LOS ANGELES: The journey to the ocean floor to reach the wreck of the Titanic is one that gets relentlessly colder and darker, says one of the handful of people who have ever visited the luxury liner's watery grave. READ HERE:
Tom Zaller, who runs the company behind 'Titanic: The Exhibition,' said touring the ship's resting place in a tiny submersible -- like the one that vanished Sunday in the North Atlantic -- was unforgettable, but frightening.'As you get deeper and deeper, it gets darker and darker,' he told AFP of his voyage, 23 years ago.'When you first start off on the top, it's quite warm inside. But as you descend, it gets cold.
'The sub is hoisted off the deck of the ship into blue waters which quickly turn dark as the vessel begins to sink.For two and a half hours there is virtually nothing to see, with the sub conserving its power to use at the seafloor.Then you reach the bottom, where the sub kicks up silt.'When you look out the portal, it's a little cloudy. And then as you start to fly, when you get your buoyancy, you start to travel forward, you kind of come through this cloud.
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