�* could �*could be in �*ceuld be in a place labour, and they could be in a place to form a uk government. the snp have been in power here for 15 years and no sign of that changing soon. the party remains dominant here. do you think we will see self—examination from the snp of the case as the sea is for independence is it's more about creating a mood and going on the attack against the in westminster?— in westminster? the i think we can stronal in westminster? the i think we can strongly predict _ in westminster? the i think we can strongly predict there _ in westminster? the i think we can strongly predict there will - in westminster? the i think we can strongly predict there will be - in westminster? the i think we can strongly predict there will be a - in westminster? the i think we can strongly predict there will be a lot. strongly predict there will be a lot of attacking the westminster government and a lot of the delegates and activate here agreeing on the broad approach for independence. what can be interesting sometimes is disagreements, debates, arguments, about the tactics for achieving independence. i don't think that will be such a focus at this conference this year and that is because all eyes are on that supreme court case which kicks off next week in which the scottish government will be arguing, they believe it has

the legal right to hold an independence referendum with or without the blessing of the uk government. of course, the uk government. of course, the uk government ministers disagree with that, and we will see those arguments play out this week in the supreme court. arguments play out this week in the suweme court-— arguments play out this week in the supreme court. david, thank you very much. supreme court. david, thank you very much- david — supreme court. david, thank you very much- david in _ supreme court. david, thank you very much. david in aberdeen _ supreme court. david, thank you very much. david in aberdeen where - supreme court. david, thank you very much. david in aberdeen where the l much. david in aberdeen where the snp party conference is taking place. now on bbc news, the travel show. yeah, all checked, triple checked. metal clanking. radio: science team, i are you a go or no go? science is go. radio: ..go for launch. radio: bridge, are you a go or no go for launch? - bridge is go for launch. metal clanking. there will be a time when people will go to space at much less cost and very regularly.

i think the same things gonna happen going underwater. it's going to get less expensive and much more accessible. radio: ..go for launch. this is the point of no return. if there was any point to freak out, now would be the point to freak out. this is an experimental sub. people are informed that it's very dangerous down there. am i spinning? yes. oh, my god. and scott is like, "oh no, we have a problem." i was thinking, we're not gonna make it! we can't go anywhere but go in circles. ijust need to get there. radio: ..can you hear? do we have communications?

so this is a menu from the titanic itself on the day that it actually sank, and i very strangely came across it in a very small auction in ireland. radio: go ahead. yes, sir. secure the anchor. phone rings. hello? so i've heard the comparison, at titanic depth it would like having an aircraft carrier sitting on the sub. it gives you an idea of how much pressure there really is. that's my mexican flag. this is the white star line . pin, a titanic expedition pin. radio: go ahead. yes, sir. radio: roger that i inaudible go ahead.

the ship was made in norway, so most of the medications are norwegian, but there are also non—us medications, so it's like going to an ikea in france, everything is in metric and in french, and it's completely confusing because it's ikea to start with. i have a titanic patch from the expedition. this is just the titanic, the jacket patch. laughs. yes. people are so enthralled with titanic that it became a must—do dive. i read an article that said there are three words in the english language that are known throughout the planet and that's �*coca—cola', �*god', and �*titanic�*. it's just such an interesting period of time that i got really interested in the both the ship's history and the dreams of the ship, but also the people's history and their dreams, as well.

the titanic has always been in my family, . in terms of history. my father's from northern ireland, he's was born - in derry, spent a lot of time in belfast. l and growing up as a child, he always spoke about. the titanic because obviously it was built in belfast. - we've always had what we call in irish a gra, which is a love l for the whole history- and the story of the titanic, so i'm really- pleased to be here. i've been keeping myself very fit and watching my diet. - i had covid a few years ago. in the meantime, i had a little| operation and everything else, and still got myself ready and prepared for this - because it means a lot to me. when i was a kid, nobody had found it, nobody knew where it was, so i decided that i was going to go find it, so i needed to study science and oceanography. my first week of college, they found it. somebody beat me to it.

it was september 1st, 1985. there was a picture of a boiler in black and white on television, and the dream...just crumbled. i switched my career to banking. and i started searching for a way to go. i wasn't sure how i was going to get to titanic but i knew i had to go. i'm nota millionaire, i've been saving money for a long, long time. i made a lot of sacrifices in my life to be able to go to titanic. i don't have a car, i didn't get married yet, i don't have children, and all of those decisions have been because i wanted to go to titanic. when i met stockton i told him, "here's my money." he said, "wait a minute! "we haven't even built the sub." applause.

