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radio: talk about comms. .. co . so, it was just weird, almost like he... radio: diver's comms, titan i was surprised when they made a turn as they departed the platform, i let them know he snagged a buoy... yeah, roger that, comms. this is diver one. just a heads up, it looked like he was heavy and possibly dropped a thruster because he started spinning really weird when he came off. he bounced a bunch of times when he was trying to leave the platform... radio: copy. which direction did he spin? er, starboard. so it would have been his starboard thruster? yeah. checked it and said it was good. we will find out, we'll see!

good? hungry! laughs need some breakfast. i'm all ready for when they come. must be a busyjob for you? very busy, it is indeed. it's steady. one mealjust rolls into the other, into the other. and especially on dive days, it gets very busy. but i wouldn't have it any other way. really? you like it better doing this than on land? oh, absolutely, ioo%. every day is the excitement, is there a dive today, are they going to make it, what did they see, who's going down, when

are they coming back? so, some days, like i said, are more challenging than others, but for the most part, every day is great. every day is great. for sure. bottom out around 800 metres... so, this is like the very first measurement an oceanographer would make from the site, you record the saltiness of the water throughout the whole depth profile and you record the temperature change. the ocean is getting warmer, it's acidifying, we're seeing much faster glacial melting, the ice sheets are melting, there's huge injections of fresh water that are going on. having this kind of information from remote parts of the world like this is really important to understand those changes. and we're going to be

able to link this data to all of the species that we document through the video and through the edna, so we can link these species observations to the environmental conditions that they are found in. edna stands for environmental dna, and it's dna that's left in the environment by all the organisms living there. so you can imagine a fish swimming through the environment is shedding skin cells and bodily fluids as it moves around, and all of that leaves a bit of dna behind in the environment. this expedition, we're collecting samples with niskin bottles, which are hollow tubes with caps on them that can be closed at particular depths to detect a sample, and those bottles are attached onto the titan submersible. we do have communication with the sub while they are down there, but for me, i don't believe that there is a sample there until i see the bottle at the surface that is closed with the samples. the first time i dove the sub, i said, "this is amazing,"

it'sjust such a different experience, it's a totally different emotion. when you're in the sub, if you didn't bring it with you, nobody's bringing it to you. the sounds are different, what you see is different, and i thought, more people have to go in subs. it looks like silk! oh, my god, it's getting bigger, too! on the way down, we saw a layer of animals we called mesopelagic animals. a lot of those animals are bioluminescent, so you get flashes of light here and there all through the water column. we were going very fast down, so it was very difficult to see with the naked eye, but once in a while, a critter went by. ooh! wow, that was beautiful. we're at 1,200 metres. as we went down through the water column, it became darker and darker until past 1,000 metres there are no photons that get past that layer

and it's pitch black. so, it's very, veryjarring i because for about 2.5 hours we see nothing but darkness, and then all of a sudden, - you see the floor come up to you, the ground come up to you. - all of a sudden, you see l the earth come up to you, and it does feel like l it's coming up to you because you're - descending so quickly. and so, even before seeing any part of man—made material— of the ship, seeing the natural bottom of the ocean come upl at you was sort of spectacular. i mean, it was very exciting just to see dirt and mud. i wow, it was amazing. so, suddenly, you saw the sand come up and we were just in the debris field there and then. seeing the pieces of debris was sobering. _ all five of us in the submersible kind of unofficially had - this moment of silence i when we hit the bottom.

the first pieces i see - looking out of the porthole are pieces of coal. and it didn't even connect that they were coal - at first actually. i thought they were just rocks. and then someone in the subl said, "oh, look, there's coal." and that — that's the moment that connected me _ to the humanness of the titanic, - that people had shovelled this, people had brought it onto the boat, - and that during the sinking, itjust all spilled out. - and then we began to see other things — we saw a plate, a big dinner platejust sitting there on its own, then we saw a washhand basin with a tap still attached. we were only about 300 metres apparently from the wreck at that stage. i don't know what's going on, ifeel like... like what, like it's thrusters? yeah, i don't know what's going on.

we have a grid map that corresponds l with the grid map that topside has. i 91:6... it's like battleship — they tell us which square we're in. we had kind of a good idea which square we were in, l but we had topside l confirm that with us and then give us a heading. is something wrong with my thrusters? i'm thrusting and nothing's happening. range...and bearing...two... are we closer to the bank? i guess. we will find out. i don't recognise that mud out there, do you? no, no. here's the map! i haven't been here before.

