bill wormstedt: kind of rose up out of the ocean. the lookouts described it as a dark mass that came through that haze. [horn sounds] tad fitch: they realized it was an iceberg and rang the warning bell. [bell rings] three rings on the bell for an obstacle directly ahead and then telephoned the bridge. bill wormstedt: fleet called down and said, iceberg dead ahead. don lynch: and so they immediately began maneuvers. bill wormstedt: they started turning to the left, around the iceberg. tad fitch: and it looked like it was going to miss the iceberg entirely at first, and that's when they heard a grinding noise. [metallic scraping] [dramatic music] bill wormstedt: the iceberg contacted the titanic up very close to the bow. [metallic scraping] to the people in the one boiler room, they said it was like the whole side of the ship gave away. the clock in the wheelhouse said that it was 11:40 pm precisely. [waves crashing] [theme music] it really happened. the night of the titanic disaster, the lookout scanning the ice field did not have th