just quick orientation for the sub. this is a forward dome which opens and closes. we have the pressure hole in the centre, that's 5—inch thick carbon fibre. vertical and horizontal thrusters you can see there. i like to tell people, "this is not your grandfather's submarine." it's got one button, and that's it. so, yeah, so we run the sub with this game controller. it's made by logitech but it's basically a sony playstation—style controller. if you want to go forward, you press forward. if you want to go back, you press back. if you want to turn to the left, it's like that. you want to turn to the right, you turn to the right. test at 12 volts. go ahead. i started off with a partly finished homebuild sub that i'd built myself. then i formed the business and

acquired a sub that we modified heavily and sort of figured out what we wanted. then we made the first level prototype of this which was cyclops i, that was very similar but was a steel hull that already existed, but it had soe of the similar electronics. and then this was the ultimate version that we always wanted. sojust another additional backup. it's a miracle that it can do| what it does when you look at it there, becausej when you look at it, it is very small. it looks like it's been put - together with pieces of string. but it's not, obviously. but it's— it's exciting. voice off—screen: in general, the biology theme is one of documenting biodiversity — that hasn't been done well on this wreck. there's sort of a race to understand the deep sea which is largest environment in the oceans, and the most poorly explored.

here, we're trying to give that experience, check of your box to see the titanic but, at the same time, contribute to something that has a wider application. so this is pretty typical of what we saw on the dive, you can see this black igneous rock, but look at the number of sponges, and that's what really hit us right away. i was asked by oceangate to be that chief scientist of their expeditions. that involves organising a science team and establishing long—term monitoring stations on the wreck. the earth is changing, the climate's changing. the deep sea drives the earth's climate, most of the oxygen that's produced is from marine plankton, so changes in the ocean have a huge impact over the whole globe. the team always says, you know, there's no guarantee you're gonna see the bow, there's no guarantee you're gonna get down there because there are so many variables, you know. some are man—made, some are nature, sometimes it's

both put together. i was able to join their expedition last year. we took the dive and dove for about two hours and maybe 15 minutes or so. i heard we got within like two football fields of the titanic, and then suddenly stockton says, "oh, we got to turn around." and at first i thought he was joking because we were over two hours into our expedition and so close to the bottom. but then he explained one of the batteries kind of went kaput and we were having trouble using the electronic drops for the weights, so it would be hard for us to get back up to the surface. the stakes were quite high at that point. i was really intrigued with, like, ok, so we can't get to the site tonight, what are our options? we had discussed actually staying, just sleeping at the bottom of the ocean in the submersible. we have special weights on the submersible that will dissolve after 2a hours, so they would just drop off and then we would be able

to get up to the surface. that's one option. we're down here for another 16 to 2a hours. we will drift down, we will hit the bottom. we will have communications, we can talk to them. i'm fine with staying here. it's your call, stockton. it's only if...renata and jaden, mostly. yeah, well. yeah, i'm fine with staying down here. i was all about sleeping in the submersible overnight. i think me and someone else were, but then the other half of the crew were not as happy about that. are you still pumping? yeah. what do you have, pressure wise? 58. somehow stocktown managed to hydrolic pump it manually so gently that it was able to slowly release the weights. yeah, very good. we've retained our—. wait a second. we are starting to come up. we are? yeah. 0k. we're definitely coming up. i think you did it, -

stockton, you 98% did it. hey, there's some luck here! high five! high five on my count, yes, here we go. ok, maybe a win—win. maybe. yeah, or maybe they want... this is why you want your pilot to be an engineer. l it's an open book here, if you have any questions about what's going on, about acoustic monitoring, about carbon fibre, problems we had, rumours of problems we had, actual problems we had, you know, feel free to ask me, we're happy to show everything. we want everyone going into this fully informed. this is an experimental sub, this is dangerous environment, it's 6000 psi. very few people have been down there, and so we want to make sure that you're going in with an open eye and understand what's going on. if you don't want to do it at any time, feel free to say, "hey, i want to take a pass," and we can work something out. you know, maybe bring you another year or something else.

but i really want to make sure that you're aware of all this. on a mission four, when we got to the surface — scott was piloting — we hear a really loud bang, not a soothing sound. no. but on the surface, as the inaudible will attest, almost every deep diving sub makes a noise at some point. i don't know, i don't have expectations of how i'm going to feel. i know when i think about it i cry, so there will probably be a lot of crying when i'm down there. um, but i don't know, we'll see. every night before a dive, everyone gets together and draws on some of these styrofoam cups. they attach them to the submersible before they do the dive and go down. and when they go underwater, they are under lots of pressure and they compress.

