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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:06,696 --> 00:00:10,907 Narrator: THE TITANIC-- BUILT TO BE UNSINKABLE. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:10,941 --> 00:00:15,222 CAPTAIN AND CREW-- THE FINEST OF THEIR DAY. 5 00:00:15,256 --> 00:00:18,052 THE NIGHT--PERFECTLY CALM. 6 00:00:18,087 --> 00:00:19,709 Woman: THE SEA WAS SO VERY STILL, 7 00:00:19,743 --> 00:00:24,403 AND THE SKY, SO MANY STARS. 8 00:00:24,438 --> 00:00:26,474 Man: ICE AHEAD! 9 00:00:29,201 --> 00:00:33,826 Narrator: THE MIGHTY SHIP IS DESTROYED BY A SINGLE ICEBERG... 10 00:00:33,861 --> 00:00:38,831 SOME 300 FEET OF HULL PLATING RIPPED APART AT THE SEAMS. 11 00:00:38,866 --> 00:00:41,110 [MORSE CODE BEEPING] 12 00:00:44,009 --> 00:00:45,286 [SCREAMS] 13 00:00:45,321 --> 00:00:48,703 BUT EVEN IN THE MOMENT OF DISASTER, THERE IS HOPE-- 14 00:00:48,738 --> 00:00:51,292 A SHIP ON THE HORIZON. 15 00:00:51,327 --> 00:00:52,673 Man: WE BOTH CAME TO THE CONCLUSION 16 00:00:52,707 --> 00:00:56,263 THAT SHE WAS CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE SIGNALED. 17 00:00:56,297 --> 00:01:00,577 THE CAPTAIN SAID, "TELL THEM TO COME AT ONCE, WE ARE SINKING." 18 00:01:01,613 --> 00:01:05,548 Narrator: YET THAT SHIP NEVER ARRIVES. 19 00:01:05,582 --> 00:01:08,551 FOR 100 YEARS WE'VE WONDERED, WHY? 20 00:01:08,585 --> 00:01:12,106 AND HOW DID THE TRAGEDY HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE? 21 00:01:12,141 --> 00:01:15,040 WHO--OR WHAT--WAS TO BLAME? 22 00:01:18,457 --> 00:01:22,806 AN INVESTIGATOR IS DETERMINED TO REEXAMINE ALL THE EVIDENCE... 23 00:01:22,841 --> 00:01:26,051 Man: SO SHE'S AT TITANIC'S WRECK SITE--THAT'S INCREDIBLE. 24 00:01:27,432 --> 00:01:29,848 Narrator: HE TRAVELS THE WORLD, 25 00:01:29,882 --> 00:01:32,195 COLLECTS DATA, 26 00:01:32,230 --> 00:01:36,130 AND PORES THROUGH THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY. 27 00:01:36,165 --> 00:01:38,201 Man: THE MORE I READ ABOUT THE TRUTH OF WHAT HAPPENED, 28 00:01:38,236 --> 00:01:40,755 THE MORE I REALIZE HOW STRANGE IT REALLY WAS. 29 00:01:40,790 --> 00:01:43,344 Narrator: FOR 100 YEARS, WE'VE SOUGHT CULPRITS 30 00:01:43,379 --> 00:01:46,796 AMONG THOSE ON BOARD AND EVEN ELSEWHERE. 31 00:01:48,142 --> 00:01:52,629 NOW, AT LAST, ONE MAN HAS FOUND THE ANSWERS... 32 00:01:54,424 --> 00:01:58,048 ...THAT FINALLY CLOSE THE CASE OF TITANIC. 33 00:02:14,203 --> 00:02:16,239 LAS VEGAS... 34 00:02:18,103 --> 00:02:20,830 THE ENTERTAINMENT CAPITAL OF THE WORLD... 35 00:02:24,385 --> 00:02:27,423 ...HARDLY WHERE ONE WOULD EXPECT TO COME FACE TO FACE 36 00:02:27,457 --> 00:02:30,150 WITH THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS SHIP. 37 00:02:38,572 --> 00:02:41,022 CONTROVERSY HAS SWIRLED AROUND THESE OBJECTS 38 00:02:41,057 --> 00:02:43,232 RECOVERED FROM THE TITANIC WRECK SITE 39 00:02:43,266 --> 00:02:48,444 SINCE THEY FIRST WENT ON DISPLAY TO THE PUBLIC IN 1994. 40 00:02:48,478 --> 00:02:52,517 MANY QUESTION WHETHER IT'S RIGHT TO DISTURB A GRAVE SITE... 41 00:02:54,519 --> 00:02:56,417 ...WHILE MARINE ARCHAEOLOGISTS COMPLAIN 42 00:02:56,452 --> 00:03:00,041 THAT AN IMPORTANT SITE HAS BEEN CRUDELY SALVAGED. 43 00:03:03,355 --> 00:03:06,255 BUT FOR HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR TIM MALTIN, 44 00:03:06,289 --> 00:03:10,707 THESE HULL PIECES SERVE A VITAL PURPOSE. 45 00:03:10,742 --> 00:03:14,780 Tim Maltin: THIS IS WHAT WAS BUILT IN BELFAST 100 YEARS AGO. 46 00:03:14,815 --> 00:03:17,887 AND THIS IS A TESTAMENT TO HOW BEAUTIFULLY BUILT SHE WAS. 47 00:03:17,921 --> 00:03:19,199 SHE'S LIKE A WORK OF ART, 48 00:03:19,233 --> 00:03:22,823 EVERY RIVET LITERALLY HANDCRAFTED. 49 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,760 IT'S EXTRAORDINARY TO BE STANDING THIS CLOSE TO IT. 50 00:03:28,794 --> 00:03:31,349 IT'S ALMOST AS THOUGH TITANIC HAS COME BACK FROM THE DEAD 51 00:03:31,383 --> 00:03:35,215 AND SORT OF HIT ME IN THE FACE ALMOST, BECAUSE SHE'S HERE. 52 00:03:38,356 --> 00:03:40,254 Narrator: IN THE HUNDRED YEARS SINCE THE SINKING, 53 00:03:40,289 --> 00:03:44,016 AN ELABORATE WEB OF MYTHS HAS GROWN UP AROUND TITANIC. 54 00:03:45,949 --> 00:03:48,262 SOME EVEN BELIEVE THE BUILDERS CUT CORNERS 55 00:03:48,297 --> 00:03:51,783 WHEN THEY BEGAN HER CONSTRUCTION. 56 00:03:51,817 --> 00:03:55,511 Tim: WHAT YOU CAN SEE HERE FROM THIS 15-TON PIECE OF THE TITANIC 57 00:03:55,545 --> 00:03:59,446 IS THE STRENGTH OF IT, JUST THE SHEER... 58 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,931 WE DON'T BUILD THINGS LIKE THIS TODAY ANYMORE. 59 00:04:01,965 --> 00:04:04,036 THE WAY ITS HEAVINESS, ITS STRENGTH, 60 00:04:04,071 --> 00:04:07,005 THE WAY THE RIVETS WERE HEAT SEALED INTO IT 61 00:04:07,039 --> 00:04:10,284 AND SHRUNK ONTO THIS VERY THICK SHELL PLATING HERE. 62 00:04:10,319 --> 00:04:12,804 AND EVEN OVER HERE YOU CAN SEE THE GLASS, 63 00:04:12,838 --> 00:04:15,289 THE THICKNESS OF THE GLASS IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. 64 00:04:15,324 --> 00:04:18,741 I MEAN, THAT IS NEARLY TWO INCHES THICK. 65 00:04:20,915 --> 00:04:22,572 ONE OF THE MOST COMMON MYTHS TODAY 66 00:04:22,607 --> 00:04:24,816 IS THAT TITANIC WAS SOMEHOW BADLY BUILT, 67 00:04:24,850 --> 00:04:28,371 OR THE RIVETS WERE WEAK, OR THE METAL WAS BRITTLE. 68 00:04:28,406 --> 00:04:32,237 AND I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT'S A COMPLETE MYTH. 69 00:04:32,272 --> 00:04:34,791 THE BUILDERS WERE ACTUALLY ENCOURAGED, IF ANYTHING, 70 00:04:34,826 --> 00:04:38,312 TO SPEND MORE MONEY ON THE SHIP, NOT LESS. 71 00:04:38,347 --> 00:04:41,281 THIS SHIP IS BUILT LIKE A BATTLESHIP. 72 00:04:43,248 --> 00:04:45,319 Narrator: TIM MALTIN HAS DEBUNKED A LOT OF MYTHS 73 00:04:45,354 --> 00:04:47,701 ABOUT TITANIC... 74 00:04:47,735 --> 00:04:51,083 BUT HE STILL HAS QUESTIONS. 75 00:04:51,118 --> 00:04:55,502 HE BELIEVES THIS 100-YEAR-OLD CASE IS FAR FROM CLOSED. 76 00:04:55,536 --> 00:04:57,435 Tim: I'VE SPENT MY WHOLE LIFE STUDYING THE TITANIC, 77 00:04:57,469 --> 00:04:59,747 AND NOW I'M STANDING IN FRONT OF IT. 78 00:04:59,782 --> 00:05:02,992 AND THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A REALLY EXCITING JOURNEY, 79 00:05:03,026 --> 00:05:06,098 BECAUSE NOW I'M GOING TO PUT ALL MY THEORIES TO THE TEST 80 00:05:06,133 --> 00:05:08,238 OF WHY TITANIC SANK. 81 00:05:10,517 --> 00:05:12,967 Narrator: TIM'S THEORIES ARE THE RESULT OF HUNDREDS OF HOURS 82 00:05:13,002 --> 00:05:16,177 SPENT PORING THROUGH EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY. 83 00:05:18,145 --> 00:05:19,422 TITANIC IS, IN FACT, 84 00:05:19,457 --> 00:05:22,632 ONE OF THE BEST DOCUMENTED DISASTERS IN HISTORY, 85 00:05:22,667 --> 00:05:24,910 THE SUBJECT OF MASSIVE PUBLIC INQUIRIES 86 00:05:24,945 --> 00:05:27,396 IN BOTH NEW YORK AND LONDON. 87 00:05:28,914 --> 00:05:33,402 150 WITNESSES WERE GRILLED WITH 50,000 QUESTIONS. 88 00:05:37,026 --> 00:05:39,442 MUCH OF THAT HISTORIC AND SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE 89 00:05:39,477 --> 00:05:41,996 IS GATHERED IN THIS LIBRARY IN LONDON-- 90 00:05:42,031 --> 00:05:44,620 THE BASE FOR TIM'S INVESTIGATION. 91 00:05:45,966 --> 00:05:47,795 Tim: AS SOON AS THE SURVIVORS CAME OFF THE TITANIC, 92 00:05:47,830 --> 00:05:49,694 THEY GAVE THEIR INTERVIEWS TO NEWSPAPERS 93 00:05:49,728 --> 00:05:51,868 WHO SLIGHTLY EMBELLISHED THE STORIES. 94 00:05:51,903 --> 00:05:53,525 AND WHAT I'VE BEEN INTERESTED IN DOING IS GETTING BACK 95 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:57,011 TO WHAT PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE ACTUALLY EXPERIENCED. 96 00:05:58,841 --> 00:06:01,775 Narrator: FROM THE SURVIVORS, TIM HAS SIFTED OUT A HANDFUL 97 00:06:01,809 --> 00:06:04,398 WHOSE TESTIMONY SEEMS VITAL. 98 00:06:06,262 --> 00:06:10,611 ONE OF THEM IS SCIENCE TEACHER LAWRENCE BEESLEY. 99 00:06:10,646 --> 00:06:13,234 Tim: HE WAS PAYING VERY CLOSE ATTENTION TO EVERYTHING. 100 00:06:13,269 --> 00:06:18,412 HE EVEN, ON THE DECK, TIMED THE SWELL OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC. 101 00:06:18,447 --> 00:06:19,931 SO HE GIVES US AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT 102 00:06:19,965 --> 00:06:22,623 OF WHAT WOULD SEEM TO BE QUITE MUNDANE DETAIL, 103 00:06:22,658 --> 00:06:24,418 BUT IT PROVIDES VERY IMPORTANT CLUES 104 00:06:24,453 --> 00:06:27,490 OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED THAT NIGHT. 105 00:06:27,525 --> 00:06:31,218 Narrator: CAPTAIN EDWARD SMITH DIDN'T SURVIVE. 106 00:06:31,252 --> 00:06:32,426 BUT THE TWO LOOKOUTS 107 00:06:32,461 --> 00:06:35,740 FREDERICK FLEET AND REGINALD LEE DID. 108 00:06:37,742 --> 00:06:40,952 FOR TIM, THEIR TESTIMONY SOMEHOW HOLDS THE KEY 109 00:06:40,986 --> 00:06:44,438 TO THE BIGGEST MYSTERY OF ALL. 110 00:06:44,473 --> 00:06:47,924 Tim: OBVIOUSLY, WE KNOW THAT TITANIC HIT AN ICEBERG. 111 00:06:47,959 --> 00:06:50,444 BUT WHAT I WAS INTERESTED IN IS WHY DID SHE HIT AN ICEBERG? 112 00:06:50,479 --> 00:06:53,516 YOU KNOW, WHY IS IT THAT THE BEST NAVIGATORS OF THEIR DAY 113 00:06:53,551 --> 00:06:57,002 IN THE FINEST SHIP, BEING AS CAREFUL AS THEY COULD, 114 00:06:57,037 --> 00:06:59,660 WHY DID THEY CRASH THAT NIGHT? 115 00:07:01,213 --> 00:07:03,112 Narrator: AND THE KEY TO A SECOND ENDURING MYSTERY 116 00:07:03,146 --> 00:07:08,082 LIES WITH STANLEY LORD, CAPTAIN OF THE CALIFORNIAN, 117 00:07:08,117 --> 00:07:10,464 A NEARBY SHIP THAT INEXPLICABLY FAILED 118 00:07:10,499 --> 00:07:13,881 TO COME TO TITANIC'S RESCUE THAT NIGHT. 119 00:07:13,916 --> 00:07:15,849 Tim: THE MORE I GOT TO LEARN ABOUT THIS SHIP 120 00:07:15,883 --> 00:07:18,610 AND ITS EFFECT ON THE TITANIC DISASTER, 121 00:07:18,645 --> 00:07:20,163 THE MORE I REALIZED THAT 122 00:07:20,198 --> 00:07:22,683 THEY HADN'T GOT TO THE BOTTOM OF IT YET. 123 00:07:24,996 --> 00:07:27,585 Narrator: THE CAREERS AND REPUTATIONS OF ALL THESE MEN 124 00:07:27,619 --> 00:07:31,347 WOULD BE FOREVER TARNISHED BY THE SINKING OF TITANIC. 125 00:07:33,004 --> 00:07:35,903 BUT DID THEY DESERVE THE BLAME? 126 00:07:35,938 --> 00:07:39,493 THAT IS WHAT TIM IS DETERMINED TO FIND OUT. 127 00:07:39,528 --> 00:07:42,013 Tim: OVER THE YEARS, TITANIC HAS BECOME A MYTH, 128 00:07:42,047 --> 00:07:45,948 AND AS WE GO ON, WE GET FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY FROM THE TRUTH. 129 00:07:45,982 --> 00:07:48,847 AND WHAT I WANTED TO DO IS WIND THE CLOCK BACK TO 1912, 130 00:07:48,882 --> 00:07:51,712 TO ALMOST PUT MYSELF IN THAT POSITION THERE, 131 00:07:51,747 --> 00:07:53,749 AND TO REALLY LEARN ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AS WELL, 132 00:07:53,783 --> 00:07:57,028 AND TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT. 133 00:07:59,133 --> 00:08:02,412 Narrator: TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF TITANIC'S FINAL MYSTERIES, 134 00:08:02,447 --> 00:08:05,381 TIM FIRST NEEDS THE SHIP. 135 00:08:07,866 --> 00:08:09,350 Tim: WHEN I WAS ABOUT 11 YEARS OLD, 136 00:08:09,385 --> 00:08:12,561 I GOT SOME GLUE AND PLANS AND CUT THEM UP, 137 00:08:12,595 --> 00:08:14,942 AND JUST ACTUALLY GLUING THEM ONTO CARDBOARD, 138 00:08:14,977 --> 00:08:17,393 AND ACTUALLY STARTING TO SEE THE PROFILE OF TITANIC 139 00:08:17,427 --> 00:08:21,121 COME TO LIFE OFF THE PAGE... 140 00:08:21,155 --> 00:08:24,296 IT REALLY MAKES THE TITANIC BECOME A REAL SHIP, 141 00:08:24,331 --> 00:08:28,473 THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE GEOGRAPHY OF. 142 00:08:28,508 --> 00:08:30,164 Narrator: IN THE YEARS SINCE THEN, 143 00:08:30,199 --> 00:08:34,755 TIM HAS METICULOUSLY RECREATED TITANIC'S ORIGINAL PLANS, 144 00:08:34,790 --> 00:08:38,518 BRINGING THEM TO LIFE AS AN ANIMATED 3D MODEL. 145 00:08:41,175 --> 00:08:45,455 AT THE TIME, TITANIC IS THE LARGEST MOVING OBJECT EVER MADE. 146 00:08:45,490 --> 00:08:50,219 SHE'S A SIXTH OF A MILE LONG, 175 FEET HIGH 147 00:08:50,253 --> 00:08:52,462 AND DIVIDED INTO 10 DECKS. 148 00:08:57,329 --> 00:08:58,917 BUILT LIKE A BATTLESHIP, 149 00:08:58,952 --> 00:09:01,610 TITANIC'S KEEL IS LAID AT HARLAND AND WOLFF'S SHIPYARD 150 00:09:01,644 --> 00:09:05,061 IN BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND, IN 1909. 151 00:09:08,478 --> 00:09:13,311 OVER 20,000 TONS OF STEEL GO INTO HER FRAME AND HULL PLATING. 152 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,595 THE TOP DECK HOUSES THE BRIDGE. 153 00:09:21,630 --> 00:09:23,114 THE NEXT SEVEN DECKS INCLUDED 154 00:09:23,148 --> 00:09:26,496 EXQUISITE FIRST CLASS STATE ROOMS, 155 00:09:26,531 --> 00:09:28,153 AND LUXURIOUS PUBLIC AREAS, 156 00:09:28,188 --> 00:09:31,294 SUCH AS THE SPECTACULAR GRAND STAIRCASE. 157 00:09:33,365 --> 00:09:35,022 AT THE BOTTOM, THE REMAINING THREE DECKS 158 00:09:35,057 --> 00:09:38,888 ARE RESERVED FOR CREW, CARGO AND MACHINERY. 159 00:09:40,269 --> 00:09:42,651 THIS EXTRAORDINARY VESSEL WAS MOVED THROUGH THE WATER 160 00:09:42,685 --> 00:09:45,619 BY THREE GIANT PROPELLERS 161 00:09:45,654 --> 00:09:48,760 GENERATING NEARLY 60,000 HORSEPOWER, 162 00:09:48,795 --> 00:09:52,005 THE POWER OF 100 MODERN 18-WHEELERS. 163 00:09:55,318 --> 00:09:58,598 THE CONSTRUCTION TAKES LONGER THAN EXPECTED. 164 00:09:58,632 --> 00:10:02,325 TITANIC'S MAIDEN VOYAGE IS DELAYED BY ALMOST THREE WEEKS. 165 00:10:04,431 --> 00:10:06,951 EVEN THEN, AS HER OWNERS-- THE WHITE STAR LINE-- 166 00:10:06,985 --> 00:10:12,128 RUSH TO GET HER READY, THERE ARE SIGNS OF TROUBLE. 167 00:10:12,163 --> 00:10:14,165 Tim: EVEN BEFORE TITANIC LEFT BELFAST, 168 00:10:14,199 --> 00:10:17,030 THERE WAS A FIRE THAT HAD BEGUN TO BURN IN THE COAL 169 00:10:17,064 --> 00:10:18,203 IN THIS BUNKER HERE, 170 00:10:18,238 --> 00:10:20,343 BETWEEN BOILER ROOMS NUMBERS FIVE AND SIX. 171 00:10:20,378 --> 00:10:22,898 THEY BEGAN TO RAKE THE COAL OUT ON WEDNESDAY, 172 00:10:22,932 --> 00:10:24,693 AND IT TOOK THEM UNTIL SATURDAY NIGHT 173 00:10:24,727 --> 00:10:26,833 BEFORE THE FIRE WAS PUT OUT. 174 00:10:26,867 --> 00:10:29,283 SO IT TOOK THEM NEARLY THE WHOLE VOYAGE 175 00:10:29,318 --> 00:10:32,666 TO GET THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL. 176 00:10:32,701 --> 00:10:34,668 Narrator: BUNKER FIRES WEREN'T UNCOMMON, 177 00:10:34,703 --> 00:10:37,671 AND EVEN THOUGH THIS ONE WASN'T PUT OUT FOR SEVERAL DAYS, 178 00:10:37,706 --> 00:10:39,742 IT'S UNLIKELY THAT IT SERIOUSLY WEAKENED 179 00:10:39,777 --> 00:10:41,882 THE STRUCTURE OF TITANIC. 180 00:10:46,887 --> 00:10:49,821 ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1912, 181 00:10:49,856 --> 00:10:51,823 TITANIC FINALLY WEIGHS ANCHOR 182 00:10:51,858 --> 00:10:54,999 AND SETS SAIL FROM SOUTHAMPTON FOR NEW YORK. 183 00:11:00,314 --> 00:11:03,904 HER PASSENGERS COME FROM EVERY CLASS OF SOCIETY-- 184 00:11:03,939 --> 00:11:05,181 THE WEALTHY ELITE 185 00:11:05,216 --> 00:11:08,564 AND EMIGRANTS HOPING FOR A NEW START IN AMERICA. 186 00:11:12,154 --> 00:11:13,983 Tim: TITANIC WAS A FLOATING CITY 187 00:11:14,018 --> 00:11:16,537 CAPABLE OF CARRYING 3,500 PEOPLE, 188 00:11:16,572 --> 00:11:18,988 AND SHE HAD FABULOUS FACILITIES. 189 00:11:20,403 --> 00:11:22,336 Narrator: FOR THOSE TRAVELING FIRST CLASS, 190 00:11:22,371 --> 00:11:23,959 LIFE COULDN'T HAVE BEEN BETTER, 191 00:11:23,993 --> 00:11:25,685 AS COLONEL ARCHIBALD GRACIE, 192 00:11:25,719 --> 00:11:28,170 A GRADUATE OF WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY, 193 00:11:28,204 --> 00:11:30,759 WOULD LATER TESTIFY. 194 00:11:30,793 --> 00:11:32,243 Archibald Gracie: I ENJOYED MYSELF 195 00:11:32,277 --> 00:11:35,902 AS IF I WERE IN A SUMMER PALACE ON THE SEASHORE, 196 00:11:35,936 --> 00:11:38,525 SURROUNDED WITH EVERY COMFORT. 197 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:40,630 THERE WAS NOTHING TO SUGGEST THAT 198 00:11:40,665 --> 00:11:43,461 WE WERE ON THE STORMY ATLANTIC OCEAN. 199 00:11:45,118 --> 00:11:50,640 THE MOTION OF THE SHIP AND THE NOISE OF ITS MACHINERY 200 00:11:50,675 --> 00:11:53,816 WERE SCARCELY DISCERNIBLE ON DECK OR IN THE SALOONS, 201 00:11:53,851 --> 00:11:55,576 DAY OR NIGHT. 202 00:11:58,959 --> 00:12:01,755 Narrator: THIS IS THE GENIUS OF TITANIC. 