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So my foot slides into place mind blown only a very few number of people have actually been to time my tannic less than 50 you had a lot of mystery about why you went down so eople should not risk their lives to see this wreck at 4,000 meters. That is not a normal thing to do. [suspenseful music] it simply is adding to the intrigue of the titanic that 100 years later, its still leading people to their death. [dramatic music] hello. And welcome to how it really happened. Im jesse l. Martin. The rms titanic sank to the frigid depths of the atlantic over a century ago, but americas fascination with the illfated wreck never gets old because there is always something new. Within the last 40 years, Amazing Advances In Science And Technology Have Led to brilliant new discoveries and uncovered hidden secrets. Tonight, we look into how the very latest Titanic Learning Upends our previous thinking about the ships mysteries and myths and, sadly, a recent underwater voyage to the wreck that put more human lives at risk. [dramatic music] [engine whirring] Victor Vescovo diving to titanic is, in many respects, preparing to go to space because its an incredibly hostile environment. [tense music] when we think about risk taking as it applies to exploration, for me, its the sea. The reality is that theres been fewer people that have dove to the titanic than have actually gone into space. [whistling] [creaking] [tense music] reporter an Urgent Search And Rescue operation is now underway in the North Atlantic in the area near the wreck of the titanic to find a lost submersible with five people aboard. Craig sopin when the titan failed to surface at its indicated time, then there was an alarm. And the coast guard was notified, and the search ensued. Reportter the Us Coast Guard tells cnn its got a ship on the scene and aircraft, including c130 planes, canadian ships and planes joining the search as well. Craig sopin the titan was a submersible that was being used to bring passengers to look at and learn about the titanic firsthand. [somber music] five people were aboard the titan, including stockton rush, who owned oceangate, the company that operated the titan. Oren liebermann Pakistani British billionaire shahzada dawood, 48 years old, and his 19yearold son, sulaiman. Victor vescovo the other members that were on board were p. H. Nargeole. He was involved in virtually every major expedition to titanic. And then Hamish Harding was a passenger on the vessel. Titanic was something that he just really, really wanted to see. And he thought in his own words to me, he thought that the titan was safe enough. [tense music] Oren Liebermann Oceangate Explorations would give you a few hours on the bottom of the ocean with the titanic on board their sub, the titan. But 1 hour 45 minutes into the dive, communication with the titan was lost. There was 96 hours of oxygen on board the titan, so the timeline is ticking from the very beginning. There was hope that they were possibly still alive. It was truly a mystery playing out in real time. And we all wondered, did the five people on board the titan lose their lives on the very wreck they were trying to explore . [horn blaring] Parks Stephenson ive heard it said once that the three most recognized words in the english language are god, cocacola, and titanic. what is it about the titanic that makes it so that we cannot get enough . Why are we so obsessed with this ship . Reporter 73 years after it sank, a team of french and american scientists announced theyd found the titanic 2 and 1 2 miles down. Tim maltin on the 1st of september, 1985, bob ballard from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in the us, together with a team of very experienced french navy diving experts, conducted a joint mission to go and try and find the titanic. The expedition really had to search hard to find the location of titanic because it wasnt where the Distress Coordinates had stated it was. They were surprised by how far off the mark the Distress Coordinates were. Victor vescovo the titanic is located about three or four days steaming south of newfoundland, canada. Tad fitch 350, 360 miles off the coast of newfoundland. Tim maltin Titanic Lies In The Darkness 2 miles below the surface. [radar beeping] tad fitch all those years, it had sat there untouched. Nobody had seen the ship in any capacity since the day it sank. Robert ballard the first thing that we encountered were the boilers that had gone through the bow. The first image we had was a boiler. The ship is in beautiful condition where it is. Tad fitch when ballard announced that he had found the wreck of the titanic, he immediately caught the worlds attention. [suspenseful music] Oren Liebermann the discovery of the wreck helped answer some of those questions, questions that there was no other way to figure out without finding the remnants of the ship itself. Tad fitch the images that they retrieved were remarkable. Reporter they were aided by jason junior, a sophisticated underwater camera. Tad fitch seeing dishes and shoes, some boiler or a piece of equipment, pots and things from the kitchens, it was fascinating to see these things there on the floor of the ocean right where they had landed. The key was coming up with the right search strategy because it was a big area. I realized that the key was not to look for the titanic. Dont look for it. Look for the debris that comes off of it. Victor vescovo and