Ghosts of the Abyss Page #7

or Thomas Andrews,

for not having fought

that decision harder.

PELLEGRINO:
There was

absolute pandemonium,

just chaos as those

last boats went down.

Get back, I say!

[Gunshots, screaming]

Get back!

Link arms! Form a chain!

Women and children only,

please!

It was precarious.

There was one lifeboat where

they weren't letting adults in.

This forced women to decide

whether they were gonna be

separated from their children.

They were trying to take

children only.

There were so many people

and a few lifeboats.

Several women said, " I am not

going without my children.

They're not leaving without me. "

They overcrowded that lifeboat,

but the water was so calm,

it made it.

It had over 70 people,

but the water was calm enough.

It must have been up

to the gunwales.

It was that far above the water.

You could've put your hand over

and trailed it in the water.

PAXTON:

At the very end,

Murdoch was trying to get

collapsible "A" off the roof

while the ship

was sinking out from under it.

Get back!

Get back!

Step away!

Get back!

Crank this down there, men!

They cranked the davits in

to drag the collapsible

over the side.

But by then, it was too late.

[Water rushing]

The number-one davit remains

in that cranked-in position,

an unspoken monument

to Murdoch's dedication

and heroism.

LYNCH:

After the lifeboats had gone,

we have evidence of some

third-class passengers

just going back to their cabins.

They had no hope of surviving,

and they took it gracefully.

[Creaking, rattling]

[Screaming in distance]

To me, it must have been tough

for the people who survived,

knowing they could have possibly

gone back

and rescued some of the people

in the water

once the ship had gone under.

To go in there

would have been suicide

and nothing less.

We've got 1, 500 people

in the water

all screaming for help,

fighting for their lives.

You could easily have

trying to climb onboard at once.

They're sitting

in a lifeboat, safe.

To not row back or to have that

not in your mind,

I can't believe that

of somebody.

How safe are you in a lifeboat

in the middle

of the North Atlantic?

"Titanic" is that thing

you always try to

measure yourself against.

"What would I have done if I

would have been on the deck?"

Heroism and character

will always be the domain of

the individual, not the group.

That's what will never change.

LYNCH:

On one of the later dives,

Jim decided to go back into the

first-class spaces on "D" deck

and have "Mir-2" shine lights

through those leaded-glass

windows from the outside.

- Getting ready?

- Yes.

Here comes the light.

MARSCHALL:

Nice.

Perfect.

MARSCHALL:

Not since April 14, 1912,

had human eyes seen light

pouring through

these beautiful windows.

LYNCH:
A lot of the washstands

have fallen over,

yet here was one

that was still upright.

And so someone took

a drink of water,

set that glass down,

and walked out of that room,

and 90 years later, that glass

and that carafe are still there.

CAMERON:
I n the middle of this,

you see this perfect object.

It really ties you

to the people.

It does.

PELLEGRINO:

You still see things

where people had last left them.

Lamps still plugged in.

The medicine bottles

still in place.

It's the things people touched

that bring the pictures alive

in your mind.

So we're looking at it

right here, like this.

I need more power.

Come on, baby.

React, react, react.

- We have a problem.

- What?

We got

a low-battery warning here.

Whoa, there's something

really terribly wrong here.

Uh-oh.

Are we gonna lose this thing?

Oh, Jesus.

- Did we crash?

- We're dead. We're dead.

We're dead and buoyant.

Drop it. Drop it.

Buoyancy right now.

- Easy, easy, easy.

- Battery is starting to die.

Oh, we're not gonna live.

Guys, get a visual on us,

because we just lost power.

PAXTON:
You're headed

for the ceiling.

You're sitting

on the ceiling, Jim.

We're dead in the water.

We have a dead battery.

We're watching you.

We're gonna sit and watch you.

PAXTON:
The whole thing

was melting down.

The batteries, they

were melting down and venting.

It was very bizarre.

It was like,

"Houston, we have a problem. "

They flew beautifully

right up until the point

that we had an absolute, total

major-malfunction system crash.

CAMERON:

I've had a debate with myself

as to whether I would

even ever try a rescue,

because better to lose one

than two.

It's almost a straight shot,

except there's a couple

of columns in the way.

I think there's a way

to bring it back.

Yeah, it's not too far

from the stairwell.

No.

But the first thing we got to do

is get some weight on it.

The weight with a piece

of Velcro on top.

I want to fly up underneath it

and stick the weight

to the bottom,

sink it to the floor,

then come up, dock with it

and carry it out.

That's the only way to do it.

Let me know

if I'm going too fast.

PAXTON:

We had to rescue Elwood,

not just because these bots

are expensive,

but because,

in some strange way,

he'd become part of the crew.

Oh, where, oh, where

is my little bot now?

Look up.

Look up.

Hello, Elwood.

MAN:
We tried to

attach weights to the R. O.V.

To make it come down

off the ceiling.

If I can just go forward.

What the hell was that?

Something fell.

I don't know.

See, we're thrusting

up against it,

so it may not come down

right away.

All right, so let me get set

for the separation maneuver.

It's on there.

It's on there.

We have it.

I'm gonna have to get out

of this no matter what.

Otherwise,

we're not coming home.

I'm going out.

Oh!

Link error.

We lost...

It's gonna come past us

in a second.

We might as well get it on tape.

Here she comes.

Say goodbye.

LYNCH:
Probably two hours

without radio contact from Jim.

All we hear over the radio is...

Say goodbye to Jake.

"Say goodbye to Jake"?

What's happened?

Hit our own tether.

Cable broke.

ABERNATH Y:
I can't imagine

what it was like in Jim's sub.

He goes through

a range of emotions.

He loses one robot.

Then he loses a second robot.

Well, we got

our ceiling scenario,

and we got our kite scenario.

The two ways we thought we could

actually lose these things.

LYNCH:

And after a quick exchange,

we noticed the tether

coming up past our sub.

Genya grabs the joysticks that

control the sub manipulators.

And he grabs the tether

and starts winding the tether up

around the arms

of the manipulators.

This is scary.

See what he's doing?

If he breaks it

before he gets a wrap on it...

Oh, my God.

I can't watch this.

You're scaring me now, Genya.

To wind up this tether,

it took 30, 35 minutes

of the same motion

over and over and over,

winding this up.

that we've been at this.

- Hey!

- Let's see it.

I thought it was on the ground.

You got him.

All stop. All stop.

Our next task

is to take a Velcro patch

and slap it on top of the robot

with the manipulator arms

and pull the robot in that way.

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