kellie carter jackson: and there's commotion.er simply takes, simone hands her to her mother, and within moments, the lifeboat plunges toward the sea without her husband. [ominous music] bill wormstedt: and most of the forward lifeboats that left early in the sequence went down only partway full. [stirring music] tim maltin: titanic, although she sank slowly, she was actually sinking faster and faster and faster as she was settling deeper and deeper in the water, and crowds started to form around the last lifeboats. and that's where order started to break down. tad fitch: pushing and shoving and people panicking, trying to force their way in, and then it deteriorated that quickly into, like, a horrific scene. we know that several officers did have revolvers with them. tim maltin: and many of them shot them into the air-- [gunshot] --in order to startle passengers and calm them down and bring them to their senses. fifth officer lowe had his own revolver, and he actually did fire it at-- [gunshot] --lifeboat number 14. tad fitch: h