On a flat-calm night 370 miles off Newfoundland, the largest ship in the world is running at 22½ knots toward an iceberg her lookouts will sight just 37 seconds too late. Six watertight compartments will be opened to the sea — she can survive four. The simulation begins three minutes before the strike and follows the historical timeline, minute by minute, on a living sea.
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The stern slips beneath a sea as still as glass. Over 1,500 people are left in water of −2 °C. The lifeboats, most launched half-full, row away from the cries. At 4:10 AM the Cunarder Carpathia arrives to take aboard the survivors.
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