But, to another member of the expedition team, Patrick Lahey, the C.E.O. The team had mapped unexplored trenches and collected scientific samples, and the Limiting Factor’s chief pilot, Victor Vescovo-a Texan hedge-fund manager who had financed the entire operation-had set numerous diving records. In the previous year, McCallum, Nargeolet, and others had taken it around the Earth, as part of the Five Deeps Expedition, a journey to the deepest point in each ocean. Inside a hangar on the ship’s stern sat a submersible known as the Limiting Factor. As is tradition, the youngest-McCallum’s nephew-was summoned to place his hand on the wreath, and he and Nargeolet let it fall into the sea. Rob McCallum, the expedition leader, gave a short speech, then handed a wreath to Nargeolet, the oldest man on the ship. The crew had gathered for a solemn ceremony, to pay tribute to the more than fifteen hundred people who had died in the most famous maritime disaster more than a hundred years ago. The air was cool and thick with fog, the sea placid, the engine switched off, and the Titanic was some thirty-eight hundred metres below.

Only the fifth task is what is ordinarily thought of as the primary one: to transport people into the dark, hostile deep.Īt dawn four summers ago, the French submariner and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet stood on the bow of an expedition vessel in the North Atlantic. The fourth is for the submersible to be easy to find, through redundant tracking and communications systems, in case rescue is required. The third is for the occupants to be able to open the hatch once they surface. The second is to reach the surface, even if the pilot is unconscious, with oxygen to spare. The primary task of a submersible is to not implode.

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