{"id":554,"date":"2017-01-16T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2024-02-06T15:58:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T21:58:21","slug":"35-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com\/35-titanic\/","title":{"rendered":"35: Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"554\" class=\"elementor elementor-554\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dde598f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dde598f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6c39643e\" data-id=\"6c39643e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9ab9527 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9ab9527\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-994c586\" data-id=\"994c586\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c299de elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"6c299de\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=LEFE7483151918\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71a0ee3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"71a0ee3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Did you enjoy this episode? 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Titanic | Enchanted Titanic<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia-titanica.org\/titanic-biography\/cyril-furmstone-evans.html \">Cyril Furmstone Evans : SS Californian Wireless Operator<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adventure.howstuffworks.com\/titanic5.htm \">The Titanic&#8217;s Collision with the Iceberg &#8211; How the Titanic Worked | HowStuffWorks<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-4_F8lOuYvck\/T45_pHTXh8I\/AAAAAAAAC0s\/jgYNIq99RLo\/s1600\/Floodable_lengths.gif \">Floodable_lengths.gif (1209\u00d71063)<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dyingwords.net\/fatal-flaw-what-really-caused-the-titanic-tragedy\/#sthash.IVxU0vZg.dpbs \">Fatal Flaw &#8211; What Really Caused The Titanic Tragedy<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/titanic.wikia.com\/wiki\/William_McMaster_Murdoch \">William McMaster Murdoch | Titanic Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Musicians_of_the_RMS_Titanic \">Musicians of the RMS Titanic &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/titanic.wikia.com\/wiki\/Joseph_Dawson \">Joseph Dawson | Titanic Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evalyn_Walsh_McLean \">Evalyn Walsh McLean &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9075517 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9075517\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Disclaimer: Dan LeFebvre and\/or Based on a True Story may earn commissions from qualifying purchases through our links on this page.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8af37ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8af37ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Transcript<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d4084d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d4084d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Note: This transcript is automatically generated. There will be mistakes, so please don&#8217;t use them for quotes. It is provided for reference use to find things better in the audio.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec76db6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ec76db6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The movie opens in 1996, which was the present-day when the film was made. Bill Paxton\u2019s character, Brock Lovett, is on a research vessel searching the wreck of the <em>RMS Titanic<\/em>. They\u2019re looking for a necklace called the Heart of the Ocean. As they search the wreckage of the <em>Titanic<\/em> searching for the necklace, his team comes across the drawing of a young woman dated April 14th, 1912\u2014the day the <em>Titanic <\/em>sank.\u00a0<\/p><p>Since the movie\u2019s release, many people believed the Heart of the Ocean necklace to be real. The truth is, though, the necklace is fictional. But the backdrop the movie gives for the Heart of the Ocean necklace sounds like it could be real. \u00a0<\/p><p>After Bill Paxton\u2019s version of Brock Lovett, who is a fictitious character, brings an elderly Rose DeWitt Bukater, who\u2019s played by Gloria Stuart in the film, to his research ship to show her the drawing, Brock explains the story of the diamond.\u00a0<\/p><p>According to the movie, the massive blue diamond set in the necklace was owned by the French King Louis XVI and it was called the Blue Diamond of the Crown at the time. Brock goes on to explain the diamond disappeared in 1792, the same time King Louis XVI was beheaded. After this, according to Brock\u2019s explanation in the film, the diamond was cut down to the heart-shape we see in the movie and it earned the name, the Heart of the Ocean. He also mentions that it\u2019d be worth more than the Hope Diamond.\u00a0<\/p><p>As convincing as this sounds, the story of the Blue Diamond of the Crown and the Heart of the Ocean is not true.\u00a0<\/p><p>What is true, though, is that King Louis XVI was beheaded. It was during the French Revolution, which lasted a decade from 1789 to 1799. But it didn\u2019t happen in 1792, but rather on January 21st, 1793. That\u2019s when King Louis XVI became the only French monarch to be executed, bringing an end to over a thousand years of French monarchy.\u00a0<\/p><p>Perhaps one of the reasons why the story of the Blue Diamond of the Crown, the Heart of the Ocean, or whatever name you call it, sounds familiar is because it closely resembles the story of another diamond Brock mentions, the Hope Diamond. Also a massive blue diamond, the real Hope Diamond at one point belong to a French monarch. \u00a0<\/p><p>It was over a hundred years before King Louis XVI, but it was a king with the same name. King Louis XIV bought the massive stone, then known as the Tavernier Blue after the French merchant who was the original owner. The diamond stayed with the French monarchy for almost a hundred years until, in 1791\u2014not 1792 as the movie says\u2014it was stolen. Then, just like the movie indicates, the Tavernier Blue diamond was cut. \u00a0<\/p><p>The largest portion of this newly-cut stone was what became the Hope Diamond. Although it\u2019s round, not heart-shaped like in the film.\u00a0<\/p><p>So while the history between these two fabulous gems are very similar, perhaps the biggest difference is when it comes to their association with the <em>Titanic<\/em>. In the movie, the heart-shaped diamond was on the ship. In truth, the Hope Diamond was never on the <em>Titanic<\/em>.<\/p><p>We know this because in 1912 when the <em>Titanic <\/em>sailed, the diamond belonged to an American socialite named Evelyn McLean. She purchased the diamond in 1911 for $180,000, which is roughly $4.3 million in 2017\u2019s money. Evelyn wasn\u2019t on the <em>Titanic<\/em>, and she passed the diamond onto her children when she passed away in 1947.\u00a0<\/p><p>Oh, and the current worth of the diamond? About $250 million.\u00a0<\/p><p>Back in the movie, after this introduction about the necklace, an elderly Rose begins to cry as she looks at the modern-day images of the Titanic\u2019s final resting place at the bottom of the ocean. And that\u2019s how a teary-eyed Rose begins to tell her story that transports us back to 1912 on board the <em>Titanic<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><p>More specifically, to the southern coast of England at the Southampton port where the <em>Titanic <\/em>is getting ready for its maiden voyage. Here is where we\u2019re introduced to a 17-year-old Rose, played by Kate Winslet, and her fianc\u00e9, Cal Hockley, who\u2019s played by Billy Zane. As they arrive, Cal casually boasts that the <em>Titanic <\/em>is an unsinkable ship.\u00a0<\/p><p>While history obviously shows that the <em>Titanic <\/em>was, indeed, a sinkable ship, this claim was based in truth. We don\u2019t really know where it first started, but many historians believe it was marketing that simply grew to be fact in the minds of many people. \u00a0<\/p><p>One of the earliest mentions of this was in 1910, when the company that was building the <em>Titanic, <\/em>White Star Line, published a brochure explaining the <em>Titanic<\/em> and its sister ship, the <em>Olympic<\/em>, were both designed to be unsinkable. To quote from the brochure:\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><em>\u2026and as far as it is possible to do so, these two wonderful vessels are designed to be unsinkable.<\/em><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>This sort of marketing speak wasn\u2019t unique to the <em>Titanic <\/em>by any means. Other massive ships at the time, such as the <em>Lusitania <\/em>made by White Star\u2019s major competitor, Cunard, also had similar claims in its marketing. Always, though, there were qualifications such as the one for the <em>Titanic <\/em>and <em>Olympic<\/em>: \u201cas far as it is possible to do so.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>Oh, and if the name <em>Lusitania <\/em>sounds familiar you\u2019ve probably heard of its sinking. It was sunk by a German submarine in 1915. All 1,198 people on board perished, and as a result of this event, the United States entered World War I.\u00a0<\/p><p>But that\u2019s another story for another day.