She said it broke in half and he immediately cuts her off. She was correct

How tacky for the survivor to listen to the first comment concern being about diamonds in a safe, and not that this is a resting place for 1500 people one of them her father.

The sweet lady who survived and her father died, when asked what should be done with the wreck...gosh, I love her

Great video, thanks. Eva Hart, in every interview I've seen, was a quick wit, a woman of sense and sensibility and a person able to distill this epic event into sharp personal detail. This tragedy is an enduring fascination.

This is a brilliant collection of footage. A snapshot of another time, a simpler time. I grew up in the 1980’s and I’m a huge nostalgia addict!! As well as highly fascinated by the Titanic.

I can't believe that guy talked about using the technology at the time to find the Thresher. Ballard had to keep it a secret that he had to first find both the Thresher and the Scorpion, and if he had time left, he could go look for Titanic. He found both subs before he found Titanic. But, in finding those subs he came up with an idea on how to find Titanic.

It is uncanny that Walter Lord mentions the wreck of the USS Thresher at 14:30, since Robert Ballard discovered the Titanic while on a top-secret Navy mission to secure the Thresher's nuclear reactor. Dr. Ballard says the Navy was actually upset when he found the Titanic, since it was only supposed to be a cover story! I don't know if Lord knew the true purpose of mission, it was only declassified in 2018. It just goes to show what a perceptive man he was. Also delighted to see Walter Lord and Eva Hart speaking together! This coverage is incredible, thank you so much for posting!

It's crazy that now we've been down so many times that we have a full 3D model and amazing footage of the wreck. Even today, she still is in incredible condition considering she's 111 years old. I totally agree with with Miss Eva, Titanic should be left alone, other then for research purposes. Sadly, all the news on the Titan submersible led me to this video.

I love her queens English accent and method of speech. You don’t here that anymore.

It's interesting how far off the wreck location is at 0:09 compared to where it actually is. It's ~1000 km off.

This poor woman. She is clearly under such stress talking about it. So sad.

Not only great footage and interviews of the titanic, but seeing clive cussler, maria shriver, and news of that day is truly historical.

what a wonderful collection of clips from the news of the day ! its self now history . nice work thanks ;)

Thank you so so much for putting all of this together. I’m in awe ❤

Tue fact he mentioned the missing sub the Thresher proves just how well using the Titanic as a cover story for finding the Thresher really worked

That guy had no idea when he said it could be useful to find the submarine Thresher that it was actually a secret mission that Ballard was on when he struck a deal with the US government to fund the search for the Titanic. He had to survey the wreck of the Thresher. The US government already knew where it was but never told anyone because they didn't want the Soviets to get the nukes. They wanted him to see what he could find out about the wreck and where the nukes were. This guy had no idea how on point he was.

Gotta appreciate how the presenter, during the radio call at 58:59, respects the radio procedure.

Did you notice how they ignored that that lady said this Titanic broke in half? The host cut her off as fast as possible.

I saw a few of these stories when they were originally aired in 1985. News reporting has really changed over the years. I like the style used back then. I remember very well the news of Titanic's discovery. Wonderful collection of clips, and interviews with some of the survivors, now gone. Christa McAuliffe, the Teacher in Space, who would lose her life in the Challenger disaster in just a few months, was training to be an astronaut when Titanic was discovered. (Jan Griffiths).

Eva Hart’s story of that night is one of the most fascinating, given her mother’s premonition. It bothers me that her account of the sinking was discounted by some, even though she was correct.

They knew at the time of discovery that raising the ship would be impossible. Also, I really admire the historian, I've read his books. But he was incorrect when he stated the ship hit the bottom at 100mph. It was more like 30mph. But that's still very fast being the ship was 46,000 tons and full of water. I've always loved hearing Eva Hart speak. Wish she was still with us.

Eva was always such a character. You can just feel her personality. I love her appearances in interviews.

Great collection of videos thank you for posting! The bit about the space shuttle landing at edwards afb in 85 brought me back to growing up in Valencia CA and all of the sonic booms we heard from shuttles landing in the 80s as we rode around on our bmx bikes after school. They were incredible!!

Very much enjoyed this, thanks for recording and posting. My son was 5 months old when Titanic was discovered, so this sequence of clips brings back a lot of memories.

Very cool video, my grandfather is the guy on GMA at the 1:04:10 mark (the American)

Eva Hart is frickin’ phenomenal!

Awesome to watch! Love the other old news articles and adverts along the way 😁 I was seven when the Titanic was found and I’ve been obsessed ever since!

Eva Heart is lovely, I love listening to her tell her story. Walter Lord looks like he was under the sea, in a shell. Hanging with Squid Word.

The entire way through they insisted the ship broke in half when it hit the ocean floor until the author of “A Night To Remember” said it confirmed a theory he had been working on that the Titanic broke apart. They completely ignored Mrs. Hart’s account that the ship broke apart at the surface.