late on september 1, they saw what appeared to be a titanic boiler. Tim maltin and then they found the titanic in two halves. The bow was quite well preserved, stuck in the mud. And then the stern had really completely imploded and was like a junkyard. The bow and the stern were found about 1 2 a mile apart. Tad fitch i remember thinking we were disappointed that it wasnt in better condition. Wed had this fantasy that it sunk in one piece, regardless of what the survivors remembered. A lot of people, including me, had never realized it split in two. That in itself was quite a surprise. I was seduced by the imagery of dr. Ballards expeditions and seeing the real wreck on the bottom. But i wanted a Human Interface between that imagery and the imagery of 1912. And i wanted so it ultimately becomes a story about memory. [tense music] titanic was called the ship of dreams. And it was. Tim maltin when bob ballard found the wreck, it brought it to a whole new audience. When James Cameron did the film, it really brought the disaster home again to a whole new generation of people and, of course, to a huge global audience. Were going to make it, rose. Trust me. Suddenly, you could see titanic in full color brought back to life. Andrew wilson and because it recounts a very human story, a romance across the class divide, i think that really captures peoples imagination. Parks stephenson it literally took my breath away. That ending just struck me for some reason to be able to go down to the wreck and see all the ghosts walking around. James cameron got pulled into this whole titanic mania and did his own exploration and research and uncovered new evidence. Larry king there are titanic freaks, right, people who collect items . [laughs] definitely. Yeah, definitely. Theres a large number of them. Mr. Cameron, have you become one . James cameron yes, i think so. This is not, then, just another film you directed . No, im a Bona Fide Rivet counter now. Ive been sucked into the vortex of fascination with titanic. [crashing] titanics sinking and her entire story is shrouded in incredible mysteries. And that is partly why we keep coming back. We always want to know more. We always want to find those answers. [radar beeps] [dramatic music] look of the titanic wreckage deep in the atlantic ocean. Its the first fullsized digital scan of perhaps the historys most famous shipwreck. A team of scientists carried out what they called the largest Underwater Scanning Project in history. The difference between the original grainy images of the wreck that bob ballard took in 1985 and nowadays where, aided with cgi, weve been able to scan the seabed almost as though the waters been drained away. And there she is. And of course, were now able to see things at the level of detail, for example, of pieces of jewelry on the seabed within the wreck. Reporter they believe the largescale Underwater Scanning Project is a game changer, and it may solve the mystery of what exactly caused the luxury Passenger Liner to sink in the atlantic in 1912. [rumbling] [sombermusic] tim maltin on the night of april 14, 1912, the Weather Conditions seemed to be perfect. The visibility was excellent. There was no wind. The sea was as calm as anyone had known it on the North Atlantic. I think they were sort of comfortable that they would see the ice and get out of the way in time. [crashing] titanic sank in what i call a perfect storm of calm. Tad fitch and you can see where the ship broke apart. It was much messier than what has been portrayed in the movies. It was very violent. [dramatic music] the titanic was considered unsinkable because it had these Watertight Compartments sort of, like, an ice cube tray. You fill one Cube Compartment in an ice cube tray, it doesnt flow into the next one until it rises high enough. Oren liebermann the titanic was built with 16 Watertight Compartments. This was revolutionary for its day. So everyone believed that this was one of the safest ships ever built. Don lynch you have the largest ship in the world. Its on its Maiden Voyage. I seem to recall that it was 883 feet long. Don lynch which is like three football fields, which was enormous. Tim maltin she was several stories high. She had 11 decks in total. Don lynch i believe it weighed around 53,000 tons. Tim maltin she had 900 crew. She could take 2,500 passengers. Don lynch and its supposed to be unsinkable. Tim maltin there was this sense of excitement about the newest, biggest. Craig sopin if people wanted to travel in luxury, titanic was it. Tim maltin titanic had many of the luxuries that you would associate with a fivestar hotel on land. She had a stateoftheart for the time gymnasium. Kellie Carter Jackson and theres the topoftheline chefs and cuisines. Titanic attracted a lot of millionaire passengers, so it really was sort of a whos who among passenger lists. [smooth music] most famously, John Jacob Astor, who was the richest man in the world at the time his fortune then was equivalent today of about 2. 