I'm John Thatcher with my very good colleague, Charles Pellegrino, who's been my guide on the Titanic tragedy for all these years.

Charlie and I did a wonderful show, the 100th anniversary, but here we are 13 years later, and there's still much to learn about Titanic from Charlie.

So I call upon him each year to look at a different aspect of this overwhelming

detailed story. We're on board Carpathia. It is the day, the 15th, the day after the sinking,

we're steaming toward New York. There's 705 rescued passengers on board. As Charlie says,

some of them are in bad shape.

What happened on board Carpathia that is of note or revealing these many years later, Charlie?

Yeah, well, in fact, there's a book by Stephen Schweikers that just came out, The Six.

That's also a James Cameron, a supported project.

So you had these six Chinese sailors who survived all from the same town.

And they managed being sailors who were aboard the Titanic to go meet and sail away on another ship and work, they knew boats, so they managed to survive.

But they had to sleep out in the cold on the ship.

And also the one Japanese passenger, he had to, on the Carpathia, he was sleeping in the sleep and the rain and the thunderstorms are trying to sleep in that.

Some people tried to throw him overboard, actually, the Japanese passenger.

I mean, he's, you know, sleazy, unshaven, smelly lot of people,

and that was just the first-class women. And they went through a lot. There was Edith Russell,

wonderful personality, more adventures in our life than the unsinkable Molly Brown.

But there was one black man aboard the Titanic,

and his father was, I think, the president of Haiti.

And he was heading back with his wife in second class,

and they had two little girls.

He went down with the ship, Mr. LaRoche, and there was some concern about, in fact, later

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