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Real Survival Stories

Trapped Under the Sunken Titanic

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dik Barton has an amazing job. His 9 to 5 is spent recovering artefacts from the world’s most iconic shipwreck. In August 1994, Dik leads a dive to the bottom of the Atlantic - to explore an uncharted section of RMS Titanic. The mission is going off without a hitch, until their sub is knocked off course by a freak ocean current. Trapped within the wreckage, with dwindling oxygen supplies, Dik must think fast. Otherwise he too will suffer a tragic fate, 82 years after Titanic met hers… A Noiser production, written by Joe Viner. If you enjoy this episode and want to learn more about the Titanic, then we have just the podcast for you. Titanic: Ship of Dreams. Coming soon from the Noiser Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

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0:07.0

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0:08.0

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0:13.0

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0:17.0

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0:21.4

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0:26.7

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0:33.6

It's August 1994, about 350 miles of the east coast of Canada.

0:40.3

Down in the control room of a state-of-the-art research vessel, an emergency light flashes code red.

0:48.3

Worried-looking crewmen huddle around sonar screens, their eyes scanning the glowing green monitors for a tiny blue dot.

0:58.6

Up on deck, rescue divers in thick rubber scuba suits anxiously await further instruction.

1:06.2

Beyond the ship's guardrails, the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean is a forbidding iron gray,

1:12.6

a mirror of the overcast sky.

1:18.6

But the crew aren't worried about conditions on the surface.

1:21.6

Their thoughts are fixed firmly on what is happening deep beneath it.

1:26.6

Early this morning, a small three-man submersible was looking at the fixed firmly on what is happening deep beneath it.

1:38.3

Early this morning, a small three-man submersible was launched from this vessel before descending 12,500 feet to conduct a research mission on the seabed.

1:45.8

Everything was going to plan, until about five hours into the dive, when the sub suddenly disappeared from the sonar screens and radio communication with the men on board was lost.

1:52.7

Now panic is rising on the surface.

1:56.7

The men down there can't have more than 10 hours of breathable oxygen left.

2:00.6

Even if they're still alive, they will soon be on borrowed time.

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