Titanic: Untold Stories Page #2

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to her brother.

Tomorrow we shall go aboard Titanic.

We have been down to see the colossus.

You should see what a beast it is.

Greetings from Gerda.

On the 10th of April, 1912, the Lindells

join more than two thousand others for

Titanic's maiden voyage.

Onboard, Edvard and Gerda meet fellow

Swede, August Wennerstrom.

Wennerstrom is traveling under an assumed name.

He's a political dissident leaving Sweden

to live in America.

Only one of these three passengers will

survive the journey.

Today Titanic is a mass of twisted metal.

But historian Charles Haas can see past

the decay to the people who once

walked these decks.

As the crew of Nautile moves to

a new location,

twelve thousand feet above them

at the surface, members of the expedition team

help navigate the wreck

Their destination is a third class area

at Titanic's bow.

Hello Jack Hello Jack

Hello Charlie. How are you doing

down there? Over.

We're working hard down here.

We're looking now down at the third class

area, the so called forward well deck

And it was here that third class passengers

were enjoying themselves and coming out

for recreation.

From this place, the sunsets must have

been dramatic.

Third class passengers including the Lindells

spent early evenings strolling here,

taking in the brisk sea air.

Above the third class promenade, first

and second class passengers enjoyed

uncompromising luxury.

Amenities included an exotic steam room.

A state of the art gymnasium.

And lavish dining salons.

For one first class passenger,

none of Titantic's palatial amenities

are enticing.

Mrs. Emily Ryerson's eldest son has been

killed in a car crash in America.

She's going to claim his body.

She leaves her cabin rarely

and eats in her room.

The elegance of Titanic is meaningless to

a mother in mourning.

Haas is now one deck above

Mrs. Ryerson's cabin.

The team moves forward along the bow to

one of Titanic's most famous locations.

Between the first and second funnel,

there was a magnificent dome which sat atop

an area known as the grand staircase.

There's really no part of the Titanic

that perhaps demonstrated the grandeur of

the ship than this feature which was

called the grand staircase in first class.

It was surmounted by a rod iron

and glass dome.

It penetrated five or six decks down

through the ship.

As we can see now, however, the grand

staircase is only a shattered leftover

of its former self.

For the first few days out at sea,

the trip to America is uneventful.

Then on Sunday, the temperature

drops dramatically.

Titanic's chief designer, Thomas Andrews,

spends his Sunday reviewing the ship's plans

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