203 00:12:01,790 --> 00:12:06,277 IT MANAGES TO COMBINE HUGE SIZE WITH IMMACULATE STYLE. 204 00:12:09,901 --> 00:12:11,178 ON THE LOWER DECK, 205 00:12:11,213 --> 00:12:13,767 FREEZER STORES MEAN THAT THE RESTAURANTS AND CAFES 206 00:12:13,802 --> 00:12:17,495 ARE STOCKED WITH THE FINEST FRESH PRODUCE. 207 00:12:21,810 --> 00:12:24,398 CAFE PARISIEN, OUT ON B DECK, 208 00:12:24,433 --> 00:12:26,711 IS ACCOMPANIED BY A VIEW OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC 209 00:12:26,746 --> 00:12:28,920 PASSING BY THE FRENCH WINDOWS-- 210 00:12:28,955 --> 00:12:31,095 A FIRST ON ANY SHIP. 211 00:12:33,131 --> 00:12:37,135 THE FIRST-CLASS A LA CARTE MENU INSIDE THE SHIP HAS 11 COURSES, 212 00:12:37,170 --> 00:12:39,759 INCLUDING OYSTERS, SIRLOIN OF BEEF, 213 00:12:39,793 --> 00:12:44,591 PEACHES IN CHARTREUSE JELLY, AND CHOCOLATE AND VANILLA DESSERTS. 214 00:12:47,007 --> 00:12:49,838 OTHER LUXURIES ARE EQUALLY SUITED TO THE FITNESS FANATIC, 215 00:12:49,872 --> 00:12:52,116 COLONEL GRACIE. 216 00:12:52,150 --> 00:12:54,290 Gracie: BUT WHEN SUNDAY MORNING CAME, 217 00:12:54,325 --> 00:12:59,054 I CONSIDERED IT HIGH TIME TO BEGIN MY CUSTOMARY EXERCISES. 218 00:13:01,781 --> 00:13:06,371 I WAS UP EARLY BEFORE BREAKFAST PREPARATORY TO A SWIM 219 00:13:06,406 --> 00:13:11,929 IN THE SIX-FOOT-DEEP TANK OF SALT WATER, 220 00:13:11,963 --> 00:13:16,002 HEATED TO A REFRESHING TEMPERATURE. 221 00:13:16,036 --> 00:13:20,454 IN NO SWIMMING BATH HAD I EVER ENJOYED SUCH PLEASURE BEFORE. 222 00:13:23,147 --> 00:13:25,149 HOW CURTAILED THAT ENJOYMENT WOULD HAVE BEEN 223 00:13:25,183 --> 00:13:27,151 HAD THE PRESENTIMENT COME TO ME 224 00:13:27,185 --> 00:13:29,843 TELLING HOW BEFORE DAWN OF ANOTHER DAY 225 00:13:29,878 --> 00:13:33,364 I WOULD BE SWIMMING FOR MY LIFE IN MID-OCEAN. 226 00:13:35,435 --> 00:13:36,781 Tim: SO WHAT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND 227 00:13:36,816 --> 00:13:38,714 IS THAT THE BUILDERS AND THE CREW 228 00:13:38,748 --> 00:13:40,371 REALLY BELIEVED SHE WAS UNSINKABLE. 229 00:13:40,405 --> 00:13:41,890 AND, OF COURSE, THE PASSENGERS, THEREFORE, 230 00:13:41,924 --> 00:13:44,824 REALLY BELIEVED SHE WAS UNSINKABLE, AS WELL. 231 00:13:49,518 --> 00:13:52,832 Narrator: 2,000 MILES AWAY, AN ARMADA OF DEADLY ICE 232 00:13:52,866 --> 00:13:56,490 BREAKS LOOSE EVERY YEAR FROM THE GLACIERS OF GREENLAND. 233 00:13:59,735 --> 00:14:02,980 ONE OF THESE GIANT SHARDS HAS BEEN DRIFTING FOR A YEAR 234 00:14:03,014 --> 00:14:06,224 AND IS NOW ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH TITANIC. 235 00:14:10,711 --> 00:14:15,302 THE WORLD'S LARGEST SHIP HAS BARELY FOUR DAYS TO LIVE. 236 00:14:23,034 --> 00:14:27,418 THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1912. 237 00:14:27,452 --> 00:14:30,455 DAY TWO OF TITANIC'S MAIDEN VOYAGE. 238 00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:34,356 FIRST-CLASS PASSENGERS ARE ENJOYING THE SMOOTH RIDE 239 00:14:34,390 --> 00:14:36,910 IN THE DINING SALOON ON DECK D, 240 00:14:36,945 --> 00:14:39,568 THE MOST STABLE PART OF THE SHIP. 241 00:14:42,433 --> 00:14:44,918 FOR THEM AND THE REST OF THE PASSENGERS, 242 00:14:44,953 --> 00:14:47,817 THE SHIP'S LUXURIOUS FITTINGS ARE A PLEASANT DISTRACTION 243 00:14:47,852 --> 00:14:50,544 ON THEIR TRANSATLANTIC JOURNEY. 244 00:14:50,579 --> 00:14:51,821 Tim: FOR SOME PEOPLE, 245 00:14:51,856 --> 00:14:53,340 THEY WERE MAKING THE BIGGEST JOURNEY OF THEIR LIVES, 246 00:14:53,375 --> 00:14:55,549 AND THEY WOULD NEVER RETURN. 247 00:14:55,584 --> 00:14:57,793 BUT FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE IN FIRST CLASS, FOR EXAMPLE, 248 00:14:57,827 --> 00:15:01,141 BUSINESSPEOPLE, THEY MIGHT DO THIS JOURNEY ONCE A MONTH, 249 00:15:01,176 --> 00:15:02,902 FOR EXAMPLE, THEY WERE ALWAYS DOING IT, 250 00:15:02,936 --> 00:15:05,525 AND THEY DIDN'T EXPECT IT TO BE A TRIP INTO THE UNKNOWN. 251 00:15:05,559 --> 00:15:07,941 THEY EXPECTED TO ARRIVE ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, 252 00:15:07,976 --> 00:15:09,632 AND THAT WAS IT. 253 00:15:11,358 --> 00:15:14,258 Narrator: WHETHER THEY'RE TRAVELING FIRST CLASS OR THIRD, 254 00:15:14,292 --> 00:15:17,399 EVERYONE EXPECTS TITANIC WILL DELIVER THEM SAFELY TO NEW YORK 255 00:15:17,433 --> 00:15:20,022 IN SEVEN DAYS. 256 00:15:20,057 --> 00:15:23,267 Tim: BY 1912, THE STEAMSHIP COMPANIES HAD GOT TOGETHER 257 00:15:23,301 --> 00:15:24,854 AND ESTABLISHED EFFECTIVELY 258 00:15:24,889 --> 00:15:26,753 RAILWAY LINES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. 259 00:15:26,787 --> 00:15:29,100 AND THIS IS BECAUSE THE INTENSE COMPETITION OF PASSENGERS 260 00:15:29,135 --> 00:15:31,516 WANTING TO GET TO NEW YORK FASTER AND FASTER 261 00:15:31,551 --> 00:15:34,002 WERE CAUSING LINERS TO TAKE RISKS. 262 00:15:35,486 --> 00:15:38,144 Narrator: TO AVOID COLLISIONS, STEAMER TRAFFIC IS SEPARATED 263 00:15:38,178 --> 00:15:40,940 INTO EASTBOUND AND WESTBOUND ROUTES 264 00:15:40,974 --> 00:15:43,321 KNOWN AS STEAMER TRACKS. 265 00:15:47,947 --> 00:15:50,466 AS TITANIC STEAMS WEST, 266 00:15:50,501 --> 00:15:54,436 OTHER SHIPS ARE ALREADY RADIOING WARNINGS OF ICE AHEAD. 267 00:15:56,576 --> 00:15:59,268 CAPTAIN SMITH AND HIS OFFICERS ARE COUNTING ON LOOKOUTS 268 00:15:59,303 --> 00:16:03,721 IN THE CROW'S NEST TO GIVE THEM UP TO 30 MINUTES' WARNING. 269 00:16:03,755 --> 00:16:04,860 IN CLEAR WEATHER 270 00:16:04,894 --> 00:16:07,414 FROM THEIR POSITION 90 FEET ABOVE THE WAVES, 271 00:16:07,449 --> 00:16:09,934 THESE TWO CREWMEN CAN TYPICALLY SPOT AN ICEBERG 272 00:16:09,969 --> 00:16:12,488 AS FAR AWAY AS THE HORIZON. 273 00:16:14,111 --> 00:16:17,493 FOR NOW, THEY CAN SEE NOTHING AHEAD OF THEM. 274 00:16:21,359 --> 00:16:23,913 TODAY, THE MOVEMENT OF ICE IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC 275 00:16:23,948 --> 00:16:27,641 IS MONITORED IN NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT. 276 00:16:27,676 --> 00:16:30,748 TIM MALTIN IS HERE TO FIND OUT HOW. 277 00:16:32,163 --> 00:16:33,854 RUN BY THE U.S. COAST GUARD, 278 00:16:33,889 --> 00:16:35,753 THE INTERNATIONAL ICE PATROL WAS SET UP 279 00:16:35,787 --> 00:16:38,756 AS A DIRECT CONSEQUENCE OF THE TITANIC DISASTER 280 00:16:38,790 --> 00:16:41,552 BY THE LEADING MARITIME POWERS OF THE DAY. 281 00:16:43,623 --> 00:16:46,729 DURING ICE SEASON, GENERALLY FEBRUARY TILL JULY, 282 00:16:46,764 --> 00:16:48,835 IT USES SATELLITE AND RADAR TECHNOLOGY 283 00:16:48,869 --> 00:16:52,287 TO TRACK THE PROGRESS OF ICEBERGS HEADING SOUTH. 284 00:16:55,255 --> 00:16:58,672 DON MURPHY IS CHIEF OCEANOGRAPHER. 285 00:16:58,707 --> 00:16:59,915 Tim: SO, DON, 286 00:16:59,949 --> 00:17:02,021 ARE ICEBERGS STILL DANGEROUS TO SHIPS NOWADAYS? 287 00:17:02,055 --> 00:17:03,539 Don Murphy: ICEBERGS ARE DANGEROUS TO SHIPS 288 00:17:03,574 --> 00:17:05,852 EVEN IN THE MODERN WORLD. 289 00:17:05,886 --> 00:17:08,130 THE ICEBERGS IN THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC, 290 00:17:08,165 --> 00:17:10,236 THE ONES THAT ENTER THE SHIPPING LANES, 291 00:17:10,270 --> 00:17:14,447 COME PRIMARILY FROM THE WEST COAST OF GREENLAND... 292 00:17:19,452 --> 00:17:20,729 AND THEN DOWN THE COAST, 293 00:17:20,763 --> 00:17:25,699 AND EVENTUALLY ALONG THE COAST OF LABRADOR, 294 00:17:25,734 --> 00:17:27,460 AND THEN TOWARDS THE SHIPPING LANES, 295 00:17:27,494 --> 00:17:31,153 AND INTO THE AREA WHERE THEY BECOME A VERY SEVERE DANGER 296 00:17:31,188 --> 00:17:33,776 TO THE NORTH ATLANTIC MARINER. 297 00:17:35,606 --> 00:17:37,711 Narrator: THE FREEZING CURRENT THAT CARRIES THE ICEBERGS 298 00:17:37,746 --> 00:17:39,920 IS CALLED THE LABRADOR. 299 00:17:42,337 --> 00:17:44,408 ALTHOUGH NO ONE COULD KNOW IT AT THE TIME, 300 00:17:44,442 --> 00:17:48,239 1912 IS SHAPING UP TO BE AN UNUSUALLY BAD ICE YEAR 301 00:17:48,274 --> 00:17:49,896 AS TITANIC PREPARES TO CROSS 302 00:17:49,930 --> 00:17:52,105 FROM THE WARM WATERS OF THE GULF STREAM 303 00:17:52,140 --> 00:17:55,177 INTO THE FREEZING LABRADOR CURRENT. 304 00:17:55,212 --> 00:17:57,455 Don: OVER 1,000 ICEBERGS ENTERED 305 00:17:57,490 --> 00:18:01,010 THE NORTH ATLANTIC SHIPPING LANES DURING 1912. 306 00:18:01,045 --> 00:18:02,702 THE AVERAGE IS A LOT LESS THAN THAT-- 307 00:18:02,736 --> 00:18:04,566 AROUND 500 A YEAR IS THE AVERAGE. 308 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:07,258 SO IT WAS A VERY SEVERE ICEBERG YEAR. 309 00:18:09,502 --> 00:18:11,883 Narrator: TODAY, WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO WARN A SHIP 310 00:18:11,918 --> 00:18:15,473 OF THE EXACT LOCATIONS OF ICEBERGS IN ITS PATH. 311 00:18:18,856 --> 00:18:21,238 BUT IN 1912, SHIPS COULRELY ONLY 312 00:18:21,272 --> 00:18:23,688 ON THE POWER OF HUMAN EYESIGHT. 313 00:18:26,657 --> 00:18:29,418 APRIL 14th, 6:00 P.M. 314 00:18:29,453 --> 00:18:32,421 FOUR DAYS SINCE TITANIC LEFT SOUTHAMPTON, 315 00:18:32,456 --> 00:18:36,253 AND THREE DAYS SINCE SHE RECEIVED THE FIRST ICE WARNINGS. 316 00:18:37,702 --> 00:18:39,532 ALTHOUGH NO ONE SUSPECTS IT, 317 00:18:39,566 --> 00:18:41,982 TITANIC AND MOST OF THOSE ON BOARD 318 00:18:42,017 --> 00:18:44,157 HAVE JUST HOURS TO LIVE. 319 00:18:56,169 --> 00:18:59,068 BACK IN LONDON, TIM SEARCHES THE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS 320 00:18:59,103 --> 00:19:03,072 TO BUILD AN ACCURATE PICTURE OF THE CONDITIONS THAT NIGHT. 321 00:19:03,107 --> 00:19:06,593 Tim: FOR ME, THE FACTS ARE ABSOLUTELY KEY. 322 00:19:07,870 --> 00:19:10,287 THERE ARE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF BOOKS ON THE TITANIC, 323 00:19:10,321 --> 00:19:11,909 BUT THE ONLY ONES I'M INTERESTED IN 324 00:19:11,943 --> 00:19:14,118 ARE ONES THAT WERE WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE, 325 00:19:14,153 --> 00:19:16,465 OR ONES WHICH ARE THE TRANSCRIBED TESTIMONY 326 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:19,261 OF EYEWITNESSES. 327 00:19:19,296 --> 00:19:21,884 Narrator: 16-YEAR-OLD JEAN HIPPACH IS STRUCK 328 00:19:21,919 --> 00:19:24,404 BY HOW UNUSUAL THE NIGHT IS. 329 00:19:25,854 --> 00:19:28,236 Jean Hippach: THE SEA WAS SO VERY STILL, 330 00:19:28,270 --> 00:19:31,998 AND THE SKY, SO MANY STARS. 331 00:19:33,482 --> 00:19:36,278 I NEVER SAW SO MANY IN MY WHOLE LIFE. 332 00:19:37,969 --> 00:19:39,419 Narrator: SCIENTIST LAWRENCE BEESLEY 333 00:19:39,454 --> 00:19:43,182 ALSO NOTICES THE REMARKABLE CLARITY. 334 00:19:43,216 --> 00:19:46,461 Lawrence Beesley: EACH STAR SEEMED IN THE KEEN ATMOSPHERE 335 00:19:46,495 --> 00:19:49,533 TO HAVE INCREASED ITS BRILLIANCE TENFOLD, 336 00:19:49,567 --> 00:19:52,294 AND TO TWINKLE AND SPARKLE WITH A STACCATO FLASH 337 00:19:52,329 --> 00:19:55,539 THAT MADE THE SKY SEEM NOTHING BUT A SETTING 338 00:19:55,573 --> 00:19:58,335 MADE FOR THEM IN WHICH TO DISPLAY THEIR WONDER. 339 00:19:59,750 --> 00:20:00,958 Narrator: THE CREW IS MORE CONCERNED 340 00:20:00,992 --> 00:20:03,719 ABOUT THE PLUNGING TEMPERATURE. 341 00:20:03,754 --> 00:20:07,999 CHARLES LIGHTOLLER IS THE SECOND OFFICER OF TITANIC. 342 00:20:08,034 --> 00:20:10,209 Tim: LIGHTOLLER TALKS ABOUT IT DROPPING FOUR DEGREES 343 00:20:10,243 --> 00:20:12,521 IN THE HALF AN HOUR THAT HE WAS HAVING HIS TEA, 344 00:20:12,556 --> 00:20:13,936 AND THE CARPENTER THEN GOES 345 00:20:13,971 --> 00:20:15,766 TO STOP THE FRESH WATER FREEZING UP, 346 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,976 AND YET THEY'D BEEN SUNBATHING ON THE DECK JUST BEFORE. 347 00:20:20,564 --> 00:20:22,151 ALL OF THE SURVIVORS MENTION 348 00:20:22,186 --> 00:20:24,568 HOW SUDDEN THE DROP IN TEMPERATURE WAS, 349 00:20:24,602 --> 00:20:27,916 AND HOW EXTREME THE DROP IN TEMPERATURE WAS. 350 00:20:30,781 --> 00:20:34,336 Beesley: IT WAS JUST A KEEN, BITTER, ICY, MOTIONLESS COLD 351 00:20:34,371 --> 00:20:39,721 THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE, AND YET WAS THERE ALL THE TIME. 352 00:20:39,755 --> 00:20:41,101 THE STILLNESS OF IT-- 353 00:20:41,136 --> 00:20:45,899 IF ONE CAN IMAGINE "COLD" BEING MOTIONLESS AND STILL-- 354 00:20:45,934 --> 00:20:48,350 WAS WHAT SEEMED NEW AND STRANGE. 355 00:20:49,834 --> 00:20:52,803 Narrator: BEESLEY DESCRIBES THE NIGHT AS "STRANGE." 356 00:20:52,837 --> 00:20:57,014 AND IT IS, EVEN TO THE MOST EXPERIENCED CREW. 357 00:20:57,048 --> 00:20:59,534 YET, THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. 358 00:20:59,568 --> 00:21:02,295 THE CLARITY OF THE NIGHT, THE BRIGHT STARS-- 359 00:21:02,330 --> 00:21:06,230 ALL ARE PERFECT CONDITIONS FOR SPOTTING ICEBERGS. 360 00:21:06,265 --> 00:21:07,473 Tim: WHAT CAUGHT THEM OUT THAT NIGHT? 361 00:21:07,507 --> 00:21:10,683 WHAT SINGLE ELEMENT WAS THE REAL FUNDAMENTAL REASON 362 00:21:10,717 --> 00:21:12,650 WHY THOSE EXPERIENCED SAILORS 363 00:21:12,685 --> 00:21:15,860 RAMMED THIS BEAUTIFUL, LARGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD, 364 00:21:15,895 --> 00:21:18,000 PERFECTLY BUILT OVER SEVERAL YEARS, 365 00:21:18,035 --> 00:21:21,280 STRAIGHT INTO AN ICEBERG ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE? 366 00:21:22,384 --> 00:21:24,144 Narrator: IN LESS THAN SIX HOURS, 367 00:21:24,179 --> 00:21:27,355 THIS IS THE FATE THAT AWAITS TITANIC. 368 00:21:34,396 --> 00:21:38,504 SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1912. 369 00:21:38,538 --> 00:21:40,333 7:00 P.M. 370 00:21:41,472 --> 00:21:43,509 CAPTAIN EDWARD SMITH HAS CROSSED THE ATLANTIC 371 00:21:43,543 --> 00:21:46,408 MANY TIMES DURING ICE SEASON. 372 00:21:46,443 --> 00:21:49,377 HE SEES NO REASON YET TO BE ALARMED. 373 00:21:59,214 --> 00:22:01,941 TITANIC AUTHOR AND INVESTIGATOR TIM MALTIN 374 00:22:01,975 --> 00:22:03,322 TRAVELS TO NEWFOUNDLAND 375 00:22:03,356 --> 00:22:06,463 TO GET AS CLOSE TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME AS HE CAN. 376 00:22:10,018 --> 00:22:14,263 EVEN TODAY, THESE WATERS ARE TEEMING WITH DANGEROUS ICEBERGS. 377 00:22:19,407 --> 00:22:21,823 THE LOCAL CAPTAINS HERE ARE EXPERTS. 378 00:22:23,031 --> 00:22:24,550 THEY HAVE TO BE. 379 00:22:24,584 --> 00:22:27,346 THEIR LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATING 380 00:22:27,380 --> 00:22:31,453 AMONG ICY MONSTERS SOMETIMES 300 FEET TALL. 381 00:22:34,042 --> 00:22:36,734 Captain: WITH A TRAINED EYE, YOU CAN SEE THE WHITECAPS FORMING. 382 00:22:36,769 --> 00:22:39,565 HERE YOU SEE SOME AREAS OF CALM, AS WELL. 383 00:22:39,599 --> 00:22:40,600 THIS IS THE LABRADOR CURRENT 384 00:22:40,635 --> 00:22:41,981 THAT IS RUNNING RIGHT ALONG HERE. 385 00:22:42,015 --> 00:22:44,017 Tim: IS THAT WHY THE ICE IS SO NEAR THE SHORE HERE? 386 00:22:44,052 --> 00:22:44,846 Captain: EXACTLY. 387 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:45,985 IT'S THE DRIVING FORCE 388 00:22:46,019 --> 00:22:48,159 THAT BRINGS THESE ICEBERGS HERE, REALLY. 389 00:22:48,194 --> 00:22:49,575 SEVEN-EIGHTHS OF THE ICE IS UNDER WATER, 390 00:22:49,609 --> 00:22:51,853 SO THE MAIN SAIL IS UNDER WATER, REALLY. 391 00:22:51,887 --> 00:22:54,234 SO WHEN THAT CURRENT STRIKES THAT ICE UNDER WATER, 392 00:22:54,269 --> 00:22:55,684 IT'S GOING TO HAVE A DRAMATIC EFFECT 393 00:22:55,719 --> 00:22:57,997 ON THE MOVEMENT OF THESE ICEBERGS. 394 00:23:05,314 --> 00:23:07,351 Narrator: TODAY, EVEN WITH MODERN TECHNOLOGY 395 00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:08,732 AT THEIR DISPOSAL, 396 00:23:08,766 --> 00:23:11,355 SAILORS ARE STILL VERY WARY OF THE DANGER 397 00:23:11,390 --> 00:23:15,497 THAT CROSSING INTO THE ICY LABRADOR CURRENT CAN BRING... 398 00:23:15,532 --> 00:23:18,258 ESPECIALLY ONCE NIGHT FALLS. 