3 billion. Tom meyers John Jacob Astor and his cousin, william, ran the most Profitable Hotel in the city for decades, the waldorf astoria. Craig sopin Isidor Strauss was a very rich man. Greg daugherty he made his wealth as a coowner of the Big Department store macys. Don lynch and you had Benjamin Guggenheim on board. Greg daugherty Benjamin Guggenheim was a 46yearold industrialist. Benjamin guggenheim was born into a fortune. He was not new money. He was old money. Tim maltin there was a very attractive actress on the titanic. Greg daugherty Dorothy Gibson. She had been a model for an illustrator, did a lot of magazine covers. Craig sopin she was also one of the highestpaid Silent Film Actresses at the time, well known for quite a few films, even though she was in her early 20s at the time of the titanic. [melancholic music] Julian Fellowes the first class on a ship like titanic were considered a kind of golden race, these marvelous men and women with their wonderful cars and chauffeurs and ladies maids and they were all gods and goddesses, really. Tim maltin but lets not forget that that same excitement went for even the third class passengers, from the richest people to the poorest people. All of them were having a great time and reveling in the wonders of the ship. Shelly binder leah aks is my greatgrandmother. She was traveling in third class. [upbeat music] the party that jack dawson brought roads to in third class in the movie titanic actually happened, and my greatgrandmother was there. [rousing music] kellie Carter Jackson Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was the only black man on the titanic. Joseph was a secondclass passenger. I believed he always sort of wanted to return to haiti and to be with his family. Julian fellowes titanic was that society in miniature. Everyone was aboard immigrants as well as highborn noble women in their diamonds. They were all there. I think the titanic was the last known real moment in history where everybody knew their place. And i think thats why people love it, love to talk about it, love to think about it, because its an era that is literally frozen in time there. And things were never the same afterwards. [theme music] business. Its not a ninetofive proposition. Its all day and into the night. Its all the things that keep this world turning. The gotos that keep us going. The places we cheer. And check in. They all choose the advanced Network Solutions and round the Clock Partnership from Comcast Business. See why Comcast Business powers more Small Businesses than anyone else. Get started for 49. 99 a month plus ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Dont wait call today. [ominous music] Anderson Cooper the Desperate Search for the oceangate titan the experimental submersible, essentially a miniature submarine, with five people inside. They had hoped to visit the wreck of the titanic sitting on the ocean floor in the North Atlantic, but now they face a disaster of their own their air slowly running out. Locating a vessel the size of a large car in an area twice the size of connecticut will simply take more time than they have. Reporter it is this tiny vessel. Its very cramped. Its small. It can only fit five people on board. You can see how tightly packed they are, people facing in different directions. Josh gates you get inside. You sit down on the floor of titan. They close this big, heavy door, and they bolt it shut from the outside. So once youre in titan, somebody has to let you out of the sub from the outside. They have no control over whats going on and almost helplessness. It doesnt matter what they do. They cannot find their own solution within the submersible itself. They have to wait for somebody else to find them. Reporter the crew now has less than 30 hours of oxygen. If you panic on board and hyperventilate, you use more oxygen. So these were all the questions on how much oxygen is really available. Easy. Dont stress. Dont panic. Use as Little Energy as you can. Which is obviously easier said than done in this situation. It would be hard not to be freaked out. Interviewee it could have been an electrical failure on board, so therefore, systems are shut down. If they are alive and theyre in there, theyre going to be at almost freezing temperatures. The conditions would be horrendous, pitchblack, freezingcold, and dwindling oxygen. All three of those things make for a nightmare scenario. Michelle turman i dont think until i actually dove the wreck did i understand the gravity and the responsibility of telling the story. I felt like i was in a sacred space. You start trolling around the ship, you start trolling around the ocean bottom and trying to see things that you could extract. Many of the artifacts, whether it was a firstclass officer uniform, whether it was a suitcase that we brought up that had a pipe in there that still had tobacco, whether it was a Champagne Bottle that was still corked or a bottle of olives or telling the story in a respectful way of passengers, of real lives. When one sees some of these artifacts, like a soap dish or a plate, it does go through your mind of, who was the last person to use this . And what was it like being them over 100 years ago and going down the ship on that fateful night . [stirring music] Greg Daugherty John Jacob Astor iv was returning to the United States from europe, where hed been honeymooning with his pregnant 18yearold wife. Craig sopin madeleine force astor. Greg daugherty and so they wanted to get home in plenty of time before the baby was born. Andrew wilson ida and Isidor Straus had been married for more than four decades. Theyd had an incredibly happy marriage throughout that time. The straus had been traveling in europe, and they thought the return voyage would be a wonderfully pleasant, relaxing trip back to america. [suspenseful music] one of the things People Question is, was titanic going too fast into a known ice field. Don lynch at the time of th