1 00:00:04,070 --> 00:00:09,303 It began here in ireiand at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. 2 00:00:12,779 --> 00:00:16,681 Three thousand men would labor here for more than 2 years. 3 00:00:16,916 --> 00:00:18,577 They were building a monster 4 00:00:18,818 --> 00:00:22,151 the largest ship the world had ever seen. 5 00:00:24,858 --> 00:00:26,519 In the spring of 1909 6 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:30,059 a mountain of steel began to rise against the sky. 7 00:00:35,435 --> 00:00:41,897 The ship would weigh 66,000 tons her hull would span 4 city blocks, 8 00:00:43,610 --> 00:00:48,377 each of her colossal steam engines was the size of a 3-story house. 9 00:01:09,803 --> 00:01:13,261 The huge scale of these things was a source of delight. 10 00:01:13,506 --> 00:01:15,371 It was a scene out of Gulliver's Travels when 11 00:01:15,608 --> 00:01:18,441 20 draft horses were needed to haul the ship's anchor 12 00:01:18,678 --> 00:01:20,475 through the streets of Belfast. 13 00:01:27,587 --> 00:01:30,420 Some few observers found this giant threatening 14 00:01:30,657 --> 00:01:33,387 and wrote of her nightmare scale. 15 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:36,793 But their forebodings fell short of the event, 16 00:01:37,030 --> 00:01:40,363 for the fate of this ship still fascinates the world 17 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,933 and her name is a synonym for tragedy. 18 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:28,046 In 1910 the huge ship taking shape in Belfast was a supreme wonder 19 00:02:28,281 --> 00:02:30,613 in world accustomed to miracles. 20 00:02:30,850 --> 00:02:34,445 Every day it seemed something bigger or better was invented. 21 00:02:36,356 --> 00:02:39,484 Never had so many people been so prosperous, 22 00:02:39,726 --> 00:02:42,923 never had they taken such delight in showing off 23 00:02:43,363 --> 00:02:46,491 so this was called, "The Gildde Age." 24 00:02:57,844 --> 00:03:01,575 This was a time when horses still got most people around. 25 00:03:01,814 --> 00:03:06,012 But things were rapidly changing thanks to the machines of a new age 26 00:03:06,252 --> 00:03:08,482 everything from rubber bands to radios 27 00:03:08,721 --> 00:03:11,121 from lightbuibs to automobiles. 28 00:03:14,961 --> 00:03:18,226 Progress and prosperity money and machines, 29 00:03:18,464 --> 00:03:23,492 almost anything seemed possible and often it was. 30 00:03:37,850 --> 00:03:40,717 May 31st, 1911, 31 00:03:40,954 --> 00:03:45,482 the Roual Mail Ship Titanic, slipped gracefully into Belfast harbor. 32 00:03:45,725 --> 00:03:49,286 It was the largest moving object ever made by man. 33 00:03:55,935 --> 00:03:58,802 The Titanic was designed for the rich passenger trade 34 00:03:59,038 --> 00:04:00,130 on the North Atlantic. 35 00:04:00,373 --> 00:04:02,238 It was not only the biggest ocean liner 36 00:04:02,475 --> 00:04:05,171 it was by far the most luxurious. 37 00:04:10,216 --> 00:04:14,084 Aboard Titanic it was hard to remember that this was indeed a ship. 38 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:19,485 Advertising the delights it offered the White Star Line called Titanic, 39 00:04:19,726 --> 00:04:21,318 "a floating palace." 40 00:04:28,001 --> 00:04:31,266 So confident were Titanic's builders that her trial vouage 41 00:04:31,504 --> 00:04:33,631 lasted just 8 hours. 42 00:04:33,873 --> 00:04:38,242 Almost as an afterthought she was said to be, "unsinkable." 43 00:04:40,513 --> 00:04:45,041 On April 10th, 1912, Titanic's maiden vouage began. 44 00:04:50,790 --> 00:04:52,849 With their maids valets and chauffeurs 45 00:04:53,092 --> 00:04:58,086 their mountains of baggage the rich traveled in a style almost unknown today. 46 00:04:58,331 --> 00:05:03,633 In an age that worshipped wealth the 325 first class passengers 47 00:05:03,870 --> 00:05:05,770 were an awesome assembly. 48 00:05:07,940 --> 00:05:13,276 Titanic was like a time capsule laden with the splendors of the gilded Age. 49 00:05:23,923 --> 00:05:28,053 In 1912 these films were shown in theaters to a public eager 50 00:05:28,294 --> 00:05:30,319 for any glimpse of Titanic 51 00:05:30,563 --> 00:05:35,557 in fact, this is actually Titanic's smaller sister ship the Olympic. 52 00:05:35,802 --> 00:05:38,703 But the excitement and spectacle were true to the event 53 00:05:38,938 --> 00:05:41,463 and many people couldn't tell the difference. 54 00:05:52,518 --> 00:05:55,078 Titanic sailed from Southampton at noon, 55 00:05:55,321 --> 00:05:58,154 she was expected to reach New York just 7days, 56 00:05:58,424 --> 00:06:02,155 with 2,228 people aboard her. 57 00:06:08,234 --> 00:06:11,635 There are a few authentic pictures taken aboard Titanic 58 00:06:11,871 --> 00:06:14,806 on her first and last voyage. 59 00:06:16,409 --> 00:06:19,435 A vacationing priest Father Francis Brown, 60 00:06:19,679 --> 00:06:23,342 caught these poignant snapshots of his fellow passengers. 61 00:06:23,583 --> 00:06:26,143 Most of them on a voyage to eternity. 62 00:06:37,363 --> 00:06:39,923 The next day Titanic made her last stop 63 00:06:40,166 --> 00:06:43,260 pausing off the coast at Queenstown, Ireland. 