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the movie, after Cal, Rose and Rose\u2019s mother, Ruth, who\u2019s played by Frances Fisher, enter the <em>Titanic<\/em> we cut to a poker game in a nearby bar. Here is where we meet Jack Dawson, who\u2019s played by Leonardo DiCaprio. In the poker game, Jack wins two tickets on the <em>Titanic <\/em>for himself and his friend, Fabrizio, who\u2019s played by Danny Nucci.\u00a0<\/p><p>This didn\u2019t happen. How do we know it didn\u2019t happen? Well, Fabrizio isn\u2019t a real person. Jack Dawson isn\u2019t a real person. Rose DeWitt Bukater isn\u2019t a real person, nor was her fianc\u00e9 Cal Hockley. In fact, most of the characters in the main storyline for the film <em>Titanic <\/em>are made up. \u00a0<\/p><p>Just like the correlation between the story of the Heart of the Ocean diamond on the necklace in the film and the real Hope Diamond, the filmmakers did something very similar with the characters in the movie. There\u2019s a number of facts that are true in the film, like the whole event happening, and things like people believing the<em> Titanic<\/em> was unsinkable.\u00a0<\/p><p>But the love story between Jack and Rose was all made up for the movie.\u00a0<\/p><p>Despite not being real people, one of the truths that the film builds the story on is the idea that there were very different types of passengers on board the <em>Titanic<\/em>. We see this when we see the stark difference between the accommodations for Jack and Fabrizio compared to the luxurious suite for Rose.\u00a0<\/p><p>While the people may have been made up for the film, the accommodations are fairly accurate to what it must have been like.\u00a0<\/p><p>There were three classes of passengers on board the <em>Titanic. <\/em>The first class passengers on the <em>Titanic <\/em>were made up of the incredibly rich. To get a first class ticket in 1912, you had to pay anywhere from \u00a330 to \u00a3870. That\u2019s between $3,400 and $98,000 in today\u2019s U.S. dollars.<\/p><p>The reason for such a wide range is because you had a choice of accommodations. If you were a single passenger, all you needed was a single room. The higher prices were for an entire suite, like what we see the fictitious Cal and Rose have in the movie. You\u2019d also get a private deck overlooking the ocean.\u00a0<\/p><p>Second class passengers didn\u2019t get these choices, but they still traveled comfortably. A second class ticket on board the <em>Titanic <\/em>cost about \u00a317 in 1912, or about $1,900 today.\u00a0<\/p><p>Still not cheap, but considering the <em>Titanic\u2019s <\/em>maiden voyage was supposed to be a seven day trip from Southampton to New York City, that breaks down to about $270 a day. That\u2019s not too bad, considering it\u2019s both transportation and what amounts to a hotel room.\u00a0<\/p><p>Finally, there were the third class passengers. That\u2019s what Jack and his friend were in the film. A third class ticket in 1912 cost about \u00a37, or about $785 today. For a third class children\u2019s ticket, that was only \u00a33, or about $335 today.\u00a0<\/p><p>That doesn\u2019t seem like much, and today it may not be. But the inflation alone doesn\u2019t tell the whole story. In 1912, the dividing line between working class and middle class was an income of about \u00a3160 per year. That would be an $18,000 salary in the U.S. today.\u00a0<\/p><p>Like today, salaries varied quite a bit. But considering in 1912, the 10% of the British population owned 90% of the wealth, with the top 1% owning about 70% of that, it\u2019s not too far-fetched to assume the lower end of middle class is a fairly average salary for someone who might be interested in traveling on the <em>Titanic<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><p>For the sake of this example, that\u2019d mean the second class ticket that didn\u2019t sound so bad at $1,900, or $270 a day for the week-long trip across the ocean, all of a sudden sounds a lot more expensive when we find out that\u2019s just over 10% of an entire year\u2019s salary.\u00a0<\/p><p>What this means is something we have found to be true for most of the passengers of the <em>Titanic<\/em>, and something that\u2019s fairly accurately depicted in the movie. With the exception of the super-rich, for whom the cost was negligible, the cost was nothing to laugh at for most of the people in second and third class rooms. \u00a0<\/p><p>It wasn\u2019t a cruise or a vacation. It was transportation with a purpose. For many, it was the promise of a better life in the United States. In the movie, that\u2019s exactly what it was for Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character, Jack Dawson. So although he was fictional, James Cameron, who not only directed the film but also wrote it, did a good job of capturing the essence of what it must\u2019ve been like for these very different purposes for being on board the ship.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the movie, as Rose is unpacking in her luxurious suite, some of the things she unpacks are paintings by Pablo Picasso. Billy Zane\u2019s character, Cal, says Picasso will never amount to anything.\u00a0<\/p><p>We already know these characters aren\u2019t real, so obviously <em>they <\/em>didn\u2019t have any Picasso paintings on the <em>Titanic<\/em>. Pablo Picasso, who was born in 1881, was actively painting in 1912. So coupled with the immense riches of many of the <em>Titanic\u2019s <\/em>passengers, and the fact that Picasso was active at the time, it\u2019s certainly possible that there could have been some Picasso paintings on board.\u00a0<\/p><p>But there\u2019s also no proof there were any of Picasso\u2019s paintings on the <em>Titanic<\/em>. In fact, after the movie was released, James Cameron and the other movie producers got in trouble for using the image that we see Rose unpack.\u00a0<\/p><p>According to the <em>New York Times<\/em>, James Cameron applied for permission to use one of Picasso\u2019s paintings, Les Demoiselles d\u2019Avignon, in the movie. He was denied permission, which means he broke copyright law when we see Kate Winslet\u2019s character holding the painting in the movie. As it turns out, James Cameron ended up settling out of court when he agreed to pay a fee for using it. Something he had to do again when the 3D version of <em>Titanic <\/em>was released in 2012.\u00a0<\/p><p>We know for a fact that the Les Demoiselles d\u2019Avignon painting, which Picasso painted in 1907, did not sink with the <em>Titanic<\/em> because it\u2019s currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. \u00a0<\/p><p>Oh, and it\u2019s also massive! 243.9 cm by 233.7 cm, or about 8 feet by 8 feet. Not nearly the same size as the painting we see in the movie.\u00a0<\/p><p>After unpacking in the movie, there\u2019s a mention of a woman named Margaret \u201cMolly\u201d Brown boarding the<em> Titanic<\/em> at Cherbourg. In the movie, Molly Brown is played by Kathy Bates. We also see, even if it is for a brief moment, another ship alongside the <em>Titanic<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><p>These little details are worth pointing out because they\u2019re the reason why the story of the <em>Titanic <\/em>seem so realistic. Because, even though the overarching storyline is made up for the film, these little details are accurate.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>That boat was named the <em>SS Nomadic<\/em>, and was built by the <em>Titanic\u2019s<\/em> owners, the White Star Line, specifically to ferry passengers to and from both the <em>Titanic <\/em>and her sister ship, the <em>Olympic.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p><p>The reason they needed the <em>Nomadic<\/em> was because both the <em>Titanic <\/em>and the <em>Olympic <\/em>were too big to dock at the harbor in Cherbourg, France. Cherbourg is across the English Channel, due south of Southampton.\u00a0<\/p><p>At noon on April 10th, 1912, the <em>Titanic <\/em>left Southampton. That evening, at 6:30 PM, the <em>Titanic <\/em>anchored outside Cherbourg to pick up more passengers. There were 274 people who boarded the <em>Titanic<\/em> at Cherbourg, with the last of them settling into the <em>Titanic<\/em> by about 8:00 PM.\u00a0<\/p><p>One of those passengers was indeed a woman named Margaret Brown. She was an American socialite who was on her way back home. Although as the elderly Rose\u2019s voiceover is telling the story, she incorrectly says Margaret was called \u201cMolly.\u201d \u00a0<\/p><p>In truth, Margaret\u2019s friends called her Maggie. It wasn\u2019t until well after her death in 1932 that the nickname \u201cMolly\u201d began to be associated with her. Mostly because of a 1960 Broadway musical was written called <em>The Unsinkable Molly Brown<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><p>After picking up passengers in Cherbourg, the movie also is correct when it mentions steaming off the coast of Ireland and out into the open ocean. \u00a0<\/p><p>At about 8:10 PM on April 10th, the <em>Titanic <\/em>raised its anchor. And left Cherbourg headed for Queenstown, Ireland. Well, that\u2019s what it was called in 1912, at least. It was named this after an 1849 visit to the small coastal town from Queen Victoria. Then, in 1920, Queenstown was renamed back to its original name\u2014Cobh. That\u2019s its name today.