Edward Buley, boat 10 | Titanic survivor accounts and animations (pilot version)

Welcome to my new survivor account animation series! I decided to start with one of my favourite accounts, Edward Buley. This is purely his description of the final plunge, you can read the full original here: https://www.titanicinquiry.org/USInq/...
These videos include the account(s), animation(s), and my personal take on the account(s).

If you can't be bothered to look at the website (lazy), here is an unedited version of Buley's final plunge testimony:
“Q. How far were you from the Titanic when she went down?
A. About 250 yards.
Q. Could you see people on the decks before she went down?
A. No. All the lights were out.
Q. Could you hear the people?
A. Yes; you could hear them.
Q. Calling?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Before she went down?
A. Yes, sir; and we laid to, not because we could give any assistance, but because the boat I was in was full up, and we had no one to pull the oars. There was three only to pull the oars, and one could not pull at all. He was a fireman. That left but two people to pull the oars, so I directed the steward to take the coxswain's watch.
Q. Before she went down, you could hear people calling for help?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Was there very much of that?
A. Yes, sir; it was terrible cries, sir.
Q. Most of the witnesses have said they could hear no cries for help until after the ship went down.
A. This was after the ship went down when we heard them.
Q. I have been asking you about hearing cries before the ship went down.
A. No, sir; there was no signs of anything before that at all.
Q. Before the ship went down you did not hear any cries for help?
A. No cries whatever, sir.”
“Q. After you left her, her bow continued to go under?
A. Settled down; yes, sir. She went down as far as the after-funnel, and then there was a little roar, as though the engines had rushed forward, and she snapped in two, and the bow part went down and the after-part came up and staid up five minutes before it went down.
Q. Was that perpendicular?
A. It was horizontal at first, and then went down.
Q. What do you mean by saying she snapped in two?
A. She parted in two.
Q. How do you know that?
A. Because we could see the after-part afloat, and there was no forepart to it. I think she must have parted where the bunkers were. She parted at the last, because the after-part of her settled out of the water horizontally after the other part went down. First of all you could see her propellers and everything. Her rudder was clear out of the water. You could hear the rush of the machinery, and she parted in two, and the after-part settled down again, and we thought the after-part would float altogether.
Q. The after-part kind of righted up horizontally?
A. She up-righted herself for about five minutes, and then tipped over and disappeared.
Q. Did it go on the side?
A. No, sir; went down head-foremost.
Q. That makes you believe the boat went in two?
A. Yes, sir. You could see she went in two, because we were quite near to her and could see her quite plainly.
Q. You were near and could see her quite plainly?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did you see any people on her?
A. I never saw a soul.
Q. You must have been too far away to see that?
A. It was dark.
Q. Were there lights on that half part?
A. The lights were all out. The lights went out gradually before she disappeared.
Q. Notwithstanding the darkness you could see the outline of the ship?
A. Yes, sir; we could see the outline of the ship.
Q. You could see the funnel?
A. Quite plainly.
Q. Were there any cinders or sparks or anything of that sort from the funnel?
A. No, sir. We were lying to there. The people in the boat were very frightened that there would be some suction. If there had been any suction we should have been lost. We were close to her. We couldn’t get away fast enough. There was nobody to pull away.
Q. How far were you when she went down?
A. We were about 200 yards.” - American inquiry, April 25th 1912

When I say that the above is unedited, I mean that the version in the video has corrected grammar and terminology. Nothing else was changed.

The text to speech program I used: https://freetools.textmagic.com/text-...

Music:
Launching the Lifeboats - Titanic: Adventure out of Time (main video)
Hall of Origin - Pokémon Platinum (outro)

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