{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Andrea Doria - Part 4: A race to save lives as systems strain and the ship slips away","description":"Floodlights, lifeboats, and shouted instructions cut through the fog. The immediate aftermath of the Andrea Doria collision was not orderly—it was a desperate scramble in the dark.\r\n\r\nOn the night of July twenty-fifth into the early hours of July twenty-sixth, nineteen fifty-six, the ship’s crew and the vessels racing to her side tried to build a corridor of survival across a shifting, unstable sea. There was no script for this. Every decision weighed safety against speed. The French liner Ile de France was among the first to answer the distress call. Her floodlit decks became a beacon, and survivors later described the transfer as both orderly and miraculous.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thedisasterarchive.com/disaster/andrea-doria","author_name":"The Archive Network"}