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...series of passes over the site. The dramatic tapes clearly show the great ship sitting upright, pointing toward the north and covered with a fine layer of silt. The port and starboard anchor chains are wrapped around their capstans, still holding the anchors in place, and in the top deck there is a gaping hole that was once a skylight. Through it, Ballard told his viewers, "you can see right down the grand staircase." The railings and wooden deck are intact, the individual planks clearly visible. The davits still hang empty over the side, their lifeboats, which saved only...
...invulnerable if as many as four of her watertight compartments were flooded. But the 300-ft. gash inflicted by the iceberg inundated five compartments. Water poured into the mail room and swirled knee deep around the postal workers as they tried to haul sacks of mail to a higher deck. When word of the leaks reached the bridge, somebody asked Captain Edward J. Smith whether he thought the ship was seriously damaged. He paused, then slowly said, "I'm afraid...
Confronting the unthinkable, Smith had to move gradually from disbelief to doubt to desperation. It was 12:05 a.m. when he ordered all passengers mustered on deck, 12:15 when the first call for help was sent out on the wireless, 12:45 when the first of 20 lifeboats was lowered...
...they deferred to the steel ceiling and let the architects, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, spread the new buildings out. Planes and walls jag fetchingly, as in real cities. Rounding a corner or descending a stair, / there are architectural surprises. Store names may be as treacly as the stuff they sell (Deck the Walls, Let's Make a Daiquiri and I Can't Believe It's Yogurt), but steel stairway railings and iron treads are raw and hard- edged, in keeping with the Bessemer grittiness of the original shed. In all, the commercial arcades work hard to be interesting...
They sat at four tables next to where I was draining the dregs of a coffee cup. Aware that I might be thrown out if the guards decided I was a journalist, I remained silent as the hostages took in their surroundings -- a blue pool sparkling with underwater lighting, deck chairs drawn up in regiments and a moon rising over the Mediterranean...