Panic was starting to set in. It was terrible and cold people were running everywhere . The three friends looked around anxiously looking for some kind of boat for them and their friends. But the officers were now arguing and the last boat was filling. up fast.

Fabrizio and Tommy insisted that Linda get into the lifeboat. She knew that she might never see the two young men standing on the deck. As she was getting into the boat she looked up. There right in front of her and many other women one of the men tried to get into the boat forcefully. It was then that the officer shot his gun into the air.

Now, there was a real panic. There were guns to stop anyone from getting on the lifeboat and she worried that Fabrizio and Tommy were doomed to trying to stay alive in the cold frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean. It was then that Tommy got shoved and he fell towards the officer. Linda could plainly see that Tommy was not trying to force his way onto the boat, but in the confusion the officer shot and killed him.

Linda couldn't stop the tears as she watched Fabrizio stand over his friend who had died for nothing. She watched in horror as the officer then took the gun to his head and shot himself. The officer went over the edge of the ship and fell into the river. All of the people on the lifeboat witnessed the horror and were either just staring or crying.

As the lifeboat filled with more people Linda watched in horror as Fabrizio took the blood soaked life vest off of his dead friend. She could see that her friend was crying. As the ship once more listed hard the lifeboat lurched forward. It was all that Linda and the other passengers could do to keep their seats. The men who were lowering the lifeboat were now facing their own fates, They both knew that the ship was going to sink and it was going to sink fast.

The ship was groaning and making all kinds of noise. The electricity was flickering and all of the lifeboats were gone. There is no word in the English language to describe the sounds of fifteen hundred people screaming. The noise was deafening, people were jumping into the water and some man was trying to put two deck chairs together, hoping that they would float.

As Linda and the other passengers in the small lifeboat they looked over the water. The lifeboats appeared to be just half full. 'Why would they have done that?' she thought. All the people on the ship with no place to go and the lifeboats were barely half filled.

Fabrizio was now looking for his two friends trying to find out where they were. But the mass of people was enormous. People were running around with no place to go. He saw a young girl crying for her mother hiding behind one of the doors. He watched in wonder as that terrible man Cal picked the child up and talked his way into a lifeboat. "I have a child. Please I am all she has." With that he had been allowed onto the lifeboat.

By this time the water was almost level with the lifeboat now. The ship was leaning so bad it was as though you were walking up a mountain when you headed towards the bow of the ship. The crowd, the shouts, it was a terrible scene.

As Fabrizio went to where the grand staircase the water was now almost to the top of the stairway. Fabrizio was never so scared in his life. But, he needed to get to the outside of the ship. But as he made his way across the room there was another explosion and moan and without warning the water filled the room to the top. It was a miracle that Fabrizio managed to get out of there alive.

As Fabrizio made his way up on deck finally he could hear the screams of all the drowning people who had been by the grand staircase with him. he wished that he could do something to help them, but there was nothing that he could do. As he was attempting to climb the now very steep deck, there was another explosion. Without warning Fabrizio found himself in the water swimming away from the sinking ship.

Jack and Rose were now at the bow of the ship and knew that the ship was going to sink in a matter of minutes. The ship lurched and then seemed to level off for a second. Then it began to sink this time for sure. Jack held Rose's hand tightly but the force of the ship separated them. As Jack was in the water desperately looking for Rose he found a door. He knew that on that door Rose and him could be out of the water. The water would still be very cold and there was a good chance that they both wouldn't survive, but he had to take the chance.

As Jack finally found Rose he called to her "Swim Rose." Rose did swim and they got to the door. There Jack found himself unable to get on the door himself without tipping over. he saw that Rose was safe and stayed in the water without a life jacket.

But the cold was terrible and Jack knew that he was not going to survive. Rose was singing to herself trying to keep warm, when Jack saw his friend Fabrizio. His friend had been hurt and was barely conscious. Jack grabbed his friend and found the lawn chairs floating by. With all of the strength that he had Jack managed to get his friend onto the chairs and mostly out of the water. He swam over to Rose and attempted to tell her what he had done. But, he had no voice left and no strength to even touch his love. Within minutes the life was out of Jack.

Fabrizio saw that his friend wasn't moving anymore and attempted to get Rose's attention. But, he couldn't see very well and he had a dreadful headache. He heard the lifeboat return and watched in horror as Rose discovered Jack had died. He tried in vain to call out for help, and couldn't believe that Rose had the strength to get back into the water and blow the whistle. As the boat picked up Rose there was a tear in Fabrizio's eye. Somehow he managed a weak call out and the men in the lifeboat heard him.

Rose turned around to see her friend Fabrizio. He had been injured, but he was still alive. They held each other tightly as they stayed in the lifeboat until a rescue boat finally appeared.