399 00:23:21,020 --> 00:23:23,505 Captain: I CAN SEE IN THE NIGHTTIME, YOU KNOW, 400 00:23:23,540 --> 00:23:27,129 HOW A CAPTAIN COULD BE CONFUSED OR MESMERIZED, 401 00:23:27,164 --> 00:23:28,717 IS THE PROBABLY THE BEST WAY I WOULD DESCRIBE IT, REALLY, 402 00:23:28,752 --> 00:23:33,619 BECAUSE YOUR EYE CAN ONLY FOCUS ON SO MUCH AT A TIME. 403 00:23:33,653 --> 00:23:37,036 Tim: WHAT WOULD YOU FEEL LIKE IF WE WERE ON THIS BOAT, 404 00:23:37,070 --> 00:23:39,452 AND INSTEAD OF COMING INTO PORT, LIKE WE ARE NOW, 405 00:23:39,487 --> 00:23:41,005 WE WERE JUST IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ATLANTIC, 406 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,179 AND THERE WAS HUNDREDS OF ICEBERGS 407 00:23:42,213 --> 00:23:43,663 THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IN THE DARK. 408 00:23:43,698 --> 00:23:44,733 WHAT WOULD YOU THINK ABOUT THAT? 409 00:23:44,768 --> 00:23:46,873 Captain: I'D BE PRETTY NERVOUS, I MEAN, 410 00:23:46,908 --> 00:23:49,117 AS WE'RE STANDING HERE NOW, I'M LOOKING AT THE WATER, 411 00:23:49,151 --> 00:23:50,636 LOOKING FOR BERGY BITS. 412 00:23:50,670 --> 00:23:53,811 AND I KNOW WHAT THE DAMAGE THAT THESE ICEBERGS CAN DO. 413 00:23:53,846 --> 00:23:56,296 SO I WOULD BE QUITE FEARFUL, REALLY, 414 00:23:56,331 --> 00:23:57,677 TO BE QUITE HONEST WITH YOU. 415 00:23:57,712 --> 00:24:00,887 I'D MAKE SURE I'D HAVE A LOT OF EYES ON THE WATER... 416 00:24:00,922 --> 00:24:02,061 [BOTH LAUGH] 417 00:24:02,095 --> 00:24:04,719 ...TRYING TO AVOID IT, THAT'S FOR SURE. 418 00:24:10,863 --> 00:24:14,176 Narrator: APRIL 14, 8:30 P.M. 419 00:24:15,523 --> 00:24:18,664 VISIBILITY IS GOOD AND THE HORIZON IS CLEAR. 420 00:24:18,698 --> 00:24:20,907 NO ICEBERGS IN SIGHT. 421 00:24:23,669 --> 00:24:26,741 TITANIC IS NOW STEAMING AT OVER 22 KNOTS, 422 00:24:26,775 --> 00:24:30,330 ROUGHLY 25 MILES AN HOUR. 423 00:24:30,365 --> 00:24:32,850 SHE IS ALMOST AT TOP SPEED. 424 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,992 Tim: ONE OF THE MOST COMMON EXPLANATIONS THAT PEOPLE GIVE 425 00:24:37,027 --> 00:24:38,822 FOR THE CAUSE OF THE TITANIC DISASTER 426 00:24:38,856 --> 00:24:41,134 IS THAT SHE WAS GOING TOO FAST. 427 00:24:41,169 --> 00:24:42,929 AND YET, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE, 428 00:24:42,964 --> 00:24:46,415 WHAT YOU SEE IS THAT CAPTAIN AFTER CAPTAIN TESTIFIES 429 00:24:46,450 --> 00:24:48,797 TO HAVING EXPERIENCED IT TO BE TOTALLY SAFE 430 00:24:48,832 --> 00:24:52,456 TO KEEP TO FULL SPEED IN ICE IN CLEAR WEATHER. 431 00:24:53,837 --> 00:24:55,010 Narrator: ANOTHER LEGEND HAS IT 432 00:24:55,045 --> 00:24:58,013 THAT CAPTAIN SMITH IS DRUNK ON DUTY. 433 00:24:58,048 --> 00:25:01,154 BUT HE NEVER DRANK AT SEA. 434 00:25:01,189 --> 00:25:03,536 HE'S IN COMMAND OF TITANIC BECAUSE HE'S CONSIDERED 435 00:25:03,571 --> 00:25:06,608 ONE OF THE WHITE STAR'S FINEST CAPTAINS. 436 00:25:06,643 --> 00:25:08,990 TITANIC IS THE FOURTH LARGE OCEAN LINER 437 00:25:09,024 --> 00:25:11,958 HE'S TAKEN ON ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE. 438 00:25:11,993 --> 00:25:14,064 Tim: THAT NIGHT, THE WEATHER WAS COMPLETELY CLEAR. 439 00:25:14,098 --> 00:25:15,721 SO CAPTAIN SMITH WAS DOING ONLY 440 00:25:15,755 --> 00:25:17,516 WHAT ALL THE OTHER CAPTAINS WOULD HAVE BEEN DOING, 441 00:25:17,550 --> 00:25:19,759 WHICH IS KEEPING A SHARP LOOKOUT. 442 00:25:22,728 --> 00:25:24,626 Narrator: THE ENTIRE SAFETY OF TITANIC 443 00:25:24,661 --> 00:25:29,424 NOW DEPENDS ON THE SHARP EYES OF THE LOOKOUTS ALOFT, 444 00:25:29,458 --> 00:25:32,910 FREDERICK FLEET AND REGINALD LEE. 445 00:25:32,945 --> 00:25:35,499 Tim: ANOTHER THING THAT'S BEEN BLAMED FOR THE TITANIC DISASTER 446 00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:37,397 IS THAT THE LOOKOUTS DIDN'T HAVE BINOCULARS. 447 00:25:37,432 --> 00:25:38,847 AND IT IS TRUE THAT BINOCULARS 448 00:25:38,882 --> 00:25:40,573 WERE SCHEDULED TO BE IN THE CROW'S NEST, 449 00:25:40,608 --> 00:25:43,645 BUT THEY WEREN'T IN IT FOR THAT JOURNEY. 450 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,992 HOWEVER, HAVING READ ALL OF THE INQUIRIES 451 00:25:46,027 --> 00:25:47,269 AND LISTENING TO TESTIMONY 452 00:25:47,304 --> 00:25:50,445 FROM THE CAPTAINS OF ALL THE MAJOR TRANSATLANTIC LINERS, 453 00:25:50,479 --> 00:25:53,517 WHAT I KNOW IS THAT THE BEST WAY OF SPOTTING ICE AT NIGHT 454 00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:55,795 IS WITH THE NAKED EYE. 455 00:25:55,830 --> 00:25:58,453 BINOCULARS ARE, IN FACT, FOR INSPECTION OF AN OBJECT 456 00:25:58,487 --> 00:26:00,282 AND NOT FOR DETECTION OF AN OBJECT. 457 00:26:00,317 --> 00:26:02,664 AND THE LAST THING THE OFFICER ON THE TITANIC WANTED 458 00:26:02,699 --> 00:26:04,563 WAS THE LOOKOUTS MESSING AROUND WITH BINOCULARS 459 00:26:04,597 --> 00:26:08,014 TRYING TO VERIFY WHAT THEY WERE SEEING. 460 00:26:08,049 --> 00:26:10,223 Narrator: ON TITANIC, A LOOKOUT'S SOLE JOB 461 00:26:10,258 --> 00:26:12,674 IS SEARCHING FOR POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS OBJECTS 462 00:26:12,709 --> 00:26:14,849 IN THE SHIP'S PATH. 463 00:26:14,883 --> 00:26:16,126 IN GOOD VISIBILITY, 464 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,473 THE NAKED EYE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SPOT AN ICEBERG 465 00:26:18,507 --> 00:26:22,408 UP TO 12 MILES AWAY AND GIVE THE BRIDGE A 30-MINUTE WARNING 466 00:26:22,442 --> 00:26:25,549 WHEN TRAVELING AT FULL SPEED. 467 00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:26,654 Tim: WHAT THEY WANTED WAS 468 00:26:26,688 --> 00:26:28,897 A QUICK THREE SHARP RINGS OF THE BELL, 469 00:26:28,932 --> 00:26:31,762 WHICH MEANS AN OBJECT DEAD AHEAD. 470 00:26:33,626 --> 00:26:36,008 Narrator: IT'S NOW 9:00 P.M. 471 00:26:36,042 --> 00:26:38,044 FOR SOME OF TITANIC'S PASSENGERS, 472 00:26:38,079 --> 00:26:40,288 THE NIGHT IS STILL YOUNG. 473 00:26:44,672 --> 00:26:47,606 FOR OTHERS, LIKE SCHOOL TEACHER LAWRENCE BEESLEY, 474 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,436 IT'S TIME TO TURN IN. 475 00:26:50,470 --> 00:26:52,265 HE'S IN HIS CABIN ON D DECK, 476 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:55,096 RETURNED FROM THE SECOND-CLASS READING ROOM. 477 00:26:58,340 --> 00:27:00,032 Beesley: THE QUIETNESS OF THE NIGHT WAS BROKEN 478 00:27:00,066 --> 00:27:01,930 ONLY BY THE MUFFLED SOUNDS 479 00:27:01,965 --> 00:27:03,932 THAT CAME TO ME THROUGH THE VENTILATORS 480 00:27:03,967 --> 00:27:08,834 OF STEWARDS TALKING AND MOVING ALONG THE CORRIDORS. 481 00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:14,494 NEARLY ALL OF THE PASSENGERS WERE IN THEIR CABINS, 482 00:27:14,529 --> 00:27:18,982 SOME ASLEEP IN BED, OTHERS UNDRESSING, 483 00:27:19,016 --> 00:27:21,191 AND OTHERS ONLY JUST DOWN FROM THE SMOKING ROOM 484 00:27:21,225 --> 00:27:23,952 AND STILL DISCUSSING MANY THINGS. 485 00:27:26,990 --> 00:27:28,474 Narrator: UP ON THE BRIDGE, 486 00:27:28,508 --> 00:27:32,202 THE NIGHT WATCH IS ABOUT TO STEP UP THEIR VIGILANCE A NOTCH. 487 00:27:32,236 --> 00:27:33,755 [MORSE CODE BEEPING] 488 00:27:33,790 --> 00:27:37,483 THE CALIFORNIAN, A SMALLER, 450-FOOT STEAMER, 489 00:27:37,517 --> 00:27:39,485 HAS PASSED THREE LARGE ICEBERGS 490 00:27:39,519 --> 00:27:41,970 AND RADIOED A WARNING TO ALL SHIPS. 491 00:27:42,005 --> 00:27:44,524 TITANIC ACKNOWLEDGES THE MESSAGE. 492 00:27:45,940 --> 00:27:47,527 AT ABOUT 10:30 P.M., 493 00:27:47,562 --> 00:27:51,186 THE CALIFORNIAN FINDS HERSELF BLOCKED BY A HUGE ICE BARRIER, 494 00:27:51,221 --> 00:27:54,914 ALMOST 30 MILES LONG AND THREE MILES WIDE. 495 00:27:59,125 --> 00:28:02,750 THE CALIFORNIAN IS CAPTAINED BY STANLEY LORD. 496 00:28:04,027 --> 00:28:05,891 HE'S ONE OF THE YOUNGEST AND BEST CAPTAINS 497 00:28:05,925 --> 00:28:07,962 ON THE NORTH ATLANTIC, 498 00:28:07,996 --> 00:28:11,413 AND HE'S ABOUT TO BEGIN THE WORST NIGHT OF HIS LIFE. 499 00:28:14,244 --> 00:28:16,315 AS SOON AS HE STOPS AT THE ICE BARRIER, 500 00:28:16,349 --> 00:28:19,490 HE NOTICES WHAT LOOKS LIKE A SHIP APPROACHING. 501 00:28:22,493 --> 00:28:24,772 Stanley Lord: WHEN I CAME OFF THE BRIDGE AT HALF PAST 10:00, 502 00:28:24,806 --> 00:28:26,152 I POINTED OUT TO THE OFFICER 503 00:28:26,187 --> 00:28:28,810 THAT I THOUGHT I SAW A LIGHT COMING ALONG. 504 00:28:33,401 --> 00:28:35,368 HE SAID HE THOUGHT IT WAS A STAR, 505 00:28:35,403 --> 00:28:37,992 AND I SAID "THERE IS A STEAMER PASSING. 506 00:28:38,026 --> 00:28:40,822 LET US GO TO THE WIRELESS AND SEE WHAT THE NEWS IS." 507 00:28:40,857 --> 00:28:43,376 BUT I MET THE OPERATOR COMING, 508 00:28:43,411 --> 00:28:45,862 AND I SAID, "DO YOU KNOW OF ANYTHING AROUND?" 509 00:28:45,896 --> 00:28:47,311 HE SAID, "ONLY THE TITANIC." 510 00:28:47,346 --> 00:28:51,246 AND I SAID, "TO ME, IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THE TITANIC, 511 00:28:51,281 --> 00:28:53,421 THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT." 512 00:28:57,252 --> 00:28:59,738 Narrator: LORD IS CONVINCED HE'S LOOKING AT AN OLDER STEAMER 513 00:28:59,772 --> 00:29:01,291 WHICH HAS NO RADIO. 514 00:29:01,325 --> 00:29:03,362 [MORSE CODE BEEPING] 515 00:29:06,814 --> 00:29:10,058 HE TELLS HIS RADIO OPERATOR TO PUT IN ANOTHER CALL TO TITANIC, 516 00:29:10,093 --> 00:29:12,336 WHICH MUST BE ELSEWHERE. 517 00:29:15,684 --> 00:29:19,654 BUT ON THE TITANIC, THE OPERATOR IS UNDER PRESSURE. 518 00:29:19,688 --> 00:29:21,242 THE SHIP HAS JUST MOVED WITHIN RANGE 519 00:29:21,276 --> 00:29:23,623 TO SEND TELEGRAMS TO THE UNITED STATES, 520 00:29:23,658 --> 00:29:27,041 AND THERE'S A HUGE BACKLOG OF MESSAGES. 521 00:29:27,075 --> 00:29:28,801 IN ORDER TO HEAR THE DISTANT SIGNAL, 522 00:29:28,836 --> 00:29:32,598 JACK PHILLIPS HAS TURNED HIS HEADPHONES UP TO FULL VOLUME. 523 00:29:36,533 --> 00:29:40,675 AT 10:55, THE CALIFORNIAN'S RADIO OPERATOR, CYRIL EVANS, 524 00:29:40,709 --> 00:29:43,540 TYPES OUT CAPTAIN LORD'S NEW ICE WARNING. 525 00:29:44,921 --> 00:29:46,819 BUT FOR SOME REASON, HE BEGINS THE MESSAGE 526 00:29:46,854 --> 00:29:50,858 AS IF IT'S AN INFORMAL CHAT BETWEEN RADIO OPERATORS. 527 00:29:50,892 --> 00:29:54,723 AND HE HAS NO IDEA HOW CLOSE TITANIC IS. 528 00:29:57,519 --> 00:30:00,384 HIS EARS RINGING, TITANIC'S PHILLIPS HAS NO PATIENCE 529 00:30:00,419 --> 00:30:02,352 FOR WHAT SOUNDS LIKE CHITCHAT. 530 00:30:06,770 --> 00:30:09,738 EVANS DOESN'T TRY TO REPEAT THE WARNING. 531 00:30:11,395 --> 00:30:15,572 HE'S THE ONLY RADIO OPERATOR ON THE CALIFORNIAN, 532 00:30:15,606 --> 00:30:18,333 AND SOON HIS 16-HOUR SHIFT IS UP. 533 00:30:21,578 --> 00:30:24,581 TITANIC IS NOW CUT OFF FROM THE NEAREST SHIP, 534 00:30:24,615 --> 00:30:27,032 PERHAPS JUST 10 MILES AWAY. 535 00:30:28,792 --> 00:30:30,380 WITH HIS HASTY BRUSH-OFF, 536 00:30:30,414 --> 00:30:33,762 RADIO OPERATOR JACK PHILLIPS HAS JUST PLACED HIS SHIP 537 00:30:33,797 --> 00:30:35,868 IN DIRE JEOPARDY. 538 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,360 IN HIS MIND, AUTHOR TIM MALTIN HAS REPLAYED THIS MOMENT 539 00:30:45,395 --> 00:30:47,155 COUNTLESS TIMES. 540 00:30:48,536 --> 00:30:51,539 BUT STILL, THE LOGIC OF IT ESCAPES HIM. 541 00:30:55,232 --> 00:30:59,305 SUNDAY, APRIL 14th, 11:30 P.M. 542 00:30:59,340 --> 00:31:03,309 DAY FIVE OF TITANIC'S MAIDEN VOYAGE. 543 00:31:03,344 --> 00:31:05,346 THE WORLD'S LARGEST SHIP IS STEAMING THROUGH 544 00:31:05,380 --> 00:31:07,658 A MASSIVE ICE FIELD IN THE DARKNESS, 545 00:31:07,693 --> 00:31:09,315 CONFIDENT HER LOOKOUTS CAN PROVIDE 546 00:31:09,350 --> 00:31:12,801 AT LEAST 30 MINUTES' WARNING OF ANY DANGER. 547 00:31:16,426 --> 00:31:20,568 10 MINUTES LATER, THAT CONFIDENCE PROVES FATAL. 548 00:31:20,602 --> 00:31:22,708 Reginald Lee: ICE AHEAD! 549 00:31:22,742 --> 00:31:24,503 [BELL RINGS] 550 00:31:24,537 --> 00:31:27,368 Frederick Fleet: ICE AHEAD, ICE AHEAD. 551 00:31:27,402 --> 00:31:30,336 Narrator: THE ICEBERG ISN'T 30 MINUTES AWAY... 552 00:31:30,371 --> 00:31:33,581 MORE LIKE 30 SECONDS. 553 00:31:33,615 --> 00:31:35,894 [BELL RINGING, YELLING] 554 00:31:40,105 --> 00:31:42,970 ON THE BRIDGE, THE CREW REACTS IMMEDIATELY. 555 00:31:43,004 --> 00:31:46,318 THEY THROW THE ENGINES INTO REVERSE AND TURN THE WHEEL. 556 00:31:49,562 --> 00:31:52,289 DESPITE ITS SIZE, THE TITANIC IS HIGHLY MANEUVERABLE. 557 00:31:52,324 --> 00:31:53,946 Lee: HARD OVER STARBOARD. 558 00:31:53,981 --> 00:31:56,466 Narrator: INSTEAD OF SLAMMING STRAIGHT INTO THE ICEBERG, 559 00:31:56,500 --> 00:31:59,918 SHE MANAGES TO BEGIN TURNING AWAY... 560 00:31:59,952 --> 00:32:02,127 BUT NOT FAST ENOUGH. 561 00:32:15,381 --> 00:32:18,384 BELOW THE WATER LINE, THE ICE RIPS INTO HER HULL, 562 00:32:18,419 --> 00:32:22,457 OPENING UP A 300-FOOT SEAM IN THE ONE-INCH STEEL PLATES. 563 00:32:28,187 --> 00:32:31,052 ONE SOURCE OF THE MYTH THAT TITANIC WAS POORLY BUILT 564 00:32:31,087 --> 00:32:33,399 STEMS FROM THE MASSIVE DAMAGE SHE SUSTAINS 565 00:32:33,434 --> 00:32:36,299 IN A MATTER OF SECONDS. 566 00:32:36,333 --> 00:32:38,922 Tim: THE DAMAGE THAT WAS CAUSED BY THE ICEBERG TO TITANIC 567 00:32:38,957 --> 00:32:41,545 WAS EQUAL TO A MILLION FOOT-TONS A SECOND, 568 00:32:41,580 --> 00:32:43,409 AND THAT'S LIKE AN EXPLOSION. 569 00:32:43,444 --> 00:32:46,102 AND BASICALLY, EVEN A MODERN BATTLESHIP WOULD HAVE BEEN SUNK 570 00:32:46,136 --> 00:32:48,104 BY THAT SORT OF IMPACT. 571 00:32:50,761 --> 00:32:52,349 Narrator: BUT THE SHIP IS SO LARGE, 572 00:32:52,384 --> 00:32:55,904 MANY PASSENGERS HAVE LITTLE IDEA OF WHAT IS HAPPENING. 573 00:33:04,051 --> 00:33:08,676 LAWRENCE BEESLEY IS ON DECK D NEAR THE CENTER OF THE SHIP. 574 00:33:08,710 --> 00:33:11,092 Beesley: THERE CAME TO ME WHAT SEEMED NOTHING MORE 575 00:33:11,127 --> 00:33:14,578 THAN AN EXTRA HEAVE OF THE ENGINES. 576 00:33:14,613 --> 00:33:17,961 NOTHING ELSE-- NO SENSE OF SHOCK, 577 00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:22,207 NO JAR THAT FELT LIKE ONE HEAVY BODY MEETING ANOTHER. 578 00:33:25,210 --> 00:33:26,452 THE THOUGHT CAME TO ME THAT 579 00:33:26,487 --> 00:33:29,421 THEY MUST STILL HAVE FURTHER INCREASED THE SPEED. 580 00:33:35,979 --> 00:33:38,844 AND ALL THIS TIME, THE TITANIC WAS BEING CUT OPEN 581 00:33:38,878 --> 00:33:42,606 BY THE ICEBERG AND WATER POURING IN HER SIDE. 582 00:33:42,641 --> 00:33:45,230 AND YET NO EVIDENCE THAT WOULD INDICATE SUCH A DISASTER 583 00:33:45,264 --> 00:33:47,784 HAD BEEN PRESENTED TO US. 584 00:33:53,755 --> 00:33:55,102 Narrator: NEAR THE STERN, 585 00:33:55,136 --> 00:33:59,796 QUARTERMASTER THOMAS ROWE IS UNAWARE THAT ANYTHING IS WRONG. 586 00:33:59,830 --> 00:34:02,833 HE'S MESMERIZED BY THE NEW ELECTRIC LIGHTS, 587 00:34:02,868 --> 00:34:05,974 AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE FLICKERING OIL LAMPS OF OLD. 588 00:34:07,183 --> 00:34:09,185 THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY BIZARRE HALOES 589 00:34:09,219 --> 00:34:12,050 CAUSED BY ICE CRYSTALS IN THE AIR. 590 00:34:12,084 --> 00:34:15,950 ROWE CALLS THEM "WHISKERS ROUND THE LIGHTS." 591 00:34:15,984 --> 00:34:17,503 Thomas Rowe: I GLANCED FORWARD. 592 00:34:17,538 --> 00:34:19,160 A WINDJAMMER, SAILS SET, 593 00:34:19,195 --> 00:34:22,267 SEEMED TO BE PASSING ON THE STARBOARD SIDE. 594 00:34:24,062 --> 00:34:26,167 THEN I REALIZED IT WAS AN ICEBERG, 595 00:34:26,202 --> 00:34:29,067 TOWERING PERHAPS 100 FEET ABOVE THE WATER. 596 00:34:31,034 --> 00:34:35,245 THE NEXT INSTANT IT WAS GONE, DRIFTING ASTERN INTO THE DARK. 597 00:34:40,733 --> 00:34:42,666 Narrator: 30 SECONDS AFTER IMPACT, 598 00:34:42,701 --> 00:34:46,014 THE WATERTIGHT DOORS SEPARATING TITANIC'S MAIN COMPARTMENTS 599 00:34:46,049 --> 00:34:48,672 ARE CLOSED. 600 00:34:48,707 --> 00:34:51,951 BUT THEY CAN ONLY DELAY THE INEVITABLE. 601 00:34:51,986 --> 00:34:54,126 THE SHIP TOUTED TO BE "UNSINKABLE" 602 00:34:54,161 --> 00:34:56,818 IS NOW FATALLY WOUNDED. 603 00:34:56,853 --> 00:34:58,441 Tim: I THINK MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE 604 00:34:58,475 --> 00:35:00,719 THAT IT WAS PURELY P.R. AND ADVERTISING 605 00:35:00,753 --> 00:35:02,134 ON BEHALF OF THE WHITE STAR LINE 606 00:35:02,169 --> 00:35:05,827 THAT THEY CLAIMED THAT TITANIC WAS UNSINKABLE. 607 00:35:05,862 --> 00:35:08,451 BUT, ACTUALLY, WHAT WE GET FROM READING ALL THE EVIDENCE 608 00:35:08,485 --> 00:35:10,384 IS THAT HER BUILDER, THOMAS ANDREWS, 609 00:35:10,418 --> 00:35:12,524 ACTUALLY BELIEVED SHE WAS UNSINKABLE, 610 00:35:12,558 --> 00:35:14,974 AND EVEN CAPTAIN SMITH ON THE SUNDAY NIGHT 611 00:35:15,009 --> 00:35:17,460 WAS EXPLAINING TO HIS DINNER GUESTS ON TITANIC 612 00:35:17,494 --> 00:35:20,428 HOW SHE COULD BE CUT CROSSWISE INTO THREE PIECES, 613 00:35:20,463 --> 00:35:23,638 AND EACH SEPARATE PIECE WOULD FLOAT. 