Last night we went to National Geographic Live – what a
fantastic show. They are doing the series in the States and in Calgary and Toronto. We had tickets for all the performances last year and really enjoyed them so I bought season's tickets again this year as soon as they went on sale.
http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/
Bob Ballard was the
presenter and the stories he told of his underwater adventures were great.
He talked about discovering the actual Titanic and how he
wasn’t supposed to. He said that now that the Navy had declassified some
information he could talk. He was sent to look for some submarines that had
been lost and that had nuclear warheads on them. Because that was a secret
mission, their cover story was they were looking for the Titanic. Because the
crew had a few extra days during the mission, they decided to actually look for
the Titanic and darned if they didn’t find it. He said that if Canada extends
our territorial water limits, the Titanic will be on Canada’s property and he truly
hopes we leave it alone. He talked about how the bodies and clothing would have
disintegrated but there are all sorts of shoes on the ocean bottom from the
poor souls who died and sank. It just seemed so sad to me to think of all these
shoes lying there.
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