am i spinning? yes. iam? yes. looks like it. now you're going north. oh, my god. and scott is like, _ "oh, no, we have a problem." when we're thrusting forward, one of the thrusters is thrusting backwards right now. the only thing i can do right now is a 360. i was thinking, "we're not going to make it!" we are literally 300 metres from titanic and although we are in the debris field, we can't go anywhere but go in circles. when i'm initiating thrust, i'm turning. that is why i spun on the platform. yeah. oh, god, no, don't tell me we have to go to surface at 300 metres away from the titanic.

well, i had covid a few years ago — the first covid, the nasty one, as they say. and i found, i had lost 80kg in the last two years, i had been keeping myself very fit and watching my diet. one of the things i do is i box every day. so usually, i spend about two, three hours in the gym, but one of them is boxing for an hour, and i found i was running out of breath a lot. i went to see a heart specialist in london. they did a myriad of tests and they found the covid had given me sarcoidosis in one of the ventricles in my heart. so they decided i needed a pacemaker and a defibrillator immediately, literally within 48 hours. i went in on a saturday, he allowed me back in the gym three days later, and gave me the all—clear literally that week to come here and do the dive. people used to say to me, "oh, you are doing

your bucket list?" well, it feels like i am now. no, it makes it more exciting, and the fact that i am able to do it is fantastic. if i had ignored my symptoms, i might not be here. on the sticks now, the actual sticks, what's left and right? | the right stick, that's forward, back, turn left, turn right. and when he goes forward, he's getting a turn. what's the left stick? down and up. yeah. what would cause that? they swapped out one of the thrusters. they put it on the wrong way? i mean, it is unidirectional. yeah, it should be, but something happened. yeah, what he can do, so on the controller you have the up, down, left, right arrows, and you can set them so that one was going and every time you hit the button, it would go forward.

um... inaudible i hope he knows how to do this. hi, jerome. stockton on wendy's phone. just call me back if you got a chance, we've got a question. we're on the dive right now, just looking for a way to remap the ps3 controller. thanks. it's not going to be easy. if we bring up a picture of that controller, we can tell him to press x, press y, press a, press b. yeah, except i don't remember which one is up and down. it might be that he could go forward with left and right. he'd only be able to turn one way, maybe. yeah, it would be interesting. so close! so, if that's the case, when he goes left, it should go forward. when he goes to take a turn

to the left, he is going to go forward starboard, which would be reverse starboard. it might work, yeah. yeah, left and right might be forward and back. huh, i don't know. alter track by 90 degrees. try turning right. then we go forward, do we? go forward, 77. so forward... forward. right is forward. i'm going to have to write this down. right is forward. great, live with it. perfect. 0k. ok, just say rotate

the controller. it's a lot easier if you just rotate the controller and then you've got it, because if right is forward, then left is back. 0k. rotate controller. and we were so happy that we figured it out that we could just move forward, that we started clapping in the submersible, going, "yes, we can go!" piece of metal on the right. can you bring up more light, scott, or is this it? - one of the early pieces we ran across were some tiles. not sure what part of the wreck they were from, but you could see the really pretty colours in the painted tiles. the pieces that were intact were pretty phenomenal because we see colour at the bottom of this ocean.

this is definitely the most challenging piloting i've ever done! so, bearwith me, guys, i'm trying my best! good job, scott. laughs. i'm trying my best! yeah, you're doing great! it's immensely exciting. you never know what's going to swim by. i don't see any wreckage. i lost my dvl, my altitude. i see the wreck on sonar, though. 0k. how close are we to the titanic? very close. two metres, no? the bow should be visible. if you guys see anything,

you've got to let me know, ok? yeah, nothing yet. we're ten metres away from the bow. i don't see it yet. it might be on your right. it's going to be on the right. 0k. you've got to rotate around to it. yes, yes, yes, rotate, rotate! bow, bow, bow, bow, bow! we are at the bow. please send that message. oh, my god, you did it!

confirm they're at the bow of the titanic. doing everything in reverse to make us get here, - it looks fantastic. can't believe it. in real life, it's ginormous! it's really incredible. i'm lost for words, - actually, to be honest. it's that good, yes. i'm just crying. we've made it! finally, made it. how does it feel to get a lifelong dream? hard to explain. hard to put in words.

