This is on the CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

It is just before midnight on the 14th of April, 1912, on board Titanic.

I welcome Charles Pellegrino, the author of Her name, Titanic.

A new edition is coming out next year.

The untold story of the sinking and finding

of the unsinkable ships, and Charlie tells me

in the way of an author, it's twice as long as the original

much to say Charlie a very good evening to you the Titanic is always at sea in

the imagination what does the crew, what do the passengers on deck, see around

them just before midnight on the 14th of April. Good evening to you.

Good evening. It was mostly crew that were on deck. People like Boxall who was walking right

toward the bridge when he heard the signal from the cruziness, the three bells

ringing, that there was something up ahead.

And the thing about this incident is that it was completely preventable.

They've been warned repeatedly about ice ahead

and change their course, heading a little further south, but the ice field was much closer than anyone

anticipated and the two men in the crowsiness they were situated too high The Titanic had passed other icebergs.

There was one crew, one passenger down on F deck.

Crichorian was his name. He looked at a porthole and he saw icebergs in the north eclipsing the stars.

Did not really imagine that this was a matter of them being about 20 minutes to a half hour into danger when they saw this.

It was about 15 or 20 minutes later that the most improbable event was seeing an iceberg

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