614 00:35:23,673 --> 00:35:26,503 Narrator: WITH 16 WATERTIGHT COMPARTMENTS, 615 00:35:26,538 --> 00:35:28,160 TITANIC IS BUILT TO STAY AFLOAT 616 00:35:28,195 --> 00:35:31,888 UNDER VIRTUALLY EVERY ACCIDENT SCENARIO. 617 00:35:31,922 --> 00:35:33,614 THE WORST THE DESIGNERS COULD IMAGINE 618 00:35:33,648 --> 00:35:36,927 WAS A COLLISION FLOODING TWO COMPARTMENTS. 619 00:35:36,962 --> 00:35:38,929 EVEN IF HER FIRST FOUR HAD BEEN FLOODED, 620 00:35:38,964 --> 00:35:41,104 SHE WOULD HAVE STAYED AFLOAT. 621 00:35:41,139 --> 00:35:42,105 Tim: BUT WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT 622 00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:44,038 WAS A FREAK SIDESWIPE DISASTER 623 00:35:44,072 --> 00:35:46,489 WHICH TOOK OUT SIX WATERTIGHT COMPARTMENTS. 624 00:35:46,523 --> 00:35:48,284 AND THAT KIND OF SIDESWIPE DISASTER 625 00:35:48,318 --> 00:35:50,078 HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE OR SINCE 626 00:35:50,113 --> 00:35:52,288 IN RECORDED MARITIME HISTORY. 627 00:35:54,048 --> 00:35:56,913 Narrator: IRONICALLY, IF TITANIC HAD HIT THE ICEBERG HEAD-ON, 628 00:35:56,947 --> 00:35:58,777 IT WOULD HAVE SURVIVED. 629 00:35:58,811 --> 00:36:00,744 BUT THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ICEBERG 630 00:36:00,779 --> 00:36:03,299 WAS LITERALLY UNIMAGINABLE. 631 00:36:05,887 --> 00:36:07,717 SIX MINUTES AFTER THE IMPACT, 632 00:36:07,751 --> 00:36:10,133 THE EVER-OBSERVANT LAWRENCE BEESLEY REALIZES 633 00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:12,239 THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG. 634 00:36:15,380 --> 00:36:18,210 Beesley: AND SO WITH NO THOUGHT OF ANYTHING SERIOUS 635 00:36:18,245 --> 00:36:20,316 HAVING HAPPENED TO THE SHIP, 636 00:36:20,350 --> 00:36:22,939 I CONTINUED MY READING. 637 00:36:22,973 --> 00:36:25,562 AND STILL THE MURMUR FROM THE STEWARDS 638 00:36:25,597 --> 00:36:29,980 AND FROM ADJOINING CABINS, AND NO OTHER NOISE. 639 00:36:30,015 --> 00:36:34,951 NO CRY IN THE NIGHT, NO ALARM GIVEN, 640 00:36:34,985 --> 00:36:36,884 NO ONE AFRAID. 641 00:36:41,578 --> 00:36:42,959 BUT IN A FEW MOMENTS, 642 00:36:42,993 --> 00:36:46,997 I FELT THE DANCING MOTION AND VIBRATION CEASE SUDDENLY. 643 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,039 THE ENGINES, 644 00:36:54,073 --> 00:36:57,284 THAT PART OF THE SHIP THAT DROVE US THROUGH THE SEA, 645 00:36:57,318 --> 00:36:59,286 HAD STOPPED DEAD. 646 00:37:07,501 --> 00:37:09,261 Narrator: BEESLEY MAKES HIS WAY TO THE UPPER DECKS 647 00:37:09,296 --> 00:37:11,021 TO FIND OUT MORE. 648 00:37:12,782 --> 00:37:15,440 DOWN BELOW, THE SHIP'S DESIGNER IS WORKING FEVERISHLY 649 00:37:15,474 --> 00:37:17,890 TO ASSESS THE DAMAGE. 650 00:37:17,925 --> 00:37:21,722 HE DELIVERS HIS TERRIBLE CALCULATION-- 651 00:37:21,756 --> 00:37:25,277 TITANIC HAS LESS THAN TWO HOURS TO LIVE. 652 00:37:25,312 --> 00:37:27,245 [YELLING] 653 00:37:28,936 --> 00:37:30,386 30 MINUTES AFTER IMPACT, 654 00:37:30,420 --> 00:37:33,768 CAPTAIN SMITH GIVES ORDERS TO SEND OUT A RADIO DISTRESS SIGNAL 655 00:37:33,803 --> 00:37:36,944 AND BEGIN LOADING THE LIFEBOATS WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 656 00:37:39,153 --> 00:37:41,569 MEANWHILE, COLONEL GRACIE HAS MADE HIS WAY 657 00:37:41,604 --> 00:37:43,157 UP TO THE BOAT DECK, 658 00:37:43,191 --> 00:37:46,160 WHERE SOMETHING ON THE HORIZON CATCHES HIS EYE. 659 00:37:47,472 --> 00:37:49,163 Gracie: TO REASSURE THE LADIES 660 00:37:49,197 --> 00:37:52,304 OF WHOM I HAD ASSUMED SPECIAL CHARGE, 661 00:37:52,339 --> 00:37:55,169 I SHOWED THEM A BRIGHT, WHITE LIGHT 662 00:37:55,203 --> 00:37:58,310 THAT I TOOK TO BE A SHIP ABOUT FIVE MILES OFF, 663 00:37:58,345 --> 00:38:02,038 AND WHICH I FELT SURE WAS COMING TO OUR RESCUE. 664 00:38:07,457 --> 00:38:09,045 Narrator: CAPTAIN SMITH ORDERS AN ATTEMPT 665 00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:12,393 TO SIGNAL THE SAME DISTANT LIGHT. 666 00:38:15,327 --> 00:38:16,777 Tim: WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IS THAT, 667 00:38:16,811 --> 00:38:18,572 WITHIN SIGHT OF THE SINKING TITANIC, 668 00:38:18,606 --> 00:38:21,022 WAS A LIGHT OF ANOTHER VESSEL WHICH COULD CLEARLY BE SEEN 669 00:38:21,057 --> 00:38:23,887 BY HUNDREDS OF HER PASSENGERS ON THE DECKS. 670 00:38:26,925 --> 00:38:30,066 Gracie: BUT, INSTEAD OF GROWING BRIGHTER, 671 00:38:30,100 --> 00:38:33,932 THE LIGHT GREW DIM AND LESS AND LESS AND DISTINCT, 672 00:38:33,966 --> 00:38:36,244 AND PASSED AWAY ALTOGETHER. 673 00:38:39,075 --> 00:38:42,458 Narrator: IT WILL BECOME KNOWN AS THE MYSTERY SHIP. 674 00:38:42,492 --> 00:38:44,322 [YELLING] 675 00:38:46,462 --> 00:38:49,188 TITANIC IS LEFT ALL ALONE. 676 00:38:52,122 --> 00:38:54,366 A COMMON BELIEF IS THAT SHE SIMPLY DOESN'T HAVE 677 00:38:54,401 --> 00:38:58,163 ENOUGH LIFEBOATS FOR ALL HER PASSENGERS AND CREW. 678 00:38:58,197 --> 00:39:00,993 THE TRUTH IS MORE COMPLICATED. 679 00:39:01,028 --> 00:39:03,099 Tim: IN 1912, THE BOARD OF TRADE 680 00:39:03,133 --> 00:39:06,344 WAS TRYING TO MAKE SHIPS BECOME WATERTIGHT 681 00:39:06,378 --> 00:39:08,518 AND BECOME LIFEBOATS IN THEMSELVES. 682 00:39:08,553 --> 00:39:11,176 AND THE BOARD OF TRADE ACTUALLY REWARDED YOU 683 00:39:11,210 --> 00:39:13,212 WITH HAVING TO CARRY LESS LIFEBOATS 684 00:39:13,247 --> 00:39:15,767 IF YOUR SHIP WAS PROPERLY SUBDIVIDED. 685 00:39:18,597 --> 00:39:21,428 THEY BELIEVED THAT THE BEST WAY TO SAVE LIFE AT SEA 686 00:39:21,462 --> 00:39:23,775 WAS PREVENTING SHIPS FROM SINKING IN THE FIRST PLACE, 687 00:39:23,809 --> 00:39:26,916 NOT HAVING DANGEROUS SHIPS WITH LOTS OF LIFEBOATS ON THEM. 688 00:39:26,950 --> 00:39:29,194 [YELLING] 689 00:39:32,404 --> 00:39:34,199 Narrator: OVER THE NEXT ONE AND A HALF HOURS, 690 00:39:34,233 --> 00:39:35,959 18 LIFEBOATS AND RAFTS ARE LOWERED 691 00:39:35,994 --> 00:39:38,376 DOWN THE SIDE OF TITANIC. 692 00:39:40,205 --> 00:39:44,002 ONLY 700 PASSENGERS AND CREW EVENTUALLY BOARD THEM, 693 00:39:44,036 --> 00:39:47,971 ALTHOUGH THERE'S ROOM FOR AT LEAST 400 MORE. 694 00:39:48,006 --> 00:39:49,559 Tim: BECAUSE EVERYONE ON THE TITANIC, 695 00:39:49,594 --> 00:39:50,802 INCLUDING THE PASSENGERS, 696 00:39:50,836 --> 00:39:52,700 REALLY BELIEVED THAT SHE WAS UNSINKABLE, 697 00:39:52,735 --> 00:39:55,254 THERE WAS A HUGE RELUCTANCE TO GET INTO THE LIFEBOATS, 698 00:39:55,289 --> 00:39:58,706 BECAUSE THE TITANIC SEEMED TO BE A MUCH SAFER BET 699 00:39:58,741 --> 00:40:00,398 ON A DARK NIGHT IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC 700 00:40:00,432 --> 00:40:02,227 THAN A TINY, LITTLE ROWING BOAT. 701 00:40:02,261 --> 00:40:05,126 AND IN FACT, THE FIRST TWO LIFEBOATS TO BE LAUNCHED 702 00:40:05,161 --> 00:40:08,164 WERE FILLED EQUALLY WITH MEN AND WOMEN, 703 00:40:08,198 --> 00:40:09,545 AND THIS IS BECAUSE NO WOMEN 704 00:40:09,579 --> 00:40:11,132 WOULD GO INTO THE FIRST TWO LIFEBOATS 705 00:40:11,167 --> 00:40:12,617 WITHOUT MEN BEING WITH THEM. 706 00:40:12,651 --> 00:40:16,828 AND IT WAS ACTUALLY AN ACT OF HEROISM FOR MEN TO TAKE THE LEAD 707 00:40:16,862 --> 00:40:19,934 AND GO IN WITH THEIR WIVES INTO THE LIFEBOATS. 708 00:40:21,522 --> 00:40:24,422 Narrator: WITH NO MORE WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO FILL BOAT 13, 709 00:40:24,456 --> 00:40:28,080 LAWRENCE BEESLEY IS ORDERED TO JUMP IN. 710 00:40:28,115 --> 00:40:32,326 LOOKING UP, HE IS APPALLED BY WHAT HE SEES. 711 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,708 Beesley: AS THE OARSMEN PULLED SLOWLY AWAY, 712 00:40:34,742 --> 00:40:38,056 WE ALL TURNED AND TOOK A LONG LOOK AT THE MIGHTY VESSEL 713 00:40:38,090 --> 00:40:41,231 TOWERING HIGH ABOVE OUR MIDGET BOAT. 714 00:40:47,168 --> 00:40:50,068 I KNOW IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY SIGHT 715 00:40:50,102 --> 00:40:53,071 THAT I SHALL EVER BE CALLED UPON TO WITNESS. 716 00:41:00,561 --> 00:41:01,873 Narrator: ON THE GIANT TITANIC, 717 00:41:01,907 --> 00:41:05,532 MORE THAN 1,500 PEOPLE ARE LEFT STRANDED. 718 00:41:09,294 --> 00:41:13,471 COLONEL GRACIE MANAGES TO MAKE HIS WAY TO THE REAR DECK. 719 00:41:13,505 --> 00:41:17,302 Gracie: AHEAD OF US WAS A MASS OF HUMANITY, 720 00:41:17,336 --> 00:41:20,512 TRAPPED AGAINST A RAILING UNABLE TO MOVE. 721 00:41:32,075 --> 00:41:37,184 AS THE SHIP KEELED OVER FORWARD, 722 00:41:37,218 --> 00:41:39,013 I BELIEVE THEIR BODIES WERE CAUGHT 723 00:41:39,048 --> 00:41:44,640 IN THE ANGLES OF THE DECK, OR ENTANGLED IN THE ROPES, 724 00:41:44,674 --> 00:41:46,780 AND SANK WITH THE SHIP. 725 00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:02,174 [PEOPLE SCREAMING] 726 00:42:02,209 --> 00:42:04,729 Narrator: AS TITANIC PLUNGES BENEATH THE SURFACE, 727 00:42:04,763 --> 00:42:08,940 OVER 1,000 DESPERATE SOULS ARE STILL CLINGING TO HER STERN, 728 00:42:08,974 --> 00:42:12,460 MANY OF THEM CREW AND THIRD-CLASS PASSENGERS. 729 00:42:16,223 --> 00:42:18,605 COLONEL GRACIE IS ONE OF THEM. 730 00:42:19,744 --> 00:42:23,264 Gracie: DOWN, DOWN, I WENT. 731 00:42:23,299 --> 00:42:25,266 IT SEEMED A GREAT DISTANCE. 732 00:42:34,724 --> 00:42:38,176 I HELD MY BREATH FOR WHAT SEEMED AN INTERMINABLE TIME 733 00:42:38,210 --> 00:42:40,903 UNTIL I COULD SCARCELY STAND IT ANY LONGER. 734 00:42:43,975 --> 00:42:45,735 AND IT WAS THEN 735 00:42:45,770 --> 00:42:50,671 THE THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS MY LAST MOMENT 736 00:42:50,706 --> 00:42:52,570 CAME UPON ME. 737 00:42:54,433 --> 00:42:56,366 JUST WHEN I THOUGHT 738 00:42:56,401 --> 00:42:59,335 THAT FOR LACK OF BREATH I WOULD HAVE TO GIVE IN, 739 00:42:59,369 --> 00:43:02,200 I WAS GIVEN A SECOND WIND. 740 00:43:02,234 --> 00:43:05,341 FINALLY I NOTICED BY THE INCREASE OF LIGHT 741 00:43:05,375 --> 00:43:07,170 THAT I WAS DRAWING NEAR THE SURFACE. 742 00:43:07,205 --> 00:43:12,624 NOW, THOUGH IT WAS NOT DAYLIGHT, THE CLEAR, STARLIT NIGHT 743 00:43:12,659 --> 00:43:15,247 MADE A NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE IN THE DEGREE OF LIGHT 744 00:43:15,282 --> 00:43:18,457 JUST BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE WATER. 745 00:43:24,774 --> 00:43:26,396 [SCREAMING] 746 00:43:26,431 --> 00:43:29,261 [GASPS, COUGHS] 747 00:43:33,369 --> 00:43:37,373 Narrator: MIRACULOUSLY, GRACIE FINDS HIS WAY INTO A LIFEBOAT. 748 00:43:39,478 --> 00:43:43,310 HUNDREDS OF OTHERS ARE NOT AS LUCKY. 749 00:43:43,344 --> 00:43:46,485 THE SEA TEMPERATURE IS 28 DEGREES. 750 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,316 IF IT WERE FRESH WATER, IT'D BE ICE. 751 00:43:50,731 --> 00:43:55,874 AS THEIR CORE BODY TEMPERATURE DROPS, HYPOTHERMIA SETS IN. 752 00:43:55,909 --> 00:44:00,672 FIRST THE EXTREMITIES GO, THEN THE VITAL ORGANS SHUT DOWN. 753 00:44:00,707 --> 00:44:02,294 EVEN THE FITTEST CAN ONLY SURVIVE 754 00:44:02,329 --> 00:44:04,918 15 OR 20 MINUTES AT BEST. 755 00:44:07,058 --> 00:44:08,611 SECOND OFFICER LIGHTOLLER, 756 00:44:08,646 --> 00:44:12,132 WHO, LIKE GRACIE, SURVIVED A PLUNGE INTO THE SUBZERO WATERS, 757 00:44:12,166 --> 00:44:13,547 DESCRIBED IT AS LIKE 758 00:44:13,581 --> 00:44:17,309 "1,000 KNIVES BEING DRIVEN INTO ONE'S BODY." 759 00:44:24,627 --> 00:44:27,526 16-YEAR-OLD JEAN HIPPACH WITNESSES THE HORROR 760 00:44:27,561 --> 00:44:29,563 FROM LIFEBOAT FOUR. 761 00:44:33,015 --> 00:44:34,982 Hippach: YOU CAN'T THINK WHAT IT FELT OUT THERE ALONE 762 00:44:35,017 --> 00:44:37,364 BY OURSELVES IN THE ATLANTIC. 763 00:44:41,782 --> 00:44:43,888 YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY, WHEN YOU SEE A SHOOTING STAR, 764 00:44:43,922 --> 00:44:46,200 SOMEONE IS DYING. 765 00:44:46,235 --> 00:44:47,615 AND WE THOUGHT OF THAT, 766 00:44:47,650 --> 00:44:50,791 FOR THERE WERE SO MANY DYING NOT FAR FROM US. 767 00:45:01,008 --> 00:45:03,804 Narrator: THE SURVIVORS CAN ONLY THINK OF THE MYSTERY SHIP 768 00:45:03,839 --> 00:45:06,151 WHOSE LIGHT THEY BRIEFLY SAW, 769 00:45:06,186 --> 00:45:08,844 BUT WHICH FAILED TO COME TO THEIR RESCUE. 770 00:45:08,878 --> 00:45:11,225 [CRYING] 771 00:45:11,260 --> 00:45:13,434 Beesley: THE PITY OF IT! 772 00:45:13,469 --> 00:45:18,129 SO NEAR, AND SO MANY PEOPLE WAITING FOR THE SHELTER 773 00:45:18,163 --> 00:45:20,821 ITS DECKS COULD HAVE GIVEN SO EASILY. 774 00:45:22,305 --> 00:45:25,930 IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE THAT THE CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS 775 00:45:25,964 --> 00:45:29,347 KNEW OF OUR DISTRESS AND DELIBERATELY IGNORED IT. 776 00:45:32,626 --> 00:45:34,455 Narrator: CAPTAIN LORD OF THE CALIFORNIAN 777 00:45:34,490 --> 00:45:37,596 WOULD SPEND THE REST OF HIS DAYS FENDING OFF ACCUSATIONS 778 00:45:37,631 --> 00:45:40,565 THAT HE ABANDONED TITANIC THAT NIGHT. 779 00:45:48,884 --> 00:45:55,545 IN THE END, 1,496 PEOPLE DIE-- MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 780 00:45:58,376 --> 00:46:02,829 THE IMPACT OF THE DISASTER REVERBERATES AROUND THE WORLD. 781 00:46:02,863 --> 00:46:06,073 THE TITANIC--THE GREAT SYMBOL OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROWESS 782 00:46:06,108 --> 00:46:09,042 FOR A GENERATION--HAS FAILED. 783 00:46:21,882 --> 00:46:23,988 Tim: FROM HERE, JUST STRAIGHT DOWN THERE, 784 00:46:24,022 --> 00:46:26,231 IS ACTUALLY CAPE RACE, WHICH WAS THE FIRST PLACE 785 00:46:26,266 --> 00:46:29,372 WHICH RECEIVED THE DISTRESS SIGNAL FROM THE TITANIC. 786 00:46:31,650 --> 00:46:33,445 IN NOVA SCOTIA, WHICH IS NOT FAR FROM HERE, 787 00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,068 IN THE TOWN OF HALIFAX, 788 00:46:35,102 --> 00:46:37,484 ALL OF THE BODIES RECOVERED FROM THE TITANIC WERE BROUGHT, 789 00:46:37,518 --> 00:46:40,970 AND SADLY, THEY ONLY RECOVERED ABOUT 350 BODIES. 790 00:46:44,180 --> 00:46:46,044 Narrator: AMONG THEM WAS THE AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE 791 00:46:46,079 --> 00:46:48,840 JOHN JACOB ASTOR, 792 00:46:48,875 --> 00:46:51,601 THE RICHEST PASSENGER ON BOARD TITANIC. 793 00:46:53,258 --> 00:46:55,847 ALSO, PROBABLY ONE OF THE POOREST, 794 00:46:55,882 --> 00:46:57,953 AN UNKNOWN TWO-YEAR-OLD BOY, 795 00:46:57,987 --> 00:47:03,165 BURIED ALONG WITH 122 OTHERS IN HALIFAX'S FAIRVIEW CEMETERY. 796 00:47:10,206 --> 00:47:13,037 EARLY MORNING, APRIL 15th. 797 00:47:14,624 --> 00:47:18,214 THE SURVIVORS ARE PICKED UP BY THE STEAMER CARPATHIA. 798 00:47:20,285 --> 00:47:24,186 OF THE OVER 2,000 PASSENGERS AND CREW WHO WERE ABOARD TITANIC, 799 00:47:24,220 --> 00:47:28,224 JUST 712 ARE RESCUED AND TAKEN TO NEW YORK. 800 00:47:30,502 --> 00:47:32,470 AS SOON AS THE SURVIVORS COME ASHORE, 801 00:47:32,504 --> 00:47:35,162 THEY BEGIN TELLING THEIR GRIM TALE. 802 00:47:36,819 --> 00:47:40,236 Tim: STRAIGHT AFTER THEY CAME OFF THE RESCUE SHIP, 803 00:47:40,271 --> 00:47:42,929 LOTS AND LOTS OF SURVIVORS WERE INTERVIEWED 804 00:47:42,963 --> 00:47:44,758 BY SENATOR SMITH IN AMERICA. 805 00:47:44,792 --> 00:47:46,760 AND THIS IS THE EXACT TRANSCRIPTS 806 00:47:46,794 --> 00:47:49,107 OF PRECISELY WHAT THEY SAID. 807 00:47:49,142 --> 00:47:50,764 AND, NOT SATISFIED WITH THAT, 808 00:47:50,798 --> 00:47:53,008 THE BRITISH THEN HAD THEIR OWN INQUIRY 809 00:47:53,042 --> 00:47:54,595 INTO THE TITANIC DISASTER 810 00:47:54,630 --> 00:47:58,530 WHERE, IN TOTAL, 50,000 QUESTIONS WERE ASKED 811 00:47:58,565 --> 00:48:01,879 TO MORE THAN 150 IMPORTANT EYEWITNESSES. 812 00:48:04,398 --> 00:48:08,299 Narrator: BOTH INQUIRIES MADE IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS-- 813 00:48:08,333 --> 00:48:12,613 IN THE FUTURE, THERE WERE TO BE ENOUGH LIFEBOATS FOR ALL, 814 00:48:12,648 --> 00:48:16,065 BETTER DESIGNED WATERTIGHT COMPARTMENTS, 815 00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:20,069 BETTER RADIO COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN SHIPS, 816 00:48:20,104 --> 00:48:21,726 AND BETTER LOOKOUT PROCEDURES, 817 00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,591 INCLUDING AN END TO THE PRACTICE OF TRAVELING AT FULL SPEED 818 00:48:24,625 --> 00:48:26,731 THROUGH WATERS WITH ICE. 819 00:48:28,767 --> 00:48:30,010 BUT, IN THE END, 820 00:48:30,045 --> 00:48:32,737 THEY COULD FIND NO CLEAR CAUSE FOR THE DISASTER... 