\u00a0<\/p><p>While they traveled the 500 miles, that\u2019s about 800 kilometers, from Cherbourg to Queenstown, the <em>Titanic\u2019s <\/em>Captain Edward Smith ran a number of maneuverability tests. Unlike Jack and Rose, Captain Smith was really the name of the <em>Titanic\u2019s <\/em>captain. In the movie he\u2019s played by Bernard Hill.\u00a0<\/p><p>The <em>Titanic <\/em>arrived at Queenstown late that same night, and enjoyed a calm night anchored a couple miles off the Irish coast.\u00a0<\/p><p>As the sun began to rise on April 11th, passengers and mail began to board the ship. Remember this was 1912, so the opportunity to take letters across the ocean wasn\u2019t something that happened every day. Here in Ireland, the <em>Titanic <\/em>added 1,385 bags of mail to be delivered in the United States. \u00a0<\/p><p>According to historical documents, we also know that 113 third class and seven second class passengers boarded here. There were also seven passengers who disembarked in Ireland. In all, this brought the total number of people on board the <em>Titanic <\/em>to 2,227.\u00a0<\/p><p>Or at least, that\u2019s what most historians agree on. Unfortunately there are some discrepancies in the passenger and crew lists that have survived, so we don\u2019t know the exact number.\u00a0<\/p><p>At 1:30 PM, with all of the new passengers and luggage on board, the <em>Titanic <\/em>was ready. Captain Smith ordered the anchor raised and they headed for New York City, over 3,000 miles to the west. That\u2019s over 4,800 kilometers.\u00a0<\/p><p>After going all ahead full, in the movie, one of the ship\u2019s crew informs Bernard Hill\u2019s version of Captain Smith that they\u2019re traveling at 21 knots. That\u2019s about 39 kilometers per hour, or 24 miles per hour. \u00a0<\/p><p>Her maximum speed was 24 knots, or 44 kilometers per hour and 27 miles per hour, but as best as we can tell from the documentation that\u2019s survived we know she was at steam around 21 or 22 knots for most of the trip.\u00a0<\/p><p>Even the dolphins swimming could\u2019ve happened. I\u2019m talking about the ones we see when Jack points them out to Fabrizio just before Jack\u2019s iconic stance with arms outstretched as he yells he\u2019s the king of the world with the two friends are looking out over the bow of the ship. \u00a0<\/p><p>Atlantic dolphins can swim at about 25 miles per hour, or 40 kilometers an hour, which is about 22 knots. Again, these little details are fairly accurate to the traveling speed of the <em>Titanic<\/em>, and really help sell the accuracy of the movie overall.\u00a0<\/p><p>Speaking of the movie, after this is when Jack sees Rose for the first time. Of course, all of this is made up. In fact, much of what we see next is fictional. \u00a0<\/p><p>That\u2019s because really up until now the filmmakers have been setting the backdrop for the story line. In doing so, as we\u2019ve learned, they\u2019ve added an incredible amount of factual details. \u00a0<\/p><p>Even down to when Billy Zane\u2019s fictional character, Cal, orders the lamb at dinner. We do know lamb was one of the meals on the <em>Titanic\u2019s <\/em>voyage, but unfortunately, I wasn\u2019t able to find a dinner menu for April 11th. There\u2019s some you can find for the 10th, 12th, 14th, but not the 11th. So if you have one, please let me know<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>\u2014I\u2019d love to see it!\u00a0<\/p><p>Of the menus that did survive, we\u2019ve been able to piece together what it must\u2019ve been like eating on the <em>Titanic. <\/em>At an auction in 2012, 100 years after the <em>Titanic\u2019s <\/em>voyage, a menu dated April 10th, 1912 sold at auction for $70,000. \u00a0<\/p><p>That would\u2019ve been the dinner while the <em>Titanic <\/em>was on its way to Queenstown, Ireland.\u00a0<\/p><p>Listed on the menu were quite a range of foods for the first class passengers, lamb being among them. To get a sense for the luxuries on the ship, let\u2019s walk through the meal. \u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019d start with hors d\u2019oeuvres, of course, as everyone arrived. Remember the meals were a chance for the first class passengers to socialize. That\u2019s the primary activity on board the <em>Titanic<\/em>, so it was certainly an event that\u2019d take many hours.\u00a0<\/p><p>After hors d\u2019oeuvres and mingling, you\u2019d have your choice between two soups. One was a consomm\u00e9 rejane, which is a clear soup typically with a beef or chicken stock base. Or you could have cr\u00e9me reine margot. Like the name implies, this was a much thicker, cream-based soup.\u00a0<\/p><p>Then there was the second course. This offered turbot fish with homard sauce, which is a lobster-flavored sauce. Or perhaps you\u2019d prefer whitebait, a small fish, each about the size of a sardine. \u00a0<\/p><p>Or perhaps you wanted both. As someone in first class aboard the <em>Titanic, <\/em>you were free to order any or all of the items on the menu.\u00a0<\/p><p>If you\u2019re getting the sense that the food on board the <em>Titanic <\/em>was immaculate, you\u2019re right.\u00a0<\/p><p>The third course continued this extravagance. The two items for the third course on April 10th, 1912 were either mutton cutlets and green peas or Supreme of Chicken \u00e0 la Stanley.\u00a0<\/p><p>Although in the movie Cal ordered lamb with mint sauce, not mutton. But mutton, of course, being lamb means we\u2019d have to be pretty nit-picky about the authenticity to complain about that. And besides, there was a menu from April 14th, <em>the <\/em>Titanic\u2019s final day, that survived and lamb with mint sauce was on that menu.\u00a0<\/p><p>The other dish, Supreme Chicken \u00e0 la Stanley, was a creamy chicken dish. The term \u201csupreme\u201d being a French term to mean the chicken was both boneless and skinless chicken breast.\u00a0<\/p><p>Then there was the fourth course. This included sirloin of beef with ch\u00e2teau potatoes, roast duckling and apple sauce or fillet of veal and braised ham.\u00a0<\/p><p>The fifth course was much lighter, cauliflower and spinach.\u00a0<\/p><p>The sixth course brought boiled rice, bovin and boiled new potatoes. Interestingly, they used bovin without the \u201ce\u201d, which is the French word for cow, and is the feminine version of the masculine bovine <em>with<\/em> an \u201ce\u201d.<\/p><p>Anyway, to finish up the menu, after the sixth course came, of course, the seventh. This was plover on toast and cress with a salad. Plover is a bird and cress is an English herb.\u00a0<\/p><p>Finally, as the meal starts to wind down there were only a couple more courses. The eighth course offered pudding Sans Souci, Charlotte Colville and Granvilles.\u00a0<\/p><p>Sans Souci is a French term that simply means \u201cno worries\u201d. Charlotte Colville was a gelatin dessert and Granvilles a type of cracker. Finally, the meal came to a close with the ninth course, French ice cream.\u00a0<\/p><p>Whew!\u00a0<\/p><p>That was <em>just<\/em> the dinner menu for April 10th. We won\u2019t go into the menus for the other days, but each day offered similar menus for the wealthy in first class for the <em>Titanic<\/em>. And I certainly apologize if I got any of the details incorrect on these. As you might imagine, while some of the menus did survive from the <em>Titanic<\/em>, like many menus today they don\u2019t tell you how they\u2019re prepared. \u00a0<\/p><p>If you want to learn more about the delicious foods they had on the <em>Titanic<\/em>, I would highly recommend getting the book by Rick Archbold and Dana McCauley called <em>Last Dinner On the Titanic: Menus and Recipes from the Great Liner<\/em><a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p><p>Rick and Dana did tons of research into the meals on the <em>Titanic <\/em>and turned their research into a cookbook so you can make the meals they had on the <em>Titanic <\/em>at home.<\/p><p>Getting back to the movie, we\u2019re on the evening of April 11th. After the scare with Rose\u2019s near-suicide attempt, the evening ends with Cal showing Rose the Heart of the Ocean diamond. We already learned this isn\u2019t true, but it sure does make for a fascinating story, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0<\/p><p>The next scene in the movie is the next day. So while the movie doesn\u2019t put a date on this, that makes it Friday, April 12th. While the storyline between the fictitious Jack and Rose continue, again the backdrop is pretty accurate.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the movie, Bruce Ismay, who\u2019s played by Jonathan Hyde, is chatting with Bernard Hill\u2019s Captain Smith, who mentions they\u2019re making excellent time. This little detail is true.\u00a0<\/p><p>April 12th, 1912 for the <em>Titanic <\/em>was just like April 11th in that it was a calm day with clear weather and nothing really happening. By the end of April 12th, the <em>Titanic <\/em>covered 386 miles, or 620 kilometers.\u00a0<\/p><p>Another point here is about the character of Bruce Ismay. Like Captain Smith, Joseph Bruce Ismay was a real person. And like the movie indicates, he worked for White Star Line. He was their managing director, in fact, and would go on to become the highest ranking White Star employee to survive the <em>Titanic.