:00:07. > :00:17.they would stop fighting. Now it is time for a titanic journey To
:00:17. > :00:17.
:00:17. > :00:58.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds
:00:58. > :01:06.This desolate and windswept corner of Canada is an unlikely location
:01:06. > :01:13.to have a place in history. But the lighthouse here was to receive one
:01:13. > :01:23.of the first ever SLS calls at sea. On 14th April, 1912, Radio
:01:23. > :01:24.
:01:24. > :01:30.operators were on duty. Jack and water. At 10:35am they got a
:01:30. > :01:34.message and they said, good God, the Titanic has struck an iceberg.
:01:34. > :01:39.Here, the world's first learned about the tragedy. Somewhere out
:01:39. > :01:44.there, the Titanic was sinking. Hundreds of people would die in the
:01:45. > :01:54.cold waters of the North Atlantic. The tragedy would remain the most
:01:55. > :02:01.
:02:01. > :02:09.intriguing maritime controversy of In the docks at St John's 68
:02:09. > :02:19.Russian ship which sails all year round. But for a few weeks, it is
:02:19. > :02:19.
:02:19. > :02:24.just one destination, Titanic. This summer, this Irish diver joined the
:02:24. > :02:32.ship on a special mission. He is taking a plaque from the people of
:02:32. > :02:37.Belfast to lay on the bridge of the Titanic. It would be known as the
:02:37. > :02:41.ultimate, the pinnacle of the depths of the ocean, if you like.
:02:41. > :02:49.Ask any died there in the world, anybody in the world, probably,
:02:49. > :02:54.what is the world's most famous ship? 99 % say the Titanic. But we
:02:54. > :02:59.have had greater tragedies at sea. Far greater loss of life at sea
:02:59. > :03:05.since the Titanic but she was a turning-point in many respects in
:03:05. > :03:10.the world. I joined the crew for the ten-day expedition to find out
:03:10. > :03:20.for myself white the Titanic retains fascination after all this
:03:20. > :03:24.
:03:24. > :03:30.time. As night falls, the ship We are heading out into the
:03:30. > :03:40.Atlantic towards the Titanic. It will take two days to get there.
:03:40. > :03:50.
:03:50. > :03:54.365 miles. That is how close the OK, you want to understand... It is
:03:54. > :04:00.loaded with importance for this man. He has been entrusted with taking
:04:00. > :04:10.the first ever memento from the shipyard at built her To the
:04:10. > :04:17.
:04:17. > :04:22.I was here in 2000 and I placed a memorial plaque here. Here I am
:04:22. > :04:29.returning to the Titanic with memorials, plaques from the City of
:04:29. > :04:34.its birth, where it was built. I am placing a plaque alongside a plaque
:04:34. > :04:39.but I placed at my last port of call. To me it is quite symbolic
:04:39. > :04:45.and I think it is very significant and I think it is particularly
:04:45. > :04:52.right at this time at something from Belfast is in place on the
:04:52. > :04:57.bridge of that great ship. handiwork will allow the robotic
:04:57. > :05:05.arm of a submarine to move the plaque into position and visit the
:05:05. > :05:12.wreckage again. Thank you very much. That is a good job. Simple. Can you
:05:12. > :05:21.understand? Yes. During the trip I have got a chance to meet fellow
:05:21. > :05:24.travellers on board. This artist is painting scenes from the Titanic
:05:24. > :05:32.and taking advantage of a second opportunity to visit to the
:05:32. > :05:38.wreckage. I am not a fanatic. I do not know how many rivets were in
:05:38. > :05:41.the hull and I am not a historian with the Titanic. I was not really
:05:41. > :05:46.interested that much in the Titanic before I was invited up the first
:05:46. > :05:52.time but when you see it with your own eyes, there is just something
:05:53. > :06:02.very powerful about it. He is an added Explorer that has died down
:06:03. > :06:05.
:06:05. > :06:09.to more than 100 wrecks. -- died in Explorer. -- a diving Explorer.
