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>> benjie is a writer and i'm really not. my medium is music. and somehow the shipwreck gave me focus. during the evacuation i told myself if i don't die, i'm not going to be scared anymore. and so i decided not to be scared anymore. and i wrote an album of original music. ♪ ♪ >> i wrote to express the feeling of pain from feeling guilty being alive, feeling angry at being abandoned, feeling sad for seeing other people suffer. our experience is telling longer and deeper story than just evacuation, than just the shipwreck. ♪ ♪
otherwise we don't stand a chance, and we need to do it as fast as we can. >> like so many on the ship, just when benjie smith and emily lau felt a glimmer of hope, it was dashed quickly replaced by fear. how would they climb down an entire deck on a rocking and sinking ship? coming up -- >> we took the whole rope and we threw it over the railing. >> a lifeline fraught with danger. >> i remember thinking repelling down the side of a ship that's slippery with just one rope and no help, i don't think i can do it. >> when "dateline extra" continues. earned overnight.
those who escaped. in search of an answer, benjie smith and emily lau returned to giglio island two years later. >> i'm either nervous or sea sick. >> i think more than anything else coming here i wanted to satifysat f satify -- satisfy a curiosity. the shipwreck isn't such a dominant force in our daily lives. i kind of wanted to test that to see are we really as well as we believe we are? i really want to see it but it's a very weird feeling. >> oh, my god. >> that is just unbelievable. you actually can't see any of the deck where we climbed down because it's all underwater. >> i come to giglio wanting to see what giglio is actually like and i want to see the impact of
we didn't know. and then wine glasses start falling, tvs start moving and things start shattering and people were running around in the hallway. >> so we made a series of quick videos, each of us just saying my name is benjie smith, i'm a passenger on the "costa concordia," today is january 13th, we are holding on to a rope on the port side of the ship. >> people were screaming, the lights flickered on and off. people ran from deck to deck with life preservers. there was no instruction on the p.a. system yet. we went to deck four because we knew that that's where the safety boats were, but when we got to deck four, no one told us what to do, no one told us what the situation was or what had happened. >> we just -- we had felt so forgotten about, we had felt so
emily lau were not ready to give up. they were faced with a frightening choice, jump or sink. once again "the wreck of the "costa concordia." >> by this point the ship is tilting, tilting, tilting and sinking. we can feel the clock ticking. so i climbed back up and got that rope and untied it from the fourth deck and tied it down on to the third deck so that we could descend on to the exterior hull of the ship. emily's aunt and uncle had actually brought with them a digital camera. >> my name is emily lau. >> and i'm benjie smith. >> we are cruisers from boston on board the "costa concordia." tonight right after dinner, we felt a movement in the boat, like a tip on the boat and i was a little bit scared so i asked benjie what is going on?
day two he sang a song, and he changed the lyrics around a little bit every day. >> it started out as a joke. the day after our wedding, i sang her just a silly little improvised song. >> it would be something like. ♪ today is the first day of our marriage ♪ i'm so happy because i'm with you ♪ something like that. >> newlyweds benjie smith and emily lau knew survival could very well hinge on their next decision. if they stayed where they were, they might die trapped beneath the railing as the "costa concordia" continued to sink. they also knew they had to get themselves and their four family members to safety. but the only way out was down. so now the question was how? >> we found a stairwell. we thought we could go from the fourth deck down to the third deck on that stairwell. and it was like mountain
decided, almost everybody, save two of us, decided to make their way back into the ship and try and find a life boat. i didn't think that going back inside of the ship was logical. because it was almost like going into a coffin because you could get trapped inside. >> i think the most terrifying moment was when emily got on to the life boat and i was left behind and i thought i don't know if i can do this without her. she was, you know, she's my planning partner. we brain storm these ideas together. and i didn't want to do it without her. and i felt alone and confused. so i told the crew member, no, no, i'm going to get on this life boat. my wife is here. and so she let me on to the boat. >> when benjie popped his head into the first life boat that we
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