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p><p>Later on, Rose invites Jack to dinner. Since Jack is poor, he doesn\u2019t have anything to wear so this is where Molly Brown comes to the rescue. She offers him formal wear, exclaiming that he\u2019s about the same size as her son.<\/p><p>There\u2019s a shred of truth in this, that being that Margaret Brown did indeed have a son. His name was Larry Brown, and he was born in 1887, so in April of 1912 he would\u2019ve been about 24 years old. \u00a0<\/p><p>Could Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character have fit into a 24 year old\u2019s suit? Well, seeing as Jack Dawson is fictional, I suppose the answer is \u201cyes.\u201d <br \/>After having dinner in the first class cabin, Rose heads down to the third class cabin to party with the poor folks. Here there\u2019s merrymaking of all sorts. Happy music, drinking and dancing.\u00a0<\/p><p>This sort of thing certainly could have happened on the <em>Titanic<\/em>. Unlike the first class passengers, the third class passengers didn\u2019t have much to pass the time. \u00a0<\/p><p>There was a general room that they could gather in, but they weren\u2019t allowed upstairs with the first class passengers. So they had to entertain themselves. As we learned earlier, many of the third class passengers were people who were going to America to make a new life for themselves. As a result, there was a lot of reason for celebration on the trip.\u00a0<\/p><p>The scene with music, dancing and happiness all around gives a pretty good indication of what after-dinner parties must\u2019ve been like for third class passengers. Much less class and sophistication than first class, but plenty of fun to go around.\u00a0<\/p><p>After this party scene, the movie cuts to the next day. \u00a0<\/p><p>Now as you\u2019ve noticed, up until this point I\u2019ve counted each day. One of the reasons for that was to bring up something interesting in the movie\u2019s timeline here. According to my day-by-day calculations, the day\/night cycles would make this the third day on the ship after leaving Ireland.\u00a0<\/p><p>I\u2019ve gone back numerous times and compared with the movie to make sure I\u2019m not missing any scenes, but let\u2019s take a quick moment to go recap this to make sure I\u2019m not missing anything.\u00a0<\/p><p>We can start our recap when the elderly Rose\u2019s voiceover mentions leaving Ireland. We know from history that the ship left Queenstown, Ireland at about 1:30 PM on Thursday, April 11th. Since that\u2019s mid-day and the film doesn\u2019t show any night-time scenes, it\u2019s safe to assume that evening was when Rose almost jumped off the back of the ship.<\/p><p>\u00a0The next day-time scene is when Jack shows Rose his drawings. Friday, April 12th. The sun is starting to set as Molly Brown offers Jack clothes to wear to dinner, so it\u2019s safe to assume here that the dinner with Jack, Rose, Cal and the rest of the first class passengers takes place on that same evening.\u00a0<\/p><p>I\u2019m also assuming that when Jack hands Rose the note about the party in third class it\u2019s not about a future day. That would mean the third class party and dancing takes place on Friday night, April 12th. \u00a0<\/p><p>Which would mean the next morning is Saturday, April 13th.\u00a0<\/p><p>However, as we can see in the movie, the first class passengers are attending a church service on the day after the party in the third class cabin. We know from the real<em> Titanic\u2019s<\/em> log that this event took place on Sunday, April 14th at 10:30 AM.\u00a0<\/p><p>The tricky part here is that the movie doesn\u2019t indicate the days, so there\u2019s no way to know how much time is passing from scene to scene. Especially since most of the events are either made up around the fictitious characters and storyline or they\u2019re recurring events that happen every day, like eating a meal. It\u2019s very possible that it skipped from one day to the next day and we never saw the evening. \u00a0<\/p><p>For example, maybe when they left Ireland, the movie skipped from April 11th to April 12th in the next scene. That\u2019d mean everything would move forward a day. Rose\u2019s attempted suicide was on the evening of April 12th. Jack and Rose attend dinner and then the third class party take place on April 13th.\u00a0<\/p><p>That\u2019d line up the timeline with the movie and the real events, so that\u2019s very likely to be the case. But my hope in mentioning it here is simply so you can see the oddity in the timeline of the film. \u00a0<\/p><p>Regardless, we can reorient ourselves with the timeline of the movie and the actual events on Sunday, April 14th at 10:30 AM. This is when the unique event, the first class church service, takes place.\u00a0<\/p><p>Shortly after this, in the movie, one of the crewmembers gives Captain Smith an ice warning from the <em>Noordam<\/em>. He then offers reassurance for Rose and her mother, who are right there as the warning is given. Captain Smith says it\u2019s quite normal for this time of year.\u00a0<\/p><p>And that\u2019s true. At 11:40 AM, the Dutch passenger liner called the <em>Noordam<\/em> issued a warning of ice in the area. But that wasn\u2019t the first ice warning the <em>Titanic <\/em>received. Late the evening before, Saturday the 13th, they received other ice warnings. Or there was the ice warning just a couple hours before the <em>Noordam\u2019s <\/em>warning. That was from the <em>Caronia<\/em>, a passenger ship owned by the Cunard Line, which issued an ice field warning at 9:00 AM on the 14th.\u00a0<\/p><p>Although we know from history this sort of warning probably should\u2019ve been paid more heed by the <em>Titanic\u2019s <\/em>crew, in context it\u2019s easy to see why it wasn\u2019t that big of a deal for Captain Smith. \u00a0<\/p><p>Like the movie indicates, it <em>was <\/em>quite normal for that time of year. Ice was common to find on the Atlantic in the chilly month of April, so ships of the time were always on the look-out for ice. When they saw some, they\u2019d let anyone in their broadcasting distance know the coordinates of the ice. \u00a0<\/p><p>Between Saturday and Sunday, the <em>Titanic <\/em>had gone another 546 miles, or 879 kilometers.\u00a0<\/p><p>After this mention of ice in the movie, Rose is walking along the ship with the ship\u2019s architect, Thomas Andrews, when she asks about the lifeboats. According to the movie there\u2019s only enough lifeboats for about half of the passengers.\u00a0<\/p><p>Thomas Andrews, the architect who was in charge of the plans for the <em>Titanic<\/em>, was really on board the ship for her maiden voyage. In the movie, Thomas is played by Victor Garber.\u00a0<\/p><p>Also true is the mention about the number of lifeboats when compared to passengers. There were 20 lifeboats on the <em>Titanic<\/em>. Although they weren\u2019t all the same size, the average lifeboat could hold about 60 people, meaning the 20 lifeboats could hold 1,178 people. \u00a0<\/p><p>Although, as we learned earlier, there is some discrepancy about the exact number of passengers and crew, the number was somewhere around 2,220 or so. Give or take ten people. Still way more people than there were lifeboats.\u00a0<\/p><p>And the <em>Titanic <\/em>wasn\u2019t even at capacity. According to the White Star Line, the maximum capacity for the <em>Titanic <\/em>was 3,327 people. But then again, the lifeboats weren\u2019t at maximum capacity, either. \u00a0<\/p><p>There were enough lifeboat supports, also called davits, to carry 64 lifeboats on the <em>Titanic. <\/em>But for reasons we\u2019ll never fully understand, only 20 were installed for the maiden voyage. Most historians think the primary reason was because the <em>Titanic\u2019s <\/em>designers thought filling it up with lifeboats would make the deck way too cluttered.\u00a0<\/p><p>That point is one that Victor Garber\u2019s version of Thomas Andrews shares with Rose.\u00a0<\/p><p>That evening, Rose and Jack share the wonderfully romantic moment on the bow of the ship that\u2019s come to be the defining moment in the movie. As Celine Dion\u2019s <em>My Heart Will Go On <\/em>plays in the background, an instrumental version at least, Jack holds Rose and they kiss for the first time.\u00a0<\/p><p>You already know by now this is all made up, since the characters are fictional. But after this moment in the movie, we fade back to the elderly Rose as she explains that was the last time the <em>Titanic <\/em>ever saw daylight.\u00a0<\/p><p>That is true.\u00a0<\/p><p>The movie doesn\u2019t make mention of any more ice warnings after the one from the <em>Noordam<\/em>, but there were many more after that. \u00a0<\/p><p>Jumping back in the timeline a bit, before Jack and Rose\u2019s sunset kiss on the bow of the ship would have happened if they were real people, earlier that day, at 1:42 PM on April 14th, the <em>Titanic <\/em>got a warning of \u201clarge quantities of field ice\u201d about 250 miles, 400 kilometers, ahead of the ship. Captain Smith gave the message to Bruce Ismay, who stored it safely in his pocket.\u00a0<\/p><p>Three minutes later, the <em>Amerika, <\/em>that\u2019s a German passenger ship so <em>Amerika <\/em>is with a \u201ck\u201d, sent out a \u201clarge iceberg\u201d warning. It was a message that never made its way to the bridge.