Lisa Wilkinson

And so the captain has had a big day.

He says, I'm exhausted.

I'm going to bed.

If anything changes, let me know.

And basically the Titanic disappears from view.

And there is a moment when the captain of the Californian hears a sea, as all the ships did, that the Titanic had sunk.

That was...

One of the elements that I really wanted to make clear in the book is the lineup of human error is so unforgivable, from the lifeboat drills not being performed to the cables.

about the ice field being ignored, to the lack of binoculars where they needed to be, to this belief that they had to get to New York and beat the Cunard line.

Everything lined up.

There's a saying in business, the Swiss cheese effect.

If you pour water into a block of Swiss cheese, the water will never make it all the way through because the holes are all over the place.

On the Titanic, every hole in that block of Swiss cheese lined up and the water came straight through.

How did that awful night end for Evelyn?

Well, eventually the Carpathia made it to the first of the lifeboats and that was just after four o'clock.

It was still pitch black.

And the great fear was that in the darkness that they wouldn't see the lifeboats.

So some of the lifeboats were sort of linking up because they hoped that by being a bigger mass...

the large ship that eventually was coming, long after the Titanic had sunk, it sank at 20 past two in the morning, that that would increase their chances of survival.

So eventually they were on board, they started coming on board just after dawn.