This is our series of supplemental logs that were taken from our scientific research expedition to RMS Titanic earlier last month. I hope that you enjoy!
Today is our last dive day out on the Titanic site and everyone is very enthusiastic for our last set of aquanauts. Once again, the weather has been terrific and the seas are very flat and calm. Another pod of whales has come to visit with us for our launch of the MIR submersibles. In MIR I this morning, we will have Reda Anderson from Beverly Hills California, Nik Halik from Melbourne Australia and the submersible will be piloted by Victor Nescheta. Reda brought along her granddaughter, Melody on Keldysh's decks to see her off. As a favor to her granddaughter, Reda brought with her Melody's large stuffed Scooby-Doo doll for a trip down to Titanic. My good friend Nik is an investment manager and spends quite a bit of time in both Greece and Russia. While in Russia, Nik is going through astronaut training and hopefully will be in a position to explore outer space soon. Being in the MIR submersible is very much like being in a small space capsule.
Thirty minutes later, MIR II is launched with Genya Cherniev at the controls. The aquanauts for this special MIR trip down to Titanic are our expedition leader Rob McCallum from New Zealand and my fellow technical diver from Vancouver Canada named Kelvin Magee. These two aquanauts and Genya, who is the most skilled at video presentations, will be laying out the framework for James Cameron's Live Documentary for the Discovery Channel later this month (July 2005). Following a day of further relaxation, I had two presentations to give to the other fellow passengers. The first presentation was a multi-media showing of the collision, sinking and diving to the wreck site of the Canadian Pacific liner, Empress of Ireland. The second presentation was more of a voice-over on Robert Ballard's late-2004 National Geographic Titanic documentary called Titanic Revisited which Nautical Research Group provided film footage for its use. Following dinner, we cheered the last of our comrades that made the dives to Titanic.
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