:06:09. > :06:18.type of light that she came from, she has got a beauty unlike any
:06:18. > :06:24.other I have ever seen. Also on board, a father and son. This man
:06:24. > :06:28.set up the expedition and has brought his film crew along. He is
:06:29. > :06:38.taking Sebastien, just 13 down to the Titanic and setting a world
:06:38. > :06:45.record for the youngest person to dive down to the wreckage. And this
:06:45. > :06:49.is what will carry us down to the wreckage site. This 18 tonne vessel
:06:50. > :06:55.is a powerful miniature submarine cable ball a diving down to the
:06:56. > :07:04.bottom of the ocean. -- capable of diving down. It has had 200
:07:04. > :07:11.missions every year but we have got risks. If anything went wrong at
:07:11. > :07:15.that depth, you are dead. Therefore the technology that the Russians
:07:15. > :07:18.have developed is fantastic. You have to trust the technology
:07:18. > :07:26.because it you do not, you have got no point in getting in there in the
:07:26. > :07:29.does place. Any trip to the Titanic can be your last trip. I think you
:07:29. > :07:37.are aware of that but the Russians have done an exemplary job and you
:07:37. > :07:41.feel like you are in safe hands when you descend. For some decades,
:07:41. > :07:46.there was great debate about where the Titanic was. Satellite
:07:46. > :07:53.equipment today indicates the position down to the last few yards.
:07:53. > :07:59.This Russian chart tells a terrible story. We can see how far the ice
:07:59. > :08:08.has drifted in the Atlantic. Below the line, the safety, the Titanic
:08:08. > :08:12.nearly made it. One challenge for the Russian submarine pilots is to
:08:12. > :08:19.find the Titanic in the pitch blackness. But they have got
:08:20. > :08:24.something to signpost the journey. These are transponders. They will
:08:24. > :08:29.be lowered down to the sea bed in a few minutes. We have got four of
:08:29. > :08:34.them going down to the sea bed and they will make a reference to find
:08:34. > :08:39.out where they are in relation to the wreckage. Taking vented EC bed
:08:39. > :08:43.is this piece of track but even with that weight, to give you an
:08:43. > :08:53.idea of the distance, it takes one hour and a quarter to reach the sea
:08:53. > :09:02.
:09:02. > :09:08.The submarines are getting their final safety checks. They will soon
:09:08. > :09:17.be in one of the planet's most hostile environments. On top of
:09:17. > :09:25.them, the crushing weight of the Atlantic Ocean. As the diving
:09:25. > :09:32.starts, we have got alarm as one of the hatches bursts open. For the
:09:32. > :09:36.people about to start, it is a bit unnerving. I have seen 24 guides
:09:36. > :09:43.and this is the first time I have seen that happen. That was pretty
:09:43. > :09:49.hairy Fourie few minutes. I hope it will go a little smoother. Worried?
:09:49. > :09:59.As anybody would be. How often do you go to the bottom of the Asian?
:09:59. > :10:02.
:10:02. > :10:09.Not often! -- at the bottom of the ocean? Feeling good. It is dusk.
:10:09. > :10:14.10.5 hours later. They are returning from the depths. I am
:10:14. > :10:22.looking forward to getting the reaction on the trip I will be
:10:22. > :10:30.making myself tomorrow. What a great trip. What a great trip.
:10:30. > :10:37.Unbelievable. Unbelievable. It was great. It was kind of hard to walk,
:10:37. > :10:47.you know? Thank you very much. has one regret that he could not
:10:47. > :10:47.
:10:47. > :10:55.salvaged from the rib -- wreckage. Mike has got a similar view about
:10:55. > :11:03.hunting for souvenirs when he arrives back. You have got a lot of
:11:03. > :11:11.records for a kid, haven't you? Not salvaging as I thought. It is very
:11:11. > :11:15.miserable. But the Russians do not believe in salvaging from the site
:11:15. > :11:19.that is the Titanic. They are superstitious about the wreckage.
:11:19. > :11:24.It shows in their attitude towards the sea birds landing on deck each
:11:24. > :11:33.night as the divers return. The Russians take pains to make sure
:11:33. > :11:43.that they are not harmed. The reason? Superstition. They believe
:11:43. > :11:46.
:11:46. > :11:52.that the birds are the souls of the The morning of the died has a right.
:11:52. > :12:02.We are posing for the cameras and we are down to business. -- at the
:12:02. > :12:11.
:12:11. > :12:21.It is packed with instruments and equipment and it is a cramped space
:12:21. > :12:24.
:12:24. > :12:28.at just six feet across. We are coming up to 11 o'clock. We are
:12:28. > :12:38.being lifted out from the site of the ship and we are about to be put
:12:38. > :12:44.
:12:44. > :12:54.inside the water. It is very Are we in? It would be almost 10
:12:54. > :12:55.
:12:55. > :13:05.hours before we would see the We are on the way to the bottom of
:13:05. > :13:19.
:13:19. > :13:29.The pilot has talked back to the ship about that. -- the ship above
:13:29. > :13:38.
:13:38. > :13:45.us. Every move is tracked in the I consider this to be a greater
:13:45. > :13:53.privilege to be with a chief scientist. I do not think it is
:13:53. > :14:03.going to be a repeat again. I think this is very special. Does he think
:14:03. > :14:11.