821 00:48:32,771 --> 00:48:34,428 LEAVING ROOM ONLY FOR THE THEORIES 822 00:48:34,463 --> 00:48:37,155 TIM HAS SPENT DECADES DIGGING INTO. 823 00:48:38,674 --> 00:48:42,402 WAS TITANIC TRAVELING TOO FAST? 824 00:48:42,436 --> 00:48:45,163 WAS THE CAPTAIN DRUNK? 825 00:48:45,198 --> 00:48:48,580 SHOULD THE LOOKOUTS HAVE HAD BINOCULARS? 826 00:48:48,615 --> 00:48:51,480 OR WAS THE SHIP'S HULL TOO WEAK? 827 00:48:53,827 --> 00:48:55,484 Tim: HAVING LOOKED AT ALL OF THESE THEORIES 828 00:48:55,518 --> 00:48:57,831 OF WHAT MAY HAVE CAUSED THE TITANIC DISASTER, 829 00:48:57,865 --> 00:48:59,591 YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THAT EACH ONE 830 00:48:59,626 --> 00:49:02,215 FALLS APART ON CLOSE SCRUTINY. 831 00:49:02,249 --> 00:49:04,044 SO WE'RE STILL LEFT WITH A QUESTION-- 832 00:49:04,079 --> 00:49:05,977 WHAT REALLY WAS THE UNDERLYING CAUSE 833 00:49:06,012 --> 00:49:07,875 OF THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC? 834 00:49:09,601 --> 00:49:11,810 Narrator: HAVING WORKED THROUGH TITANIC'S TIMELINE, 835 00:49:11,845 --> 00:49:14,952 TIM BELIEVES HE CAN NOW SEE AN INTRIGUING PATTERN EMERGING 836 00:49:14,986 --> 00:49:16,712 IN THE EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY 837 00:49:16,746 --> 00:49:19,853 WHICH NO ONE ELSE HAS PICKED UP ON BEFORE. 838 00:49:21,441 --> 00:49:23,719 Lord: IT WAS A MOST PECULIAR NIGHT. 839 00:49:23,753 --> 00:49:26,411 Hippach: AND THE SKY, SO MANY STARS. 840 00:49:26,446 --> 00:49:30,070 Beesley: AND TO TWINKLE AND SPARKLE WITH A STACCATO FLASH. 841 00:49:30,105 --> 00:49:34,488 Gracie: THE CLEAR, STARLIT NIGHT MADE A NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE. 842 00:49:34,523 --> 00:49:35,765 Fleet: THERE WAS A SLIGHT HAZE COMING. 843 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,285 Lord: COULD NOT DISTINGUISH WHERE THE SKY ENDED 844 00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,425 AND THE WATER COMMENCED. 845 00:49:40,460 --> 00:49:43,152 THERE WAS WHAT YOU CALL A SOFT HORIZON. 846 00:49:44,740 --> 00:49:47,985 Narrator: FOR ONE PERSON, IT WAS CLEAR-- 847 00:49:48,019 --> 00:49:51,574 FOR ANOTHER, THERE WAS A SOFT HORIZON. 848 00:49:51,609 --> 00:49:53,128 Tim: SO THAT LED ME TO ASK, WHY? 849 00:49:53,162 --> 00:49:55,613 WHY WERE WITNESSES AT THE SAME CRIME SCENE 850 00:49:55,647 --> 00:49:57,615 DESCRIBING THINGS SO DIFFERENTLY? 851 00:49:57,649 --> 00:49:59,065 AND THAT LED ME TO LOOK AT THE SCIENCE 852 00:49:59,099 --> 00:50:01,619 AND LOOK TO SEE IF ANYTHING ABOUT THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT 853 00:50:01,653 --> 00:50:03,655 IN WHICH TITANIC SANK WOULD GIVE US A CLUE 854 00:50:03,690 --> 00:50:05,933 TO UNLOCK THE APPARENT INCONSISTENCIES 855 00:50:05,968 --> 00:50:08,246 IN THE TESTIMONY. 856 00:50:08,281 --> 00:50:10,248 Narrator: THAT PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT BEGINS WITH 857 00:50:10,283 --> 00:50:13,493 THE LABRADOR CURRENT IN WHICH TITANIC SANK. 858 00:50:18,394 --> 00:50:20,569 TIM HAS COME TO EXAMINE THE CONDITIONS 859 00:50:20,603 --> 00:50:23,951 THE TITANIC VICTIMS ENDURED THAT NIGHT FOR HIMSELF. 860 00:50:23,986 --> 00:50:26,333 Tim: OKAY. RIGHT. 861 00:50:26,368 --> 00:50:27,645 SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO TAKE THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER, 862 00:50:27,679 --> 00:50:29,957 BECAUSE IN 1912, EVERY FOUR HOURS 863 00:50:29,992 --> 00:50:31,821 THEY USED TO TAKE THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER. 864 00:50:31,856 --> 00:50:33,409 Man: OKAY. 865 00:50:34,893 --> 00:50:37,448 Narrator: ONE OF THE KEY FACTS FROM THE EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY 866 00:50:37,482 --> 00:50:39,277 IS THE SUDDEN DROP IN TEMPERATURE 867 00:50:39,312 --> 00:50:42,901 AS THEY APPROACHED THE LABRADOR CURRENT. 868 00:50:42,936 --> 00:50:46,629 Beesley: IT WAS JUST A KEEN, BITTER, ICY, MOTIONLESS COLD 869 00:50:46,664 --> 00:50:50,564 THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE, AND YET WAS THERE ALL THE TIME. 870 00:50:51,876 --> 00:50:53,222 Man: AHA, IT'S PRETTY FULL. 871 00:50:53,257 --> 00:50:55,190 Tim: YEAH. 872 00:50:55,224 --> 00:50:57,640 GIVEN THAT THE TEMPERATURE AND THE STILLNESS OF THE AIR 873 00:50:57,675 --> 00:50:59,090 WAS SO UNUSUAL, 874 00:50:59,125 --> 00:51:01,713 I WAS DETERMINED TO BUILD A COMPLETE PICTURE 875 00:51:01,748 --> 00:51:04,820 OF THE THERMAL GEOGRAPHY AT TITANIC'S WRECK SITE. 876 00:51:08,341 --> 00:51:09,825 IT'S DROPPING. 877 00:51:09,859 --> 00:51:13,311 IT'S TAKING A BIT OF TIME FOR THE THERMOMETER TO RESPOND. 878 00:51:13,346 --> 00:51:16,797 THAT IS REALLY, REALLY COLD WATER. 879 00:51:16,832 --> 00:51:18,661 NO WONDER THEY DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE. 880 00:51:18,696 --> 00:51:21,699 THEY ONLY SURVIVED FOR ABOUT 15 TO 20 MINUTES 881 00:51:21,733 --> 00:51:24,081 BEFORE THEY WENT UNCONSCIOUS WITH THE COLD THAT NIGHT. 882 00:51:24,115 --> 00:51:25,185 AND I CAN REALLY SEE WHY, 883 00:51:25,220 --> 00:51:27,705 BECAUSE MY HAND IS GOING UNCONSCIOUS ALREADY. 884 00:51:27,739 --> 00:51:31,088 AGH! THAT IS REALLY COLD. 885 00:51:33,297 --> 00:51:36,231 YEAH, THAT WATER IS ONLY TWO DEGREES CENTIGRADE HERE. 886 00:51:36,265 --> 00:51:37,611 AND THAT'S... 887 00:51:37,646 --> 00:51:39,613 IT'S STILL WARMER THAN IT WAS THE NIGHT TITANIC SANK, 888 00:51:39,648 --> 00:51:41,305 BUT THAT'S VERY COLD WATER. 889 00:51:41,339 --> 00:51:42,961 AND IT'D BE INTERESTING TO GO A BIT FURTHER 890 00:51:42,996 --> 00:51:44,515 OUTSIDE THE LABRADOR CURRENT, 891 00:51:44,549 --> 00:51:46,620 AND SEE HOW WARM IT IS OVER THERE. 892 00:51:55,181 --> 00:51:56,734 Narrator: LESS THAN A MILE AWAY, 893 00:51:56,768 --> 00:51:59,150 HE GETS A VERY DIFFERENT READING. 894 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:06,330 Tim: HERE IT IS 60 FAHRENHEIT, SO IT'S MUCH WARMER HERE 895 00:52:06,364 --> 00:52:08,194 THAN IT WAS WHEN WE WERE OVER THERE 896 00:52:08,228 --> 00:52:10,127 IN THE LABRADOR CURRENT. 897 00:52:11,852 --> 00:52:14,545 Narrator: COULD A DRAMATIC VARIATION IN WATER TEMPERATURE 898 00:52:14,579 --> 00:52:17,375 SHED LIGHT ON THE OTHER STRANGE VISUAL PHENOMENA 899 00:52:17,410 --> 00:52:20,206 REPORTED BY EYEWITNESSES? 900 00:52:20,240 --> 00:52:24,348 THE MAGICAL AURAS SURROUNDING THE ELECTRIC LIGHTS, 901 00:52:24,382 --> 00:52:26,971 THE FAILURE OF SIGNALING LAMPS. 902 00:52:27,005 --> 00:52:30,388 Lord: I CALLED HER UP, AND GOT NO ANSWER. 903 00:52:30,423 --> 00:52:32,356 Narrator: OR THIS... 904 00:52:32,390 --> 00:52:39,086 Gracie: A THIN, LIGHT GRAY SMOKY VAPOR THAT HUNG LIKE A PALL 905 00:52:39,121 --> 00:52:41,296 JUST A FEW FEET ABOVE THE SURFACE 906 00:52:41,330 --> 00:52:44,885 OF THE BROAD EXPANSE OF SEA. 907 00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:46,715 Narrator: THIS STRANGE PHENOMENON WAS OBSERVED 908 00:52:46,749 --> 00:52:49,580 BY SURVIVORS AS THE SHIP WAS SINKING. 909 00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:55,310 UNFORTUNATELY, NONE OF TITANIC'S LOGS 910 00:52:55,344 --> 00:52:58,830 RECORDING AIR AND WATER TEMPERATURE HAVE SURVIVED. 911 00:53:00,418 --> 00:53:03,421 BUT TIM IS UNDETERRED. 912 00:53:03,456 --> 00:53:06,804 Tim: UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE BEHIND TITANIC'S WRECK SITE 913 00:53:06,838 --> 00:53:09,565 IS ABSOLUTELY KEY TO UNLOCKING THE TESTIMONIES, 914 00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,016 BECAUSE YOU CANNOT WEIGH THE EVIDENCE CORRECTLY 915 00:53:12,050 --> 00:53:13,466 UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND THE ENVIRONMENT 916 00:53:13,500 --> 00:53:15,571 IN WHICH THE EVIDENCE WAS GIVEN. 917 00:53:17,642 --> 00:53:21,750 Narrator: AT LEAST ONE IMPORTANT FACT IS KNOWN. 918 00:53:21,784 --> 00:53:25,271 ALTHOUGH IT HAD REMAINED A MYSTERY FOR OVER 70 YEARS, 919 00:53:25,305 --> 00:53:29,896 IN 1985, TITANIC'S RESTING PLACE WAS FINALLY DISCOVERED. 920 00:53:31,898 --> 00:53:34,659 HER BOW AND STERN LIE IN SEPARATE PIECES 921 00:53:34,694 --> 00:53:37,731 TWO AND A HALF MILES DOWN ON THE OCEAN FLOOR. 922 00:53:40,493 --> 00:53:42,046 THE COORDINATES OF THE WRECK SITE 923 00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,187 PROVIDE TIM WITH THE CENTER OF HIS CRIME SCENE. 924 00:53:47,948 --> 00:53:51,055 NOW HE NEEDS TO RECONSTRUCT THE EXACT CONDITIONS 925 00:53:51,089 --> 00:53:55,335 ON THE NIGHT OF THE TRAGEDY, A CENTURY AGO. 926 00:53:55,370 --> 00:53:57,648 BUT WITH NO SURVIVING SHIPS' LOGS, 927 00:53:57,682 --> 00:53:59,374 THE QUESTION IS... 928 00:53:59,408 --> 00:54:01,030 HOW? 929 00:54:08,383 --> 00:54:11,006 Tim: SO I STARTED LOOKING EVERYWHERE ON THE INTERNET 930 00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,146 FOR WHERE COULD I GET EVIDENCE? 931 00:54:13,180 --> 00:54:16,149 I LOOKED AT, COULD I GET IT FROM BARRAGE BALLOONS? 932 00:54:16,183 --> 00:54:19,186 COULD I GET IT FROM SHIPS' REPORTS? 933 00:54:19,221 --> 00:54:21,465 WERE THESE SHIPS' REPORTS STILL EXISTING? 934 00:54:21,499 --> 00:54:25,089 AND WHAT I DISCOVERED WAS THAT THERE IS STILL A PLACE 935 00:54:25,123 --> 00:54:27,574 WHERE THEY KEEP THE RECORDS FROM 1912 936 00:54:27,609 --> 00:54:29,956 OF THE AIR AND SEA TEMPERATURES. 937 00:54:38,240 --> 00:54:39,345 Narrator: TIM MALTIN'S SEARCH 938 00:54:39,379 --> 00:54:42,140 LEADS HIM TO ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, 939 00:54:42,175 --> 00:54:43,556 HOME TO A BRANCH OF NOAA, 940 00:54:43,590 --> 00:54:46,904 THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, 941 00:54:46,938 --> 00:54:50,735 WHICH STORES THE WEATHER DATA SENT BY THOUSANDS OF SHIPS. 942 00:54:53,359 --> 00:54:57,052 Tim: WHAT I'VE COME HERE TO GET IS DATA FROM 1912, 943 00:54:57,086 --> 00:54:59,123 FROM THE POSITION WHERE TITANIC SANK, 944 00:54:59,157 --> 00:55:02,678 TO ACTUALLY BUILD A MAP OF TITANIC'S CRASH SITE, 945 00:55:02,713 --> 00:55:06,303 A BIT LIKE A SORT OF TITANIC CSI, IF YOU LIKE. 946 00:55:09,789 --> 00:55:12,343 Narrator: SCOTT WOODRUFF IS THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR 947 00:55:12,378 --> 00:55:15,173 AT THE RESEARCH LABORATORY. 948 00:55:15,208 --> 00:55:18,211 Tim: I'M CONVINCED THAT THE WEATHER HOLDS THE KEY 949 00:55:18,245 --> 00:55:21,387 TO ACTUALLY WHAT CAUSED THE DISASTER THAT NIGHT. 950 00:55:21,421 --> 00:55:25,494 SO WHAT WOULD BE GREAT IS IF WE COULD GO BACK IN TIME 100 YEARS 951 00:55:25,529 --> 00:55:28,359 AND ACTUALLY LOOK AT WHAT THE SEA AND AIR TEMPERATURES 952 00:55:28,394 --> 00:55:30,672 WERE DOING AT TITANIC'S WRECK SITE. 953 00:55:30,706 --> 00:55:32,363 Scott Woodruff: WELL, LET'S TAKE A LOOK, TIM. 954 00:55:32,398 --> 00:55:35,297 YEAH, HERE'S SOME DATA WE'VE PULLED UP FOR YOU. 955 00:55:35,332 --> 00:55:36,471 Tim: WOW. 956 00:55:36,505 --> 00:55:39,197 SO THESE ARE ALL SHIPS THAT WERE IN THE AREA? 957 00:55:39,232 --> 00:55:41,234 Scott: THOSE SHIPS IN THE AREA. RIGHT. 958 00:55:41,268 --> 00:55:42,684 Tim: WOW. 959 00:55:47,792 --> 00:55:50,139 Narrator: BUT THE DATA ON THESE EARLY COMPUTER CARDS 960 00:55:50,174 --> 00:55:53,350 IS NOT AS DETAILED AS TIM WOULD LIKE. 961 00:55:53,384 --> 00:55:55,006 Scott: THE LIMITED WIDTH OF THESE 962 00:55:55,041 --> 00:55:58,147 MEANS THAT THEY COULD ONLY SQUEEZE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DATA 963 00:55:58,182 --> 00:56:00,909 ONTO THE COMPUTER CARD, 964 00:56:00,943 --> 00:56:03,394 AND THUS, LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE 965 00:56:03,429 --> 00:56:06,673 ARE ONLY RECORDED TO A LIMITED PRECISION. 966 00:56:06,708 --> 00:56:08,054 Tim: IS THERE ANY WAY THAT YOU CAN THINK OF 967 00:56:08,088 --> 00:56:10,746 THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY GET HIGHER RESOLUTION DATA THAN THIS? 968 00:56:10,781 --> 00:56:12,127 Scott: WELL, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK 969 00:56:12,161 --> 00:56:14,819 FOR THE ORIGINAL METEOROLOGICAL FORMS 970 00:56:14,854 --> 00:56:19,030 AND ORIGINAL LOGBOOKS OF THE SHIPS THAT WERE OUT THERE. 971 00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:22,896 Narrator: THAT MEANS CONTACTING MARITIME ARCHIVES 972 00:56:22,931 --> 00:56:25,243 IN A DOZEN COUNTRIES. 973 00:56:25,278 --> 00:56:27,245 TITANIC WAS ON A BUSY SHIPPING LANE 974 00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,801 ROUTINELY FREQUENTED BY VESSELS FROM ALL OVER EUROPE... 975 00:56:30,835 --> 00:56:34,114 SOME OF THEM LIKELY CARRYING USEFUL WITNESSES. 976 00:56:38,705 --> 00:56:40,431 TWO WEEKS LATER, TIM GETS A CALL 977 00:56:40,466 --> 00:56:43,676 FROM THE GERMAN METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE IN HAMBURG. 978 00:56:45,712 --> 00:56:48,439 THE DIRECTOR IS WOLFGANG GLOEDEN. 979 00:56:52,443 --> 00:56:56,861 Wolfgang Gloeden: SO HERE WE ARE, GOING DOWN TO OUR ARCHIVE, 980 00:56:56,896 --> 00:57:00,865 WHERE WE STORE ALL OUR JOURNALS FROM SAILING SHIPS, 981 00:57:00,900 --> 00:57:05,560 AND FROM STEAMERS, AND IT BEGINS IN 1829. 982 00:57:05,594 --> 00:57:08,770 Tim: YES. AND HOW MANY RECORDS DO YOU HAVE DOWN HERE? 983 00:57:08,804 --> 00:57:14,051 Wolfgang: WE STORE ABOUT 37,000 JOURNALS IN THESE ARCHIVES. 984 00:57:20,885 --> 00:57:22,162 Tim: WELL, I HAVE TO SAY THAT 985 00:57:22,197 --> 00:57:24,026 I'M A BIT LIKE A KID IN A SWEETSHOP DOWN HERE, 986 00:57:24,061 --> 00:57:27,961 BECAUSE THESE ARE THE HOLY GRAIL OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR. 987 00:57:27,996 --> 00:57:30,205 WE'VE BEEN TRACKING DOWN THIS DATA ALL OVER THE WORLD, 988 00:57:30,239 --> 00:57:31,482 AND IT'S ONLY BECAUSE 989 00:57:31,517 --> 00:57:33,415 THE GERMANS HAVE KEPT SUCH GOOD RECORDS, 990 00:57:33,450 --> 00:57:35,382 AND BECAUSE THEY'VE KEPT THEM DOWN HERE IN THIS BUNKER, 991 00:57:35,417 --> 00:57:37,592 THAT THEY'VE ACTUALLY SURVIVED TWO WORLD WARS, 992 00:57:37,626 --> 00:57:40,387 AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY AVAILABLE FOR US TO ACCESS THEM. 993 00:57:41,837 --> 00:57:46,635 WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR IS SHIPS FROM 41 TO 43 NORTH, 994 00:57:46,670 --> 00:57:50,984 AND FROM 49 TO 51 WEST, ALL IN APRIL 1912. 995 00:57:52,365 --> 00:57:54,747 Narrator: SOME OF THESE LOGS, A CENTURY OLD, 996 00:57:54,781 --> 00:57:58,958 HAVEN'T BEEN OPENED SINCE THEIR CAPTAINS WROTE THEIR REPORTS. 997 00:57:58,992 --> 00:58:01,823 THE FIRST ONE IS FROM THE SS BREMEN. 998 00:58:01,857 --> 00:58:06,931 IT SET OFF FOR AMERICA JUST FOUR DAYS AFTER THE TITANIC DISASTER. 999 00:58:06,966 --> 00:58:13,904 Wolfgang: ON 4/30 THEY ARE PASSING DRIFTING WRECK PIECES... 1000 00:58:13,938 --> 00:58:15,077 Tim: WOW, WRECKAGE, YEAH. 1001 00:58:15,112 --> 00:58:17,045 Wolfgang: ...AND "VIELE LEICHEN." 1002 00:58:17,079 --> 00:58:19,185 AND THAT IS THE REASON BECAUSE 1003 00:58:19,219 --> 00:58:21,221 THESE CROSSES ARE WRITTEN DOWN HERE. 1004 00:58:21,256 --> 00:58:23,154 Tim: WHAT DOES "VIELE LEICHEN" MEAN? 1005 00:58:23,189 --> 00:58:26,019 Wolfgang: "VIELE LEICHEN" IS A LOT OF DEAD BODIES. 1006 00:58:26,054 --> 00:58:27,469 Tim: WOW! 1007 00:58:27,504 --> 00:58:29,540 SO THEY'RE ACTUALLY PASSING TITANIC'S WRECK SITE. 1008 00:58:29,575 --> 00:58:31,266 Wolfgang: MUST BE. 1009 00:58:33,889 --> 00:58:36,374 Narrator: A PASSENGER, MRS. JOHANNA STUNKE, 1010 00:58:36,409 --> 00:58:39,067 LATER DESCRIBED THE SCENE FROM THE BREMEN. 1011 00:58:40,413 --> 00:58:42,346 Johanna Stunke: LOOKING DOWN OVER THE RAIL, 1012 00:58:42,380 --> 00:58:46,177 WE DISTINCTLY SAW A NUMBER OF BODIES SO CLEARLY 1013 00:58:46,212 --> 00:58:48,628 THAT WE COULD MAKE OUT WHAT THEY WERE WEARING, 1014 00:58:48,663 --> 00:58:51,148 AND WHETHER THEY WERE MEN OR WOMEN. 1015 00:58:52,701 --> 00:58:55,014 WE SAW ONE WOMAN IN HER NIGHTDRESS 1016 00:58:55,048 --> 00:58:58,189 WITH A BABY CLASPED TO HER BREAST. 1017 00:59:00,916 --> 00:59:02,746 THE BODIES OF THREE MEN IN A GROUP, 1018 00:59:02,780 --> 00:59:06,404 ALL CLINGING TO ONE STEAMSHIP CHAIR, FLOATED NEARBY, 1019 00:59:06,439 --> 00:59:07,647 CLINGING TOGETHER, 1020 00:59:07,682 --> 00:59:11,548 AS THOUGH IN A LAST DESPERATE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. 