Ghosts of the Abyss
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You want to go in there?
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Yeah.
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That's definitely
the firemen's mess.

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Oh, look at that.
Table after table.

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You can see the bow tapering in.
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Exactly.
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Shape of the ship.
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You can imagine exactly
what this place looked like.

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The firemen were segregated
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from the rest of the crew,
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probably because they had
the dirtiest job.

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So their quarters
are in the tip of the bow.

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They had two staircases,
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which took them
to the very bottom of the ship

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and to the boiler rooms.
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Imagine spiraling your way down
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to the furnaces
of this hungry leviathan

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to join hundreds of men
shoveling coal

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into the gaping maws
of the boilers.

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That's kind of spooky.
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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,

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then you do it all over again.
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Even here, we could feel
the hand of Thomas Andrews.

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At the top of one
of the spiral staircases,

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we found a drinking fountain.
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I'm sure that even
this small kindness

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must have been
greatly appreciated.

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Here we've got a plan
that illustrates pretty well

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what happened that night.
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The "Titanic" was divided into
16 watertight compartments

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separated by
15 watertight bulkheads.

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That's these white lines here.
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And the ship was designed to be
as unsinkable as they could.

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The worst they could imagine
is a collision


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