Chapter 807 Love That No Amount of Sea Water Can Drown
There were only five people in the "Titan" screening room.
Two people in Chen Ziang's entourage: him and Li Hui.
The other three were Jennings and James and another friend of theirs.
In the first row of seats, James, Chen Ziang and Jennings sat in order.
In the back row sat Li Hui and the fifth person.
Chen Ziang sat in the middle of the first row of three people, with pen and paper ready.
Jennings was nervous, and James was a little surprised.
Is this guy really capable?
A person like James who is keen on art and filming is very expert.
Art is connected.
James' films have their own style, and no matter how they change, they will never lose their main style.
Sometimes it's not that he doesn't want to change, it's that he can't change at all.
It's like having two bowls of rice for your own meal, but you have to eat four or five bowls?
James had heard of the legend of Gold Zang for a long time, and he didn't believe that so many styles of classic songs were written by Gold Zang alone.
Of course, if Gold Zang was American, probably James wouldn't have doubted it either.
In fact, the China in his impression is very bad, and there is no talent in this area.
As a simple example, which is the most populous country in the world?
China.
But in such a country, there are not even eleven people who can play football.
I don't require you to play more, at least you can qualify for the World Cup, okay?
But in Asia, you can't even get into the top five.
In this World Cup in Spain, Asia has 4.5 qualifying places.
As a result, a huge country was stunned and failed to get half of the seats.
The World Cup is the world's most honored, highest-standard, highest-level and most well-known football competition, and is known as the two top sports events in the world along with the Olympic Games, and even the world's largest sports event with more influence and broadcast coverage than the Olympic Games.
It is the most coveted sacred glory in the field of football in various countries around the world, and it is also the ultimate dream of football players in various countries (or regions).
The Chinese football team has never been able to participate in such a grand event, and it is no wonder that some foreign fans who learned about it think that China has everything.
"Titans" began to be screened.
But Jennings and James' minds were not on it, and the two had been secretly observing Chen Ziang.
Especially James, he edited "Titans", watched it hundreds of times, and vomited.
Chen Ziang and Li Hui, and even the fifth person watched the big screen with relish.
They were all watching for the first time.
In the film, the Titan is sailing at 22.3 knots (about 45 km/h) in the dark and icy sea, like a dagger, cutting a hole in the black velvet.
The Titan's maximum speed is 23 knots, and its speed of 22.3 knots indicates that the ship's speed is close to the limit.
In an emergency, it is difficult to "brake" such a rapid forward.
The film coincides with a warm winter, and the icebergs in the Arctic Ocean are moving further south than in previous years, so ships in the North Atlantic often receive iceberg briefings from other ships, and the titan "Titangiant" is of course no exception.
The captain ordered the lookout to pay close attention to the floating iceberg, but the Titan, which was so trenched, did not have a single binocular!
It is said that in the real incident, it was the crew member who was in charge of the telescope who carefully locked the telescope in the cabinet and did not get on the ship himself.
The lookout who people feel sorry for can only be identified by the human eye in the sea breeze.
23:40 minutes.
The road was so calm that even if there was a little wave hitting the iceberg, the seafarer might be able to judge it with the naked eye.
Approaching midnight, lookout Frederick Fleet spotted the dark shadow of the iceberg, which grew larger and larger at a rapid rate.
He immediately woke up, rang the alarm bell on the bridge three times, grabbed the phone and shouted: "There is an iceberg in front of you!"
The first mate, who received the report, immediately ordered: "All engines slow down! The left rudder is full! The No. 3 propeller reverses!"
Although it was confirmed that the order to the left full rudder was a fatal mistake, at that time the Titan Giant was less than 400 meters away from the iceberg, and only 37 seconds passed when the lookout spotted the iceberg and hit the iceberg on the starboard side of the ship.
In the dark of night, when the hull of the ship is slamming into the iceberg at breakneck speed, any decision is a thought.
After 37 seconds, the Titans could not stop moving and turning in time because the hull was too big, the rudder was too small, and the forward speed was too fast, and it rushed diagonally towards the iceberg.
According to the knowledge of physics, people are aware of the phenomenon of "the tip of the iceberg", and seeing an iceberg floating on the surface of the sea is actually even more dangerous below sea level.
