Ghosts of the Abyss
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When you see the stern
section where it tore in half,

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and there are
the two reciprocating engines

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standing four stories high,
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they really do look like
these twin sphinxes

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that are guarding
the forbidden tomb.

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When the historians
look at "Titanic,"

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they think of the lives
that were lost.

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When I look at the ship
as a scientist,

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I look at the life
that still is on "Titanic. "

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"Titanic" is very much alive.
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Rusticles are bacteria...
microscopic organisms, bugs...

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that are actually eating
the steel

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and the insides of the ship.
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I look at a rail and think,
"Oh, look at the bacteria.

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They're breaking 'Titanic' down
and taking her back to nature. "

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But then you immediately
go back and think,

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"Who touched this railing last?"
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Helen Candee is one
of my favorite passengers.

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She had written one of the
century's first best sellers.

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Basically, the theme being
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how a woman can get along
in life successfully

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without a man.
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And that's how she was traveling
first-class on the "Titanic. "

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And on the very last sunrise
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that the "Titanic"
would ever see,

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she snuck out
to the very point of the bow

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just to greet the sunrise alone.
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And she wrote about it
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and how she felt the power
and the beauty of this ship

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and that it was stronger
than nature itself,


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