Ghosts of the Abyss
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1:05:01
"You have 21/2 hours to
act out the rest of your life.

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What are you gonna be?
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Will you be a hero?
Will you be a coward?"

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Time for one more hand.
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Poker. Five card draw.
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Would you fight to survive?
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Would you take your place
meekly with the people

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that were relegated
to the third-class spaces

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and wait patiently
until someone unlocks a gate

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and lets you free?
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- Help us!
- What would you do?

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- Please!
- How would you act?

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I think it's fortunate
that most of us

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will never be put to that test.
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Any more women or children?
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Anyone else, men?
Anyone else?

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Quickly!
Quickly, men, quickly!

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Prepare to lower!
Ready on the left?

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Bruce Ismay.
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He's the guy
who was responsible.

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And yet he did survive,
when others died.

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Right and left together!
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I don't know which man
would've felt worse that night.

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Bruce Ismay,
for vetoing more lifeboats,

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or Thomas Andrews,
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for not having fought
that decision harder.

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There was
absolute pandemonium,

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just chaos as those
last boats went down.

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Get back, I say!
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Get back!
Link arms! Form a chain!

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Women and children only,
please!

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It was precarious.
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There was one lifeboat where
they weren't letting adults in.

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This forced women to decide
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whether they were gonna be
separated from their children.

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They were trying to take
children only.

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There were so many people
and a few lifeboats.

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Several women said, " I am not
going without my children.

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They're not leaving without me. "
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They overcrowded that lifeboat,
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but the water was so calm,
it made it.

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It had over 70 people,
but the water was calm enough.

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It must have been up
to the gunwales.

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It was that far above the water.
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You could've put your hand over
and trailed it in the water.


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