iceberg. april 1912. the titanic was on its maiden voyage. when the ship started to sink off the coast of canada, captain smith ordered the crew to prepare lifeboats. >> all passengers put on your life preservers. leave everything. and they said it was a precaution nary measure. >> captain smith ordered women and children be evacuated first and helped save more than 700 people. he was on the bridge as the ship disappeared, lost among the 1,500 people who perished. decades later, in 1956, an italian vessel, the andrea doria, collided off another ship off nantucket. the captain made a series of errors in dense fog and heavy traffic. yet when the andrea doria began to sink, the captain tried to make sure all the passengers and crew were evacuated. 46 people died. he wanted to go down with the ship and pay for his mistakes.