Deep sea tourism, voyage to the bottom of the sea

Three separate Deep Ocean Expedition (DOE) trips are already fully booked to set sail from Saint Johns, Newfoundland, catering to 20 paying guests a time and lasting for 12 days each. It will take a day and a half sailing time to reach the dive site and once there lectures will be given to prepare divers for the rigors of the deep sea. A Mir submersible chartered from the Russian Academy of Sciences -- one of the only vehicles sturdy and technologically advanced enough to reach such depths -- will then make a series of visits to the wreck site. "Dives take between 10 and 12 hours to complete," says McCallum. "It takes two hours to get down and two hours to get back. That gives (at least) six hours down on the wreck looking around," he adds.