she's big. i mean, to imagine how big she must have been, there must be 20 feet of wreck inside the sand. and even like that, what you're seeing is 20 feet high. amazing to realise that you're at titanic. it's no longer a myth for me. it's reality, it's right there, in front of you. you're so close to it that you can actually touch it. when you go to the bottom and you start slowly going up and you can see every portal — some of them are open, which is one of the things that people are amazed,

that the people left portals open when all this was going on, and you're going up and up and up, and it seems endless because the ship is huge. this was a floating palace. you can imagine the people walking up and down, taking in the sun, whatever, etc. we went down the side and captured the whole anchor. there's the name of the titanic on the anchor, we were able to see that. so this, sort of, nostalgic view, in a way, and also a tragic view. imagine seeing nothing and then, i lights turn on and you see an entire skyscraper in front of you — that's what it was like. - there's no words to encapsulate the feeling of it. _ seeing the scale of the titanic is what anchored me - into the realness of that night, of the numbers of lives that were lost. - 0k! bottom time expired, return.

then we finally started leaving the site. it was a sad moment for me at the time to leave it. it was so short, that the time went by so quick. i'm going to tell them "no hablo ingles". inaudible. there he is. inaudible. it's an incredible experience. you're in this capsule, just like a spacecraft, with your other four travellers, and you go through it and when you come to the surface and they open the dome, it'sjust like somebody snapped their fingers and all of a sudden, you are back on planet earth. how was it? it was fantastic! how are you doing, jaden?

hey! good. oh, my gosh. what a trip. it feels like i've left earth and now i'm just returning. it feels incredible, thank you. both models are closed in the debris field. so, we've got two samples from the site. which makes me happy. 3,800 metres. there's enough pressure to break the cups. that's pretty good. that's cool. - everybody kind of started to go out, and i was trying to gather myself. cheering ship horn toots the ship even blew the horn, which was fantastic. and once i saw stockton, i started crying. happy tears!

happy tears. one less dream. are you crying? it was like a weight lifted off my shoulders. i needed to do that to feel complete, and i feel now complete. we got it done.

hello there. it was a very unsettled start to the new year, wasn't it? yes, it was mild at times, but often very wet and windy. and if we look back at that first week and the rainfall totals across parts of north wales and the lake district for somejust close to or in excess of 200 millimetres of rainfall fell. and in actualfact, there's more rain to come over the next five days. this is the rainfall accumulation. so, the darker the blues or the bright greens, we could have 50—80 millimetres of rain to add to those totals. low pressure, never too far away. and on monday, the low is sitting to the north, and that means a change of wind direction, more of a northwesterly, so a fresher feel to things as well. that northwesterly wind driving cooler air across the country. so, temperatures about where they should be for the time of year. but it does mean that parts of eastern scotland and eastern england, a chilly start, but some sunshine around. closest to the low is where we'll

see the frequent rash of showers western scotland, northern ireland, northwest northwest england and parts of wales. but the temperatures at around 6—9 degrees. we mightjust see double figures down into the southwest, but there's a change to come as we move into tuesday. yet more rain and wind, i'm afraid, but the south—westerly flow, so this sort of triangle shape, this pizza wedge that is milder air, it's what's known as a broad warm sector. all you basically need to know is it's a lot of low cloud, a lot of rain and windy with it, but the wind coming from the southwest. so it is going to feel milder once again on tuesday. gusts of winds 30—40 miles an hour, strengthening even further before the day closes out in the far north of scotland. but the temperatures back up, seeing highs perhaps of 14 degrees by the middle of the afternoon. as that area of low pressure drifts its way eastwards,

along the southern flank, we could see some severe gales for a time, but that clears away quite readily. so, as we move through wednesday, on the whole, the showers will pile in from the west, but it's going to be a case of sunny spells and scattered showers. still, the winds blustery, but not the gales that we have been seeing. temperatures generally around 7—ii degrees. what's in store for thursday? more of the same, i'm afraid. another set of weather fronts pushing in from the west. so, thursday morning will be dry and bright, quickly clouding over. rain arrives towards the second half of the day, some of it heavy the further west you are, and that will gradually push its way steadily eastwards. but northeast scotland perhaps staying driest and brightest for longest, top temperatures, again of around 13 degrees. the low then looks likely to centre itself to the north on friday. so, once again, the wind direction coming from a north north westerly or a westerly, so slightly cooler, still breezy, northwesterly or a westerly, so slightly cooler, still breezy, still most of the showers into the far northwest. so that means it's a greater chance in sheltered eastern areas of seeing some sunshine on friday. but again, those temperatures perhaps sitting single figures between 7—iodegrees on the whole.

between 7—10 degrees on the whole. is there going to be much change as we move into the weekend? i'm afraid not. the low is going to stay with us not just the weekend, the low is going to stay with us and actually, notjust the weekend — further ahead, it looks likely that we are going to see showers or longer spells of rain. it does look likely it might stay that little bit fresher, though, over the weekend and into the early half of next week.

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