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Experience, check off your box to see the titanic but, at the same time, contribute to something that has a wider application. so, this is pretty typical of what we saw on the dive. you can see this black igneous rock, but look at the number of sponges, and that's what really hit us right away. i was asked by 0ceangate to be the chief scientist of their expeditions. that involves organising a science team and establishing long—term monitoring stations on the wreck. the earth is changing, the climate's changing. the deep sea drives the earth's climate. most of the oxygen that's produced comes...

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, "oh, 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...

To see the titanic but, at the same time, contribute to something that has a wider application. so, this is pretty typical of what we saw on the dive. you can see this black igneous rock, but look at the number of sponges, and that's what really hit us right away. i was asked by oceangate to be the chief scientist of their expeditions. that involves organising a science team and establishing long—term monitoring stations on the wreck. the earth is changing, the climate's changing. the deep sea drives the earth's climate. most of the oxygen that's produced comes from marine plankton, so chang...

I'm not claustrophobic by any means but, in that moment, i'm like, well, if there was any point to freak out, now would be the point to freak out. and i sort of did a — i do a gut check with myself, and i say, "nope, not freaking out." i'm actually excited. i think the nerves in the stomach was not of anxiety, it was of excitement. we're all comfortable, here in the sub. we've got the scrubber on, oxygen is flowing. and we're standing by for vacuum. in the last 35 years, i did 37 dives to the titanic. each expedition, you can see more and more. here, for example, the deck

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. laughter 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. it'sjust such an interesting period of time tha...