we came back in the summer of 1986 and
and literally re explored it it was an
amazing series of expedition her series
of dives and we went and we documented
the Titanic but what was also amazing
about that expeditions we were able to
create a complete photo mosaic of the
ship and so we went in and we digitized
the whole actually we didn’t digitize
this was 1986 we did film we took a
series of 3,000 images and then laced
them together it was quite a feat we did
with a with the National Geographic
graphics department and we made this
mosaic and that mosaic is on display we
then to me this was the most powerful
image this was to me what set the tone
for our expedition was when we you know
when you’re down there and you’re
photographing the bow and you’re
photographing the stern and you’re
photographing the boilers and everything
is gigantic a gigantic eye gigantic but
then when you go across the debris field
you come across these pairs of shoes and
this is where the human people forget
that after the Titanic crashed to the
bottom about a half an hour later all
the people that were in the in the water
were freezing to death it took about 30
minutes to die in that cold water and
those that didn’t have life jackets then
came raining down hundreds and hundreds
of bodies came like rain and landed all
across the debris field of the Titanic
the animals quickly found them removed
their flesh and the deep sea is under
saturated in calcium carbonate so it
literally dissolved all the bones takes
about five years but the entire skeleton
of a human at those depths will vanish
and what’s left behind are there pairs
of shoes exactly as they were attached
to the body and this is what why we were
so adamant about you don’t go to
Gettysburg with a shovel you don’t take
belt buckles off the Arizona you really
should not take things from this site
and literally re explored it it was an
amazing series of expedition her series
of dives and we went and we documented
the Titanic but what was also amazing
about that expeditions we were able to
create a complete photo mosaic of the
ship and so we went in and we digitized
the whole actually we didn’t digitize
this was 1986 we did film we took a
series of 3,000 images and then laced
them together it was quite a feat we did
with a with the National Geographic
graphics department and we made this
mosaic and that mosaic is on display we
then to me this was the most powerful
image this was to me what set the tone
for our expedition was when we you know
when you’re down there and you’re
photographing the bow and you’re
photographing the stern and you’re
photographing the boilers and everything
is gigantic a gigantic eye gigantic but
then when you go across the debris field
you come across these pairs of shoes and
this is where the human people forget
that after the Titanic crashed to the
bottom about a half an hour later all
the people that were in the in the water
were freezing to death it took about 30
minutes to die in that cold water and
those that didn’t have life jackets then
came raining down hundreds and hundreds
of bodies came like rain and landed all
across the debris field of the Titanic
the animals quickly found them removed
their flesh and the deep sea is under
saturated in calcium carbonate so it
literally dissolved all the bones takes
about five years but the entire skeleton
of a human at those depths will vanish
and what’s left behind are there pairs
of shoes exactly as they were attached
to the body and this is what why we were
so adamant about you don’t go to
Gettysburg with a shovel you don’t take
belt buckles off the Arizona you really
should not take things from this site
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