This surviving lady after surviving from Titanic then went through horrors two world wars, what's an extra ordinary scenarios of modern history

Thanks for these news briefs during the Titanic discovery era, much appreciated! 👍🇺🇲

1:19:51 "It was the first SOS ever radioed from a ship..." It was not :D The first ever SOS was actually sent by the RMS Slavonia after she ran aground and was wrecked off the Azores on June 10th, 1909. Two vessels, the Batavia and the Prinzessin Irene, came to the rescue, and everyone was saved. SOS was not adopted as a distress signal until November 1906 in Berlin, at the first of two international radiotelegraph conventions.

Awesome footage tyvm This is so invaluable

Damn. If miss Eva was alive today I wonder what she’d have to say about the recent events? I have a feeling I know how she’d feel…😬

We need a Carpathia movie. Not only starting with the rescue of the Titanic’s passengers but also her own Demise and Sinking!

Love this! Tysm!!

4:29 her response to this question speaks volumes. Nobody should go down there again, they’ve done many expeditions, made movies, and now 5 more lives were lost going down there. Leave the final resting place of 1500 people alone.

Bringing back my whole childhood watching this footage!😢 Really was a simpler time

Thanks for this

Thank you so much for this! 😊

I love how the Titanic expert talks about how excited he was with the new technology because "in the future" they could find the Scorpion and Thresher when they had actually already been found on that same expedition, but no one knew it yet. lol

She seems pissed off that it was discovered, as if everything she remembered and her father’s grave was now known to all

As morbid as it sounds, I can only imagine what an incredible sight it was to see that thing sink..

This is a fascinating video. Like a time capsule of sorts.Thank you.

Wow! Nice find! After Titan brought me down a rabbit hole😂

Such well spoken. Rip Eva ❤️

Jesse Jackson and Jerry Falwell debate South Africa. Damn! What a time to be alive 😅.

Here's why the Titanic's story will just never die: (1) she was the world's biggest movable man-made object of her day, (2) she excelled in luxury, (3) she was on her maiden voyage (of all voyages), (4) there were many celebrities of the day on board, (5) there was already a lot of talk about all her features before she was ever launched (including the whole "unsinkability" talk), (6) she was the world's newest ocean liner of her time and (7) the Titanic is the first or maybe the only ship thus far in living memory to be sunk by an iceberg. It seems the Titanic will always be in our minds despite herself; unlike the ship itself, the story remains unsinkable

Sending 💖💝💗To ALL the beautiful perished souls of The Titan and the Titanic. And to my father who died at sea. 💓Farewell. You are remembered. May there be safety protections followed as technology & advancements for mankind are made or discovered...

I have always been taught to “Respect the Sea!” If you don’t, tragedy is guaranteed.

Another thing I heard about Ballard's expedition is that one of his submersibles brought part of a cable to his research ship. Ballard thought it was undoubtedly from the Titanic so in order to avoid any gold rush on his ship he threw it back into the ocean

Nice! I miss all the old tapes I recorded too.

8:43 The soundtrack composer of that film, William Alwyn, was alive only for a few more days after Ballard's expedition found the wreck. He died ten days later, on September 11 1985 .

I love interviews with Eva, she seemed like a great women with a great British sense of humour.

His name is James Cameron (the bravest pioneer), no budget to steep, no sea too deep, who's that, it's him, James Cameron! 🎵

Much respect to her.

I think Ballard was the right person to find the wreck; he has the right attitude for endeavors like that .

The first expert thought the ship was broken up, imagine his face when he saw that it was actually fairly in tact in two halves.

7 years old when she saw the Titanic go down, no wonder they said "we will fight Hitler in the streets, with brooms" Adolf truely underestimated England!

Robert Ballard once said, considering how dangerous travel can be on the North Atlantic, "I would always hope that the other mariner out there would stretch a little to save my life."

This is a look into the past I've been wanting to find for years, but um... what were the news team doing with that animation at the beginning? Did they really think a ship steaming to New York would go by Labrador?

Even the survivor talks about not having enough lifeboats. The reality was they barely had time to launch the ones they had. Two were swept away. Any more boats just wouldn't have got used.

No treasure to speak of. 7 million in 1912 diamonds 230 million worth today.

Thank you so much for sharing this! What a treasure trove of footage. Thoroughly enjoyed the footage and the VHF component with all its flaws (in comparison to current technology.)

Its so strange watching and listening to first hand accounts of that night.. today, every survivor is long gone 😔

The captain of the Titanic was a total idiot! He was in a hurry to break records and didn't want to slow down for anything!

TAKE ME BACK TO THE 80'S AND LEAVE ME THERE

Love to see the U.K. News from 1985 on the ship to

21:01 geez, the little kid in me, sees a monster in that boiler

Love Eva Hart. She didn't see or hear the musicians so cannot make any comment on that. And if you desecrate the Titanic, "you are desecrating my father's grave."

