article_snippet.sent: Keeping the Titanic under wraps: The recovery took place in 2013, but has only now been made public .
article_snippet.sent: That crucial delay gave 296 of the Titanic's 302 passengers and crew time to escape in lifeboats.
article_snippet.sent: Famously, the German captain, Karl-Friedrich Merten, approached lifeboats and told the survivors: 'Goodnight, sorry for sinking you.'
article_snippet.sent: the survivors were eventually rescued three weeks later, but 104 had died.
article_snippet.sent: It was incredible,' she told Le Figaro, as cited by the Daily Telegraph.
article_snippet.sent: The recovery took place in 2013, but has only now been made public.