64 00:06:45,238 --> 00:06:48,036 Here tenders brought out the last passengers, 65 00:06:48,274 --> 00:06:51,971 mostly Irish immigrants headed for new homes in America, 66 00:06:54,614 --> 00:06:57,412 and here the lucky Father Brown disembarked, 67 00:06:57,650 --> 00:07:00,050 taking these pictures on his way. 68 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:13,123 Father Brown caught Captain Smith peering down from Titanic's bridge 69 00:07:13,366 --> 00:07:15,732 poised on the brink of destiny. 70 00:07:18,971 --> 00:07:23,237 Then Titanic sailed into the twilight zone of legend 71 00:07:23,476 --> 00:07:28,413 she would not be photographed again for 73 years, 72 00:07:28,648 --> 00:07:31,378 vanished in all but human memory. 73 00:07:39,926 --> 00:07:44,329 The event of Titanic's last hours have not faded with the passage of time. 74 00:07:44,564 --> 00:07:48,330 The tragedy irony and sheer terror of this night 75 00:07:48,568 --> 00:07:51,537 still seize the imagination. 76 00:07:57,076 --> 00:07:59,340 A British film, made in 1929 77 00:07:59,579 --> 00:08:02,673 was one of the first of many Titanic movies: 78 00:08:03,416 --> 00:08:05,043 Full ahead. 79 00:08:05,284 --> 00:08:06,478 Full ahead, sir. 80 00:08:37,216 --> 00:08:41,277 Despite radioed warnings, Titanic struck an iceberg. 81 00:08:41,521 --> 00:08:44,854 She carried only enough lifeboats for about 1.200 people 82 00:08:45,091 --> 00:08:47,491 and not even that many were saved. 83 00:08:57,503 --> 00:09:02,338 In 1986 a new chapter in the Titanic's story began. 84 00:09:02,942 --> 00:09:07,902 The men and machines involved did not even exist when Titanic went down. 85 00:09:13,686 --> 00:09:16,211 From the Woods Hole Oceanographic institution 86 00:09:16,455 --> 00:09:20,824 came the research submarine Alvin and Dr. Robert Ballard 87 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:24,393 a geologist and undersea explorer. 88 00:09:27,867 --> 00:09:30,301 For decades Ballard had dreamed of being the man 89 00:09:30,536 --> 00:09:32,470 to explore the Titanic wreck. 90 00:09:32,705 --> 00:09:37,540 Now, if all goes well he may succeed within a few days. 91 00:09:44,150 --> 00:09:47,608 On July 9th, Ballard's expedition backed by the U.S. Navy 92 00:09:47,853 --> 00:09:50,549 and drawing on proven underwater technology 93 00:09:50,790 --> 00:09:52,758 puts to sea from Woods Hole. 94 00:09:58,431 --> 00:09:59,762 One seven five. 95 00:09:59,999 --> 00:10:01,296 One seven five. 96 00:10:04,070 --> 00:10:08,234 The research vessel, Atlantis II heads for Titanic's resting place 97 00:10:08,474 --> 00:10:11,102 about 1,000 miles due east. 98 00:10:13,446 --> 00:10:16,415 A rare alchemy of talent desire and circumstance, 99 00:10:16,649 --> 00:10:19,243 has led Ballard to this adventure. 100 00:10:19,585 --> 00:10:21,246 Many led Ballard to this adventure. 101 00:10:21,487 --> 00:10:23,751 Many have called it foolish and at any rate, impossible, 102 00:10:23,990 --> 00:10:25,457 it's been a hard sell. 103 00:10:26,192 --> 00:10:30,959 No one person, no one organization on one shared my dream. 104 00:10:31,230 --> 00:10:33,858 There was pieces of it the technology part, 105 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:36,034 the ship part, the submarine part. 106 00:10:36,268 --> 00:10:39,032 It's very much like Cinderella going to the ball. 107 00:10:39,271 --> 00:10:41,967 So I had to go around and get the shoes from somebody 108 00:10:42,208 --> 00:10:45,644 and the dress from somebody and the coach and the coachman 109 00:10:45,878 --> 00:10:48,210 and then I knew everything by midnight, 110 00:10:48,447 --> 00:10:51,905 I'd turn back into a big pumpkin so I had a sense of urgency 111 00:10:52,151 --> 00:10:54,278 to get it done before I ran out of time. 112 00:10:57,523 --> 00:11:00,515 The year before a joint French American expedition 113 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,321 with Ballard as co-leader sought to locate Titanic. 114 00:11:07,633 --> 00:11:13,594 A 150 square mile area was searched by sonar devices and remote TV cameras 115 00:11:13,839 --> 00:11:16,899 towed along the bottom over 2 miles down. 116 00:11:22,415 --> 00:11:25,782 But Titanic and not lie where she was thought to be. 117 00:11:26,018 --> 00:11:29,385 TV pictures revealed only a monotonous plain of sediment 118 00:11:29,622 --> 00:11:33,649 sometimes enlivened by a sluggish fish or empty beer bottle. 119 00:11:34,627 --> 00:11:37,425 Days of futile search dragged on. 120 00:11:39,865 --> 00:11:44,165 It is 1 a.m., September 1st, 1985. 121 00:11:44,403 --> 00:11:47,395 The search has been going on for 56 days. 122 00:11:52,578 --> 00:11:57,538 #1:Wreckage. Bingo. Yeah! 123 00:12:01,654 --> 00:12:04,384 #2:Somebody ought to go get Bob. 124 00:12:04,623 --> 00:12:06,352 #3:Bob's gone love this. 125 00:12:06,592 --> 00:12:11,256 #4:This is it! Look at that thing. 126 00:12:12,198 --> 00:12:15,258 All: Oh, alright! Yahoo! 127 00:12:15,501 --> 00:12:17,469 #1:What is it? 128 00:12:17,837 --> 00:12:20,067 #2:I don't know but it's manmade. 