Jerome Chertkoff

When you're caught in a situation where you're confronted with immediate death, you do what you need to do to save yourself.

When you're caught in a situation where you're confronted with immediate death, you do what you need to do to save yourself.

They recovered his body, but it was covered in soot and everything else.

They recovered his body, but it was covered in soot and everything else.

What account there is in the testimony I've read is he stayed on the bridge and when the Titanic sank from under him, he just stepped off into the water and nobody saw him again. I suspect he accepted the idea that the captain could go down with the ship or at the least should be the last person to get off alive. And obviously lots of people were going to die.

What account there is in the testimony I've read is he stayed on the bridge and when the Titanic sank from under him, he just stepped off into the water and nobody saw him again. I suspect he accepted the idea that the captain could go down with the ship or at the least should be the last person to get off alive. And obviously lots of people were going to die.

He made no attempt to escape at all. And I think one can interpret from that that he felt responsible. Whether he felt sort of spiritually responsible or practically responsible, I don't think we will ever know. But personally, I think he was responsible and he knew it.

He made no attempt to escape at all. And I think one can interpret from that that he felt responsible. Whether he felt sort of spiritually responsible or practically responsible, I don't think we will ever know. But personally, I think he was responsible and he knew it.

You need to know how to get to the exits, and you need to have no restrictions on getting there. The first and second class passengers know how to get to the boat deck. The third class passengers, which are down in the lowest part of the accommodation to the ship, had never been allowed to go up to the boat deck. And they had no idea how to get there, and the route was complicated.

You need to know how to get to the exits, and you need to have no restrictions on getting there. The first and second class passengers know how to get to the boat deck. The third class passengers, which are down in the lowest part of the accommodation to the ship, had never been allowed to go up to the boat deck. And they had no idea how to get there, and the route was complicated.

The third-class passengers that made it out, stewards who were in charge of their cabins, gathered the women and children and said, follow me, I'll lead you out.

The third-class passengers that made it out, stewards who were in charge of their cabins, gathered the women and children and said, follow me, I'll lead you out.

I mean, to me, 100 years later, it seems rational to put men in. If all the women and children on the boat deck are loaded, and there are no more women and children, why not put the men in? But I think Lightoller was worried that if he said to one man, get in, then there are 100 men standing around, and we got a problem.

I mean, to me, 100 years later, it seems rational to put men in. If all the women and children on the boat deck are loaded, and there are no more women and children, why not put the men in? But I think Lightoller was worried that if he said to one man, get in, then there are 100 men standing around, and we got a problem.

Psychologists have studied the effect of high arousal, and usually the main effect of high arousal is, one, your perception is narrow. So instead of taking in everything that's around you, you tend to focus on one thing that stands out to you and concentrate on that at the exclusion of others. And the second problem with high arousal is that you tend to consider only one alternative.

Psychologists have studied the effect of high arousal, and usually the main effect of high arousal is, one, your perception is narrow. So instead of taking in everything that's around you, you tend to focus on one thing that stands out to you and concentrate on that at the exclusion of others. And the second problem with high arousal is that you tend to consider only one alternative.

So you're focused on one thing, you only consider that one possibility of what to do, and other alternatives you tend not to consider.

So you're focused on one thing, you only consider that one possibility of what to do, and other alternatives you tend not to consider.

I don't think people often resign themselves to death, although I'm 87. At some point in the not-too-distant future, I will be faced with death, and what can you do but accept it? Everybody dies.

I don't think people often resign themselves to death, although I'm 87. At some point in the not-too-distant future, I will be faced with death, and what can you do but accept it? Everybody dies.