Michael Cerveris as Robert Ballard.
After the lifeboat survivors speak, they begin to sing "In Every Age". Following the lines "Our task was to dream upon and then create a floating city, floating city", we are brought to the present with Robert Ballard.
"Ever since I first came here to the Woods Hole Oceanic Institute, I dreamed of one day finding RMS Titanic. With the loss of fifteen hundred and three men, women, and children, it was the greatest and most famous maritime disaster of this or any other century. And then on .......1985 at five minutes after one in the morning, I, Robert Ballard, became the first human being in 73 years to actually lay eyes on it. Using this vessel, the submersible search vehicle ALVIN, I found her rusted hull split in two at the depth of two and a half miles. The great ship, which in her short lifetime never completed even one crossing, went to the bottom only 95 miles from dry land and less than 36 hours short of her truimphant arrival in New York."
"A human metropolis
A complete civilization
Sleek and fast
At once a poem and the perfection of physical
engineering
At once a poem and the perfection of physical
engineering...."
The reprise of "Godspeed, Titanic" was not sung.