129 00:12:20,306 --> 00:12:21,967 #3:There's more stuff coming. 130 00:12:22,208 --> 00:12:23,607 #4:lt's the boiler! 131 00:12:27,847 --> 00:12:31,647 #1: Yes, yes, that's fantastic! 132 00:12:31,884 --> 00:12:37,754 #1:I'll be goddam. 133 00:12:52,238 --> 00:12:59,007 The sucker exists! Gooddam! 134 00:13:00,246 --> 00:13:03,306 #2:Has Cathy got the champagne? 135 00:13:03,716 --> 00:13:06,344 There was an immediate outpouring of excitement 136 00:13:06,585 --> 00:13:10,146 a bunch of kids yelling and screaming and jumping up and down, 137 00:13:10,556 --> 00:13:12,080 very unprofessional. 138 00:13:12,458 --> 00:13:19,227 And then the whole force of actually being at the very spot 139 00:13:19,532 --> 00:13:23,366 where this tragedy had taken place and seeing the ship, 140 00:13:23,602 --> 00:13:26,503 it was very... everyone just cracked. 141 00:13:26,739 --> 00:13:30,402 Emotionally everyone just went down into a big trough. 142 00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:34,974 And we had a simple quiet service on the fantail. 143 00:13:35,748 --> 00:13:39,445 We felt better and it was that time realized that 144 00:13:39,685 --> 00:13:41,380 I was deeply affected by it. 145 00:13:45,491 --> 00:13:50,155 When we came back I wouldn't talk about the Titanic for 4 months. 146 00:13:50,396 --> 00:13:52,864 I just wouldn't talk about it with anybody. 147 00:13:53,098 --> 00:13:54,963 I just went and hid. 148 00:13:56,335 --> 00:13:58,326 But Ballard's Woods Hole laboratory soon 149 00:13:58,571 --> 00:14:00,903 recaptured the thrill of discovery. 150 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,700 Reviewing pictures taken by remote cameras, 151 00:14:04,944 --> 00:14:07,412 Ballard was eager to get a closer look. 152 00:14:09,682 --> 00:14:13,675 Ballard was confident that the submarine Alvin couldn reach the wreck 153 00:14:13,919 --> 00:14:17,286 and the U.S. Navy agreed to sponsor an expedition. 154 00:14:18,057 --> 00:14:21,288 They say the name of the ship is on one of the capstans. 155 00:14:21,527 --> 00:14:21,822 Oh, it is? 156 00:14:22,061 --> 00:14:23,028 On the top, yeah. 157 00:14:23,262 --> 00:14:25,628 It should be visible. 158 00:14:25,865 --> 00:14:27,594 We'll have to go and take a look. 159 00:14:31,437 --> 00:14:36,272 A tiny TV camera serves as the single eye of Jason Jr., 160 00:14:36,508 --> 00:14:39,966 a robot submarine developed for the navy in Ballard's lab. 161 00:14:44,783 --> 00:14:47,377 Jason is ideal for exploring wrecks; 162 00:14:47,620 --> 00:14:50,885 getting TV pictures in places too confined and dangerous 163 00:14:51,123 --> 00:14:52,522 for manned submarines. 164 00:15:01,066 --> 00:15:05,469 Preparing for the Titanic expedition Jason and his operator, Martin Bowen, 165 00:15:05,704 --> 00:15:07,763 go into intensive training. 166 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,073 Jason is powered by 4 electric motors. 167 00:15:11,310 --> 00:15:16,179 He can venture as far as 200 feet away from Alvin, the manned submarine. 168 00:15:25,557 --> 00:15:28,355 Jason is much like a dog on a long leash, 169 00:15:28,594 --> 00:15:31,358 moving on commands from his master. 170 00:15:33,265 --> 00:15:37,497 Here in the lab it's easy to navigate but deep on the Titanic wreck, 171 00:15:37,736 --> 00:15:40,899 in pitch darkness it will be another matter. 172 00:15:41,140 --> 00:15:45,304 Often Martin's only viewpoint will be Jason's electronic eye. 173 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:05,620 Now some 11months after Ballard discovered Titanic's resting place 174 00:16:05,864 --> 00:16:08,526 he is returning aboard Atlantis II. 175 00:16:14,239 --> 00:16:15,263 It's clear by now 176 00:16:15,507 --> 00:16:19,204 that no one knew Titanic's precise location when she sank. 177 00:16:19,445 --> 00:16:23,381 This original confusion explains why the wreck was so difficult to locate. 178 00:16:23,615 --> 00:16:24,946 There are no landmarks 179 00:16:25,184 --> 00:16:29,211 the coast of Nova Scotia is some 350 miles away. 180 00:16:33,926 --> 00:16:36,827 The sea tolerates no gravestones or monuments 181 00:16:37,062 --> 00:16:40,520 only the knowledge of what lies 21/2 miles below 182 00:16:40,766 --> 00:16:42,700 gives this place identity. 183 00:16:46,238 --> 00:16:50,072 When you're out at sea it's just a big, monstrousthing. 184 00:16:50,309 --> 00:16:51,742 It has no dimensions. 185 00:16:51,977 --> 00:16:55,777 You tend to wander around in the ocean and not feel that you're 186 00:16:56,015 --> 00:16:58,006 any where at any on time. 187 00:16:58,250 --> 00:17:01,310 Then when you find the Titanic it rivets you to that one spot. 188 00:17:01,553 --> 00:17:07,492 You know exactly where you are and you know exactly what took place 189 00:17:07,726 --> 00:17:11,093 right where you are and that's eerie. 190 00:17:11,330 --> 00:17:15,994 You want to see lifeboats or people in the water that you can 191 00:17:16,235 --> 00:17:20,331 take drowned right around you. 192 00:17:20,572 --> 00:17:24,372 Yeah, you hear them, you feel it. 193 00:17:24,610 --> 00:17:26,100 Very much so. 194 00:17:35,854 --> 00:17:38,823 The grey down of April 15th,1912 195 00:17:39,058 --> 00:17:41,993 revealed a scattered fleet of life boats. 