Victor Vescovo

So it's kind of dangerous.

The currents at the Titanic, especially the day I did my first dive, were very strong, about a knot, knot and a half.

which doesn't sound like a lot, but that's the maximum speed of the sub.

So there were times when I was at maximum power and I wasn't moving, which meant that I could be thrown into the wreck with all sorts of bad consequences.

Plus, it's very dark down there.

Most people think if you go to the Titanic, you'll see the wreck.

You don't, you see a very limited amount, like 30 or 40 meters maximum, really only about 20 because there's so much stuff in the water.

So you're only looking at it like through a straw here and there.

It's cool, don't get me wrong,

But it's not like seeing the grand vista of the wreck.

You're seeing it only in particles at a time.

You get a better view of the Titanic on the recent special that was done by Atlantic Productions that showed a virtual creation of the wreck on the seafloor all at once.

I saw that for the first time and went, wow.

It's like the first time I've really seen the wreck.

And I've been there three times.

First dive, I went down, and half the time I was looking inside the sub at the sonar display, and the other half of the time I'm trying to look outside the window to see how close I am to the wreck, etc.

That's really dangerous.

What I learned on that dive, you need one person on the inside monitoring the instruments and the sonar, one person staring outside for obstructions.

So that first dive was tricky, so.

How close did you get to it?