The Titanic

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Michael Harris: "It was a 99.9% chance it would not go wrong" He says submersibles can't reach the Marianas trench, which is too deep for them to dive. If he had been offered $1 million cash and could have gotten into the Titan, 'I would have throw punched them in the process' How will you memorialize your friend who died on RMS Titanic? "'P pH, fair winds, and following seas.' That's how I remember him."

Deep-sea explorer G. Michael Harris has been down to the wreck of the Titanic 14 times. He begged his friend PH Nargeolet not to get on the OceanGate Titan submersible before it imploded in the sea earlier this week. He explains why he saw this coming.

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and edited by Amina Al-Sadi. It was engineered by Michael Raphael and fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Noel King.

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