196 00:17:42,494 --> 00:17:46,089 Hundreds of bodies floated in the surrounding waters. 197 00:17:50,269 --> 00:17:54,535 The boats contained just 705 survivors. 198 00:17:58,544 --> 00:18:02,878 Aboard the liner Carpathia amazed passengers took these snapshots 199 00:18:03,115 --> 00:18:05,015 as the survivors were rescued. 200 00:18:12,658 --> 00:18:16,685 Her compliment of passengers doubled Carpathia raced for New York. 201 00:18:19,932 --> 00:18:23,197 Everything was quiet calm and orderly. 202 00:18:23,635 --> 00:18:27,537 It was too soon to explain and too late to cry. 203 00:18:29,775 --> 00:18:33,802 Tragically rumors and confusion kept hope alive that others might 204 00:18:34,046 --> 00:18:36,139 have been saved by other ships. 205 00:18:39,885 --> 00:18:44,322 Slowiy, as fragmented and conflicting radio reports came in 206 00:18:44,556 --> 00:18:48,083 the world began to realize what had happened overnight. 207 00:18:54,299 --> 00:18:59,259 In London, silent crowds gathered at the offices of the White Star Line 208 00:19:00,405 --> 00:19:03,602 Here many of Titanic's passengers had bought their tickets 209 00:19:03,842 --> 00:19:07,539 and here a precious few were reported alive. 210 00:19:18,624 --> 00:19:22,617 In Liverpool, homeport of Titanic the streets were full of dazed 211 00:19:22,861 --> 00:19:25,421 and grief-stricken families begging for news 212 00:19:25,797 --> 00:19:28,459 and reeling in shock when it came. 213 00:19:53,859 --> 00:19:57,056 In New York wild rumors circulated 214 00:19:57,296 --> 00:20:01,323 one paper reported Titanic still afloat and everyone safe. 215 00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:08,033 Anxious and incredulous crowds gathered in front of newspapers 216 00:20:08,273 --> 00:20:10,332 and offices of White Star. 217 00:20:11,343 --> 00:20:14,801 Suspense and uncertainty grew for 4 days. 218 00:20:22,254 --> 00:20:27,419 Finally, on the evening of April 18th, Carpathia arrived at last. 219 00:20:36,068 --> 00:20:39,367 Then as night fell there followed a chilling pantomime which 220 00:20:39,605 --> 00:20:42,733 brought home the full impact of what had happened. 221 00:20:46,378 --> 00:20:49,040 In the glare of photographers flashlights survivors 222 00:20:49,281 --> 00:20:51,442 lined Carpathia's rails 223 00:20:51,683 --> 00:20:56,848 but as thousands waited Carpathia first unloaded Titanic's lifeboats. 224 00:21:01,860 --> 00:21:06,320 Seeing finally was believing 13 small boats, 225 00:21:06,565 --> 00:21:10,262 all that remained of the greatest ocean liner in the world. 226 00:21:19,011 --> 00:21:22,174 By the next day survivors had dispersed. 227 00:21:24,149 --> 00:21:27,846 Frustrated newsreel cameramen were left to film mere boys, 228 00:21:28,086 --> 00:21:31,249 young stewards who clowned and laughed even as the rest 229 00:21:31,490 --> 00:21:33,082 of the world mourned. 230 00:21:39,898 --> 00:21:42,594 There remained the task of bringing in bodies 231 00:21:42,834 --> 00:21:47,794 only some 300 were found out of 1,523 people lost. 232 00:21:50,642 --> 00:21:52,234 In fear and superstition 233 00:21:52,477 --> 00:21:56,174 Many ships avoided these waters for years afterward. 234 00:22:00,218 --> 00:22:04,382 Brought ashore at Halifax some victims were claimed and shipped home 235 00:22:04,623 --> 00:22:08,218 For others the maiden voyage of Titanic ended here in Canada 236 00:22:08,460 --> 00:22:11,452 just a few miles from the North Atlanic shore. 237 00:22:17,903 --> 00:22:21,566 Today these graves still are tended at the expense of the 238 00:22:21,807 --> 00:22:25,402 shipping line which took over from the owners of Titanic. 239 00:22:32,484 --> 00:22:35,385 The disaster is memorialized like a great battle which 240 00:22:35,620 --> 00:22:37,417 changed the course of history. 241 00:22:38,156 --> 00:22:39,817 But what was the meaning of it all? 242 00:22:40,058 --> 00:22:44,324 It caused only an instant's hesitation in the march of technology. 243 00:22:44,563 --> 00:22:50,092 But, somehow, Titanic made people think and they are thinking still. 244 00:22:52,637 --> 00:22:57,006 Every 5 years the valiant dwindling band of Titanic survivors 245 00:22:57,242 --> 00:23:02,077 is invited to attend a convention of the Titanic Historical Society. 246 00:23:02,314 --> 00:23:05,044 Thank you very much. 247 00:23:05,617 --> 00:23:07,608 You look pretty good. 248 00:23:07,853 --> 00:23:08,842 Thank you. 249 00:23:11,356 --> 00:23:15,986 There are only about 24 known survivors alive today. 250 00:23:21,266 --> 00:23:24,030 But the number of people interested in Titanic is growing 251 00:23:24,269 --> 00:23:27,397 and this fascination reached a fever pitch when 252 00:23:27,639 --> 00:23:29,698 the wreck of Titanic was found. 253 00:23:33,845 --> 00:23:36,609 July 13th, 1986. 254 00:23:36,848 --> 00:23:39,715 The first attempt to reach Titanic by submarine is 255 00:23:39,951 --> 00:23:42,146 planned for this morning. 256 00:23:43,088 --> 00:23:46,182 Bob Ballard and 2 companions will ride to the bottom 257 00:23:46,425 --> 00:23:49,019 in the research submarine, Alvin. 