Ghosts of the Abyss Page #4

much longer.

- No problem.

- Okay.

PAXTON:

For me, personally,

I've always been kind of

a nervous, you know, pisser.

[Laughing]

I need a little privacy.

But when you got to go

and you're 21/2 miles down,

you got to go.

It's okay?

Um, I'll turn around.

- Can you turn around?

- Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Let's see here.

Point your lights

straight into "A" deck.

My God.

Look at that.

Look at that, Tolya.

A brass bed sitting

right in there.

Maybe Molly Brown did stay

in a brass bed.

But which one?

ABERNATH Y:
They've built

bigger ships since "Titanic,"

but I don't know that they'll

ever build one as luxurious.

And even now,

after 90 years of laying

on the bottom of the ocean,

its beauty came to light.

Okay.

We're in.

Okay. Tell them

we're in the promenade.

LEDDA:

Jake's in the promenade.

MARSCHALL:
We did get into one

of the millionaire suites

on "B" deck.

Private promenade.

They call them

"private promenade. "

These were the fanciest, most

expensive lodgings on the ship.

And in April 1912,

you would have paid over $3, 000

to book your passage.

This must be some of the facing.

Yeah, it's some

of the Tudor facing.

We are in the room.

LEDDA:

Jake's in the room.

This is Bruce Ismay's suite.

This is the guy

that left the ship

with 1, 500 people still onboard.

Ooh, that's a beauty.

We are in the sitting room,

looking at the fireplace.

Isn't that amazing? That

ribbon design is still there.

These little touches

of elegance.

You can almost feel the hands

of the guy that made that.

LYNCH:

J. Bruce Ismay

was managing director

of the White Star Line,

and he vetoed the idea

of having 48 lifeboats.

He felt fewer would be fine,

that as long as they met

the law, they were okay.

CHERNAIEV:

It is Smith's bathtub.

ABERNATH Y:

Oh, Captain Smith.

Wow.

The captain of the "Titanic"

used to take his baths

right there.

His little pink butt

sitting right there in the tub.

PAXTON:
Captain Smith was called

"the millionaire's captain"

because he was so popular

with the first-class passengers.

Perfect record.

This voyage was to be

his crowning achievement.

He was going to take

the biggest, most beautiful ship

across the ocean on her

maiden voyage and then retire.

PELLEGRINO:

I n archeology,

we carry these ghosts

of the imagination with us.

And I was kind of imagining

Thomas Andrews

out there on the deck.

MARSCHALL:
Thomas Andrews

was managing director

and president of

Harland and Wolff Shipbuilders.

He designed and built the

"Titanic" from the ground up.

He knew the ship better

than anyone.

He put davits on the ship

that were designed

to take a lifeboat from here

and lift it outward

and then go inward

and pick up a second lifeboat

in a second position and go out.

I n his own hand,

in his notebook,

he has the number of lifeboats

that are supposed to go on the

ship that he designed it for.

He was overruled

and forced to comply

only to the minimum

of the Board of Trade

requirement.

MARSCHALL:
Andrews cared

about the ship and crew

and was onboard to make

last-minute improvements

and make sure

everything ran smoothly.

PELLEGRINO:
If only there were

a way to let him see

these submersibles sending

these incredible robots

into his creation.

MIKE:
Move a little right

to avoid the arm.

There you go.

Okay.

We're good.

We're coming out.

It's coming out, folks.

- Okay. Ease it forward.

- Okay.

MARSCHALL:
We explored

all three forward cargo hatches

and made it into several crew

and third-class spaces

that had never even been

photographed before.

CAMERON:

Is that the "D" deck?

MAN:

I think so.

Yeah.

I think you're right.

All right. That's it.

There's the other hatch.

So just ease on in there.

Ease it on in there.

Okay.

Here's our stairwell.

It should go right up to it.

LYNCH:

So we got into third class.

We were in the general room

in the bow under the well deck.

There wasn't a lot of detail

in this room,

because it was never

a well-decorated room.

The bar at one end that

still had the little tap there.

There were table bases

still there in place.

The tables and bench bases

rising up from the floor.

It was neat to see those.

That's a very big table.

The place where they all ate.

They would've sat here

and played cards.

MARSCHALL:
This was where

there was a party held

by many of the third-class

passengers on Sunday night.

And it really was moving

to be able see this room

where so many of them spent

their last few happy hours.

MIKE:
There was a brand-new

Renault, beautiful car,

that was strapped down

in the cargo hold.

And we have some fairly good

historical projections

of what it would look like now.

CAMERON:
Going from "F" deck

to "G" deck.

A solid hatch cover,

as advertised.

But it's open.

And it would be

barely recognizable as a car.

Only a few items would show up

recognizable as a vehicle.

We were on "G" deck.

We went through the hatch cover.

We are now on the orlop deck.

Correct.

You are.

Tilt up,

and you'll see the car.

[Snorts]

Tilt up, and we see some gak.

I see some light back there.

Yeah.

Maybe that is the car.

It is.

- I think that's the car.

- It is.

It's the car.

No.

No!

It can't be that easy.

- It is.

- [Chuckles]

I don't think that's the car.

I think we're seeing cars.

- Shiny piece of...

- Oh, my God.

I'm thinking...

That looks like wheel.

Jim, that's a fender.

I don't care what planet you're

on, that's a tire and fender.

This is headlight.

We're seeing cars, boy.

[Laughs]

All right,

the best thing to do

now that we're here

is to just look everywhere.

There's a car.

That's a car.

No, those are...

That's a trunk right there.

Wicker trunk.

That's a tire.

There were some pretty

interesting-looking structures,

obviously man-made stuff,

but nothing clearly

identifiable as a car.

Yeah, we should be able to get

all the way forward.

- Are you in?

- Yes.

Oh, baby.

That's awesome.

Oh, dude, this is so cool!

Count doors on the right. That's

how we'll orient ourselves.

There should be

two doors side by side.

The first door should take you

into the firemen's mess.

You want to go in there?

Yeah.

That's definitely

the firemen's mess.

Oh, look at that.

Table after table.

You can see the bow tapering in.

Exactly.

Shape of the ship.

You can imagine exactly

what this place looked like.

LYNCH:

The firemen were segregated

from the rest of the crew,

probably because they had

the dirtiest job.

So their quarters

are in the tip of the bow.

They had two staircases,

which took them

to the very bottom of the ship

and to the boiler rooms.

PAXTON:

Imagine spiraling your way down

to the furnaces

of this hungry leviathan

to join hundreds of men

shoveling coal

into the gaping maws

of the boilers.

That's kind of spooky.

And when you finish your shift

hours later,

you climb back up into

your little world below decks

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