\u00a0<\/p><p>Back in the movie, the evening of April 14th is when Jack paints Rose, wearing nothing but the Heart of the Ocean necklace. We don\u2019t know the timing of this other than to know it took place in the evening. \u00a0<\/p><p>Thanks to historians and scientists who have studied the <em>real <\/em>events extensively, we know quite a bit about what actually happened that evening.\u00a0<\/p><p>So while Jack and Rose were enjoying a calm sketching session with a piano version of <em>My Heart Will Go On <\/em>playing, things weren\u2019t so calm elsewhere on the ship. Between 5:30 PM and 7:30 PM on the evening of April 14th, 1912, the air temperature dropped by ten degrees to 33\u00b0 F.\u00a0<\/p><p>At 5:50 PM Captain Smith ordered the <em>Titanic\u2019s <\/em>course be changed to take a more southern route. No one knows why, but most historians assume it was to avoid ice.\u00a0<\/p><p>After Jack draws Rose, the movie cuts to the bridge where Captain Smith tells Mr. Lightoller, who\u2019s played by Jonny Phillips, to maintain speed and heading as he heads off to the dinner party.\u00a0<\/p><p>That means this must\u2019ve after 6:00 PM, because on the real <em>Titanic, <\/em>Second Officer Charles Lightoller, who you can probably guess was a real person, relieved Chief Officer Wilde at 6:00 PM on April 14th. Chief Officer Wilde is played by Mark Lindsay Chapman in the movie.\u00a0<\/p><p>Soon after this, Jack and Rose run off as they\u2019re chased by Spicer Lovejoy, who\u2019s played by David Warner. Like Jack and Rose, Spicer Lovejoy is a fictional character made up for the film.\u00a0<\/p><p>After Jack and Rose made their escape from Spicer by making the back seat of a car rather steamy, the movie cuts to the crow\u2019s nest where two men are on the lookout for ice bergs.\u00a0<\/p><p>There\u2019s a brief scene where you see Lightoller turn over the bridge as he says he\u2019s off to make his rounds.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the movie, it\u2019s Jack and Rose who distract the men in the crow\u2019s nest. After laughing about the two lovers, the crewmen turn back to see an iceberg\u2014straight ahead!\u00a0<\/p><p>Frantically, they call the bridge and relay the news.\u00a0<\/p><p>This is where the timeline in the movie derails from what really happened. In the movie, it seems like it happens pretty quickly after Lightoller took over on the bridge.\u00a0<\/p><p>That\u2019s not the case.\u00a0<\/p><p>At 7:15 PM, one of the crewmen, First Officer Murdoch, who\u2019s played by Ewan Stewart in the film, ordered one of the forward hatches closed. The glow from inside the hatch was making it difficult for the crow\u2019s nest to look out for ice. So it wasn\u2019t Jack and Rose distracting the men, just light.\u00a0<\/p><p>But it wasn\u2019t right after this distraction that the iceberg was spotted, like the movie implies. \u00a0<\/p><p>Fifteen minutes after the forward hatch was ordered closed, the <em>Titanic <\/em>received three more iceberg warnings from a nearby ship, a British cargo ship called the <em>Californian<\/em>. According to the coordinates given, the ice was about 50 miles, or 80 kilometers, ahead of the <em>Titanic<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><p>For the next hour nothing was spotted. Remember they\u2019re traveling at about 22 knots, or about 25 miles and 40 kilometers per hour. So the sequence of events was sped up for the movie.\u00a0<\/p><p>At 8:55 PM, Captain Smith left the dinner party and returned to the bridge. This is when he has the conversation we saw earlier in the movie where they\u2019re talking about the calm and clear weather conditions. In the movie, Bernard Hill\u2019s version of Captain Smith jokes with Lightoller about it being as calm as a mill pond.\u00a0<\/p><p>This conversation took place, although the exact wording used was most likely different. Captain Smith stayed on the bridge for about half an hour. Then, at 9:20 PM, satisfied that everything was under control, he decided to go to bed. He left the order that he be woken up, \u201cif it becomes at all doubtful\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>Ten minutes later, Lightoller sent a message to the men in the crow\u2019s nest asking them to be extra careful looking for icebergs until the morning.\u00a0<\/p><p>At 9:40 PM, a man named Stanley Adams on board a liner named <em>Mesaba<\/em> sent another ice warning to the <em>Titanic. <\/em>It read:\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><em>To Titanic<\/em><\/p><p><em>In Lat. 42 N. to 41.25 Lond 49 W to Long <\/em><\/p><p><em>&#8211; 50.30 W saw much heavy pack ice and <\/em><\/p><p><em>great number large icebergs also <\/em><\/p><p><em>field ice. Weather good, clear<\/em>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>At this point, Harold Bride, who\u2019s played by Craig Kelly in the movie, had already gone to bed. He was one of two telegram operators on the <em>Titanic<\/em>. The other, Jack Phillips, who\u2019s played by Gregory Cooke, was the only one working when the message from the <em>Mesaba <\/em>came.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>As a quick side note, when I\u2019m saying telegram operators it\u2019s not really the telegram we\u2019re used to. More accurately, they were referred to as wireless operators. That, too, is a bit confusing since it\u2019s nothing like the wireless communications we have now. So it was very similar to a telegram sent with Morse code, but it was sent wirelessly. Sort of like a radio signal.\u00a0<\/p><p>The <em>Mesaba\u2019s <\/em>message was ignored. Most historians think it\u2019s because Jack Phillips, as the only man working the telegram at the time, was bogged down with messages the passengers wanted sent to their loved ones back home.\u00a0<\/p><p>At 10:00 PM, there was another shift change. First Officer Murdoch relieved Lightoller on the bridge, and the men in the crow\u2019s nest were also relieved. At this point, the weather is freezing\u201432\u00b0 F\u2014and although it\u2019s very dark, the sky is cloudless and clear.\u00a0<\/p><p>Almost an hour later, at 10:55 PM, the <em>Californian <\/em>sent another message to the <em>Titanic<\/em>. They were about 10 or 20 miles ahead of the <em>Titanic<\/em>, and were in the middle of an ice field. Converting to kilometers, that\u2019s somewhere between 16 and 32 kilometers. Captain Stanley Lord, who was the captain of the <em>Californian<\/em>, decided to stop the engines and wait until morning when they could see the icebergs much easier.\u00a0<\/p><p>Captain Lord ordered Cyril Evans, the 20 year old wireless operator on the <em>Californian<\/em> to reach out to the only other ship they thought might be in the area, and let them know about the ice. At about 11:00 PM, this message was sent to the <em>Titanic<\/em>:<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><em>Say, old man, we are stopped and surrounded by ice.<\/em><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Ten minutes later, an apparently frustrated Jack Phillips replied to the <em>Californian<\/em>:<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><em>Keep out! Shut up, shut up! I am busy, I am working Cape Race<\/em>.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>What Jack Phillips was referring to here was Cape Race, Newfoundland. That\u2019s on the eastern tip of Canada, stretching far into the Atlantic. It was the nearest transmitter, and as a result was where Jack Phillips was sending the personal messages from the passengers on board the <em>Titanic<\/em> to be routed on to their final destination.\u00a0<\/p><p>For about half an hour, Cyril Evans listened to the <em>Titanic\u2019s <\/em>wireless traffic in anticipation of another response. When it was filled with personal messages and nothing of interest, he decided to call it a day. At this point the time was 11:30 PM, so while we don\u2019t know exactly when Cyril started his day it\u2019s probably safe to assume it was the end of a long day, no doubt. \u00a0<\/p><p>There was no way he could\u2019ve known what this decision meant. He was the only wireless operator on the <em>Californian<\/em>, meaning when Cyril left his station to go to bed, no one would be there to hear any incoming messages.\u00a0<\/p><p>As Cyril was bedding down for the night, a few miles away aboard the <em>Titanic<\/em>, the two lookouts in the crow\u2019s nest made a note of a slight haze. The movie correctly captures the two lookouts. One was Frederick Fleet, who\u2019s played by Scott Anderson, and the other was Reginald Lee, played by Martin East in the film.\u00a0<\/p><p>Now is when we can sync back up with the movie timeline. Because at 11:30 PM, ten minutes after Cyril Evans left his post on the <em>Californian<\/em>, all hell broke loose on the <em>Titanic<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the movie we see what this sort of chaos must\u2019ve been like. One of the two lookouts, Frederick, called down to the bridge frantically as Reginald rang the warning bell three times to indicate a collision warning. Iceberg! Right ahead!<\/p><p>It was a massive berg, towering about 60 feet above the water. At that moment, it was only 500 yards dead ahead of the <em>Titanic<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><p>The bridge sprang to life. It was Sixth Officer Moody, who\u2019s played by Edward Fletcher in the film, who received the call from the crow\u2019s nest. He wasted no time in relaying the warning to the man in charge: First Officer Murdoch.