Ghosts of the Abyss
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:04:01
The idea that she spiraled down,
spitting objects.

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My name is Charles Pellegrino.
:04:07
I was one of the historians and
biologists on the expedition.

:04:11
We tend to think of it
in 21st-century eyes.

:04:15
I'm Don Lynch,
and I studied the "Titanic"

:04:18
based upon the testimony and
accounts of passengers and crew.

:04:21
The people who were there
and witnessed it.

:04:25
My name is Ken Marschall.
:04:27
I've been studying the "Titanic"
for over three decades now.

:04:31
I checked it out.
The Straus suite.

:04:34
Through those years and study,
:04:35
I've sort of become
a visual historian

:04:38
about the ship and her structure
and appearance.

:04:43
It was an amazing expedition
:04:45
in terms of all of
the state-of-the-art technology

:04:49
and engineering we were using,
in terms of the camera system.

:04:53
The R.O.V.S were amazing.
:04:55
On the cutting edge
of technology.

:04:58
Just try to keep the light in
right where I've gone in.

:05:01
I'm gonna explore these cabins.
:05:02
There is no script. We don't
know what we're gonna see.

:05:05
We don't know
what we're gonna encounter.

:05:08
The crucial thing
about deep-sea photography

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is lighting.
:05:13
Just come up over and light
all this business down here.

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- You see what I mean?
- Yeah.

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So we had a sister ship on
the expedition called the "EAS."

:05:23
The "EAS" had
this giant lighting chandelier

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called Medusa.
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The theory was to lower the
chandelier down over the wreck

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and do this overlighting,
almost like moonlight.

:05:36
There was no manual
for any of this.

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Nobody had ever combined
this many elements

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into a single-dive operation
before at these depths.

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We were pushing the limits
of technology,

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which was a little eerie
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given the fate of the ship
we had come to explore.

:05:58
This is where it all happened.

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