 01:23:10,690 Go toward the light, Jake. Go toward the light. 1364 01:23:11,867 --> 01:23:14,300 Oh, come on, baby. Come on. 1365 01:23:14,369 --> 01:23:17,565 "Mir-2," "Mir-2," tilt your light down. 1366 01:23:17,638 --> 01:23:20,129 Tilt your light down. 1367 01:23:20,208 --> 01:23:22,642 Copy that. Tilting it down. 1368 01:23:22,709 --> 01:23:24,905 I keep feeling shocks. 1369 01:23:24,979 --> 01:23:26,469 I think I still have him. 1370 01:23:26,547 --> 01:23:29,914 Oh, that's why. They're coming this way. 1371 01:23:30,017 --> 01:23:33,453 Tell them to take a visual on us and see if we have Elwood. 1372 01:23:33,553 --> 01:23:36,283 - Look at that. - Do you see Elwood? 1373 01:23:36,356 --> 01:23:38,347 Oh, my God. He got it! 1374 01:23:38,458 --> 01:23:40,585 It looks great. It's beautiful. 1375 01:23:40,660 --> 01:23:44,026 Do you see Elwood? Do you see Elwood? 1376 01:23:44,097 --> 01:23:45,085 Yes, we do. 1377 01:23:45,165 --> 01:23:46,722 We got him. 1378 01:23:58,778 --> 01:24:01,371 We pulled it off, Daddy-O. 1379 01:24:01,480 --> 01:24:02,377 Yeah. 1380 01:24:02,481 --> 01:24:03,378 Whoo. 1381 01:24:03,481 --> 01:24:04,880 Great job. 1382 01:24:04,949 --> 01:24:06,473 Everybody did a great job. 1383 01:24:06,585 --> 01:24:09,610 Elwood is safe and sound. 1384 01:24:09,721 --> 01:24:17,388 And the time is 6:16, September 11, 2001. 1385 01:24:18,762 --> 01:24:19,990 See you later. 1386 01:24:25,402 --> 01:24:27,131 What's this thing that's going on? 1387 01:24:27,204 --> 01:24:29,764 The worst terrorist attack in history, Jim. 1388 01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:32,569 We all were wrapped up in what we were doing 1389 01:24:32,642 --> 01:24:34,543 and thought it was important. 1390 01:24:34,611 --> 01:24:37,738 Hit by two separate hijacked commercial jets... 1391 01:24:37,847 --> 01:24:39,941 And then this horrible event happened 1392 01:24:40,049 --> 01:24:42,074 and slammed us into this perspective. 1393 01:24:42,185 --> 01:24:43,209 God. 1394 01:24:49,725 --> 01:24:52,717 The morning after the attack on September 11th, 1395 01:24:52,795 --> 01:24:56,491 I kept thinking how trivial this expedition suddenly became. 1396 01:24:56,565 --> 01:24:59,763 It just wasn't a big deal anymore. 1397 01:25:06,974 --> 01:25:11,035 The emotional parallels came first. 1398 01:25:11,145 --> 01:25:13,113 We now understood what it felt like 1399 01:25:13,214 --> 01:25:16,047 to be a witness to tragedy. 1400 01:25:16,116 --> 01:25:18,607 The sense of shock and numbness 1401 01:25:18,719 --> 01:25:22,883 and the disbelief that the unthinkable has happened. 1402 01:25:22,957 --> 01:25:24,549 It does happen. 1403 01:25:24,625 --> 01:25:27,149 Occasionally, life sits on your head. 1404 01:25:30,096 --> 01:25:34,260 But, hey, I've been knocked down before. 1405 01:25:34,334 --> 01:25:36,268 We all have. We get up. 1406 01:25:36,335 --> 01:25:37,734 We go on. 1407 01:25:41,707 --> 01:25:44,335 I think that's what makes us great. 1408 01:25:49,982 --> 01:25:53,747 Everyone decided to continue the expedition. 1409 01:25:53,819 --> 01:25:56,947 I think that after we'd gotten over the initial shock, 1410 01:25:57,022 --> 01:25:59,752 "Titanic" did seem to become important again. 