258 00:23:49,761 --> 00:23:54,323 In his enthusiasm Bob Ballard has perhaps made things seem too easy. 259 00:23:54,566 --> 00:23:57,262 This morning he has many promises to keep. 260 00:24:07,312 --> 00:24:09,974 The crew compartment of Alvin is a sealed, 261 00:24:10,215 --> 00:24:15,414 7-foot, titanium sphere jammed with equipment and 3 uncomfortable humans. 262 00:24:20,492 --> 00:24:23,188 Alvin is a tried and trusted design. 263 00:24:23,428 --> 00:24:27,023 It has mapped underwea mountains located a lost H-bomb, 264 00:24:27,265 --> 00:24:32,362 and now is poised over the most celebrated shipwreck of modern times. 265 00:24:47,886 --> 00:24:51,049 Once launched Alvin is independent of its mothership. 266 00:24:51,289 --> 00:24:53,314 The crew can communicate with the surface, 267 00:24:53,558 --> 00:24:56,118 but in the deep they are so far from help, 268 00:24:56,361 --> 00:24:58,386 they might as well be on the moon. 269 00:25:12,744 --> 00:25:16,510 To conserve electrical power Alvin will fall to the ocean bottom 270 00:25:16,748 --> 00:25:18,978 only as fast as gravity allows. 271 00:25:19,217 --> 00:25:22,550 The slow plunge will take 21/2 hours 272 00:25:22,787 --> 00:25:26,018 a time of tedium and growing suspense. 273 00:25:34,666 --> 00:25:36,463 Alvin, this is A-two, over. 274 00:25:40,805 --> 00:25:41,863 Go ahead. 275 00:25:42,173 --> 00:25:44,641 Roger. Ralph we have the tracking running well 276 00:25:44,876 --> 00:25:49,609 and the bow section should be a range of about 800 meters, 277 00:25:49,848 --> 00:25:52,476 bearing two three zero degrees, over 278 00:25:57,689 --> 00:26:00,522 Ballard reports that Alvin's batteries are leaking and 279 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:02,886 its sonar system has failed. 280 00:26:03,128 --> 00:26:06,154 He must rely on imprecise directions from above 281 00:26:06,398 --> 00:26:08,832 and he cannot stay down much longer. 282 00:26:09,467 --> 00:26:11,196 Alvin, this is A-two. 283 00:26:11,503 --> 00:26:16,566 According to tracking you just drove over the forward section. 284 00:26:16,808 --> 00:26:24,180 Suggest you come to course 280 and travel for 200-300 meters, over. 285 00:26:26,851 --> 00:26:28,443 I can't believe they can't see it. 286 00:26:28,687 --> 00:26:30,518 I can't believe they cannot see it. 287 00:26:30,755 --> 00:26:34,020 They can only see 30 or 30 feet. 288 00:26:34,459 --> 00:26:37,519 It's... of water. 289 00:26:37,929 --> 00:26:39,487 Atlantis II, Atlantis II this is Alvin. 290 00:26:39,731 --> 00:26:41,824 We are at the Titanic, over. 291 00:26:43,902 --> 00:26:47,394 Roger, Alvin, we understand you found the Titanic, over. 292 00:26:49,874 --> 00:26:53,173 Roger, we're sitting at the base it appears be near the stern 293 00:26:53,411 --> 00:26:56,141 or the midsection. 294 00:26:56,715 --> 00:27:01,982 We are deciding what to do next because we're running low on power. 295 00:27:02,954 --> 00:27:07,755 No sooner is Titanic found than the dive must be abandoned. 296 00:27:07,993 --> 00:27:12,157 It takes another 21/2 hours for Ballard to regain the surface. 297 00:27:15,166 --> 00:27:18,624 We had problems with the submarine so we had to abort the dive 298 00:27:18,870 --> 00:27:21,065 and immediately head up. 299 00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:25,402 So I saw it for 10 seconds and that was it. 300 00:27:25,810 --> 00:27:29,268 So, well have to go back and do it tomorrow. 301 00:27:29,981 --> 00:27:30,879 What happens next? 302 00:27:31,116 --> 00:27:33,482 Well, they're gonna be up all night. 303 00:27:33,718 --> 00:27:36,983 They've got a sick puppy and they got to fix it, 304 00:27:37,255 --> 00:27:39,519 and it's gonna take them all night. 305 00:27:40,959 --> 00:27:45,225 Alvin is quickly repaired but the mood next morning is uncertain. 306 00:27:45,463 --> 00:27:47,829 Everyone has been reminded that technical problems, 307 00:27:48,066 --> 00:27:53,197 bad weather, or a combination of both could terminate the expedition. 308 00:28:06,384 --> 00:28:09,842 This time everything goes according to plean 309 00:29:03,007 --> 00:29:07,535 Titanic, no longer lost, no longer legend. 310 00:29:07,779 --> 00:29:10,577 There are people aboard the great ship once again after 311 00:29:10,815 --> 00:29:14,478 74 dark and silent years. 312 00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:45,113 Now, like astronauts newly arrived on a distant planet 313 00:29:45,350 --> 00:29:48,808 Alvin's crew is learning something new every second. 314 00:29:52,257 --> 00:29:56,125 A disappointment; Titanic's decks thought to be intact 315 00:29:56,361 --> 00:29:59,228 have been consumed by wood-boring organisms. 316 00:29:59,464 --> 00:30:03,093 What speared to be planks turns out to be ridges of caulking. 317 00:30:12,710 --> 00:30:16,840 A revelation; standing all alone is the bronze peaestal 318 00:30:17,081 --> 00:30:19,072 where Titanic's wheel was mounted. 