:14:12. > :14:21.it is a great privilege to be with Oh, look! A bit of life. It is not
:14:21. > :14:25.pitch black outside. We are at 6,000 feet. We have got 1,500
:14:25. > :14:32.metres left to go. With temperatures dropping rapidly, we
:14:32. > :14:36.need warmer clothing because over a period of time we can get very cold
:14:36. > :14:41.inside one of these. But we have not got any sensation of falling
:14:41. > :14:47.and movement. We are panning up to my right and we would not know
:14:47. > :14:54.where we are. Not by looking at this. We are parallel to the
:14:54. > :15:04.Titanic and as we get closer, the captain will start to bring us in
:15:04. > :15:15.
:15:15. > :15:20.tight but it is just a case of If we are now just about 30 metres
:15:20. > :15:24.or so from the bottom. Want to be established where that is, we will
:15:24. > :15:29.head off to find the Titanic. We should come up somewhere near the
:15:30. > :15:35.bow. Outside on the seabed to them is
:15:35. > :15:45.nothing to suggest what is just out of range of our light.
:15:45. > :15:55.This is amazing navigation. You are bringing us right to the Basle. --
:15:55. > :16:16.
:16:16. > :16:26.There she is! Facias. And there she was. The
:16:26. > :16:39.
:16:39. > :16:49.Titanic's Hughes anchor chain it still lies on her deck. -- Titanic
:16:49. > :17:09.
:17:09. > :17:19.The forward hold provides a brief The foot of the huge mast at the
:17:19. > :17:26.
:17:26. > :17:36.front of the ship, it fell The small door from where the
:17:36. > :17:40.
:17:40. > :17:44.lookout crew saw the iceberg is Then, a reminder that others have
:17:44. > :17:50.been here before. We have arrived at the remains of the bridge, where
:17:51. > :17:55.plaques from previous visitors have been left.
:17:55. > :18:05.We are now about to lay a plaque on the bridge. It is quite a delicate
:18:05. > :18:16.
:18:16. > :18:22.From Harland and Wolff and the people of Belfast, in memory of all
:18:22. > :18:28.those who lost their lives. On this Easter, we leave it on Titanic.
:18:28. > :18:35.Standing guard over the plaques, Titanic's Motor, the structure that
:18:35. > :18:45.held at the wheel. Then we move on to explore the rest
:18:45. > :18:51.
:18:51. > :19:01.The roof above the Marconi run, where Mayday calls were sent from,
:19:01. > :19:26.
:19:26. > :19:31.A tiny sign of life that creeps Our submarine is confronted with a
:19:31. > :19:41.huge chasm. As we gaze down into Titanic's depths, we realise this
:19:41. > :20:04.
:20:04. > :20:12.is where the grand staircase once And end this Vale of rust is
:20:12. > :20:22.gradually overwhelming Titanic, slowly blinding her portholes. --
:20:22. > :20:26.
:20:26. > :20:35.The likes reflect off the glass, still intact in many of the windows.
:20:35. > :20:45.-- the liked. It is remarkable that despite the terrible damage to the
:20:45. > :20:52.
:20:52. > :20:59.ship, so much of the class has Titanic's collapsing structure
:20:59. > :21:09.reveals another detail. Captain Smith's bathroom. The white
:21:09. > :21:12.enamel of the captain's Barford. -- the captain's bath.
:21:12. > :21:22.This is the door through which first class passengers would have
:21:22. > :21:40.
:21:40. > :21:45.Outside our submarine, a glimpse of a curious reptilian fish. Titanic
:21:45. > :21:50.broke in two as she sank. Her stern and lies hundreds of yards away.
:21:50. > :21:55.The sea between is littered with pieces of coal, scattered from the
:21:55. > :22:05.ship's bunkers. Much of the back of the ship has collapsed into twisted
:22:05. > :22:23.
:22:23. > :22:27.metal, but part of the huge engines Our time with the ship has -- is up.
:22:27. > :22:32.We have been filming for five hours, and his is time to return to the
:22:32. > :22:42.surface. It gives us a moment to contemplate what we have seen it,
:22:42. > :22:45.
:22:45. > :22:50.and there is a lot to think about Just to explain, we have reached
:22:50. > :22:54.the surface and in very good time. We are waiting for the boat and the
:22:54. > :23:02.diverted come and live dust, which means we are rolling around in this
:23:02. > :23:12.well. -- the diver to come and live us. It is night-time. We have been
:23:12. > :23:18.