1021 00:59:17,864 --> 00:59:19,728 Narrator: SURROUNDED BY THIS WEALTH OF NEW EVIDENCE 1022 00:59:19,763 --> 00:59:24,008 ABOUT THE DISASTER, TIM SEARCHES DEEPER. 1023 00:59:24,043 --> 00:59:26,770 Tim: AND I'M WONDERING IF YOU'VE GOT THINGS LIKE THE PAULA, 1024 00:59:26,804 --> 00:59:29,773 AND THE TRAUTENFELS AND THE DEUTSCHLAND. 1025 00:59:31,464 --> 00:59:32,603 Wolfgang: HERE WE ARE. 1026 00:59:32,638 --> 00:59:33,846 IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT, 1027 00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:36,573 BECAUSE IT'S IN OLD GERMAN HANDWRITING, 1028 00:59:36,607 --> 00:59:40,818 AND I'M NOT SO EASILY USED TO IT, 1029 00:59:40,853 --> 00:59:43,165 BUT I CAN TRY TO. 1030 00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:46,444 SAY BIG ICEBERGS ON THIS POSITION. 1031 00:59:46,479 --> 00:59:48,585 Tim: OKAY, AND WHICH POSITION IS THIS ONE? 1032 00:59:48,619 --> 00:59:52,865 Wolfgang: THE NOON POSITION IS ON 41, 58 NORTH AND 49, 36 WEST. 1033 00:59:52,899 --> 00:59:55,315 Tim: THAT'S TITANIC'S LATITUDE. THAT'S TITANIC'S LONGITUDE. 1034 00:59:55,350 --> 00:59:57,317 SO SHE'S AT TITANIC'S WRECK SITE--THAT'S INCREDIBLE. 1035 00:59:57,352 --> 00:59:59,457 I BELIEVE THAT THE PAULA IS THE LAST SHIP 1036 00:59:59,492 --> 01:00:00,735 THAT WE HAVE RECORDS FROM 1037 01:00:00,769 --> 01:00:02,633 THAT WENT THROUGH WHERE TITANIC SANK. 1038 01:00:02,668 --> 01:00:06,188 WHAT DO THESE REMARKS HERE IN THE WATER TEMPERATURE SHOW US? 1039 01:00:06,223 --> 01:00:07,673 Wolfgang: TEMPERATURE IS GOING DOWN 1040 01:00:07,707 --> 01:00:11,469 FROM 12.8 TO 2.2, 1.1. 1041 01:00:11,504 --> 01:00:13,057 Tim: 1.1? WOW. 1042 01:00:13,092 --> 01:00:14,576 AND WHAT'S AMAZING HERE IS THAT 1043 01:00:14,611 --> 01:00:18,200 IT'S GOING FROM 12 DEGREES IN THE EVENING THE DAY BEFORE 1044 01:00:18,235 --> 01:00:20,617 RIGHT THE WAY DOWN TO MINUS 1.4. 1045 01:00:20,651 --> 01:00:22,653 SO IT'S ACTUALLY GONE TO BELOW FREEZING, 1046 01:00:22,688 --> 01:00:26,312 AND THEN IT JUMPS STRAIGHT BACK UP AGAIN TO 13 DEGREES. 1047 01:00:29,695 --> 01:00:32,629 Narrator: INTERESTINGLY, THESE LARGE TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS 1048 01:00:32,663 --> 01:00:35,148 AT THE VERY SPOT WHERE TITANIC SANK 1049 01:00:35,183 --> 01:00:39,014 ARE SIMILAR TO THE ONES TIM RECORDED IN HIS OWN SAMPLING. 1050 01:00:40,464 --> 01:00:42,431 IT'S BEGINNING TO GIVE HIM A CLEAR PICTURE 1051 01:00:42,466 --> 01:00:46,056 OF THE THERMAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE WRECK SITE A CENTURY AGO. 1052 01:00:46,090 --> 01:00:48,575 Tim: COULD YOU GIVE ME THESE TEMPERATURE READINGS, 1053 01:00:48,610 --> 01:00:50,957 AND I'LL PUT THEM INTO THE COMPUTER? 1054 01:00:53,201 --> 01:00:55,099 Narrator: LIKE A FORENSIC DETECTIVE, 1055 01:00:55,134 --> 01:00:56,722 TIM IS UNCOVERING A CLEAR PICTURE 1056 01:00:56,756 --> 01:00:59,828 OF HOW THE KILLER LABRADOR CURRENT IS MOVING SOUTH 1057 01:00:59,863 --> 01:01:04,108 TOWARD THE PATH OF THE SHIPPING LANES IN TITANIC'S FINAL HOURS. 1058 01:01:06,007 --> 01:01:09,769 Tim: THE MORE THAT I LOOKED INTO THE DETAIL 1059 01:01:09,804 --> 01:01:12,116 OF THE TEMPERATURES AT TITANIC WRECK SITE, 1060 01:01:12,151 --> 01:01:16,155 AND THE BETTER RESOLUTION I GOT BY THE CLEARER AND CLEARER DATA, 1061 01:01:16,189 --> 01:01:19,192 WHAT I COULD SEE WAS THAT NOT ONLY DID TITANIC SINK 1062 01:01:19,227 --> 01:01:21,332 REALLY, REALLY CLOSE TO THE BARRIER 1063 01:01:21,367 --> 01:01:23,472 BETWEEN THE WARM WATER AND THE COLD WATER, 1064 01:01:23,507 --> 01:01:26,717 BUT THAT THAT BOUNDARY WAS VERY CLEARLY DEFINED. 1065 01:01:28,063 --> 01:01:29,962 Narrator: THE QUESTION NOW IS, 1066 01:01:29,996 --> 01:01:32,861 AS TITANIC IS ENCOUNTERING THE LABRADOR CURRENT, 1067 01:01:32,896 --> 01:01:36,451 WHAT EFFECT IS THE WALL OF FRIGID AIR ABOVE IT CAUSING? 1068 01:01:38,177 --> 01:01:41,249 WE KNOW THAT THE PASSENGERS FELT IT. 1069 01:01:41,283 --> 01:01:44,010 DID IT CAUSE THE LOOKOUTS TO TEMPORARILY LEAVE THEIR POSTS 1070 01:01:44,045 --> 01:01:46,703 IN SEARCH OF WARMER CLOTHES? 1071 01:01:46,737 --> 01:01:48,635 THE RECORD SAYS NO. 1072 01:01:50,085 --> 01:01:54,158 COULD IT HAVE EVEN PUSHED THE ICEBERG FASTER TOWARD TITANIC? 1073 01:01:54,193 --> 01:01:56,229 AGAIN, UNLIKELY. 1074 01:01:58,853 --> 01:02:01,165 BUT TIM IS GROWING INCREASINGLY CONVINCED 1075 01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:02,719 THAT THE REAL CULPRIT IN THE CRIME 1076 01:02:02,753 --> 01:02:06,550 WAS NOT THE ICEBERG ITSELF, BUT THIS SUDDEN WALL OF COLD AIR 1077 01:02:06,584 --> 01:02:08,379 ACCOMPANYING THE KILLER CURRENT. 1078 01:02:08,414 --> 01:02:10,209 Lord: IT WAS A MOST PECULIAR NIGHT. 1079 01:02:10,243 --> 01:02:12,659 Gracie: THE CLEAR, STARLIT NIGHT... 1080 01:02:12,694 --> 01:02:14,972 Lord: COULD NOT DISTINGUISH WHERE THE SKY ENDED. 1081 01:02:15,007 --> 01:02:17,354 Narrator: THIS WEATHER PHENOMENON MUST HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO DO 1082 01:02:17,388 --> 01:02:19,287 WITH ALL THE CONFLICTING VISUAL IMPRESSIONS 1083 01:02:19,321 --> 01:02:20,667 REPORTED THAT NIGHT. 1084 01:02:20,702 --> 01:02:21,703 Hippach: AND THE SKY, SO MANY STARS. 1085 01:02:21,738 --> 01:02:23,601 Fleet: THERE WAS A SLIGHT HAZE COMING. 1086 01:02:31,817 --> 01:02:34,958 Narrator: AS TIM CONTINUES HIS JOURNEY TO GATHER EVIDENCE, 1087 01:02:34,992 --> 01:02:37,754 HE RECALLS THAT ONE OF THE SURVIVORS SHARED HIS BELIEF 1088 01:02:37,788 --> 01:02:40,998 THAT FORENSIC SCIENCE COULD ULTIMATELY PROVIDE AN ANSWER 1089 01:02:41,033 --> 01:02:43,242 TO WHY TITANIC SANK... 1090 01:02:44,968 --> 01:02:47,522 SECOND-CLASS PASSENGER AND SCIENCE TEACHER 1091 01:02:47,556 --> 01:02:49,938 LAWRENCE BEESLEY. 1092 01:02:49,973 --> 01:02:51,802 Tim: AND BEESLEY LEAVES US WITH THIS TANTALIZING LINE. 1093 01:02:51,837 --> 01:02:54,287 HE SAYS, "I KNOW THERE MUST BE SOME MISSING EVIDENCE, 1094 01:02:54,322 --> 01:02:55,530 BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, 1095 01:02:55,564 --> 01:02:57,843 AND WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL IT ARRIVES." 1096 01:03:00,673 --> 01:03:02,951 Narrator: TIM HOPES HE'LL FIND THAT MISSING PIECE OF EVIDENCE 1097 01:03:02,986 --> 01:03:05,091 AT HIS NEXT STOP-- 1098 01:03:05,126 --> 01:03:06,817 THE BRITISH METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE 1099 01:03:06,852 --> 01:03:09,164 IN EXETER, SOUTHWEST ENGLAND. 1100 01:03:11,201 --> 01:03:15,239 HE'S HEARD IT CONTAINS ONE MORE UNIQUE SET OF LOGS. 1101 01:03:15,274 --> 01:03:18,380 PERHAPS THIS ONE WILL CRACK OPEN THE MYSTERY. 1102 01:03:22,281 --> 01:03:24,904 Tim: THE AMAZING THING IS THAT THERE ARE VERY, VERY FEW SHIPS 1103 01:03:24,939 --> 01:03:27,251 THAT WERE IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME. 1104 01:03:27,286 --> 01:03:29,875 AND, IN FACT, THIS IS THE ONLY LOG 1105 01:03:29,909 --> 01:03:31,531 IN THE WHOLE OF THE MET OFFICE 1106 01:03:31,566 --> 01:03:35,846 THAT IS IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME. 1107 01:03:35,881 --> 01:03:37,848 THIS IS THE LOG OF THE MARENGO. 1108 01:03:37,883 --> 01:03:42,025 SHE LEFT NEW YORK ON THE 11th OF APRIL, 1912. 1109 01:03:42,059 --> 01:03:43,578 40, 56... 1110 01:03:43,612 --> 01:03:45,338 THIS IS VERY, VERY NEAR TITANIC'S WRECK SITE 1111 01:03:45,373 --> 01:03:47,616 THE DAY TITANIC COLLIDED. 1112 01:03:49,032 --> 01:03:51,482 THE SEA TEMPERATURE IS DROPPING DRAMATICALLY. 1113 01:03:51,517 --> 01:03:54,865 AND LET'S SEE WHAT IT SAYS IN THE REMARKS SECTION. 1114 01:03:54,900 --> 01:03:56,246 GOSH, THIS IS AMAZING. 1115 01:03:56,280 --> 01:04:01,527 HERE, AT 8:00 O'CLOCK, IT SAYS, "MUCH REFRACTION," 1116 01:04:01,561 --> 01:04:05,220 AND THEN AT NOON, "MUCH REFRACTION ON HORIZON." 1117 01:04:06,566 --> 01:04:09,500 AND THEN, "GREAT REFRACTION," AT 4:00 P.M. 1118 01:04:09,535 --> 01:04:11,261 AND AT MIDNIGHT SHE SAYS, 1119 01:04:11,295 --> 01:04:14,678 "MUCH REFRACTION, STARS VERY CLEAR AND BRIGHT." 1120 01:04:14,712 --> 01:04:16,680 AND THAT'S WHAT THE SURVIVORS NOTICED, 1121 01:04:16,714 --> 01:04:19,786 IS HOW CLEAR AND BRIGHT THE STARS WERE. 1122 01:04:19,821 --> 01:04:22,099 Hippach: THE SEA WAS SO VERY STILL, 1123 01:04:22,134 --> 01:04:25,102 AND THE SKY, SO MANY STARS. 1124 01:04:25,137 --> 01:04:27,829 Beesley: AND TO TWINKLE AND SPARKLE WITH A STACCATO FLASH 1125 01:04:27,864 --> 01:04:31,039 THAT MADE THE SKY SEEM NOTHING BUT A SETTING 1126 01:04:31,074 --> 01:04:33,766 MADE FOR THEM IN WHICH TO DISPLAY THEIR WONDER. 1127 01:04:36,286 --> 01:04:38,391 Narrator: UNTIL NOW, TIM HAS BEEN FINDING DATA 1128 01:04:38,426 --> 01:04:40,738 CONFIRMING A MASSIVE DROP IN TEMPERATURE 1129 01:04:40,773 --> 01:04:43,534 AS TITANIC ENTERED THE KILLING ZONE. 1130 01:04:43,569 --> 01:04:47,159 BUT THIS LOG INDICATES SOMETHING FAR MORE SIGNIFICANT. 1131 01:04:48,677 --> 01:04:52,371 THE PASSENGERS AND CREW WEREN'T JUST SUDDENLY GETTING COLDER. 1132 01:04:52,405 --> 01:04:54,683 THE VERY ATMOSPHERE WAS BEGINNING TO PLAY TRICKS 1133 01:04:54,718 --> 01:04:56,306 ON THEIR EYES. 1134 01:04:58,342 --> 01:05:01,552 WHEN MARINERS RECORD "REFRACTION" IN THEIR LOGS, 1135 01:05:01,587 --> 01:05:03,900 THEY'RE DESCRIBING STRANGE OPTICAL EFFECTS 1136 01:05:03,934 --> 01:05:06,730 AND DISTORTIONS IN THE AIR. 1137 01:05:06,764 --> 01:05:09,629 WHAT DIFFERENCE COULD SUCH VISUAL PHENOMENA HAVE MADE 1138 01:05:09,664 --> 01:05:12,701 IN THE MINUTES BEFORE TITANIC HIT THE ICEBERG? 1139 01:05:14,531 --> 01:05:16,464 TIM IS THE FIRST PERSON TO HAVE UNCOVERED 1140 01:05:16,498 --> 01:05:19,398 THESE STRANGE OPTICAL EFFECTS AT THE CRIME SCENE 1141 01:05:19,432 --> 01:05:21,745 AND AT THE EXACT TIME IT OCCURRED. 1142 01:05:24,403 --> 01:05:28,994 NOW HE SCOURS THE OTHER ARCHIVES TO CONFIRM HIS BREAKTHROUGH. 1143 01:05:29,028 --> 01:05:31,134 Wolfgang: YES, THIS IS THE WORD "LUFTSPEIGELUNG." 1144 01:05:31,168 --> 01:05:33,895 Tim: AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHAT DOES "LUFTSPIEGELUNG" MEAN? 1145 01:05:33,930 --> 01:05:38,175 Wolfgang: "LUFT" IS AIR, AND "SPIEGEL" IS MIRROR, 1146 01:05:38,210 --> 01:05:41,282 AND ALTOGETHER IT'S AIR MIRROR. 1147 01:05:41,316 --> 01:05:42,352 Tim: LIKE A MIRAGE! 1148 01:05:42,386 --> 01:05:43,422 Wolfgang: YES. 1149 01:05:43,456 --> 01:05:44,906 Tim: THAT'S ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. 1150 01:05:44,941 --> 01:05:47,909 Wolfgang: I THINK THIS IS WHAT THEY MEANT. 1151 01:05:47,944 --> 01:05:49,669 Narrator: A MIRAGE... 1152 01:05:51,050 --> 01:05:53,018 AT LAST, SOMETHING THAT MIGHT EXPLAIN 1153 01:05:53,052 --> 01:05:54,881 WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT. 1154 01:05:54,916 --> 01:05:57,436 Tim: CLEAR HORIZON WITH MIRAGE. 1155 01:05:57,470 --> 01:05:58,713 IN THE AFTERNOON. 1156 01:05:58,747 --> 01:06:00,784 CLEAR HORIZON WITH MIRAGE. 1157 01:06:02,682 --> 01:06:04,477 Narrator: WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF MIRAGES, 1158 01:06:04,512 --> 01:06:07,411 THEY THINK OF SEEING SOMETHING THAT ISN'T THERE. 1159 01:06:07,446 --> 01:06:09,034 BUT IN TITANIC'S CASE, 1160 01:06:09,068 --> 01:06:10,587 THE LOOKOUTS FAILED TO SEE SOMETHING 1161 01:06:10,621 --> 01:06:13,314 THAT CLEARLY WAS THERE. 1162 01:06:13,348 --> 01:06:16,696 SO HOW COULD A MIRAGE EXPLAIN A MISTAKE LIKE THAT? 1163 01:06:19,734 --> 01:06:22,288 TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THESE VISUAL PHENOMENA, 1164 01:06:22,323 --> 01:06:25,291 TIM TRAVELS TO A PLACE THAT IS THE VERY OPPOSITE 1165 01:06:25,326 --> 01:06:28,087 OF TITANIC'S CRIME SCENE-- 1166 01:06:28,122 --> 01:06:29,537 THE DESERT. 1167 01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:38,546 Tim: WELL, I'M OUT HERE IN THE DESERT, 1168 01:06:38,580 --> 01:06:41,963 BECAUSE WHEN YOU THINK OF MIRAGE, YOU THINK OF THE DESERT. 1169 01:06:41,998 --> 01:06:43,378 YOU THINK OF THIRSTY PEOPLE 1170 01:06:43,413 --> 01:06:46,071 TREKKING THOUSANDS OF MILES ACROSS THE DESERT, 1171 01:06:46,105 --> 01:06:49,212 TRYING TO FILL UP THEIR WATER BOTTLES. 1172 01:06:49,246 --> 01:06:50,937 AND THEY CAN SEE A SHIMMERING... 1173 01:06:50,972 --> 01:06:52,974 WHAT LOOKS LIKE A SHIMMERING LAKE OF WATER IN THE DISTANCE. 1174 01:06:53,009 --> 01:06:55,632 AND THEY WALK AND WALK AND WALK, BUT THEY NEVER GET THERE. 1175 01:06:55,666 --> 01:06:57,668 AND THAT'S THE CLASSIC MIRAGE. 1176 01:06:59,498 --> 01:07:01,672 Narrator: IN CALIFORNIA'S MOJAVE DESERT, 1177 01:07:01,707 --> 01:07:04,158 TIM HAS COME TO MEET A MAN WHO SPECIALIZES 1178 01:07:04,192 --> 01:07:08,196 IN CAPTURING EXTRAORDINARY VISUAL PHENOMENA. 1179 01:07:08,231 --> 01:07:10,267 AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER ED DARACK 1180 01:07:10,302 --> 01:07:12,959 CHASES MIRAGES ACROSS THE WORLD. 1181 01:07:14,271 --> 01:07:15,514 Ed Darack: THE WAY IT'LL START, LIKE IT DID TODAY, 1182 01:07:15,548 --> 01:07:16,963 IS I'LL BE DRIVING DOWN A ROAD, 1183 01:07:16,998 --> 01:07:19,000 I'LL NOTICE THAT THE CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT FOR A MIRAGE, 1184 01:07:19,035 --> 01:07:20,312 'CAUSE I'LL SEE THEM ON THE ROAD. 1185 01:07:20,346 --> 01:07:22,210 YOU'LL SEE THE TYPICAL SORT OF WATER MIRAGE, 1186 01:07:22,245 --> 01:07:23,487 WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S WATER, 1187 01:07:23,522 --> 01:07:25,903 BUT ONCE YOU GET UP TO IT, IT'S NOT. 1188 01:07:25,938 --> 01:07:28,285 Tim: AND WHAT CAUSES, YOU KNOW, THAT SORT OF SHIMMERING EFFECT? 1189 01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:29,528 WHAT CAUSES THAT? 1190 01:07:29,562 --> 01:07:30,839 Ed: MOST PEOPLE WHEN THEY LOOK THROUGH THE SKY, 1191 01:07:30,874 --> 01:07:32,082 THROUGH CLEAR AIR, THEY JUST THINK, 1192 01:07:32,117 --> 01:07:33,704 OH, IT'S CLEAR AIR, IT'S NOTHING THERE. 1193 01:07:33,739 --> 01:07:35,706 IT'S NOT THE CASE. IT'S A LENS. 1194 01:07:35,741 --> 01:07:38,502 AND HOW MUCH IT WILL DISTORT OR EFFECT 1195 01:07:38,537 --> 01:07:41,057 WHAT THE VIEWER SEES OF AN OBJECT 1196 01:07:41,091 --> 01:07:43,990 CAN VARY DEPENDING ON ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS. 1197 01:07:47,373 --> 01:07:49,996 Narrator: TO DEMONSTRATE HOW THAT LENS BENDS LIGHT WAVES 1198 01:07:50,031 --> 01:07:52,965 TO CREATE A MIRAGE, ED BRINGS IN A HELICOPTER. 1199 01:07:52,999 --> 01:07:54,518 Ed: OKAY, COME TOWARD US AT MAYBE 10 KNOTS, 1200 01:07:54,553 --> 01:07:57,280 AT FIVE FEET ATL, IF YOU CAN, OVER. 1201 01:07:57,314 --> 01:07:59,247 Narrator: JUST NOW, THE GROUND IS MUCH WARMER 1202 01:07:59,282 --> 01:08:01,422 THAN THE AIR ABOVE IT. 1203 01:08:01,456 --> 01:08:05,011 THIS CREATES A GRADIENT OF HOT TO COLD AIR, 1204 01:08:05,046 --> 01:08:08,532 AND SINCE COLD AIR IS DENSER OR HEAVIER THAN WARM AIR, 1205 01:08:08,567 --> 01:08:12,364 THE TWO AIR MASSES CREATE DISTINCT LAYERS. 1206 01:08:12,398 --> 01:08:14,262 THOSE LAYERS ACT LIKE A LENS 1207 01:08:14,297 --> 01:08:17,714 BENDING AND DISTORTING OUR FAMILIAR REALITY. 1208 01:08:18,853 --> 01:08:20,924 THE RESULT IS A CLASSIC MIRAGE 1209 01:08:20,958 --> 01:08:24,169 WHERE OBJECTS APPEAR BELOW THEIR ACTUAL POSITION. 1210 01:08:29,174 --> 01:08:33,039 Ed: THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SEQUENCES WITH MIRAGES. 1211 01:08:35,421 --> 01:08:37,699 YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE DISTANCE, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS, 1212 01:08:37,734 --> 01:08:39,253 IT LOOKS LIKE A SPACESHIP COMING AT YOU. 1213 01:08:39,287 --> 01:08:40,978 IT'S A BLACK BLOB. 1214 01:08:41,013 --> 01:08:44,085 AND THIS IS ON A HIGHWAY IN NEW MEXICO. 1215 01:08:46,052 --> 01:08:47,985 YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS AND SLOWLY IT EMERGES... 1216 01:08:48,020 --> 01:08:49,608 IT STILL LOOKS LIKE A SPACESHIP RIGHT THERE. 1217 01:08:49,642 --> 01:08:51,437 Tim: YEAH, IT'S FLOATING IN THE AIR. 1218 01:08:51,472 --> 01:08:52,473 Ed: IT'S FLOATING IN THE AIR. 1219 01:08:52,507 --> 01:08:55,924 IT SEEMS TO BE FLOATING IN THE AIR. 1220 01:08:55,959 --> 01:08:57,547 BUT THEN WHEN YOU GET UP HERE, YOU SEE IT, 1221 01:08:57,581 --> 01:09:01,033 IT'S A CAR WITH TWO TRUCKS BEHIND IT. 1222 01:09:01,067 --> 01:09:02,793 Tim: YEAH, THAT'S AMAZING, ISN'T IT? 1223 01:09:02,828 --> 01:09:05,037 THAT JUST SHOWS THAT YOUR EYES CAN DECEIVE YOU SO MUCH 1224 01:09:05,071 --> 01:09:06,383 WITH THIS SORT OF STUFF. 