319 00:30:19,317 --> 00:30:21,717 It gleams as if brand new. 320 00:30:51,649 --> 00:30:56,746 What we thought was organic growth appears to be rust. 321 00:30:57,322 --> 00:31:01,850 The ship looks like it's bleeding steel 322 00:31:02,093 --> 00:31:04,789 and it's rusting down its entire side. 323 00:31:05,096 --> 00:31:07,792 All over it's draped in rust. 324 00:31:08,032 --> 00:31:13,470 It's formed a river and little veins that flow down the side 325 00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:15,138 and out onto the sediment. 326 00:31:39,397 --> 00:31:42,195 All right, let's terminate conversation. 327 00:31:42,433 --> 00:31:47,496 We are losing our light energy and we'll see you on the surface, over 328 00:31:54,178 --> 00:31:57,341 On the return to the surface a near disaster 329 00:31:57,582 --> 00:31:59,709 the robot submarine Jason, 330 00:31:59,951 --> 00:32:05,014 is dislodged from its garage on the front of Alvin and almost lost. 331 00:32:05,356 --> 00:32:09,383 Only quick word by divers saves the million dollar robot. 332 00:32:18,703 --> 00:32:20,603 Well, that's one way to come home Jason-swimming. 333 00:32:20,838 --> 00:32:21,236 That's right. 334 00:32:25,343 --> 00:32:29,040 Repairs will go on all night as Ballard reports what he's seen 335 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,646 and prepares for tomorrow's dive. 336 00:32:32,884 --> 00:32:35,682 We come in on the debris field, right through here. 337 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,548 Titanic is a frightening place to explore. 338 00:32:38,790 --> 00:32:42,385 Everywhere there are wires, rails and tubing which could trap. 339 00:32:42,627 --> 00:32:47,655 Coming in along the mud line toward the ship should be fairly safe. 340 00:32:47,899 --> 00:32:50,993 But the robot, Jason can get close to such hazards 341 00:32:51,235 --> 00:32:54,636 and venture inside the wreck without risking human lives. 342 00:32:54,872 --> 00:33:01,937 Alvin's crew is skeptical about robots in general and Jason in particular. 343 00:33:02,180 --> 00:33:05,343 But, Ballard ignores today's problems and plans to send 344 00:33:05,583 --> 00:33:09,747 Jason deep into Titanic's interior on the next dive. 345 00:33:09,988 --> 00:33:12,855 The funnels are all gone. 346 00:33:13,091 --> 00:33:15,787 We've never even seen one in the debris field. 347 00:33:16,027 --> 00:33:19,019 The idea is to bring Alvin down in a vertical sense 348 00:33:19,263 --> 00:33:21,163 and land at certain places. 349 00:33:21,399 --> 00:33:23,924 Naturally we'd like to enter the bridge and we'd like to go 350 00:33:24,168 --> 00:33:27,626 down the staircase and there's a nice landing pad right here. 351 00:33:27,872 --> 00:33:30,898 That staircase goes down many many flights 352 00:33:31,142 --> 00:33:33,201 so it would be a question of how deep you wanted to go in. 353 00:33:33,444 --> 00:33:36,208 But certainly at least 2 to 3 decks in 354 00:33:40,051 --> 00:33:43,487 On succeeding dives special cameras aboard Alvin pierce 355 00:33:43,721 --> 00:33:46,690 the darkness and reveal spectacular aerial views 356 00:33:46,924 --> 00:33:47,891 of the wreck; 357 00:33:50,328 --> 00:33:54,822 traveling aft, passing over the cargo holds and cranes... 358 00:34:05,543 --> 00:34:09,479 the bridge area where the wheel pedestal stands alone 359 00:34:16,621 --> 00:34:19,249 the hole where the first funnel once stood 360 00:34:19,490 --> 00:34:22,653 big enough to admit a locomotive. 361 00:34:46,517 --> 00:34:50,009 Now on the third dive Alvin makes a landing at the edge 362 00:34:50,254 --> 00:34:52,779 of Titanic's grand staircase. 363 00:34:53,024 --> 00:34:56,755 Make sure that that lip won't jam J. J so he can't get out. 364 00:34:56,994 --> 00:34:59,554 Don't get too close. Right. 365 00:35:01,766 --> 00:35:05,202 Jason is launched with Martin Bowen at the controls. 366 00:35:07,972 --> 00:35:10,805 Go forward. Tethering out. 367 00:35:11,476 --> 00:35:16,004 I'll be taking shots periodically. 368 00:35:16,314 --> 00:35:18,043 Further out. 369 00:35:18,382 --> 00:35:19,906 That lip is right in front of me. 370 00:35:20,151 --> 00:35:21,345 Yeah okay. 371 00:35:21,586 --> 00:35:24,521 If you can just head out over the edge 372 00:35:29,660 --> 00:35:33,255 Like a frightened puppy Jason seems to want to dive back 373 00:35:33,498 --> 00:35:36,262 into his garage and go home. 374 00:35:47,845 --> 00:35:51,906 Gaining control and confidence Bowen sends Jason down 375 00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:54,277 into the grand staircase. 376 00:36:08,366 --> 00:36:11,665 Seventy for years have taken their toll 377 00:36:11,903 --> 00:36:17,364 this is what Jason's camera sees this is what once was. 378 00:36:25,516 --> 00:36:28,679 Seem-ingly there's nothing recognizable here 379 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,855 but, then, pillars define a room. 380 00:36:40,131 --> 00:36:43,567 One of these light fixtures still hangs from the ceiling 381 00:36:43,801 --> 00:36:47,168 suspended both in space and time. 382 00:37:00,718 --> 00:37:03,585 The elaborate ornamental clock is gone 383 00:37:03,821 --> 00:37:06,619 leaving only its outline on the wall. 384 00:37:19,837 --> 00:37:23,603 Jason bumps into something causing an avalanche of rust. 385 00:37:23,841 --> 00:37:27,868 Alarmed, Ballard and Martin Bowen decide to withdraw. 