1411 01:25:59,825 --> 01:26:02,623 Not so much for itself, but as a symbol 1412 01:26:02,693 --> 01:26:05,491 of what can happen when warnings go unheeded 1413 01:26:05,563 --> 01:26:08,225 and how I think we all hope to face death 1414 01:26:08,299 --> 01:26:09,732 when it comes. 1415 01:26:11,469 --> 01:26:15,461 Archie Frost was in the engine room that night. 1416 01:26:15,573 --> 01:26:18,269 Just barely into his twenties 1417 01:26:18,375 --> 01:26:21,003 and had worked with Thomas Andrews 1418 01:26:21,111 --> 01:26:23,079 when the ship was being built. 1419 01:26:23,179 --> 01:26:26,706 After a certain point, Andrews had come down and told them, 1420 01:26:26,783 --> 01:26:29,547 "The ship does not have much time to live, 1421 01:26:29,619 --> 01:26:33,646 and if you stay here, you will die. " 1422 01:26:33,723 --> 01:26:35,155 Archie Frost said, 1423 01:26:35,224 --> 01:26:39,285 "We'll stay here as long as we need to be here. " 1424 01:26:39,361 --> 01:26:41,261 Those are the everyday heroes. 1425 01:26:41,330 --> 01:26:43,297 The people who ran those machines, 1426 01:26:43,365 --> 01:26:44,957 kept the generators running, 1427 01:26:45,034 --> 01:26:47,661 and kept power for the telegraph going, 1428 01:26:47,735 --> 01:26:51,501 who kept the crowds calm. 1429 01:26:51,607 --> 01:26:56,543 You find the ordinary hero that was standing next to you. 1430 01:27:08,155 --> 01:27:11,249 When you see the stern 1431 01:27:11,326 --> 01:27:14,418 where 1, 500 people had died, 1432 01:27:14,493 --> 01:27:16,792 I don't really know how to describe it. 1433 01:27:24,670 --> 01:27:27,138 You can't help but be emotional. 1434 01:27:27,206 --> 01:27:29,902 There's no doubt people were taken to the bottom 1435 01:27:29,976 --> 01:27:31,273 in the stern. 1436 01:27:31,343 --> 01:27:33,005 But they're no longer there. 1437 01:27:33,079 --> 01:27:35,273 Every trace of their human existence 1438 01:27:35,347 --> 01:27:37,714 has been dissolved into the ocean. 1439 01:27:39,185 --> 01:27:40,481 Okay, "Mir-2." 1440 01:27:40,552 --> 01:27:44,147 Get in position to lay the plaque. 1441 01:27:44,222 --> 01:27:48,124 Jim, getting into position to lay plaque. 1442 01:27:53,397 --> 01:27:57,128 "The 1,500 souls lost here still speak, 1443 01:27:57,234 --> 01:28:01,170 reminding us always that the unthinkable can happen 1444 01:28:01,271 --> 01:28:06,504 but for our vigilance, humility, and compassion. " 1445 01:28:07,744 --> 01:28:09,735 Goodbye. 1446 01:28:23,426 --> 01:28:26,156 We had been at sea a long time. 1447 01:28:26,229 --> 01:28:30,187 I was thinking about being home again. 1448 01:28:37,706 --> 01:28:40,004 On the final day, as we left, 1449 01:28:40,074 --> 01:28:42,908 at the stern of the ship was a white rainbow. 1450 01:28:42,978 --> 01:28:48,040 It was almost like a halo effect over the wreck of the "Titanic. " 1451 01:28:48,115 --> 01:28:51,915 And it had an ethereal feel to it. 1452 01:28:52,987 --> 01:28:56,718 I think you leave "Titanic," but it never leaves you. 1453 01:28:56,791 --> 01:28:58,348 It's always there. 1454 01:28:58,426 --> 01:29:01,394 And many times, when I close my eyes, 1455 01:29:01,461 --> 01:29:07,422 I'm suddenly back there, floating over the wreck, 1456 01:29:07,500 --> 01:29:10,697 and I feel like I am a ghost of the abyss.