:23:18. > :23:23.It has been an extraordinary journey in this extraordinary if
:23:23. > :23:28.the vessel. But the task has been completed. The plaque from Harland
:23:28. > :23:32.and Wolff at the people of Belfast now rest safely on the ship. It is
:23:32. > :23:35.extraordinary to think that it is the only thing I ever to leave
:23:35. > :23:39.Harland and Wolff and joined the ship since she sailed all those
:23:39. > :23:43.years ago. Backs of plastic cups attached to
:23:43. > :23:48.the outside of the submarine on retreat, crushed by the massive
:23:48. > :23:53.pressure, they have been reduced to a perfect miniature souvenirs. One
:23:53. > :23:58.thing is painfully clear from our dive. Titanic is rusting away at a
:23:58. > :24:08.dramatic rate. For Rory, her deterioration has been shocking to
:24:08. > :24:08.
:24:08. > :24:14.witness. There is a lot of big pay it since
:24:14. > :24:19.I last saw her five years ago. The main mast is collapsing on itself,
:24:19. > :24:28.it is disintegrating in front of your eyes. Lots of the decks are
:24:28. > :24:34.falling in. Rust is spreading everywhere. She is in a bad way.
:24:34. > :24:36.It is a sobering thought with which to leave Titanic. But there is
:24:36. > :24:40.consolation for Rory in the knowledge that he has reconnected
:24:40. > :24:45.the ship to Belfast. It completes a circle in some ways
:24:45. > :24:50.for me, in as much as when I did the plaque five years ago, I
:24:50. > :24:57.thought it would be appropriate at a nice that a plaque from Belfast
:24:57. > :25:07.would go to the wreck Sunday. I hope the people will see that piece,
:25:07. > :25:11.in many ways for the ship has come in that respect.
:25:11. > :25:20.Once ashore in Canada, there was one more part to my journey before
:25:20. > :25:27.the return to Belfast. In a cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
:25:27. > :25:37.are the graves of 121 of the Titanic dead. It has attracted many
:25:37. > :25:37.
:25:37. > :25:43.tourist since the movie Titanic Many stones mark unknown bodies
:25:44. > :25:49.with just a simple number showing the order in which they were found.
:25:49. > :25:53.Including this stone, marking the grave of a man from Belfast who was
:25:53. > :25:58.a fire man in the Titanic's engine rooms. I did not realise at the
:25:58. > :26:02.time that I would be back at the soon cemetery on an extraordinary
:26:02. > :26:10.mission. Watching the original screening of this programme was a
:26:10. > :26:18.woman from Belfast. When the gravestone of William came on her
:26:18. > :26:27.screen, she was in for a shock. My husband said, come on, quick,
:26:27. > :26:34.and I said, what is it? He said he mentioned Wiliam. I said, that was
:26:34. > :26:41.my grandad! He said they have got a grave. So that was my excitement.
:26:41. > :26:46.The next morning, I went up to my mother and she was amazed as well,
:26:46. > :26:50.because all she knew was that he was lost at sea.
:26:50. > :26:55.Some of your family went to their graves not realising that William
:26:55. > :27:00.was actually buried in Canada? That is correct. They have all
:27:00. > :27:04.passed away and not one of them new. William was not supposed to be on
:27:04. > :27:10.the Titanic. Asked by another man to do with him a favour, he had
:27:10. > :27:13.swapped ships at the last minute. The Belfast Telegraph had recorded
:27:13. > :27:18.the fact that William, along with the rest of the men from Belfast,
:27:18. > :27:24.had been lost when the ship sank. In the days long before radio,
:27:24. > :27:30.television and the internet, his family accepted the news. But it is
:27:30. > :27:40.not the end of the story. It took Mrs Wilson to be cemetery in Nova
:27:40. > :27:50.Scotia. -- to the cemetery. Well, grandad, I have found you.
:27:50. > :27:56.
:27:56. > :28:03.This is your granddaughter, Very emotional. Excited and
:28:03. > :28:13.emotional. But the exciting thing was to actually see his name on a
:28:13. > :28:14.
:28:14. > :28:19.headstone. It is all the emotion coming out. I am lucky I have found
:28:19. > :28:26.my grandfather, but there are other people out there who do not
:28:27. > :28:31.actually know that these could be their relatives. Goodbye, grandad.
:28:31. > :28:35.And that is how I found myself walking with the granddaughter of a
:28:35. > :28:38.Titanic victim amongst these it it -- these graves.
:28:38. > :28:47.Neither of us could have ever imagined this extraordinary twist
:28:47. > :28:51.of fate. A twist that seems to be part of the Titanic legend. When we
:28:51. > :28:57.went down to Titanic, or we took a knock one plaque from what --