So, in the dark night of the ice sea, the Titan and the iceberg had a kiss of death - the starboard side of the hull was torn open by the iceberg under the sea level, the rivets under the front waterline broke, and the cargo hold began to quickly seep into the seawater.
Except for some passengers in the lower cabins who witnessed the milky white icebergs passing by outside the portholes, the passengers in the first and second class cabins only felt a slight shaking, not realizing that the catastrophe was coming, nor did they think that their lives had entered the countdown.
23:50 minutes.
In the first 10 minutes after impact, 4,000 tonnes of seawater poured into the bow. Fortunately, the waterproof plate was still functioning, and the water seepage was still under control, and the captain called engineers to overhaul the damaged parts.
0:00 minutes
7,000 tons of seawater poured into the bow, and the water had already flooded 3 bow holds, further covering the upper deck, and the bow began to sink slowly.
Engineer Andrew inspected the damage to the ship's hull and told Captain Smith that the five front compartments had been flooded with seawater. Meaning, the ship is hopeless.
The Titan sank in doom since the early hours of the morning.
Captain Smith asked how much time was left, and the reply was two hours at most.
Five minutes later, Captain Smith ordered the lifeboat to be released.
0:05 minutes.
As a cosmic-class luxury giant ship, there are actually only 16 lifeboats, which can only be used by 1,178 people, and the total number of people on board is 2,208.
This was actually completely out of line with the standards of British cruise ships at that time, so how could a "trench" ship like the Titan make such a low-level mistake?
This brings us to the ship's owner, Ismay.
Bruce Ismay is the chairman of the British White Star Company, and he sees that the ships built by other Carnard companies are so good that they can't be red-eyed, so they have to overshadow the limelight and build ships.
He's going to build a giant ship.
Shipbuilding can be forgiven for "putting satellites", but "how fast and good it is" will be terrible, after all, cruise ships with human lives are at stake, and they still have to strictly control the quality.
Ismay doesn't care, I'm going to build a big ship!
In order to make the top deck of the Titan more spacious, he reduced the number of lifeboats on the Titan from 48 to 16.
His death eventually led to a tragedy, and more than 1,500 lives were buried with him.
0:10 minutes.
The crew of the Titan begins to prepare to use flares to call for help.
At that time, the nearest ship was the Californian, and although the crew of the Californian saw the white flame signal, they did not know what it was.
Because before the Titan Giant's maiden voyage, under the hype of the media at the time, most people's subconscious, the safety performance of the Titan is beyond doubt, and the Century Giant Ship will never be overturned.
0:15 minutes.
At the same time as firing the distress flare, the telegraph operator Phillips issued a "CQD MGY" QD is a universal distress signal, and MGY is the radio call code of the Titanic.
But there doesn't seem to be any response.
Subsequently, the Titan switched to the latest "SOS" distress signal to continue calling for help. This is also the first time that humans have actually used SOS for help.
Most of the ships that received the signal at the time only received an SOS signal, and they immediately headed to the scene to support the Titan.
I don't know what kind of demonic wind blew in the Atlantic Ocean that year. The nearest California was unable to receive a distress telegram in time because the telegraph operator had turned off the telegraph.
Of all the ships that could receive telegrams, the closest was the Karpathia, which headed towards the Titan at the fastest speed. But even then, it would take at least 4 hours to get to the scene.
This is destined to be a "remedy", and no one can turn the tide in the vast ocean.
0:20 minutes.
The Titan has sunk 6 meters, and the two rows of portholes on the left and right are submerged under water, and the partially open portholes cause the water intakes to increase.
Even if the pump kept sucking out the seawater, mechanically making a last-ditch struggle, it only slowed down the sinking of the bow slightly.
0:25 minutes.
The captain made a decision: the woman and the child went first.
In an instant, countless pairs of lovers and countless families had to face a sudden farewell.
0:40 minutes.
After all lifeboat preparations were completed, the crew began to persuade the women and children in the first class to board the lifeboat.
Dinghy 7 was the first lifeboat to be lowered, but the lifeboat with a maximum capacity of 65 people only carried just over 10 passengers.
Because the navigation community at that time thought that if the lifeboat was fully loaded with people, it would cause damage or even capsize, but the lifeboat of the Titan was designed so advanced that the crew themselves did not know.
1:00 minutes.
The bow sank completely, and the Titan began to spiral out of control.