Amazing!

No offense to the "expert", but the survivor's recall of that night was far more interesting than his own opinion.🤔 Again no disrespect to the expert at all, but she was there, she saw and experienced one of, if not the most horrific event to occur in naval history at that time and for decade to come.

who else didn't hear anything after 7 million in diamonds.

2:54 "To say that the ship 'Unsinkable' was flying in the face if God"

The Titanic took over 73 years to be found after she sank at a depth of about 12,500 feet, but her rescue ship Carpathia took over 81 years to be found after she sank at a depth of somewhere between only 500 and 600 feet. As for her ignoring ship, the SS Californian, she sank at a depth that is believed to be even deeper than the Titanic and even to this time in 2024, she still hasn't been found.

Experts talk very much about the future and we who are watching an 80's tv program in 2023 r now that future they were talked about. In 1997, 12 yrs after this tv show , and further in 2001,2003, 2004,2005...2021,2022, we know much more about Titanic...

14:30 he mentions the "Thresher" atomic submarine... not knowing that this was exactly what Ballard was out for to find, sent by the Navy. Funny little fact, he found the Titanic only in the aftermath of searching for two atomic submarines, the "Thresher" being one of them. And now this guy mentiones that technology could be useful to do exactly that. ^^

That lady is seen on various news programmes and every time she mentions the Titanic split in half before she went under she’s cut off ….

One thing Ismay did on the Carpathia was contact the White Star offices in NY and ask them to hold this other ship, the Cedric, until he and the crew came, so they could go back home to England as soon as possible. That already made everyone think that he was trying to slip away from America before the police or the authorities could get their hands on him. He then made things worse for himself by signing his message "Yamsi": his last name spelled backwards. That then begs the question why try to cover up by spelling your name backwards if you have nothing to hide. The American warship Chester intercepted his message and relayed it to Congress where a subcommittee to look into the matter was quickly formed. Its members, headed by Sen. William Alden Smith, promptly went to New York where they strode aboard the Carpathia and succeeded at subpoenaing Ismay. He was to appear in court, not within a few days, let alone a full week: the following day. That was Sen Smith's subcommittee's way of serving swift justice which is what America likes to do so much yes but then (1) the tragedy took place within US territorial waters and (2) there were American passengers on board So this time the US was presented with the right opportunity to do just that, serve swift justice

"She wouldn't go to sleep in that ship. She'd stay up all night, and *sleep* during the day" Sleeping in the day is still sleeping lol

1:41:02 Capt Lord just didn't feel like giving up on his nice and toasty warm bunk

This must have been when the ship was first discovered, but before it was found to have broken in two - there’s no way there would have been talk of possibly raising the wreck otherwise

2 minutes in.....did they ever got those diamonds???

I hate that "women and children first" was mistaken for "women and children _ONLY"_ It's just absolutely tragic...

1:19:56 The entire North Atlantic "crackled with news too extraordinary to believe." (David McCallum as narrator of "Titanic: The Complete Story")

“It was intact in good condition.” Ok, Jan.

1:20:31 Her radio may have been off but the officers saw rockets nearby and could've asked the radio operator to check. Capt Lord and his crew would've really earned big-time recognition if they had rushed over and helped out

57:15 That's more than sensible, cogent reason to entertain doubts about the new ship

It’s like we repeat history Soviets - Russians Vietnam- Afghanistan Titanic- titan

amazing find for me to see this.

I used to dismiss Eva because her being so young. But I started thinking. Well even if you are let’s say even 5 and up; you’re sure bound to remember something: especially as traumatizing as this was. She said she seen it break in half; and it’s broken in half. During her time; people didn’t believe her because of Lord. (A night to remember)/ he said it just sank basically. And she’s not the only one to hear an explosion: one of the boiler crew members heard an explosion. Forgot his name but he survived.

very ironic that how they mention that the technology used to find the titanic could be used to find the uss thresher, when finding the thresher and scorpion was the exact reason that robert ballard was able to find the titanic at all, using the same technique that he used to find both of the subs

P.S. I'm sharing it on fb.

Imagine if White Star Line survived until 1985. Imagine all the Titanic memorabilia it could have profited hundreds of millions of dollars from.

This must've been quite the achievement for Ballard

1:46:55 Capt Lord always said the Californian was too far away to help at "19mi." The Carpathia was 58mi away when Cottam told Capt Rostron about the Titanic - and she still came. Ballard says that the Californian must've been only 9-10mi away, probably less.. So, again, if the Carpathia was able to come, so was the Californian

I just reread Custer’s book. And rewatched the movie. They left so much out of the film. Some really intense action scenes that would have made the movie epic. Instead the movie just plods.

Would love to know where you found all these old news clips? I really miss this type of broadcast.

0:12 the map looks like a Triceratops smiling, about to "shhh" someone....lol

The true resting position of the Titanic wreck should never have been revealed .RIP .