\u00a0<\/p><p>Instantly, Murdoch\u2019s ordered a number of moves to try to miss the iceberg.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cHard-a-starboard!\u201d<\/p><p>\u00a0Then, \u201cAll engines stop!\u201d and \u201cFull astern!\u201d<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Here again, the details in the movie are startlingly accurate. Or, at least, we have to assume that\u2019s what it must\u2019ve been like to see an iceberg some 60 feet tall right in front of your ship. The look on the crew\u2019s faces as they wait and hope their evasive maneuvers were enough to steer the <em>Titanic <\/em>out of harm\u2019s way must\u2019ve seemed like an eternity.\u00a0<\/p><p>If you\u2019re not familiar with the nautical terminology, imagine for a moment you\u2019re on the bridge. In the movie, we see from the bridge\u2019s perspective that the <em>Titanic <\/em>starts to turn to the left, meaning the iceberg was on the right side of the ship.\u00a0<\/p><p>The right side is the starboard side of the ship, so why would First Officer Murdoch order hard-a-starboard? Well, some historians who have wondered that exact same thing say there was confusion and this was just a gut reaction. After he realized the mistake is when he ordered all engines full reverse.\u00a0<\/p><p>Except the <em>Titanic<\/em> couldn\u2019t steer in reverse. Like all screw and rudder ships, it could only back up in a straight line. So trying to veer the ship around by steering in reverse wouldn\u2019t work.\u00a0<\/p><p>There have been countless scientists and historians who have surmised what the thought process might have been for First Officer Murdoch, and results of the actions taken on board the <em>Titanic<\/em>. It\u2019s really quite fascinating, and can offer a lot more insight into what may or may not have happened.\u00a0<\/p><p>You see, despite all of the theories and the science\u2014that doesn\u2019t change what happened. And because we simply don\u2019t know what it was <em>actually <\/em>like on board the <em>Titanic <\/em>that fateful night, the only thing we can do is guess at the \u201cwhat if\u201d.\u00a0<\/p><p>What we do know is what happened. After a flurry of commands, the ship finally started to veer to port as a result of First Officer Murdoch\u2019s orders.\u00a0<\/p><p>After a moment, as the movie shows, on board the real <em>Titanic<\/em>, after the helmsman frantically spun the wheel as far as it\u2019d go there was a few seconds delay before the ship began to react.\u00a0<\/p><p>The <em>Titanic <\/em>had been traveling at about 20.5 knots, or about 23 miles per hour, and there was no way it could turn on a dime. That\u2019s 37 kilometers per hour, by the way. Without wasting any time, and surely knowing this, First Officer Murdoch then flipped the lever to close the watertight doors on the ship below the waterline.\u00a0<\/p><p>It wasn\u2019t enough. \u00a0<\/p><p>There was a crash. Just like the movie shows, the iceberg hit the starboard side of the <em>Titanic<\/em>, tearing a hole beneath the waterline. \u00a0<\/p><p>In the movie, there\u2019s a shudder that rips its way through the <em>Titanic<\/em>. We see shots of multiple people around the ship as they notice the rumbling, almost like an earthquake.\u00a0<\/p><p>While it obviously would\u2019ve been noticed by some, most of the passengers on board didn\u2019t even notice the impact. \u00a0<\/p><p>It took 37 seconds from the moment the lookouts in the crow\u2019s nest saw the iceberg to when it hit. After that, the <em>Titanic <\/em>drifted on and the iceberg disappeared into the night.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the movie, it doesn\u2019t take long for Bernard Hill\u2019s version of Captain Smith to come to the bridge. He orders the ship to stop as they survey the damage. After seeing a few of the passengers on the ship start questioning why they\u2019ve stopped, Jack and Rose overhear the Captain talking to Thomas Andrews. A crewmember starts relaying the damage information, saying the mail room is underwater.\u00a0<\/p><p>This is sped up from the actual timeline.\u00a0<\/p><p>After the impact at about 11:40 PM, the water started to rise on board the ship. By 11:50 PM, the boiler rooms, which were only about five feet above the keel, or the bottom of the ship, were flooded with about eight feet of water. \u00a0<\/p><p>As the clock struck midnight on April 15th, 1912, the mail room, which was 24 feet above the keel of the ship, was taking on enough water that the mail bags started to float.\u00a0<\/p><p>However, we\u2019re being extremely nitpicky with the timeline here. Let\u2019s just say the movie is pretty accurate.<\/p><p>In the movie, with the emergency underway, the plotline with Jack and Rose continues. Of course, this is all made up for the movie. But as that\u2019s happening, just like the movie shows just before Jack is framed for stealing the Heart of the Ocean necklace, Captain Smith and Thomas Andrews were busy assessing the damages.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the movie, back on the bridge, Thomas Andrews has some bad news. He says the <em>Titanic <\/em>has five compartments flooding. She can stay afloat with four compartments breached, but not five. He says it is a mathematical certainty that the <em>Titanic <\/em>will sink.\u00a0<\/p><p>This is very true.\u00a0<\/p><p>After the iceberg hit, the real Captain Smith and Thomas Andrews surveyed the damage. It didn\u2019t take long for Thomas to determine that the ship was doomed. The reason it didn\u2019t take that long was because of simple math. \u00a0<\/p><p>The <em>Titanic <\/em>was equipped with a total of sixteen watertight compartments. However, all of these watertight compartments were below the waterline, with the idea that they\u2019d keep the ship afloat even if they flooded.\u00a0<\/p><p>However, if more than four compartments got flooded, the ship would start to dip, causing the water to flow into the bulkheads that were <em>not <\/em>watertight. Then it was only a matter of time before another compartment flooded. And another. And another. \u00a0<\/p><p>Then, as Thomas Andrews knew, it was a mathematical certainty that the <em>Titanic <\/em>would sink. It was only a matter of time. \u00a0<\/p><p>In the movie, Thomas tells Captain Smith they have an hour\u2014or two at most. This, too, is pretty accurate. The real Thomas Andrews told Captain Smith they had about one to two and a half hours to stay afloat.\u00a0<\/p><p>The look on Bernard Hill\u2019s portrayal of Captain Smith tells it all when he hears the news. The <em>Titanic <\/em>will sink. Can you imagine what must go through your mind? \u00a0<\/p><p>Knowing it is only a matter of time before the only thing keeping you from the cold, Atlantic Ocean slips beneath the water. I can\u2019t even begin to imagine what that must be like.\u00a0<\/p><p>Soon after this, in the movie, Captain Smith goes into the wireless operator\u2019s room and orders him to issue a C.Q.D.\u00a0<\/p><p>This is true and happened around 12:00 AM midnight. As the mail room was flooding, Captain Smith ordered a C.Q.D. distress call. Now, again for those of us who aren\u2019t nautical experts, C.Q.D. comes from the French term \u201cs\u00e9cu\u201d. Basically, it means \u201cGeneral Call\u201d. The \u201cD\u201d at the end stands for \u201cDistress\u201d. \u00a0<\/p><p>So a C.Q.D. is a general distress call. Meaning, basically, anyone who is nearby\u2014help!\u00a0<\/p><p>The man we see issuing this call in the movie is actor Gregory Cooke\u2019s portrayal of Jack Phillips. The other operator in the room with him in the film is Harold Bride. \u00a0<\/p><p>Back in the movie, Rose runs into Thomas Andrews and asks him to be honest with her. What\u2019s going on?\u00a0<\/p><p>He replies, telling her something no one wanted to hear. The ship will sink. He urges her to get to a lifeboat as quickly as she can. Then he tells her something even worse. Do you remember what I told you about the boats?\u00a0<\/p><p>If you remember, earlier in the movie Thomas told Rose there were only enough lifeboats for about half of the passengers. As we learned earlier, this is also true. Although not George Clooney\u2019s tragic story at sea, the true story of the <em>Titanic <\/em>was certainly a perfect storm of disasters.\u00a0<\/p><p>At 12:05 AM, the squash court, which was 32 feet above the keel, started to fill up with water. I\u2019m not speaking of a relative to pumpkins, but squash the game. Similar to racquetball. Elsewhere on the ship, the crew started to uncover and prepare the lifeboats.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the movie, there\u2019s a mention of the <em>Carpathia<\/em>. According to the film, they\u2019ve heard the <em>Titanic\u2019s<\/em> distress call and can be there. In four hours.\u00a0<\/p><p>This is true, although the <em>Carpathia <\/em>wasn\u2019t the only ship who heard and responded to the <em>Titanic\u2019s <\/em>distress calls. As you might imagine, Jack Phillips and Harold Bride in the wireless room were constantly sending out the distress calls.\u00a0<\/p><p>After issuing a C.Q.D., Harold joked with Jack that he should also use a new distress call\u2014S.O.S., saying it might be the last time he gets to use the new call. So they did, alternating between C.Q.D. and S.O.S.