The escape operation was carried out in a panic, and many of the lifeboats were lowered in mid-air, while most of the lifeboats were not full.
As a result, the lifeboat that could have carried 1,178 people ended up with only 651 people on board, and some people were pulled onto the boat after jumping into the sea.
On the port side of the ship, the lifeboat carried only women and children. On the starboard side, women are given priority to escape and men are allowed to board the boat.
After putting his pregnant wife on a lifeboat, Astor IV, the richest man in the world at the time, stood on deck, lit a cigar cigarette, and gave up his place to an Irish woman in third class.
A few days later, in the morning light of dawn in the North Atlantic, the salvage crew found him.
His head had been shattered by the chimney.
Aster's assets could build more than a dozen Titans, but he rejected all valid reasons to run for his life.
Human nature cannot be the same, and there is no shortage of exceptions in this world.
The deputy counselor of the Japanese Railway Academy, Masafumi Hosono, disguised himself as a woman and climbed into a lifeboat full of women and children to escape.
However, afterwards, he was publicly criticized by all Japanese newspapers and public opinion, and he also survived 10 years of repentance and shame, and died of depression.
Back to the film.
1:20 min.
The water continued to pour down to the sloping end, and the previously calm top deck was thrown into chaos, and the passengers finally realized the seriousness of the situation, and ran to the deck and the side of the boat, crowding into the lifeboats.
The chaos escalated, the crew had to shoot at the passengers, and the evacuation began to spiral out of control.
1:30 minutes.
There was a commotion among the stranded passengers on board, and when the lifeboat No. 14 on the side of the cabin was carrying 60 people and was about to be released, someone tried to jump into the boat, but was stopped by the crew who were in the boat.
The people on board slowly sank into the Atlantic Ocean with the Titan, slowly falling into boundless despair.
When death comes, people can only passively wait, waiting for death to approach, invade, spread, and devour.
1:40 minutes.
At this time, the bow deck was completely submerged, and the eight members of the band on board, led by the band's conductor Wallace Hartley, continued to play music for the passengers, in order to calm the lives that were destined to die in dozens of minutes.
Strauss, the founder of Macy's in the United States, has always refused to get on the lifeboat No. 8 no matter what method he uses, saying: "For many years, I will go wherever you go, and I will accompany you wherever you go." ”
Then the old gentleman took his wife's arm, and an old couple staggered to the wicker chairs on the deck and sat down, waiting for the last moment.
Later, a monument to the Strauss in New York City's Brown borough was erected, with the inscription: "Many aters cannot quench love, neither can the floods dron it." ”
And the owner of the trench ship, the Isme who reduced the number of lifeboats and reduced the height of the aquifer......
This is the same guy who ordered the whole ship to go at full speed regardless of the danger of night sailing!
Why did he do it?
Because he not only wants to die, but also wants to make headlines. He hopes that his boat can arrive early, so that the major media will be surprised again?
The murderer, at the last moment, very decisively, left behind his passengers, his crew, his boat, and leaped into the sea—into a collapsible lifeboat.
2:00 minutes.
More than 1,500 people remained on the sinking ship, and the crew struggled to maintain order so that women and children could enter the lifeboats, and when the 44 people boarded the foldable lifeboat D and released, only the last two lifeboats remained on board, but it was too late to send them to the surface according to the normal process.
Because, the bow and foreside of the Titan Giant have been completely submerged in the water, and the first-class area has also begun to flood, and the Titan Giant has come to the end of its rope.
2:10 minutes.
The ship's hull sinking speed was significantly faster, and the bridge was about to be submerged, the captain signaled the telegraph operator to leave his post to escape, while the telegraph operator Phillips was indifferent and continued to send SOS distress signals towards the vast sea.
Until the last moment of his life, he repeated this action, letting the sea water cover his fingertips and his chest.
Captain Edward John Smith entered the captain's room, locked the door, and accepted the judgment of death.
2:13 min.
The ship's hull was about to collapse, leaving the band on board unable to continue playing.
When the performance ended, many passengers and crew lost this last bit of comfort, and also lost the last bit of reason, and jumped into the sea in despair, trying to escape.
After that, the ship's center of gravity was completely unbalanced and kept moving forward, and the stern of the ship kept tilting upward, and soon it was completely out of the water. The Titan Giant's glass dome collapsed due to excessive water pressure, and the chimney steel cable attached to the dome also broke.