1225 01:09:06,418 --> 01:09:08,040 Ed: WELL, IT'S NOT YOUR EYES THAT ARE DECEIVING YOU. 1226 01:09:08,074 --> 01:09:09,421 YOUR EYES AREN'T DECEIVING ANYTHING. 1227 01:09:09,455 --> 01:09:11,285 WHAT IT IS, IS THE LENS OF THE AIR 1228 01:09:11,319 --> 01:09:14,150 BETWEEN THE OBJECT AND WHAT YOU'RE SEEING. 1229 01:09:14,184 --> 01:09:15,875 THAT'S THE DECEPTION. 1230 01:09:18,257 --> 01:09:20,190 Tim: HOW IS IT SIMILAR, THIS HOT DESERT, 1231 01:09:20,225 --> 01:09:21,985 TO THE COLD ENVIRONMENT OF THE TITANIC? 1232 01:09:22,019 --> 01:09:24,953 Ed: THE SIMILARITIES ARE THAT THERE ARE LAYERS OF AIR 1233 01:09:24,988 --> 01:09:26,921 THAT ARE VERY DIFFERENT IN AIR DENSITY 1234 01:09:26,955 --> 01:09:29,406 BECAUSE OF THE TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES. 1235 01:09:29,441 --> 01:09:30,235 Tim: THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE. 1236 01:09:30,269 --> 01:09:31,615 BECAUSE, FOR EXAMPLE, 1237 01:09:31,650 --> 01:09:33,893 WHEN THEY WERE COLLECTING THE BODIES FROM THE TITANIC, 1238 01:09:33,928 --> 01:09:35,274 THEY ACTUALLY NOTED THAT 1239 01:09:35,309 --> 01:09:39,934 THE AIR CHANGED FROM 56 TO 32 IN HALF A MILE. 1240 01:09:39,968 --> 01:09:41,763 Ed: THAT'S A TREMENDOUS DIFFERENCE IN AIR TEMPERATURE. 1241 01:09:41,798 --> 01:09:44,939 SO YOU HAD VERY DIFFERENT MASSES OF AIR, 1242 01:09:44,973 --> 01:09:46,975 RIGHT NEXT TO ONE ANOTHER, ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER, 1243 01:09:47,010 --> 01:09:48,253 AND SO THAT WOULD REALLY DRAMATICALLY 1244 01:09:48,287 --> 01:09:50,082 BEND THE LIGHT RAYS. 1245 01:09:53,119 --> 01:09:56,364 Narrator: NOW EVERYTHING IS CLICKING INTO PLACE. 1246 01:09:56,399 --> 01:09:59,850 ED'S MIRAGE OBSERVATIONS CONFIRM THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DATA 1247 01:09:59,885 --> 01:10:02,405 TIM HAS GATHERED FROM EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY 1248 01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:04,096 AND SHIPS' LOGS. 1249 01:10:05,477 --> 01:10:08,100 THE CRUCIAL DIFFERENCE IS THAT HERE IN THE DESERT, 1250 01:10:08,134 --> 01:10:12,656 TIM HAS OBSERVED THE EFFECT OF COLD AIR ON TOP OF WARM. 1251 01:10:12,691 --> 01:10:15,245 FOR TITANIC SAILING 100 YEARS AGO, 1252 01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:18,973 THOSE CONDITIONS WERE REVERSED BUT EQUALLY DECEIVING. 1253 01:10:21,631 --> 01:10:24,461 AHEAD OF HER WAS THE WARM WATER OF THE GULF STREAM, 1254 01:10:24,496 --> 01:10:26,360 WARMING THE AIR ABOVE. 1255 01:10:27,637 --> 01:10:29,915 THE LABRADOR CURRENT BROUGHT FREEZING WATER 1256 01:10:29,949 --> 01:10:32,020 UNDERNEATH THE WARM AIR. 1257 01:10:33,574 --> 01:10:38,268 SOON, THE WARM AIR CLOSE TO THE SEA WAS REPLACED BY COLD. 1258 01:10:38,303 --> 01:10:41,098 COLD AIR UNDER WARM-- 1259 01:10:41,133 --> 01:10:44,274 PERFECT CONDITIONS FOR A COLD WATER MIRAGE. 1260 01:10:48,658 --> 01:10:50,073 AT THE SPEED THEY WERE TRAVELING, 1261 01:10:50,107 --> 01:10:52,248 IN THE CLEAR CONDITIONS OF THAT NIGHT, 1262 01:10:52,282 --> 01:10:55,285 LOOKOUTS LEE AND FLEET SHOULD'VE BEEN ABLE TO SPOT AN ICEBERG 1263 01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:57,977 30 MINUTES AWAY-- 1264 01:10:58,012 --> 01:11:01,636 PLENTY OF TIME TO WARN THE SHIP. 1265 01:11:01,671 --> 01:11:06,158 BUT ON THAT NIGHT, THEY HAD JUST 37 SECONDS. 1266 01:11:06,192 --> 01:11:07,401 Lee: ICE AHEAD! 1267 01:11:07,435 --> 01:11:08,505 [BELL RINGS] 1268 01:11:08,540 --> 01:11:10,369 Fleet: ICE AHEAD, ICE AHEAD. 1269 01:11:14,131 --> 01:11:16,582 Narrator: WAS IT POSSIBLE THAT A COLD WATER MIRAGE 1270 01:11:16,617 --> 01:11:19,482 HAD RENDERED THE ICEBERG EFFECTIVELY INVISIBLE 1271 01:11:19,516 --> 01:11:21,484 FOR ALMOST 30 MINUTES? 1272 01:11:25,350 --> 01:11:29,354 TIM RETURNS TO NEWFOUNDLAND TO FIND OUT. 1273 01:11:29,388 --> 01:11:32,840 Tim: HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANY WEIRD EFFECTS OF LIGHT? 1274 01:11:32,874 --> 01:11:35,429 Captain: WHEN THE SEA CONDITIONS ARE QUITE COLD, 1275 01:11:35,463 --> 01:11:36,844 WE'LL GET A MIRAGE EECT, 1276 01:11:36,878 --> 01:11:39,916 YOU GET A SHIFTING IN THE OVERALL LOOK OF THE ICE. 1277 01:11:39,950 --> 01:11:41,573 SOMETIMES COMPARATIVELY VERY SMALL, 1278 01:11:41,607 --> 01:11:44,472 SOMETIMES IT CAN BE A MONSTROUS-LOOKING 1279 01:11:44,507 --> 01:11:46,371 TYPE OF ICEBERG. 1280 01:11:46,405 --> 01:11:48,131 YOU KNOW, A LOT OF OUR GUESTS ON BOARD, 1281 01:11:48,165 --> 01:11:51,030 THEY THINK IT'S A 300-FOOT-HIGH ICEBERG COMING THIS WAY, 1282 01:11:51,065 --> 01:11:52,204 AND, OF COURSE, WE EXPLAIN TO THEM 1283 01:11:52,238 --> 01:11:53,964 THAT IT'S PROBABLY A MIRAGE EFFECT. 1284 01:11:53,999 --> 01:11:55,518 AND WITHIN THE HOUR IN THE TOUR, 1285 01:11:55,552 --> 01:11:57,899 SURE ENOUGH, YOU'LL SEE IT'S ALMOST LIKE A FLAT PIECE OF ICE, 1286 01:11:57,934 --> 01:11:59,832 BECAUSE IT HAD SHIFTED THAT MUCH, 1287 01:11:59,867 --> 01:12:03,629 AND THEY CAN'T BELIEVE HOW IT HAD CHANGED. 1288 01:12:03,664 --> 01:12:08,151 Narrator: A 300-FOOT ICEBERG TRANSFORMED INTO A FLAT PIECE OF ICE 1289 01:12:08,185 --> 01:12:11,396 JUST BY THE POWER OF A MIRAGE. 1290 01:12:11,430 --> 01:12:13,018 Captain: WHAT'S INTERESTING, TOO, I THINK, 1291 01:12:13,052 --> 01:12:15,261 WHAT WE FIND, TOO, WHEN THE SEA IS CALM, 1292 01:12:15,296 --> 01:12:19,749 IT'S HARD TO KNOW WHERE THE SEA ENDS AND THE SKY ENDS, REALLY, 1293 01:12:19,783 --> 01:12:22,786 IT ALL SEEMS TO BLEND IN, SO YOU CAN IMAGINE A CALM NIGHT... 1294 01:12:22,821 --> 01:12:24,029 Tim: DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'VE JUST SAID THERE, 1295 01:12:24,063 --> 01:12:25,927 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT CAPTAIN LORD SAID. 1296 01:12:25,962 --> 01:12:28,102 HE SAID THAT THAT NIGHT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL 1297 01:12:28,136 --> 01:12:30,691 WHERE THE SKY ENDED AND WHERE THE SEA BEGAN. 1298 01:12:32,934 --> 01:12:34,453 Narrator: THIS FROM CAPTAIN LORD, 1299 01:12:34,488 --> 01:12:36,006 OBSERVING THE SAME PHENOMENON 1300 01:12:36,041 --> 01:12:38,940 FROM THE DECK OF THE CALIFORNIAN. 1301 01:12:38,975 --> 01:12:41,046 Lord: IT WAS A VERY STRANGE NIGHT. 1302 01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:43,255 IT WAS HARD TO DEFINE WHERE THE SKY ENDED 1303 01:12:43,289 --> 01:12:44,912 AND THE SEA COMMENCED. 1304 01:12:44,946 --> 01:12:47,570 THERE WAS WHAT YOU CALL A SOFT HORIZON. 1305 01:12:49,192 --> 01:12:51,608 Narrator: AND NOT ONLY LORD. 1306 01:12:51,643 --> 01:12:53,714 TITANIC LOOKOUT FREDERICK FLEET 1307 01:12:53,748 --> 01:12:57,062 ALSO DESCRIBED AN INDISTINCT HORIZON. 1308 01:12:57,096 --> 01:12:59,720 Fleet: WHEN THE HAZE CAME, 1309 01:12:59,754 --> 01:13:03,240 IT DID NOT STRETCH ACROSS THE HORIZON. 1310 01:13:03,275 --> 01:13:05,035 IT WAS RIGHT IN FRONT. 1311 01:13:05,070 --> 01:13:07,175 TWO POINTS ON EACH BOW. 1312 01:13:09,350 --> 01:13:12,836 I TOLD MY MATE LEE THERE WAS A SLIGHT HAZE COMING. 1313 01:13:14,459 --> 01:13:18,117 WHEN I NOTICED THE HAZE, THERE WAS NOTHING IN SIGHT. 1314 01:13:22,363 --> 01:13:24,123 Tim: AND NATURALLY, A LOT OF PEOPLE BLAMED HIM 1315 01:13:24,158 --> 01:13:25,849 FOR BEING ASLEEP OR WHATEVER. 1316 01:13:25,884 --> 01:13:27,541 NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. 1317 01:13:27,575 --> 01:13:30,785 HE WAS STRAINING HIS EYES TO SEE AHEAD. 1318 01:13:32,131 --> 01:13:33,478 AND WHEN THE COMMISSIONER WAS GRILLING HIM 1319 01:13:33,512 --> 01:13:35,169 AT THE BRITISH TITANIC INQUIRY, 1320 01:13:35,203 --> 01:13:38,241 HE SAID, "THERE WAS A SLIGHT HAZE ON THE HORIZON." 1321 01:13:38,275 --> 01:13:40,174 SO THE COMMISSIONER SAID, "WELL, YOU SHOULD HAVE SLOWED DOWN THEN 1322 01:13:40,208 --> 01:13:41,796 IF THERE WAS A HAZE, YOU SHOULD HAVE REPORTED IT." 1323 01:13:41,831 --> 01:13:44,765 AND HE SAID, "WELL, IT DIDN'T REALLY AFFECT OUR VIEW AHEAD." 1324 01:13:44,799 --> 01:13:47,008 AND THE COMMISSIONER GOES, "WELL, HOW CAN IT BE A HAZE 1325 01:13:47,043 --> 01:13:50,426 IF IT DIDN'T AFFECT YOUR VIEW AHEAD?" 1326 01:13:50,460 --> 01:13:53,567 Narrator: THE "HAZE" FLEET WAS DESCRIBING WAS IN FACT EVIDENCE 1327 01:13:53,601 --> 01:13:55,845 THAT TITANIC WAS HEADING DIRECTLY TOWARDS 1328 01:13:55,879 --> 01:13:58,019 A COLD WATER MIRAGE. 1329 01:13:59,745 --> 01:14:02,196 AND AS THE SHIPS' LOGS OF THE TIME PROVE, 1330 01:14:02,230 --> 01:14:05,026 CAPTAINS KNEW ABOUT REFRACTION. 1331 01:14:05,061 --> 01:14:08,478 SO HERE WAS ANOTHER ARGUMENT FOR THE NEED TO SLOW DOWN. 1332 01:14:10,169 --> 01:14:11,619 Tim: HAVE A LOOK AT THESE. 1333 01:14:11,654 --> 01:14:13,379 THESE WERE TAKEN IN FINLAND. 1334 01:14:13,414 --> 01:14:17,487 AND WHAT THEY SHOW IS A HORIZON THAT HAS JUST BEEN ELEVATED 1335 01:14:17,522 --> 01:14:20,110 WAY ABOVE WHERE IT SHOULD NORMALLY BE. 1336 01:14:20,145 --> 01:14:23,251 AND YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW CONFUSING THAT WOULD BE AT NIGHT 1337 01:14:23,286 --> 01:14:27,324 TO A SAILOR WHO DIDN'T KNOW THAT THAT WAS WHAT WAS GOING ON. 1338 01:14:27,359 --> 01:14:30,293 Narrator: IT'S THE REVERSE OF WHAT TIM SAW IN THE DESERT. 1339 01:14:30,327 --> 01:14:35,056 INSTEAD OF THE SKY BEING BENT DOWN TO APPEAR AS WATER, 1340 01:14:35,091 --> 01:14:39,164 HERE, A FLAT HORIZON IS LIFTED UP LIKE A CLIFF. 1341 01:14:40,786 --> 01:14:43,064 IN THE DAYTIME, IT'S EASY TO SEE. 1342 01:14:43,099 --> 01:14:46,792 THE ISLAND AND TREES ARE RAISED, SMEARED AND DISTORTED. 1343 01:14:48,932 --> 01:14:52,660 ON A MOONLIT NIGHT, IT CAN BE HARDER TO MAKE THINGS OUT. 1344 01:14:52,695 --> 01:14:56,733 ON THIS HORIZON, THE MIRAGE LIFTS UP A BAND OF WATER. 1345 01:14:56,768 --> 01:15:00,806 THAT'S THE MYSTERIOUS HAZE LOOKOUT FLEET SAW. 1346 01:15:00,841 --> 01:15:03,015 AND WITHIN IT LIES A POSSIBLE ANSWER 1347 01:15:03,050 --> 01:15:05,604 TO THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF TITANIC. 1348 01:15:08,296 --> 01:15:11,230 THERE WAS NO MOON THAT NIGHT. 1349 01:15:11,265 --> 01:15:13,509 THE ONLY WAY THE LOOKOUTS COULD SPOT THE ICEBERG 1350 01:15:13,543 --> 01:15:16,719 WAS AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE BLANKET OF STARS. 1351 01:15:18,099 --> 01:15:21,586 BUT WHEN THE LENS OF HOT AND COLD AIR CAUSES A MIRAGE, 1352 01:15:21,620 --> 01:15:23,173 IT DISTORTS THE SEA, 1353 01:15:23,208 --> 01:15:26,349 AND RAISES UP THE HORIZON BEHIND THE ICEBERG. 1354 01:15:26,383 --> 01:15:28,316 IT'S NOW CLOAKED. 1355 01:15:28,351 --> 01:15:31,630 THE BACKGROUND OF STARS DISAPPEARS. 1356 01:15:31,665 --> 01:15:34,530 THE ICEBERG BECOMES INVISIBLE. 1357 01:15:38,464 --> 01:15:41,467 THE BEST CREW OF ITS DAY, IN THE BEST SHIP. 1358 01:15:41,502 --> 01:15:43,193 Lee: ICE AHEAD! 1359 01:15:44,229 --> 01:15:45,506 [BELL RINGS] 1360 01:15:45,541 --> 01:15:48,129 Narrator: BUT AGAINST NATURE, ACTING IN THIS WAY, 1361 01:15:48,164 --> 01:15:50,062 IT HAD NO CHANCE. 1362 01:15:58,174 --> 01:16:00,210 IT'S A COMPELLING THEORY. 1363 01:16:01,936 --> 01:16:04,870 BUT IS THERE ANY MORE EVIDENCE TO BACK IT UP? 1364 01:16:07,632 --> 01:16:10,151 Tim: A COUPLE OF SURVIVORS GIVE VERY INTERESTING TESTIMONY 1365 01:16:10,186 --> 01:16:15,847 ABOUT SMOKE THAT NIGHT SEEMING TO HANG IN A FLAT, LEVEL PLANE. 1366 01:16:15,881 --> 01:16:18,850 THE FIRST PERSON WHO DOES THIS IS COLONEL ARCHIBALD GRACIE, 1367 01:16:18,884 --> 01:16:22,232 AND HE NOTICES IT JUST ABOVE THE WRECK SITE. 1368 01:16:22,267 --> 01:16:25,166 [SCREAMING] 1369 01:16:29,585 --> 01:16:31,517 Gracie: WHAT IMPRESSED ME 1370 01:16:31,552 --> 01:16:35,763 AT THE TIME MY EYES BEHELD THE HORRIBLE SCENE 1371 01:16:35,798 --> 01:16:42,632 WAS A THIN, LIGHT GRAY SMOKY VAPOR THAT HUNG LIKE A PALL 1372 01:16:42,667 --> 01:16:44,772 JUST A FEW FEET ABOVE THE SURFACE 1373 01:16:44,807 --> 01:16:46,947 OF THE BROAD EXPANSE OF SEA 1374 01:16:46,981 --> 01:16:50,467 THAT WAS COVERED WITH A MASS OF TANGLED WRECKAGE. 1375 01:16:53,609 --> 01:16:56,577 THAT IT WAS A TANGIBLE VAPOR, 1376 01:16:56,612 --> 01:16:59,856 NOT A PRODUCT OF IMAGINATION, I FEEL ASSURED. 1377 01:17:02,238 --> 01:17:04,067 Tim: BUT THEN, FROM MUCH FURTHER AWAY, 1378 01:17:04,102 --> 01:17:07,346 FIRST-CLASS PASSENGER PHILIP MOCK, IN HIS LIFEBOAT, 1379 01:17:07,381 --> 01:17:10,039 HE DESCRIBES THAT AS TITANIC SANK, 1380 01:17:10,073 --> 01:17:13,007 A COLUMN OF BLACK SMOKE ROSE HIGH INTO THE AIR 1381 01:17:13,042 --> 01:17:16,114 AND THEN FLATTENED OUT AT THE TOP LIKE A MUSHROOM. 1382 01:17:17,494 --> 01:17:20,187 Narrator: WHAT PHILIP MOCK DESCRIBES FROM HIS LIFEBOAT 1383 01:17:20,221 --> 01:17:22,189 IS HOW THE SMOKE FROM THE DOOMED SHIP 1384 01:17:22,223 --> 01:17:26,296 IS CLEARLY HITTING A JUNCTURE OF THE LAYERS OF COLD AND HOT AIR. 1385 01:17:28,264 --> 01:17:31,198 FINAL PROOF THAT THE CONDITIONS FOR A MIRAGE 1386 01:17:31,232 --> 01:17:33,407 EXISTED ABOVE TITANIC. 1387 01:17:38,895 --> 01:17:43,279 TIM'S MIRAGE THEORY HAS SOLVED THE FIRST MYSTERY-- 1388 01:17:43,313 --> 01:17:46,627 WHY THE LOOKOUTS FAILED TO SEE THE INVISIBLE ICEBERG. 1389 01:17:47,904 --> 01:17:50,010 BUT CAN IT DO MORE? 1390 01:17:52,875 --> 01:17:55,809 CAN IT EXPLAIN THE SECOND MYSTERY THAT NIGHT? 1391 01:17:57,293 --> 01:17:59,882 WHY THE NEARBY SHIP, THE CALIFORNIAN, 1392 01:17:59,916 --> 01:18:02,505 DIDN'T COME TO TITANIC'S RESCUE, 1393 01:18:02,539 --> 01:18:06,440 AS COLONEL GRACIE AND MANY OTHER PASSENGERS PRAYED IT WOULD. 1394 01:18:08,269 --> 01:18:11,031 Gracie: I SHOWED THEM A BRIGHT, WHITE LIGHT 1395 01:18:11,065 --> 01:18:14,413 THAT I TOOK TO BE A SHIP ABOUT FIVE MILES OFF, 1396 01:18:14,448 --> 01:18:17,623 AND WHICH I FELT SURE WAS COMING TO OUR RESCUE. 1397 01:18:18,866 --> 01:18:20,523 Narrator: BUT WHEN THE CALIFORNIAN'S CAPTAIN, 1398 01:18:20,557 --> 01:18:23,664 STANLEY LORD, WAS BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURT OF INQUIRY, 1399 01:18:23,699 --> 01:18:26,494 HE CONTINUED TO INSIST THAT THE SHIP WITHIN SIGHT 1400 01:18:26,529 --> 01:18:28,842 WASN'T THE TITANIC. 1401 01:18:28,876 --> 01:18:30,913 Man: YOU HAD SEEN THIS SHIP FOR QUITE A LONG TIME? 1402 01:18:30,947 --> 01:18:32,535 Lord: THAT'S RIGHT, YES. 1403 01:18:32,569 --> 01:18:34,744 Man: AND IN YOUR OPINION, WHAT SORT OF SHIP WAS SHE? 1404 01:18:34,779 --> 01:18:36,815 Lord: SHE WAS SOMETHING LIKE OURSELVES-- 1405 01:18:36,850 --> 01:18:39,818 A MODERATELY LARGE PASSENGER STEAMER, 1406 01:18:39,853 --> 01:18:41,613 BUT NOTHING LIKE THE TITANIC 1407 01:18:41,647 --> 01:18:44,996 OR ANY LARGE WHITE STAR OR CUNARD LINER. 1408 01:18:45,030 --> 01:18:46,411 SHE MIGHT HAVE HAD SOME PASSENGERS ABOARD, 1409 01:18:46,445 --> 01:18:49,552 BUT SHE WASN'T STEAMING LIKE A BIG SHIP. 1410 01:18:52,831 --> 01:18:54,937 Man: AND YOU COULDN'T, OR COULD YOU, HAVE BEEN MISTAKEN 1411 01:18:54,971 --> 01:18:57,180 ABOUT THE LARGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD? 1412 01:18:57,215 --> 01:18:58,388 Lord: I'M POSITIVE THAT 1413 01:18:58,423 --> 01:19:00,908 IT WASN'T THE LARGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD, 1414 01:19:00,943 --> 01:19:03,808 OR ANY LARGE PASSENGER STEAMER AT ALL. 1415 01:19:07,915 --> 01:19:11,781 I SAID, "TO ME, IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THE TITANIC. 1416 01:19:11,816 --> 01:19:13,749 THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT." 1417 01:19:15,060 --> 01:19:17,891 IT WAS A MOST DECEIVING NIGHT. 1418 01:19:17,925 --> 01:19:20,272 THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THAT. 1419 01:19:23,137 --> 01:19:25,105 Narrator: LORD EVENTUALLY HANDED OVER THE WATCH, 1420 01:19:25,139 --> 01:19:27,901 CONFIDENT IN HIS JUDGMENT. 1421 01:19:27,935 --> 01:19:30,696 FOR THE NEXT SIX HOURS, HE SLEPT. 