\u00a0<\/p><p>While it wasn\u2019t all at once, there were seven other ships who heard the distress signal and started to head toward the <em>Titanic. <\/em>Organized by distance, there was the <em>Mount Temple <\/em>at about 49 miles or 79 kilometers away, the <em>Carpathia<\/em> at 58 miles or 93 kilometers, the <em>Birma<\/em> at 70 miles or 113 kilometers, the <em>Frankfort <\/em>at 153 miles or 246 kilometers, the <em>Virgninian at <\/em>170 miles or 273 kilometers, the <em>Baltic <\/em>at 253 miles or 407 kilometers and even the <em>Titanic\u2019s <\/em>sister ship, the <em>Olympic<\/em> was about 500 miles, or 800 kilometers, away and started to respond to the distress calls.\u00a0<\/p><p>Unfortunately, they were all just too far away to get there in time.\u00a0<\/p><p>Back in the movie, Rose makes a heroic effort to save a handcuffed Jack down toward the bottom of the ship. As water is rising, she rushes to find help. The lights flicker on and off.\u00a0<\/p><p>This whole storyline is made up, as we\u2019ve said time and time again, but as Kathy Bates\u2019 version of Molly Brown watches the sinking ship, a flare is shot into the sky.\u00a0<\/p><p>That happened. \u00a0<\/p><p>While many of the ships who heard the distress call were too far away, the one that could\u2019ve gotten there the quickest was the <em>Californian<\/em>. It was only about 10 miles, or about 16 kilometers, away. Remember earlier when we learned about Cyril Evans who went off to bed at 11:30 PM?\u00a0<\/p><p>Well, when the crew on the <em>Titanic <\/em>set off flares, several crew members on the <em>Californian<\/em> saw them. But they didn\u2019t know what the ship was they were seeing, and it was too far off to know it was sinking. \u00a0<\/p><p>All they saw were rockets being shot into the air, and for all they knew it was a celebration of some sort. Since Cyril was asleep, they tried to contact the ship using a Morse code lamp. That was basically a lamp they flicked on and off to pass messages visually.\u00a0<\/p><p>There was never a response, probably because the crew on the <em>Titanic <\/em>was busy with their own efforts on the lifeboats and didn\u2019t see it.\u00a0<\/p><p>After the fact, crew of the <em>Californian <\/em>would say it seemed like the ship they saw shoot off the rockets was getting further away. Or was it that they just saw the lights growing dimmer as the <em>Titanic <\/em>sank beneath the chilly waters?\u00a0<\/p><p>The way the movie depicts the passengers getting into the lifeboats is pretty accurate, too. At 12:20 AM, five minutes after the band started playing some rather lively tunes to try to keep up spirits, the crew started loading passengers into the lifeboats. Women and children first. \u00a0<\/p><p>This is right around the same time the <em>Carpathia <\/em>responded to the distress call and started heading full steam toward the <em>Titanic<\/em>. But they were almost 60 miles (96 kilometers) away, and the other ships we mentioned a moment before hadn\u2019t heard the call yet.\u00a0<\/p><p>Back in the movie, Victor Garber\u2019s version of Thomas Andrews gets upset at Second Officer Lightoller for not filling up the lifeboats all the way. There was only 12 people in that boat? It could hold 70!\u00a0<\/p><p>Although we don\u2019t know the specific numbers or, really, if it was even brought up this way, the point the movie makes here is true. Many of the lifeboats were sent off of the <em>Titanic <\/em>long before they were filled.\u00a0<\/p><p>At 12:45 AM, the very first lifeboat off the ship was on the starboard side, the number seven lifeboat. It had a capacity of 65 people, and carried in it only 28 when it left the <em>Titanic.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p><p>Although Billy Zane\u2019s character, Cal Hockley, is fictional, we can only imagine that his attempts to board a lifeboat by bribing the crew was something many must\u2019ve tried to do. Remember, many on board the <em>Titanic <\/em>were well-off, and probably quite used to using money to get their way.\u00a0<\/p><p>As the ship slowly slipped further beneath the water, the situation grew more and more desperate by the second.\u00a0<\/p><p>We don\u2019t know exactly what it was like. But we can imagine. The scenes with children being torn from their parents. The assurances that they\u2019d only be apart for a little while. That\u2019s exactly the sort of thing Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character says to Kate Winslet\u2019s Rose to convince her to get onto a lifeboat. \u00a0<\/p><p>We\u2019ll see each other again soon. This is but a brief separation.\u00a0<\/p><p>Only to know\u2026you\u2019ll never see them again.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the movie, Rose jumps from the lifeboat to reunite with Jack. As romantic as this is, it also means they\u2019re both on board the sinking <em>Titanic<\/em>. Their situation isn\u2019t getting any better.\u00a0<\/p><p>On board the real <em>Titanic<\/em>, at 12:55 AM, the first lifeboat left the port side of the ship. This is actually the one that carried Margaret Brown. With a capacity of 65, again, only 28 are on her boat. Another lifeboat on the starboard side is lowered at the same time. There\u2019s 41 on this one\u201424 empty seats.\u00a0<\/p><p>Five minutes later, another lifeboat leaves the starboard side. 32 people on board, including 11 of the <em>Titanic\u2019s<\/em> crew. 33 empty seats.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It took ten minutes to get another lifeboat ready to lower. This one was a smaller boat; it could only hold 40 people. There were 12 people on it. Seven of those were <em>Titanic\u2019s<\/em> crew.\u00a0<\/p><p>Back in the movie, with water rushing from all sides, Jack and Rose try to find their way out. They go left\u2014the wrong way. Go right, that\u2019s the wrong way, too.\u00a0<\/p><p>We can only imagine what it must\u2019ve been like for those trapped below decks. We just don\u2019t know what it was like because, well, we don\u2019t have any records from those who were trapped.\u00a0<\/p><p>On deck, the movie shows Jonathan Hyde\u2019s character, White Star Line\u2019s President Bruce Ismay, getting on one of the lifeboats. Then, as the scene starts to get more chaotic, Ewan Stewart\u2019s version of First Officer Murdoch commits suicide by shooting himself. \u00a0<\/p><p>According to the movie, this is after he threatens the terrified passengers as they try to rush the lifeboats. In a moment of panic, he shoots into the crowd, killing one of the passengers. Then, realizing what he\u2019s done, he salutes actor Mark Lindsay Chapman\u2019s version of Chief Officer Wilde and then turns the gun on himself.\u00a0<\/p><p>This is\u2026well, we don\u2019t really know if it\u2019s true or not. What happened to First Officer Murdoch is a mystery that has never been resolved.\u00a0<\/p><p>What we do know is that at 2:00 AM, First Officer Murdoch launched a lifeboat with Bruce Ismay on board. Then there were shots fired. Fifteen minutes later, Murdoch disappeared. He was never seen again.\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s understandable to assume things might have gone down the way they did in the movie. And maybe they did. But these weren\u2019t the first shots fired, and they certainly weren\u2019t the last. \u00a0<\/p><p>According to witness accounts, there were over 40 suicides on the <em>Titanic<\/em> and almost 70 other shooting incidents. Needless to say, it was pure chaos as some people tried to do whatever they could to live while others simply gave up.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the movie, as Jack and Rose try to escape they come across Thomas Andrews again. He\u2019s staring off into nothing\u2026or is that a painting he\u2019s looking at? He seems distraught. Resolute in his fate. Rose hugs him and they say their final goodbyes.\u00a0<\/p><p>While Rose wasn\u2019t real, the real Thomas Andrews did go down with the <em>Titanic<\/em>. One of the ship\u2019s stewards, a man named John Stewart, claimed to have been the last one to see Thomas alive. At 2:10 AM, Thomas was doing exactly what he was in the movie: staring at a painting above a fireplace in the first-class smoking room. Next to him lay an unused lifejacket. That\u2019s the one he gave to Rose in the movie.\u00a0<\/p><p>As you might imagine, there tends to be some controversy around what happened to others on the ship. We only have witness reports, and with all of the chaos it\u2019s hard to know what really happened. It\u2019s hard to know who to believe.\u00a0<\/p><p>For example, Bernard Hill\u2019s version of Captain Smith goes into the ship\u2019s bridge and closing the door as the water swirls around him.\u00a0<\/p><p>On the real <em>Titanic, <\/em>the wireless operator Harold Bride, who survived, claimed he saw Captain Smith dive from the bridge. Others say Captain Smith let himself sink into the water after hearing of First Officer Murdoch\u2019s demise.\u00a0<\/p><p>But the movie seems to go with the version told by another of the survivors, a man name Robert Williams Daniel. Robert was interviewed by the <em>New York Herald <\/em>on April 19th, 1912. In the interview, Robert claimed to have watched Captain Smith drown.