1:21:02
We all were wrapped up
in what we were doing
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and thought it was important.
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Hit by two separate
hijacked commercial jets...
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And then this horrible event
happened
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and slammed us
into this perspective.
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God.
1:21:21
The morning after
the attack on September 11th,
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I kept thinking how trivial
this expedition suddenly became.
1:21:28
It just wasn't a big deal
anymore.
1:21:38
The emotional
parallels came first.
1:21:42
We now understood
what it felt like
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to be a witness to tragedy.
1:21:46
The sense of shock and numbness
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and the disbelief that
the unthinkable has happened.
1:21:53
It does happen.
1:21:54
Occasionally,
life sits on your head.
1:22:00
But, hey,
I've been knocked down before.
1:22:04
We all have.
We get up.
1:22:06
We go on.
1:22:11
I think
that's what makes us great.
1:22:19
Everyone decided
to continue the expedition.
1:22:22
I think that after we'd
gotten over the initial shock,
1:22:26
"Titanic" did seem to become
important again.
1:22:28
Not so much for itself,
but as a symbol
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of what can happen
when warnings go unheeded
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and how I think
we all hope to face death
1:22:36
when it comes.
1:22:39
Archie Frost was
in the engine room that night.
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Just barely into his twenties
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and had worked
with Thomas Andrews
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when the ship was being built.
1:22:51
After a certain point, Andrews
had come down and told them,
1:22:54
"The ship does not have
much time to live,
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and if you stay here,
you will die. "