After whirlwind expeditions to the two Lost Liners, Empress of Ireland and Titanic in more than a month, it is time to return home and get down to the real work. Yesterday, we disembarked from our home of 11 days - the Russian research vessel Akademik Keldysh in St John's, Newfoundland after a extremely successful diving expedition to Titanic. Today is a travel day back to our New Jersey base and tomorrow we will be getting to the arduous task of unpacking after five weeks away from home.
The digital high-quality video and still photographs that we captured from the MIR submersibles on Titanic are stunning. It will take us a good month to process and edit the high-quality digital videos and still photography that was taken of the ship. Certain dynamic shots and preliminary data from the expedition will be released to the press within 4 weeks but the exact date still needs to be established. The scientific findings will be quantified and the full data released to global scientists before the end of the year. In the meantime, we will be reporting our latest findings at the Oceans 2005 conference in Washington, DC on September 20th.
There were so many notes that were taken from our expedition that we created supplemental logs that we would like to exclusively post over the next couple of weeks. Included in the supplemental logs will be a very detailed account of our dive plan and related observations. Please don't miss James Cameron's LIVE dive to Titanic documentary that will air July 24th on the Discovery Channel. I have seen the equipment used while on Keldysh and it is on the cutting edge of underwater technology. This documentary is a must-see event.
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