386 00:37:29,247 --> 00:37:30,714 Keep knocking that rust off. 387 00:37:30,948 --> 00:37:31,972 Yeah 388 00:37:44,061 --> 00:37:48,521 Now, 2 miles down Jason salutes his creator. 389 00:37:48,766 --> 00:37:53,032 For man and machine it's a moment of eerie victory. 390 00:38:06,217 --> 00:38:07,309 In further tests 391 00:38:07,551 --> 00:38:11,317 Jason skims over the wreck like an inquisitive humming-bird. 392 00:38:11,555 --> 00:38:13,716 He can move more safely and quickly than Alvin and 393 00:38:13,958 --> 00:38:18,088 get in close to capture small details. 394 00:38:33,177 --> 00:38:35,042 Something door for use... 395 00:38:35,279 --> 00:38:36,610 This door for bridge... 396 00:38:36,847 --> 00:38:40,476 This door for use of crew only. 397 00:38:44,855 --> 00:38:55,993 Napier Brothers Company Engineers, Glasgow. Napier Brothers Limimted. 398 00:39:07,144 --> 00:39:10,580 Some parts of the ship seem almost new 399 00:39:10,881 --> 00:39:14,339 paint still clings to these window frames 400 00:39:14,585 --> 00:39:17,611 handles and hinges still turn, 401 00:39:18,322 --> 00:39:21,257 and the awesome steel anchors 402 00:39:21,492 --> 00:39:23,983 still hang from Titanic's bow. 403 00:39:31,569 --> 00:39:34,595 Soon Baliard's work for the Navy may produce robots 404 00:39:34,839 --> 00:39:40,038 so sophisticated everything can be seen and controlled from the surface. 405 00:39:40,277 --> 00:39:44,509 On some jobs manned submarines like Alvin may not be needed. 406 00:39:44,749 --> 00:39:50,949 The success of Jason on Titanic is a major step toward that goal. 407 00:39:52,289 --> 00:40:04,565 Bring it around A little more, there we go. 408 00:40:09,039 --> 00:40:11,837 Okay, if we want to drop weights I'm happy. 409 00:40:12,076 --> 00:40:12,872 Okay. 410 00:40:34,198 --> 00:40:35,688 Success. 411 00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:40,594 God, that was not easy. 412 00:40:40,838 --> 00:40:44,831 In one spectacular dive Robert Ballard and Martin Bowen 413 00:40:45,075 --> 00:40:48,044 have accomplished all their major objec-tives. 414 00:40:51,148 --> 00:40:52,410 We had a chandalier right there! 415 00:40:52,650 --> 00:40:56,416 We were taking pictures, of it. 416 00:40:56,654 --> 00:40:59,122 We went dancing in the ballroom. 417 00:41:05,596 --> 00:41:11,091 Now for 9 days Atlantis gather information on Titanic 418 00:41:16,574 --> 00:41:17,472 Deployed each night, 419 00:41:17,708 --> 00:41:21,735 an unmanned instrument package captures some 57,000 420 00:41:21,979 --> 00:41:24,038 photos of the wreck site. 421 00:41:31,055 --> 00:41:33,489 I want to go through regions, not specific targets. 422 00:41:33,724 --> 00:41:35,351 There's only a couple targets left. 423 00:41:35,593 --> 00:41:38,357 Ballard and his colleague Dr. Elizar Yuchupe, 424 00:41:38,596 --> 00:41:42,532 begin to create a detailed map of Titanic's remains. 425 00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:44,663 That's it There's nothing else but that. 426 00:41:44,902 --> 00:41:48,167 It reveals new information and sometimes contradicts 427 00:41:48,405 --> 00:41:50,839 accepted accounts of the disaster. 428 00:41:51,542 --> 00:41:54,136 That's right down here, you see that's where it would be. 429 00:41:54,378 --> 00:41:57,939 So south of the... South of the wine bottles. 430 00:41:58,782 --> 00:42:02,309 Most strikingly the wreck lies in 2 major sections, 431 00:42:02,553 --> 00:42:05,044 1,800 feet apart. 432 00:42:05,422 --> 00:42:08,823 This supports some eye witnesses who said the ship broke 433 00:42:09,059 --> 00:42:10,424 in 2 as it went down. 434 00:42:12,229 --> 00:42:16,461 Between the 2 sections of the wreck lies a vast field of debris 435 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:20,693 and scattered throughout the wreckage are many common place objects; 436 00:42:55,639 --> 00:42:58,904 a bottle of champagne still corked 437 00:42:59,910 --> 00:43:03,402 and a cup, sitting on a 57 ton boiler 438 00:43:03,647 --> 00:43:07,708 where it gently came to rest 74 years ago. 439 00:43:10,187 --> 00:43:13,588 Ballard brought nothing up from Titanic and had vowed not to 440 00:43:13,824 --> 00:43:15,883 interfere with the wreck. 441 00:43:17,761 --> 00:43:22,596 But that was before Alvin came upon the assistant purser's safe 442 00:43:46,056 --> 00:43:49,219 The handle turns but the door won't open. 443 00:43:49,460 --> 00:43:51,655 At any rate, experts say it was emptied 444 00:43:51,895 --> 00:43:54,659 by the crew before Titanic went down. 445 00:43:57,668 --> 00:44:01,729 As the wreck is explored the Titanic story is relived 446 00:44:01,972 --> 00:44:05,772 and in some cases revised to suit new evidence. 447 00:44:06,844 --> 00:44:11,941 It is 11:40 p.m., April 14th, 1912. 448 00:44:13,350 --> 00:44:16,114 From the crow's nest an iceberg is spotted dead ahead 449 00:44:16,353 --> 00:44:18,583 by lookout, Fredrick Fleet. 450 00:44:20,257 --> 00:44:24,193 Fleet immediately rings on alarm bell and calls the bridge 451 00:44:24,428 --> 00:44:27,864 where the First Officer William Murdoch, orders the wheel, 452 00:44:28,098 --> 00:44:30,965 "Hard a starboard," and the engines, "Full astern." 