the second floor and the pool had just kind of erupted with water. >> while waiting for the students, jan realizes something is wrong and starts recording on her new video camera. turns out, the sea diamond has gotten too close to shore and has rammed into the rocks, sheering a hole in its side. within half an hour, helicopters and local boats respond to the ship's distress call. >> we were close enough that a lot of boats came to our rescue, but there was no way you would just jump off that cruise ship and swim to shore. it was just too treacherous of a situation from that spot. at that point we were probably listing 20, 30 degrees. >> we had to balance. because at this point we were kind of like this. and this was upright for us. >> passengers are ordered to get into groups by gender and age. >> they actually said this over the intercom, we're going to be evacuating. it was an actual scene out of the "titanic" movie. it was women and children will