The chair and the Aqua-Lung — laROQUE | photographer.photographe
Most divers stay exclusively outside the wreck. They come to touch the ship or search for loose artifacts or snap photographs. Their work is steady and conservative. The spirit of the ship, however, lies inside. That is where the stories have settled, where one uncovers the freeze-frames of final human experience.
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was shocked. “Why did you do this?” I asked. “I had to, of course,” she said. “Can you imagine, if we put them in water, all the bacteria that would develop?”
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They watch a school of cod drift by, propelled by the tank’s fake current. If they wait four minutes, Cameron knows, they’ll come by again. What a life, those endless laps.
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As I write, OceanGate’s Titan submersible has just generated weeks of global media coverage, as it presented a small thing pitted against a huge one. Meanwhile, the world witnessed little of a migrant boat with roughly 700 people being lost in the Mediterranean.