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And when you finish your shift
hours later,
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you climb back up into
your little world below decks
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at the very bow of the ship,
where you eat, you sleep,
:47:17
then you do it all over again.
:47:20
Even here, we could feel
the hand of Thomas Andrews.
:47:24
At the top of one
of the spiral staircases,
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we found a drinking fountain.
:47:29
I'm sure that even
this small kindness
:47:31
must have been
greatly appreciated.
:47:38
Here we've got a plan
that illustrates pretty well
:47:44
what happened that night.
:47:45
The "Titanic" was divided into
16 watertight compartments
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separated by
15 watertight bulkheads.
:47:53
That's these white lines here.
:47:55
And the ship was designed to be
as unsinkable as they could.
:47:59
The worst they could imagine
is a collision
:48:01
at the juncture
of two compartments,
:48:02
which would flood
two adjacent compartments.
:48:05
The ship would only sink so far
and still be safe.
:48:08
She was also designed to float
:48:10
with any three of the first five
compartments flooded.
:48:14
Or the first four in a row
could still flood
:48:18
if they were in some
traumatic...
:48:19
That was
the worst-case scenario.
:48:22
Run into a rock or something
like that, just full-on.
:48:25
She'd buckle back,
and the ship could still float.
:48:27
With all of this combination
of safety factors,
:48:31
she was considered
virtually unsinkable.
:48:32
What they didn't envision
is what happened that night.
:48:39
"Titanic" struck the iceberg,
:48:41
a glancing blow
along the starboard side,
:48:43
scraped along and ruptured
plates or split the seams,
:48:46
moving along into
this cargo compartment,
:48:48
into this cargo compartment,
and this baggage and cargo,
:48:51
into Boiler Room Number 6
:48:53
and two feet
into the coal bunker
:48:55
of Boiler Room Number 5.
:48:57
And as the ship sank,
:48:58
just at the point where it was
about ready to stabilize,