<\/p><p>According to Robert:<\/p><p>\u00a0<em>I saw Captain Smith on the bridge. My eyes seemingly clung to him. The deck from which I had lept was immersed. The water had risen slowly, and was now to the floor of the bridge. Then it was to Captain Smith\u2019s waist. I saw him no more. He died a hero.<\/em><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The movie also shows four musicians playing music throughout the chaotic ordeal. There\u2019s two violinists and two cellists. They keep playing. Calming passengers with music as their own fate is sealed.\u00a0<\/p><p>This, sadly, is also true. Although there weren\u2019t four musicians. In truth there were eight of them. They were Theodore Brailey, a pianist, three cellists named Percy Taylor, John Woodward and Roger Bricoux. There was one bassist named John Clarke and three violinists, John Hume, Georges Krins and Wallace Harley. Wallace was also the bandmaster.\u00a0<\/p><p>Together, these eight men continued to play even as chaos grew around them. One of the passengers who survived recounted their heroism and said:<\/p><p><em>Many brave things were done that night. But none were more brave than those done by men playing minute after minute as the ship settled quietly lower and lower into the sea. The music they played served alike as their own immortal requiem and their right to be recalled on the scrolls of undying fame.<\/em><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Back in the movie, the back end, or stern, of the <em>Titanic <\/em>starts to raise in the air as the bow continues to sink. Chaos is everywhere as people try to do whatever they can to survive. \u00a0<\/p><p>As you can probably guess, even though there were no Jack and Rose to hang onto the railing on the stern of the ship, the portrayal of how the <em>Titanic <\/em>sank is pretty accurate.\u00a0<\/p><p>Just before sealing his own fate, Captain Smith relieved Jack Phillips and Harold Bride from their duties as wireless operators at 2:10 AM. This is just before he went back to the bridge. Despite this, Jack continued to send messages in desperation with the final message from the <em>Titanic <\/em>was sent at 2:17 AM.\u00a0<\/p><p>One minute later, there was a huge roar in the still night air. A single blink of the lights, and then they went out. This time, for good. Just like the movie shows, the <em>Titanic<\/em> had broken in half, and the bow half made its way to the bottom of the Atlantic.\u00a0<\/p><p>For two minutes, the stern section of the <em>Titanic <\/em>righted itself as it settled back into the water. But it, too, was doomed. Slowly, it began to fill with water. As it did, the front part sank and the back raised high into the air. Then, slowly, it sank.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the movie, after the ship goes down, Rose surfaces to a lot of survivors who are all trying to stay above water. Finally, Jack and Rose meet and they find a piece of debris to hold onto. Jack says the lifeboats will come back for them now. \u00a0<\/p><p>But, according to the movie, those on the lifeboats refuse to go back out of fear the survivors will swamp the boat. Not everyone is that callous, though, and we see one lifeboat come back for survivors.\u00a0<\/p><p>Unfortunately, the movie is pretty accurate in this. Many of the passengers and crew in the lifeboats who had made it off the of the <em>Titanic <\/em>didn\u2019t want to return to find survivors in the water. Only two of the lifeboats returned to the area to look for survivors. And of the survivors they managed to pick up, many of those died from the cold waters.\u00a0<\/p><p>As for the rest? They were afraid there would be too many survivors and they\u2019d swamp the lifeboats, causing them to sink as well.\u00a0<\/p><p>So, instead, those who had managed to escape the <em>Titanic <\/em>on a lifeboat stayed just far enough away that they were too far for those in the frigid water to swim to them. They had to have heard the cries for help. The screams of desperation that slowly began to quiet as more and more of those who had survived the sinking of the <em>Titanic <\/em>started to sink themselves.\u00a0<\/p><p>As Jack and Rose say their final goodbye, many people have wondered why Jack didn\u2019t just get onto the wood with Rose. Here I\u2019ll point out if you haven\u2019t seen the Discovery Channel\u2019s <em>Mythbusters <\/em>episode where they figure out the science behind whether or not Jack and Rose really could\u2019ve fit onto this piece of wood, I\u2019d highly recommend it. I won\u2019t add any spoilers here, but you should certainly check it out<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><p>For our purposes comparing it to history, we know for a fact Jack couldn\u2019t have gotten onto the wood after the real <em>Titanic <\/em>sank because, well, neither Jack nor Rose were real. \u00a0<\/p><p>As one of the lifeboats comes, Rose tries to rouse Jack. But it\u2019s too late. She kisses him goodbye as he slips beneath the water.\u00a0<\/p><p>Although they\u2019re fictional characters, the mere fact that Jack was in the water would\u2019ve been enough to finish Jack off pretty quickly. Historians estimate the water was about 28 degrees Fahrenheit on the night of April 15th, 1912. That means a human would be able to survive for about two or three minutes.\u00a0<\/p><p>And that\u2019s where the story ends in the movie. The next scene cuts back to an elderly Rose who explains that 1,500 people perished with the<em> Titanic<\/em> and although there were 20 boats nearby, only one came back.\u00a0<\/p><p>Well, we already learned that <em>two<\/em> boats came back, but again that\u2019s being pretty nitpicky. Most of the lifeboats didn\u2019t come back. And the number of people who perished? Unfortunately, that\u2019s pretty accurate as well. \u00a0<\/p><p>Of the 2,227 people on board the<em> Titanic<\/em>, over half perished when the she sank into the depths. Of course, these are just estimates. As we learned earlier, there aren\u2019t exact numbers. Some say 1,522 people perished. Some say 1,512.<\/p><p>\u00a0At 3:30 AM, almost a full hour after the <em>Titanic<\/em> sank, the <em>Carpathia<\/em> sighted the first lifeboats. Although her normal speed was topped out at 14.5 knots. That converts to about 16.5 miles or 26.8 kilometers per hour, the crew on the <em>Carpathia <\/em>were pushing the ship as fast as she could go. \u00a0<\/p><p>They raced to the <em>Titanic <\/em>at 17.5 knots. That converts to 20 miles or 32 kilometers per hour. Still not very fast, but way faster than the ship should\u2019ve gone. They were doing their best to help the survivors of the <em>Titanic<\/em>. At 4:10 AM, the first lifeboat was picked up by the <em>Carpathia<\/em>. \u00a0<\/p><p>For the next four hours, the <em>Carpathia <\/em>scoured the wreckage looking for survivors. At 8:30 AM, the <em>Californian<\/em> came alongside the <em>Carpathia <\/em>to help search for survivors. Second Officer Charles Lightoller was the very last survivor to be rescued.\u00a0<\/p><p>Twenty minutes later, and with no more survivors to be found, the <em>Carpathia <\/em>started to head to New York. As they left, Bruce Ismay sent a wire to the White Star Line offices in New York. It read: \u00a0<\/p><p><em>Deeply regret to advise you Titanic sank this morning after collision with iceberg, resulting in serious loss of life. Full particulars later.<\/em><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>On April 18th, 1912 at 9:00 PM, the <em>Carpathia <\/em>arrived in New York City to a throng of 10,000 people waiting to see the survivors.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>As the movie comes to a close, one of Bill Paxton\u2019s crewmembers tells Gloria Stuart\u2019s elderly Rose character that there never was a record of Jack Dawson. \u00a0<\/p><p>To which Rose replies that there wouldn\u2019t be one, implying because he won the ticket it wouldn\u2019t be in his name. She goes on to explain that despite there not being a record of him, there was a man named Jack Dawson on board the <em>Titanic<\/em>.<\/p><p>This, of course, isn\u2019t real. There was no real Jack Dawson as that was a character made up for the movie. After James Cameron finished the screenplay for the film, he found out about a young man named Joseph who coincidentally had many similarities to Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character.\u00a0<\/p><p>Like the fictional Jack, Joseph was in the working class. Although he didn\u2019t win a ticket on the <em>Titanic <\/em>like Leo\u2019s character did. Joseph was a coal trimmer on the ship. When the <em>Titanic <\/em>hit the iceberg, Joseph was off-duty and found himself in a similar situation to Jack in the film.\u00a0<\/p><p>As he made his way to the deck, he managed to survive by avoiding falling debris and the sinking stern of the ship. Sadly, the way Joseph perished was eerily similar to Jack\u2019s death. Although he didn\u2019t have the hand of a loved one to hang onto like Jack did as hypothermia took hold.\u00a0<\/p><p>He didn\u2019t live long enough to be rescued. The only way we know about Joseph is from an identity card that was on his body when it was recovered from the wreckage.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The name on the card?\u00a0 J. Dawson.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you enjoy this episode? Help support the next one! 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