Ghosts of the Abyss Page #6

of bacteria as they floated by

and fingerlike structures

that were hanging

from the ceilings.

MARSCHALL:
Intertwined

with this woodwork,

we'll see these lavender worms.

Shimmery, strange things,

almost transparent sometimes.

And they particularly like

the mahogany paneling.

CAMERON:

Let's go up to him.

MARSCHALL:
Even the fish don't

look like the same rattails

that are found outside.

To me, they appear to live

exclusively inside the ship.

He's heading for

the elevator shaft.

LYNCH:
Hey, he knows

where he's going.

MARSCHALL:

Wow. I can't believe it.

I didn't think I'd see

the boilers on this dive.

I had no idea

we were approaching the bow

from this angle.

We're awful close to this stuff.

CAMERON:
"Mir-2," you got

a steam pipe above you.

Be careful.

- It's safe to be this close?

- What are you worried about?

If something happens to us, your

artwork will be worth millions.

Oh, great.

That'll do me a lot of good.

I see a real shiny thing

straight ahead.

Oh, these are whistles, Genya.

Whistles from the funnel.

Oh, my goodness.

Right under me.

CAMERON:
Ooh, look at this.

What is that, Genya?

Yes.

Like a hatch cover.

It's a hatch cover, I think.

Yes.

I don't think we've ever seen

a hatch cover.

I saw it earlier.

Yeah.

So that's Hatch One.

It got blown off

when the ship hit the bottom.

It's just blown right out here

in front of the ship.

MARSCHALL:

Oh, my God.

- What? What?

- Here's a glass carafe.

- Oh, look at that.

- Unbelievable.

Can you believe it survived?

That's a first-class

stateroom...

- Water decanter.

- Yeah.

I was pretty calm going down.

As a matter of fact, we saw,

in my porthole,

there was this woman's shoe.

It was perfectly preserved.

And it was laced up.

You know, I was just like,

"Oh, my God. "

That's somebody's grave marker.

That's the only grave marker

they have.

You see now that we are coming

to the davit.

Yeah.

Davit Number One.

LYNCH:

This was Lifeboat One,

where Sir Cosmo and

Lady Duff Gordon had escaped

with only 10 other people

in a lifeboat that could have

held two dozen more.

The law of the sea

is women and children first

when you go to evacuate a ship.

MAN:

For the time being,

I shall require

only women and children.

LYNCH:
On the port side of the

ship, Second Officer Lightoller

took it to mean

women and children only,

and he only let women

and children into the boats,

and then as few crewmen

as possible to navigate it.

Please! Daddy!

Don't you worry.

CAMERON:
Working on the other

side, here's Murdoch,

getting the boats in the water

as quick as he can,

shoving men, women, children,

first-class, third-class.

He didn't care.

- May I get in the boat?

- I wish you would.

Yes, ma'am.

I n you go.

Lower away!

Almost 2/3 of everyone

who survived

have Murdoch to thank for it.

LYNCH:
Moving into the "A" deck

promenade with the R. O.V.,

it really looked familiar.

A long, sweeping, open deck.

Half of it was open.

The forward end was enclosed

by large glass windows.

CAMERON:
This is right where

they walked, you know?

John Jacob Astor put

Madeline Astor into the lifeboat

right through one

of those windows right there.

LYNCH:

Because she was pregnant,

he asked

Second Officer Lightoller...

May I accompany my wife?

No, sir.

Women and children only.

Come on.

Here, darling.

Take these.

And so he told her

he'd be seeing her in New York.

No, sir.

Step aside.

I've been thinking about

my family a lot being out here,

and we're going on these dives.

There's an element

of risk involved.

It's a calculated risk.

But I think the idea

of suddenly being on the deck

and saying, "I love you,"

you know,

and trying to bear up.

"Now, just go in the lifeboats.

Daddy will be along

in a little while. "

That's just torturous.

Trying to make your family

think that it's okay.

You're just keeping up

a brave face.

Exactly.

Also, it's the question

of personal character

that you keep going back to.

For me, ever since

I was a teenager,

the whole idea

is the question of,

how would I have beared up?

Would I have had the character

to stand back

and shown that kind of nobility,

shown that kind of courage?

And as we romanticize

the image of "Titanic,"

and it's such a romantic time

and everything,

you want to put yourself

with the men

standing there with dignity.

But you really can't assume

what your character would be

in that moment

unless you've been through

that kind of thing.

Absolutely.

SAGALEVITCH:
You see the doors,

the entrance to first class?

Yeah.

That's the entrance.

This is where the band played.

This open area right here.

The orchestra

would have gathered,

and they started playing

ragtime.

["Alexander's Ragtime Band"

playing]

LYNCH:
You think of the band in

terms of how heroic they were.

They played,

knowing that everyone else

was getting into a lifeboat

except them.

But how calming

that band music was

to the people who were onboard.

Okay.

This right over here

should be the Marconi Room.

MARSCHALL:
Everyone knows

the important role

that the Marconi Wireless played

that night.

Senior Marconi Wireless Operator

Jack Phillips

and Junior Operator

Harold Bride worked in tandem

until the very end.

You should try S. O. S.

It's the new signal.

Yes, it might be

our last chance to use it.

During the final moments

of the sinking,

the ship's power

was becoming unstable.

Harold Bride

was in the Silent Room,

trying to compensate

for this loss of power.

To our great astonishment

are the handles,

the settings still visible

on these two field regulators.

They are in the final settings

that this man manipulated.

Hey, that's better!

They have the human touch

to them.

MAN:

Pull!

Pull together!

PAXTON:
Many of the boats

had been launched half-full.

Return to the ship!

- Boat 6! Return.

- We need to go back!

No!

It's our lives now.

Now, row!

The suction will pull us down

if we don't keep going.

ABERNATH Y:
"Titanic" was

a stage where God says,

"You have 21/2 hours to

act out the rest of your life.

What are you gonna be?

Will you be a hero?

Will you be a coward?"

Time for one more hand.

- Poker. Five card draw.

- [Glass breaking]

[Creaking]

Would you fight to survive?

Would you take your place

meekly with the people

that were relegated

to the third-class spaces

and wait patiently

until someone unlocks a gate

and lets you free?

- Help us!

- What would you do?

- Please!

- How would you act?

I think it's fortunate

that most of us

will never be put to that test.

MAN:

Any more women or children?

Anyone else, men?

Anyone else?

Quickly!

Quickly, men, quickly!

Prepare to lower!

Ready on the left?

MARSCHALL:

Bruce Ismay.

He's the guy

who was responsible.

And yet he did survive,

when others died.

Right and left together!

PAXTON:
I don't know which man

would've felt worse that night.

Bruce Ismay,

for vetoing more lifeboats,

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