453 00:44:37,007 --> 00:44:38,998 Titanic grazes the ice, 454 00:44:39,243 --> 00:44:42,508 possibly causing only a few crumpled hull plates 455 00:44:42,746 --> 00:44:47,706 but enough to tell Captain Edward Smith that his ship is doomed. 456 00:44:50,821 --> 00:44:54,780 Captain Smith personally walks back from the bridge to the radio room 457 00:44:55,025 --> 00:44:58,927 where, soon after midnight the first distress call is sent. 458 00:44:59,997 --> 00:45:04,991 Radio is its infancy and the newly adopted signal, S.O.S. 459 00:45:05,235 --> 00:45:07,999 Is a novelty to operator jack Phillips. 460 00:45:12,309 --> 00:45:15,938 Orders are given that women and children must board lifeboats. 461 00:45:16,180 --> 00:45:18,910 Near the boats some first class passengers 462 00:45:19,149 --> 00:45:21,413 gather here in the gymnasium. 463 00:45:23,487 --> 00:45:26,979 One is multi-millionaire John Jacob Astor, 464 00:45:27,224 --> 00:45:31,126 on an extended honeymoon with his young second wife, Madeline. 465 00:45:32,663 --> 00:45:36,224 Astor's wife boards a lifeboat here, on Titanic's port side. 466 00:45:36,467 --> 00:45:39,197 But an officer refuses Astor and so, 467 00:45:39,436 --> 00:45:42,837 he meekly chooses to stand aside, and die. 468 00:45:44,975 --> 00:45:48,376 Few yet realize that because of inadequate laws 469 00:45:48,612 --> 00:45:52,946 there are only enough boats for half the people aboard. 470 00:45:57,187 --> 00:46:00,987 Distress rockets are fired from the starboard wing of the bridge. 471 00:46:10,634 --> 00:46:14,730 To the north there is a ship, the British steamer, Califarnion 472 00:46:15,105 --> 00:46:17,437 Titanic's rockets are reported to her captain, 473 00:46:17,674 --> 00:46:21,667 Stanley Lord, but he does nothing goes back to sleep 474 00:46:21,912 --> 00:46:25,905 and will spend the rest of his life trying to explain. 475 00:46:28,752 --> 00:46:32,586 Many lifeboats are still being lowered half empty. 476 00:46:32,823 --> 00:46:36,759 Few understand that Titanic is actually sinking. 477 00:46:42,599 --> 00:46:46,695 The lifeboat davits are still extended here at boat station 2, 478 00:46:46,937 --> 00:46:50,304 where Second Officer C.H. Lietauer is in charge. 479 00:46:50,574 --> 00:46:53,634 Lietauer sends half a dozen crewmen to open doors 480 00:46:53,877 --> 00:46:56,846 and help fill the boats from decks lower down. 481 00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:02,677 The men were never seen again but one set of doors still hangs open. 482 00:47:06,456 --> 00:47:10,222 Here a twisted davit once held boat number B 483 00:47:10,794 --> 00:47:13,627 and here stood an aging distinguished couple, 484 00:47:13,864 --> 00:47:16,526 Mr. And Mrs. Isadore Strauss. 485 00:47:17,668 --> 00:47:20,501 Offered a place on the boats Mr. Strauss refused it, 486 00:47:20,737 --> 00:47:24,730 then Mrs. Strauss refuse to leave him, 487 00:47:25,075 --> 00:47:28,374 and so, they perished together. 488 00:47:32,850 --> 00:47:34,715 In a single first class cabin 489 00:47:34,952 --> 00:47:37,648 there was a wealthy woman traveling along. 490 00:47:38,155 --> 00:47:42,285 She was a tough and earthy character, requiring no assistance. 491 00:47:42,526 --> 00:47:46,394 She boarded a lifeboat boldly took over command 492 00:47:46,630 --> 00:47:51,431 and was known from then on as "the unsinkable Molly Brown." 493 00:47:53,570 --> 00:47:58,530 And now, at last, 1,500 people began to realize that 494 00:47:58,775 --> 00:48:01,676 soon they were going go die. 495 00:48:02,446 --> 00:48:04,539 But on the boat deck near the entrance 496 00:48:04,781 --> 00:48:08,512 to the grand staircase the band played on. 497 00:48:10,354 --> 00:48:13,346 No one could agree later what tunes were played 498 00:48:13,590 --> 00:48:15,353 and all the musicians drowned. 499 00:48:15,592 --> 00:48:18,891 But Titanic's band, and its leader Wallace Harltey, 500 00:48:19,129 --> 00:48:23,930 became immortal heroes of this disaster on the sea. 501 00:48:31,675 --> 00:48:34,803 Few honored Captain Smith who had ignored many warnings 502 00:48:35,045 --> 00:48:37,775 as he sailed boldly into history. 503 00:48:38,181 --> 00:48:42,447 He went down with his ship his last words disputed. 504 00:48:43,153 --> 00:48:45,986 Some said he told the crew "be British," 505 00:48:46,223 --> 00:48:49,920 others, "it's every man for himself." 506 00:49:18,989 --> 00:49:20,820 When the Titanic expedition ended 507 00:49:21,058 --> 00:49:25,051 Bob Ballard left behind a plaque honoring those who died here. 508 00:49:25,295 --> 00:49:30,528 Titanic is their monument more than 2 miles beneath the sea. 509 00:49:31,134 --> 00:49:34,365 It's memorial to this period of time 510 00:49:34,604 --> 00:49:38,404 to that mistake of arrogance. 511 00:49:38,642 --> 00:49:42,237 It's a whole bunch of things all bundled up 512 00:49:42,479 --> 00:49:44,913 and now, down at the bottom of the ocean 513 00:49:45,148 --> 00:49:49,710 it's a very peaceful place a very quiet place. 514 00:49:50,287 --> 00:49:57,455 It's sitting upright on the bottom very nobly and at rest.