The No. 1 and No. 2 chimneys eventually lost their balance of tension and broke and fell into the sea, sinking into the sea with many passengers who were stoned to death.
Because the hull was no longer balanced, many passengers slid from the stern of the boat to the water like a slide, and many were sucked into the hull and never came out again.
At this time, the dedicated power engineer maintained the power in the ship's cabin.
Eventually, the sea water poured into the central power control room, causing a short circuit, and the lights of the whole ship were instantly extinguished, then flashed, and finally dimmed forever.
The power engineer also ended up dying in his post.
2:17 min.
After the stern was cocked, the hull was subjected to unimaginable pressure, and the steel bars continued to twist and deform, and finally withstood the limit.
In a series of explosions, the hull of the ship broke and decomposed. The bow of the ship sank directly into the water, and the stern temporarily refloated because it was largely unflooded.
According to the Titan's design concept, the stern waterproofing system will work again in this situation, blocking the sea water and preventing the stern from sinking, but the waterproof door between the two engine rooms is opened to pump water, which is beyond the boat's capacity.
The bow of the sinking ship also tugged at the stern, causing the stern of the ship to be tilted again, the first-class smoking room was set on fire by the splashed coal, and the previous explosion ignited the wood and flammable materials in the fracture, and the flames soared into the sky.
The stern of the ship is burning and sinking at the same time, and the fire and sea water are bound to tear this "unsinkable ship" to pieces.
2:19 min.
The fire sank into the sea, and those who were dying of hypothermia in the icy waters were buried in the boiling waters as soon as they touched a little warmth.
After burning, the keel of the Titan was completely broken, the bow of the ship went straight to the bottom of the sea at a speed of 40 miles per hour, and the stern completely disappeared into the vast Atlantic Ocean within 1 minute.
2:20 minutes.
The huge whirlpool created by the sinking of the ship's hull sucked in a large number of people who held out to the end, or rather, corpses.
Although many people later surfaced, they eventually died of exhaustion because they could not be rescued in time......
The sea soon returned to calm.
Not a single wave, not a single trace.
However, in the past 2 hours and 40 minutes, it has swallowed up a giant ship of the century and the last despair of more than 1,500 lives.
At 3:30 a.m., the Carpathia was the first to arrive at the scene of the incident.
Which company does Ishmay envy and hate the most as the owner of the dead ship?
That's right, the Canard Company, and the Karpathia is the passenger ship of the Canard Company!
Back then, Ismay fell into "madness" and had to build the Titan, just because it was not pleasing to the eye, and now after the shipwreck, it is the ship of the Canard Company that comes to the rescue.
About half an hour later, the crew of the Carpathia spotted the first lifeboat in the twilight of dawn in the North Atlantic.
Rescue efforts continued until 8:30 a.m., and only 705 of the 2,208 crew and passengers aboard the Titan survived.
The captain and priest of the Carpathia presided over a memorial service in the large dining room, and at about 8:50 a.m., the ship turned around and returned to New York.
After the Carpathia arrived in New York Harbor and passed by the Statue of Liberty, the doom-aware people gathered on the Bartley Coast on Manhattan Island, standing in the rain to silently greet the survivors of the Titan.
The more than 50 senior staff members on the Titan, except for the second mate Lettler, who commanded the life-saving flight, survived, and all died in their posts.
……
While watching the movie, Chen Ziang picked up the paper and pen next to him from time to time, and wrote on the paper to stop.
Jennings was eager to see what was written, but there was only light coming from the big screen in the screening room.
And the light was still bright and dim, and Jennings couldn't see it clearly.
"Titans", which lasted for more than three hours, Chen Ziang didn't even go to the toilet during the middle process.
Jennings and James have already taken turns going out three or four times.
Watching this movie, Chen Ziang looks at the main framework of the story, and sees the difference between it and his previous life.
Li Hui is different, she looked at the love inside, and almost cried at the end.
When the film ended, Chen Ziang slapped his pen on the paper: "The lyrics and simple staves are done!"
James and Jennings were taken aback.
I rub, really fake?
Not to mention the quality of the songs, they were already shocked to be able to read and write at the same time.
More than three hours to write a song, compose music and lyrics, there are such people.
And there's quite a few.
But in the list of James and Jennings, there is no such person as Chen Ziang.