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The ship was made in norway, so most of the medications are norwegian, but there are also non—us medications, so it's like going to an ikea in france — everything is in metric and it's in french and it's completely confusing, because it's ikea to start with. i have a titanic patch from the expedition. this is just the titanic, the jacket patch. laughs. yes. people are so enthralled with titanic that it became a must—do dive. i read an article that said there are three words in the english language that are known throughout the planet and that's �*coca—cola', �*god', and �*titanic...

Sitting there on its own. then we saw a wash hand basin with the taps still attached. and we were only about 300 metres, apparently, from the wreck. is something going on with my thrusters? um, i'm thrusting and nothing's happening. i don't know what's going on. one is thrusting forward, one of the thrusters is thrusting backwards right now. so, the only thing i can do right now is a 360. we're literally 300 metres from titanic and although we are in the debris field, we can't go anywhere but go in circles. oh, my god...

There was a picture of a boiler in black and white on television, and the dream...just crumbled. i switched my career to banking and i started searching for a way to go. i wasn't sure how i was going to get to titanic but i knew i had to go. i'm not a millionaire. i've been saving money for a long, long time. i made a lot of sacrifices in my life to be able to go to titanic. i don't have a car. i didn't get married yet. i don't have children. and all of those decisions have been because i wanted to go to titanic. when i met stockton, i told him, "here's my money." he said, "wait a minute! "we ...

The titanic has always been in my family, . in terms of history. my father's from northern - ireland, he was born in derry, he spent a lot of time - in belfast and growing up as a child, he always i spoke about the titanic because obviously, i it was built in belfast. we've always had what we call in irish "a gra" — _ which is a love for the whole history and the story - of the titanic, so i'm - really pleased to be here. i've been keeping myself very fit and watching my diet. - i had covid a few years ago. in the meantime, i had a little| operation and everything else, and still got myself ...

Expedition last year. we took the dive and dove for about two hours and maybe 15 minutes or so. i heard we got within like two football fields of the titanic, and then suddenly stockton says, "0h, we got to turn around." and at first i thought he was joking because we were over two hours into our expedition and so close to the bottom. but then he explained one of the batteries kind of went kaput and we were having trouble using the electronic drops for the weights, so it would be hard for us to get back up to the surface. the stakes were quite high at that point. i was really intrigued with, l...