don lynch: lifeboat 8.ldn't get in and went up to her husband and said, we've been together too many years. where you go, i go. [suspenseful music] third class at that time was mostly immigrants. leah aks was a lady from england and had a child. shelley binder: so here she is, trying to get up the stairs, trying to go up into the aft well deck. andrew wilson: there were some reports of when people in steerage, third class, tried to get up from the bowels of the ship. some of the gates were locked to the top deck, where they could find a lifeboat. [metal rattling] tim maltin: and they were shaking the gate and asking for the gates to be opened. [indistinct shouting] shelley binder: there were hundreds of people pushing their way up there, and there was a logjam. leah literally had to fight for her life. and nobody was sort of on top of it. the one that lady duff-gordon got into with her husband-- they only had 12 people in a boat that should have had 60. it wasn't so much evil as a kind of incompetence that

don lynch: people headed up there just to higher ground. they began grabbing onto things. people were, like, clinging like bees in clumps to the different things. [indistinct shouting] it was total pandemonium. [ominous music] 2 and 1/2 hours after striking the iceberg, more than seven tons of frigid water was pouring into the ship every second, far more than the pumps could force back out. as the bow steadily plunged below the surface, the last of titanic ' s lilfebos were being loaded and launched. but there were 1,500 souls still stranded aboard who realized there will be no chance of a rescue for them. and there was no real guarantee for the people adrift in the rowboats. do any vessels know they're out there? is aid on the way? the frightening ordeal continues for the refugees of the doomed ocean liner in part 2 of titanic. i'm jesse l. martin. thank you for watching. [dramatic music] [music playing] narrator: the sinking on its first crossing created the most extraordinary sense of loss and reversal of fortune. people did think titanic was unsinkable, and yet it woul