1422 01:19:34,459 --> 01:19:38,877 IN THE MORNING HE WAS TOLD THE AWFUL NEWS--TITANIC HAD SUNK. 1423 01:19:41,190 --> 01:19:42,536 AND THE CHANCE FOR THE CALIFORNIAN 1424 01:19:42,570 --> 01:19:46,609 TO RESCUE MOST, IF NOT ALL THE SURVIVORS, WAS GONE. 1425 01:19:51,787 --> 01:19:53,374 Tim: THE TRAGEDY WITH CAPTAIN LORD IS 1426 01:19:53,409 --> 01:19:54,824 THAT HE WAS ONE OF THE YOUNGEST CAPTAINS 1427 01:19:54,859 --> 01:19:58,069 ON THE NORTH ATLANTIC, BECAUSE HE WAS ONE OF THE ABLEST. 1428 01:19:58,103 --> 01:19:59,484 HOWEVER, THAT NIGHT, 1429 01:19:59,518 --> 01:20:03,557 HE WAS VERY MUCH IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME. 1430 01:20:03,591 --> 01:20:06,215 BUT BECAUSE OF THE ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS, 1431 01:20:06,249 --> 01:20:09,011 HE WASN'T AWARE OF WHAT HE WAS WATCHING. 1432 01:20:12,428 --> 01:20:15,396 Narrator: LORD ALWAYS MAINTAINED HIS INNOCENCE. 1433 01:20:15,431 --> 01:20:17,951 BUT WHAT EXACTLY WAS HE LOOKING AT? 1434 01:20:19,642 --> 01:20:22,748 IT IS, OF COURSE, IMPOSSIBLE TO ASK HIM. 1435 01:20:22,783 --> 01:20:26,787 BUT TODAY THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO TIM CAN GO TO AS WITNESSES-- 1436 01:20:26,822 --> 01:20:29,341 THE SAILORS OF NEWFOUNDLAND WHO DAILY SEE SHIPS 1437 01:20:29,376 --> 01:20:32,897 NAVIGATING THE FREEZING WATERS OF THE LABRADOR CURRENT. 1438 01:20:34,899 --> 01:20:36,038 Man: THE MOST PRONOUNCED I'VE SEEN 1439 01:20:36,072 --> 01:20:39,351 IS A CRUISE SHIP LEAVING THIS PORT AT ONE TIME. 1440 01:20:39,386 --> 01:20:40,628 AND THIS CRUISE SHIP, 1441 01:20:40,663 --> 01:20:43,183 WHICH I FOUND OUT LATER WAS LEAVING THIS PORT, 1442 01:20:43,217 --> 01:20:45,530 WHICH I NORMALLY WOULDN'T SEE, 1443 01:20:45,564 --> 01:20:48,050 SHOWED UP HUGE FROM WHERE I WAS SEEING. 1444 01:20:48,084 --> 01:20:51,432 AND THEN, WITHIN 10 TO 15 SECONDS, 1445 01:20:51,467 --> 01:20:56,506 IT JUST SANK AND SANK AND ALMOST DISAPPEARED COMPLETELY, 1446 01:20:56,541 --> 01:20:59,889 AND ALL I COULD SEE WAS THE TOP OF THE SUPERSTRUCTURE. 1447 01:20:59,924 --> 01:21:03,030 AND IT SO ALARMED THE TWO OF US ON BOARD THE BOAT, 1448 01:21:03,065 --> 01:21:05,722 ON BOARD MY BOAT, THAT I CALLED THE CRUISE SHIP 1449 01:21:05,757 --> 01:21:07,966 AND ASKED IF THEY WERE FINE, 1450 01:21:08,001 --> 01:21:09,830 THEY WERE OKAY, THE SHIP WAS SINKING. 1451 01:21:09,865 --> 01:21:11,728 THEY SAID, "NO, NO, NO, NO, WE'RE FINE." 1452 01:21:11,763 --> 01:21:13,040 SO THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT EMBARRASSING 1453 01:21:13,075 --> 01:21:14,352 TO CALL THE CRUISE SHIP 1454 01:21:14,386 --> 01:21:16,526 THEN FIND OUT THAT IT WAS JUST AN OPTICAL ILLUSION 1455 01:21:16,561 --> 01:21:18,356 THAT I WAS LOOKING AT. 1456 01:21:19,875 --> 01:21:22,222 Narrator: NO ONE HAS EVER BEFORE MADE THE CONNECTION 1457 01:21:22,256 --> 01:21:24,120 BETWEEN COLD WATER MIRAGES, 1458 01:21:24,155 --> 01:21:26,295 COMMONLY SEEN IN THE RIGHT CONDITIONS, 1459 01:21:26,329 --> 01:21:29,919 AND THE EVIDENCE FROM THE TITANIC TRAGEDY. 1460 01:21:29,954 --> 01:21:33,129 BUT NOW, TIM IS USING THIS NEW RESEARCH TO HELP EXPLAIN 1461 01:21:33,164 --> 01:21:36,788 THE PREDICAMENT FACED BY STANLEY LORD THAT NIGHT. 1462 01:21:36,822 --> 01:21:38,514 Tim: IT'S REALLY HARD FOR US TO UNDERSTAND 1463 01:21:38,548 --> 01:21:41,517 HOW CAPTAIN LORD COULD MISTAKE THE BIGGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD 1464 01:21:41,551 --> 01:21:43,105 FOR A CARGO SHIP. 1465 01:21:43,139 --> 01:21:45,383 BUT LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT THIS. 1466 01:21:45,417 --> 01:21:48,282 THIS LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE A CARGO SHIP. 1467 01:21:48,317 --> 01:21:51,527 AND YET THIS LOOKS LIKE AN OIL TANKER. 1468 01:21:51,561 --> 01:21:54,461 BUT, IN FACT, WHAT WE REALIZE IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS 1469 01:21:54,495 --> 01:21:55,841 IT'S A MIRAGE, 1470 01:21:55,876 --> 01:21:57,774 WHICH IS CAUSING AN OIL TANKER 1471 01:21:57,809 --> 01:22:01,261 TO LOOK EXACTLY LIKE A CARGO SHIP. 1472 01:22:06,611 --> 01:22:08,302 Narrator: IT'S A RARE PHENOMENON, 1473 01:22:08,337 --> 01:22:11,823 BUT IT HAS BEEN CAPTURED IN THIS VIDEO. 1474 01:22:11,857 --> 01:22:16,345 AMAZINGLY, THIS IS ONE AND THE SAME SHIP. 1475 01:22:16,379 --> 01:22:19,900 A SINGLE SHIP IS DISTORTED BY A COLD WEATHER MIRAGE. 1476 01:22:19,935 --> 01:22:22,972 SUPERIMPOSING A VIRTUAL IMAGE ABOVE IT. 1477 01:22:25,009 --> 01:22:27,356 THESE SHOTS WERE TAKEN OFF THE COAST OF FINLAND 1478 01:22:27,390 --> 01:22:29,185 IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. 1479 01:22:34,328 --> 01:22:38,125 AT NIGHT A CENTURY AGO, IT NOW SEEMS PERFECTLY CLEAR 1480 01:22:38,160 --> 01:22:40,921 CAPTAIN LORD COULD EASILY HAVE MISTAKEN TITANIC 1481 01:22:40,956 --> 01:22:43,475 FOR ANOTHER, VERY DIFFERENT VESSEL. 1482 01:22:45,339 --> 01:22:47,548 Tim: IT DOES ACTUALLY MAKE ME FEEL SORRY FOR CAPTAIN LORD, 1483 01:22:47,583 --> 01:22:51,138 KNOWING NOW WHAT I KNOW ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF THAT NIGHT. 1484 01:22:51,173 --> 01:22:53,451 WHEN HE IS APPARENTLY MAKING EXCUSES, 1485 01:22:53,485 --> 01:22:54,866 SAYING THE SHIP HE WAS LOOKING AT 1486 01:22:54,900 --> 01:22:56,937 DIDN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THE TITANIC, 1487 01:22:56,972 --> 01:23:00,354 WHAT I NOW UNDERSTAND IS THAT HE WAS TELLING THE EXACT TRUTH. 1488 01:23:00,389 --> 01:23:01,597 AND, IN FACT, WHAT HE WAS LOOKING AT 1489 01:23:01,631 --> 01:23:04,220 DIDN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THE TITANIC AT ALL. 1490 01:23:07,913 --> 01:23:10,813 Narrator: IN 1962, AGED 84, 1491 01:23:10,847 --> 01:23:16,129 CAPTAIN STANLEY LORD DIED STILL HAVING FAILED TO CLEAR HIS NAME. 1492 01:23:16,163 --> 01:23:19,028 HE WENT TO HIS GRAVE CARRYING THE ENTIRE BURDEN OF BLAME 1493 01:23:19,063 --> 01:23:22,342 FOR WHY CALIFORNIAN DIDN'T GO TO TITANIC'S AID. 1494 01:23:26,311 --> 01:23:28,589 BUT LORD WASN'T THE ONLY ONE DECEIVED THAT NIGHT 1495 01:23:28,624 --> 01:23:31,075 ON THE CALIFORNIAN. 1496 01:23:31,109 --> 01:23:34,009 THERE WERE OTHERS, AND ON THE TITANIC, TOO, 1497 01:23:34,043 --> 01:23:35,907 WHO MADE FATAL ERRORS OF JUDGMENT 1498 01:23:35,941 --> 01:23:37,943 BECAUSE OF OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. 1499 01:23:42,431 --> 01:23:45,330 REWINDING THE CLOCK... 1500 01:23:45,365 --> 01:23:49,334 IT'S A LITTLE AFTER MIDNIGHT, APRIL 15, 1912. 1501 01:23:50,542 --> 01:23:53,890 TITANIC IS SINKING AND CALLING OUT FOR HELP. 1502 01:23:53,925 --> 01:23:56,031 [MORSE CODE BEEPING] 1503 01:23:56,065 --> 01:23:58,723 ONLY 10 MILES AWAY ON THE CALIFORNIAN, 1504 01:23:58,757 --> 01:24:02,347 THE RADIO OPERATOR CYRIL EVANS IS ASLEEP. 1505 01:24:02,382 --> 01:24:05,833 BUT TITANIC WASN'T BEING COMPLETELY IGNORED. 1506 01:24:07,870 --> 01:24:11,218 APPRENTICE JAMES GIBSON WAS ON DUTY. 1507 01:24:11,253 --> 01:24:13,876 NOT YET QUALIFIED TO OPERATE THE RADIO, 1508 01:24:13,910 --> 01:24:17,017 HE DOES, HOWEVER, KNOW MORSE CODE. 1509 01:24:17,052 --> 01:24:20,331 James Gibson: IT BEING MY WATCH ON DECK AT 12:00, 1510 01:24:20,365 --> 01:24:23,748 I WENT ONTO THE BRIDGE ABOUT 15 MINUTES AFTER 12:00 1511 01:24:23,782 --> 01:24:25,612 AND SAW THAT THE SHIP HAD STOPPED 1512 01:24:25,646 --> 01:24:28,580 AND THAT SHE WAS SURROUNDED BY LIGHT FIELD ICE. 1513 01:24:32,239 --> 01:24:34,690 WHILE THE SECOND OFFICER AND I WERE HAVING A COFFEE, 1514 01:24:34,724 --> 01:24:35,829 AFTER A FEW MINUTES, 1515 01:24:35,863 --> 01:24:39,074 I ASKED HIM IF THERE WAS ANY SHIPS AROUND US. 1516 01:24:39,108 --> 01:24:41,248 HE SAID THERE WAS ONE ON THE STARBOARD BEAM. 1517 01:24:41,283 --> 01:24:43,526 SO, LOOKING OVER, 1518 01:24:43,561 --> 01:24:46,633 I COULD SEE, LIKE, THIS WHITE LIGHT FLICKERING, 1519 01:24:46,667 --> 01:24:49,739 WHICH I TOOK TO BE MORSE CALLING US UP. 1520 01:24:51,431 --> 01:24:56,643 I WENT OVER AND GAVE ONE LONG FLASH OF LIGHT BACK IN ANSWER, 1521 01:24:56,677 --> 01:25:00,371 BUT THE LIGHT CONTINUED TO FLICKER. 1522 01:25:00,405 --> 01:25:03,719 SO THEN I...WELL, I GAVE HER THE CALLING UP SIGN. 1523 01:25:05,721 --> 01:25:07,757 Narrator: BUT WHY DIDN'T TITANIC TAKE ADVANTAGE 1524 01:25:07,792 --> 01:25:10,726 OF THE CALIFORNIAN'S SIGNAL? 1525 01:25:10,760 --> 01:25:14,523 HOW DID THEY MISS THIS LAST CHANCE FOR RESCUE? 1526 01:25:22,496 --> 01:25:25,258 ON BOARD TITANIC, MANY OF THE PASSENGERS CATCH SIGHT 1527 01:25:25,292 --> 01:25:29,124 OF SOMETHING THAT STIRS THEIR HOPES OF ESCAPE. 1528 01:25:29,158 --> 01:25:31,954 Gracie: I SHOWED THEM A BRIGHT, WHITE LIGHT 1529 01:25:31,988 --> 01:25:35,164 THAT I TOOK TO BE A SHIP ABOUT FIVE MILES OFF, 1530 01:25:35,199 --> 01:25:38,340 AND WHICH I FELT SURE WAS COMING TO OUR RESCUE. 1531 01:25:40,135 --> 01:25:41,895 Narrator: FOURTH OFFICER JOSEPH BOXHALL 1532 01:25:41,929 --> 01:25:44,139 IS AT THE MORSE LAMP. 1533 01:25:44,173 --> 01:25:46,727 HIS TARGET IS THE MYSTERIOUS FLICKERING LIGHT 1534 01:25:46,762 --> 01:25:48,384 OF A DISTANT SHIP. 1535 01:25:50,524 --> 01:25:53,527 Joseph Boxhall: CAPTAIN SMITH WAS STANDING BY MY SIDE, 1536 01:25:53,562 --> 01:25:56,081 AND WE BOTH CAME TO THE CONCLUSION 1537 01:25:56,116 --> 01:26:00,327 THAT SHE WAS CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE SIGNALED BY THE MORSE LAMP. 1538 01:26:06,333 --> 01:26:08,956 SO I SIGNALED TO HER. 1539 01:26:08,991 --> 01:26:12,822 I CALLED HER UP, AND GOT NO ANSWER. 1540 01:26:12,857 --> 01:26:18,345 THE CAPTAIN SAID, "TELL THEM TO COME AT ONCE, 1541 01:26:18,380 --> 01:26:21,210 WE ARE SINKING." 1542 01:26:21,245 --> 01:26:24,248 SO I SENT A SIGNAL OUT, "COME AT ONCE, WE ARE SINKING." 1543 01:26:28,631 --> 01:26:31,841 Tim: AT THE VERY MOMENT THAT BOXHALL HAD HIS BINOCULARS UP 1544 01:26:31,876 --> 01:26:34,706 TRYING TO READ THE MORSE SIGNALS FROM CALIFORNIAN, 1545 01:26:34,741 --> 01:26:36,570 SO GIBSON ON CALIFORNIAN 1546 01:26:36,605 --> 01:26:38,572 ALSO WAS LOOKING THROUGH HIS BINOCULARS 1547 01:26:38,607 --> 01:26:40,643 TRYING TO READ THE FLASHING LIGHT 1548 01:26:40,678 --> 01:26:42,818 THAT HE COULD SEE ON TITANIC. 1549 01:26:45,786 --> 01:26:48,410 AND THERE'S A SENSE THAT BOTH OF THEM KNEW 1550 01:26:48,444 --> 01:26:49,928 IT COULD HAVE BEEN CODE, 1551 01:26:49,963 --> 01:26:51,585 BUT BOTH OF THEM, ON INSPECTING IT, 1552 01:26:51,620 --> 01:26:53,898 DECIDED IT WAS JUST RANDOM FLASHES. 1553 01:26:56,176 --> 01:26:58,868 Gibson: THE LIGHT ON THE OTHER SHIP, HOWEVER, 1554 01:26:58,903 --> 01:27:00,422 REMAINED THE SAME. 1555 01:27:00,456 --> 01:27:03,494 SO THEN I LOOKED THROUGH THE BINOCULARS 1556 01:27:03,528 --> 01:27:06,842 AND FOUND THAT IT WAS THE MASTHEAD LIGHT FLICKERING. 1557 01:27:09,120 --> 01:27:11,571 Narrator: GIBSON THINKS THE RANDOM FLASHING LIGHT HE SEES 1558 01:27:11,605 --> 01:27:13,435 IS COMING FROM A FLICKERING OIL LAMP 1559 01:27:13,469 --> 01:27:16,403 ON THE MAST OF A SMALL STEAMER. 1560 01:27:16,438 --> 01:27:19,095 IT ISN'T THE STRICT DOTS AND DASHES OF MORSE-- 1561 01:27:19,130 --> 01:27:21,408 JUST RANDOM NOISE. 1562 01:27:24,308 --> 01:27:27,759 BOXHALL ON THE TITANIC IS EQUALLY CONFUSED. 1563 01:27:30,590 --> 01:27:32,971 EVENTUALLY THE STRANGE, FLICKERING LIGHT 1564 01:27:33,006 --> 01:27:37,182 SPOTTED BY THE CALIFORNIAN DISAPPEARS. 1565 01:27:38,563 --> 01:27:42,257 IT IS TITANIC, SINKING TO THE OCEAN FLOOR. 1566 01:27:53,785 --> 01:27:56,374 TIM BEGAN HIS INVESTIGATION IN LAS VEGAS, 1567 01:27:56,409 --> 01:27:58,411 EXAMINING THE PIECE OF TITANIC'S HULL 1568 01:27:58,445 --> 01:28:01,068 DREDGED UP FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN. 1569 01:28:02,553 --> 01:28:04,037 AND IT'S HERE IN LAS VEGAS 1570 01:28:04,071 --> 01:28:07,109 THAT HE FINDS THE FINAL PIECE OF THE PUZZLE. 1571 01:28:09,525 --> 01:28:13,080 Tim: I HAVE SPENT YEARS WONDERING WHY THESE TWO SHIPS, 1572 01:28:13,115 --> 01:28:15,048 WHICH WERE TRYING TO MORSE EACH OTHER ALL NIGHT, 1573 01:28:15,082 --> 01:28:16,429 COULDN'T COMMUNICATE. 1574 01:28:16,463 --> 01:28:19,294 RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, IS THE ANSWER. 1575 01:28:23,090 --> 01:28:25,334 IT'S SIMPLY THAT THESE LIGHTS WHICH WE CAN SEE HERE, 1576 01:28:25,369 --> 01:28:26,784 WE KNOW THEY'RE CONSTANT, 1577 01:28:26,818 --> 01:28:29,269 BECAUSE THERE'S NO PROBLEMS WITH THE POWER SUPPLY IN VEGAS, 1578 01:28:29,304 --> 01:28:32,859 BUT WE CAN CLEARLY SEE THEM FLICKERING ON AND OFF 1579 01:28:32,893 --> 01:28:34,274 WITH A STACCATO FLASH. 1580 01:28:34,309 --> 01:28:36,449 AND THAT REMINDS ME OF WHAT BEESLEY WAS TALKING ABOUT 1581 01:28:36,483 --> 01:28:38,934 WHEN HE SAID, "THE STARS REALLY SEEMED TO BE ALIVE, 1582 01:28:38,968 --> 01:28:40,349 AND TO TALK THAT NIGHT." 1583 01:28:40,384 --> 01:28:43,352 AND HERE WE ARE, THESE LIGHTS SEEM TO BE ALIVE, 1584 01:28:43,387 --> 01:28:45,734 AND THEY ALMOST SEEM TO BE TALKING. 1585 01:28:48,288 --> 01:28:50,773 AND THE TRAGIC THING ABOUT THIS BEAUTIFUL SIGHT 1586 01:28:50,808 --> 01:28:54,259 IS IT'S EXACTLY THAT PHENOMENON, KNOWN AS SCINTILLATION, 1587 01:28:54,294 --> 01:28:57,297 WHICH SCRAMBLED TITANIC'S MORSE LAMP SIGNALS. 1588 01:28:57,332 --> 01:28:59,989 AND IT MEANT THAT THE NEARBY SHIP, 1589 01:29:00,024 --> 01:29:01,405 INSTEAD OF REALIZING IT WAS TITANIC 1590 01:29:01,439 --> 01:29:05,512 AND COMING STRAIGHT TO HER AID, NEVER, EVER CAME TO HER AID. 1591 01:29:07,963 --> 01:29:08,964 Narrator: LIKE A MIRAGE, 1592 01:29:08,998 --> 01:29:11,173 SCINTILLATION IS CAUSED BY LIGHT WAVES 1593 01:29:11,207 --> 01:29:14,659 TRAVELING THROUGH LAYERS OF WARM AND COLD AIR. 1594 01:29:14,694 --> 01:29:17,869 BUT HERE THEY'RE MOVING IN FRONT OF DISTANT POINTS OF LIGHT 1595 01:29:17,904 --> 01:29:22,702 WHICH RESPOND BY GROWING RAPIDLY BRIGHTER OR DIMMER... 1596 01:29:22,736 --> 01:29:26,015 EXACTLY AS THEY DID IN THE FREEZING NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN 1597 01:29:26,050 --> 01:29:28,052 A CENTURY AGO. 1598 01:29:30,813 --> 01:29:32,194 BUT ON THAT NIGHT, 1599 01:29:32,228 --> 01:29:35,542 THE SAME PHENOMENON RENDERED THE MORSE LAMP SIGNALS 1600 01:29:35,577 --> 01:29:39,028 BETWEEN THE TWO SHIPS UTTERLY MEANINGLESS. 1601 01:29:46,450 --> 01:29:48,590 ULTIMATELY, THE TRAGEDY OF THE TITANIC 1602 01:29:48,624 --> 01:29:51,489 WAS THE RESULT OF A SIMPLE TRICK OF THE LIGHT, 1603 01:29:51,524 --> 01:29:56,391 BEAUTIFUL, AND AT THE SAME TIME, LETHAL. 1604 01:29:56,425 --> 01:29:58,634 Hippach: SO MANY STARS. 1605 01:29:58,669 --> 01:30:01,257 NEVER SAW SO MANY IN MY WHOLE LIFE. 1606 01:30:02,880 --> 01:30:06,573 Gracie: THE CLEAR, STARLIT NIGHT MADE A NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE 1607 01:30:06,608 --> 01:30:10,405 IN THE DEGREE OF LIGHT JUST BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE WATER. 1608 01:30:18,413 --> 01:30:19,552 Narrator: FOR 100 YEARS, 1609 01:30:19,586 --> 01:30:23,590 PEOPLE HAVE WONDERED AND ARGUED OVER TITANIC... 1610 01:30:23,625 --> 01:30:26,524 A GREAT SYMBOL OF HUMAN INGENUITY, 1611 01:30:26,559 --> 01:30:30,459 YET STILL SOMEHOW A VICTIM OF HUMAN FALLIBILITY. 1612 01:30:32,910 --> 01:30:35,153 WITH THE UNUSUAL CONDITIONS THAT NIGHT, 1613 01:30:35,188 --> 01:30:37,224 THE LOOKOUTS AND CAPTAIN SHOULD HAVE SENSED 1614 01:30:37,259 --> 01:30:39,261 THE NEED TO SLOW DOWN. 1615 01:30:41,608 --> 01:30:45,370 AND THE RADIO OPERATORS ON BOTH THE TITANIC AND THE CALIFORNIAN 1616 01:30:45,405 --> 01:30:47,614 SHOWED FATAL LAPSES, TOO. 1617 01:30:50,272 --> 01:30:54,379 THE REAL CULPRITS, THOUGH, WERE FORCES BEYOND HUMAN CONTROL. 1618 01:30:55,691 --> 01:30:58,383 Tim: IT'S ALMOST AS THOUGH TITANIC SANK 1619 01:30:58,418 --> 01:31:00,385 IN A KILLING ZONE OF NATURE, 1620 01:31:00,420 --> 01:31:04,528 WHERE ALL THESE VERY DANGEROUS ELEMENTS COMBINED 1621 01:31:04,562 --> 01:31:06,530 TO MAKE IT FATAL. 1622 01:31:07,634 --> 01:31:09,464 Narrator: A SERIES OF FREAK PHENOMENA 1623 01:31:09,498 --> 01:31:13,847 CONVERGING AT A TIME AND A PLACE TO MAKE DISASTER INEVITABLE. 1624 01:31:17,161 --> 01:31:19,163 THE WORDS OF SURVIVORS 1625 01:31:19,197 --> 01:31:21,648 COMBINED WITH A MODERN SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION 1626 01:31:21,683 --> 01:31:27,136 HAVE AT LAST SOLVED THE GREAT MYSTERIES OF TITANIC. 124149

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