and when they come up we have all these little, tiny mini cups. so everyone does a bunch and brings them back to their friends and family as a little souvenir. my alarm just went off. it is about 3:30 in the morning. we're supposed to be on the back deck by 4am to start the process of loading up and everything. so it's not very often i wake up this early but it seems worth it for today. i was pretty grumpy waking up at 3:30, but when i think about the passengers who might�*ve also have woken up really early to catch

their horse and carriage, or whatever, to take them to the dock, it made me feel like a kinship with them and also kind of grounded me in what i was doing. the dome is open and i step up into the sub, um. you know, i get chatting with the fellow passengers, which is probably what the titanic passengers did, as they all kind of boarded at the same time. alright, happy day. i know i'm going to be seasick so i sort of commandeered the front of it so that i can get to the port hole, and then the dome slowly, slowly closes in front of me, and i have this moment of, like — this is the point of no return. i am not claustrophobic

by any means but i'm like, well, if there was any point to freak out, now would be the point to freak out. and i sort of did — i do a gut check with myself, and i say, "nope, not freaking out." i'm actually excited. i think the nerves in the stomach was not out of anxiety, it was of excitement. we are overall comfortable, here in the sub. we've got the scrubber on, oxygen is flowing. we are standing back for vacuum. in the last 35 years, i did 37 dives to the titanic. each expedition, you can see more and more. here, for example, the deck of the ship collapsed on each

other and step—by—step they disappeared, and we can see through the deck. of course, there is deterioration and it is bad, but at the same time, the wreck is like a sanctuary for the marine life. we're just in limbo now. just at the beginning of the rollercoaster. no turning back now. it is always interesting to get on the outside of the sub. you spend most of the time on the inside the sub, so it is a different tempo out here, different things happening. if we have a contaminated atmosphere here, we've got some smoke hoods. those are located directly belowjaden, and we'll get those out and put them on as needed if we have a contaminated atmosphere.

if you smell anything in the sub, weird, let me know immediately. no two launches or recoveries are the same. there is always something different. and that's the problem, there's so much that can go wrong. it feels just like a ride at disneyland. this is part of the experience. blake is a super solid diver. i don't worry about him one bit. and communication — he'll get you all communicating. should i worry about you? i had another bad recovery. i worry about him when he is not in the water.�*s breathing surface air. i'm sure, not only i but the other people with me have mixed emotions when we go down. you're bound to have mixed emotions. i'd say quite strongly so.

it is in irish folklore, for want of a better word. you know, it was build in ireland, it was the biggest ship in the world, it was incredible and it was its maiden voyage. i mean, it perished on its maiden voyage, effectively. so it's...it�*s, yeah, very poignant. you've got to think of those people. there were a lot of people, irish, english, from all over the world, and, you know, it's sad, there's no doubt that it's tinged with sadness. all stations are reporting the dive is a go. please, stand by.

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just need to get there. music playing.

to be honest, i'm so...i just need to get there. even if it's just the debris field, i'll be very happy with just paying my respects in the debris field. for about 2.5 hours, we see nothing but darkness, and then all of a sudden you see the earth come up to you and it does feel like it is coming up to you, because you're descending so quickly. seeing the natural bottom of the ocean come up at you was sort of spectacular. we saw plates.

a plate just came out, a big dinner platejust sitting there on its own. then we saw a wash hand basin with the taps still attached. and we were only about 300 metres from the wreck. is something going on with my thrusters? um, i'm thrusting and nothing is happening. i don't know what is going on, um. one is thrusting forward, one of the thrusters is thrusting backwards right now. so the only thing i can do right now is 360. we are literally 300 metres from titanic and although we are in the debris field, we can't go anywhere but go in circles. oh, my god...

hello, it is a very pleasant autumn weekend, particularly in the south and east of the country throughout. to the north and west, after a lovely day today, tomorrow we start to see wet and windy weather gradually push its way in. this area of cloud gathers pace and slowly creeps towards us. a lot of the cloud is high cloud in the sunshine, a bit of shower cloud as well, shower already faded in parts of north—west england, northern ireland, one or two in northern parts of scotland and to the west but more cloud pushing into the orkney and shetland areas we in the afternoon. temperatures not far off from where they were yesterday, although cooler in the south. a bit more sunshine around and lighter winds. lighterwinds more sunshine around and lighter winds. lighter winds in england and wales means a cold night, not so much for parts in scotland, cloud

and rain approaching, and like this morning, two, three celsius across parts of the midlands and east anglia. underthe parts of the midlands and east anglia. under the area of high pressure, pulling away, low pressure dominating in the north and west and this will bring more heavy rain after a wet week in western scotland. a dry start in scotland and northern ireland but rain spreads in from the west, not too much in the north—east of scotland but where we do see rain in the hills in the west it will be heavy. brighten up in the highlands later. we could start to see cloud and rain in cumbria, anglesey, by the time we finish the afternoon much —— dry and sunny, did not breed but feeling warm enough, the breeze strongest in north—west scotland,. cloud, outbreaks of rain spreads southwards across england and wales, this weather front here, a across england and wales, this weatherfront here, a cool front brings a dip in temperatures in

monday, the cold front lingering across east anglia and the south—east as we start the day, fairly fragmented, it should clear quickly and back to sunny spells for many, a scattering of showers mainly in the north and west, and it will feel cooler compared with what we see this weekend, given the direction of the breeze. the rest of the week, temperatures similar, but with a jet stream in full flow, more spells of wind and rain, particularly in the north and west.

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