Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.

My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with Anna Tuginski, James Harkin and Andrew

Hunter Murray and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite

facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.

Starting with fact number one and that's my fact.

My fact this week is that early proposals for raising the Titanic back to the ocean's

surface included filling it up with ping pong balls, injecting 180,000 tons of vaseline

into it and turning the ship itself into a nice bug.

What if another ship came along and then hit the Titanic?

It'd be a great reveal if you did hit an iceberg and it cracked open and so the actual

Titanic had to be.

Exactly.

What I mean who's got enough ping pong balls to do the first one of these things?

That is a large number of ping pong balls.

Are these all entirely serious suggestions I guess is what I'm trying to get at.

Yeah well to an extent they are.

You know they're not necessarily practical but in most of the cases we've seen that some

of these methods work.

So for example the ping pong ball idea that was actually used not actual ping pong balls

but the premise of putting ping pong balls into a ship was used by a Danish engineer

called Karl Kroyer and back in 1964 there was a crash of a ship in the harbor in Kuwait

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