Journey to the bottom of the sea: On a Titanic tour

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LOS ANGELES: The journey to the ocean floor to reach the wreck of the Titanic is one that gets relentlessly colder and darker, says one of the handful of people who have ever visited the luxury liner's watery grave. Tom Zaller, who runs the company behind Titanic: The Exhibition, said touring the ship's re

More than two decades ago, Zaller travelled to the site, 400 miles from the nearest land as part of a research trip, aboard a Russian vessel with two submersibles.

"On top there's an entry portal, and when you climb down inside the sub you then close it from the inside and there's another trap on the outside and once you're in, there's no going back. It's quite a commitment." For two and a half hours there is virtually nothing to see, with the sub conserving its power to use at the seafloor."When you look out the portal, it's a little cloudy. And then as you start to fly, when you get your buoyancy, you start to travel forward, you kind of come through this cloud.

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