“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” This quote had been in my head every second of this journey, reminding me to keep searching when I knew I could easily lose. But, courage is hard to have when there is less than a week left to find the titanic and we haven’t seen a single thing yet. Today is the day, I would think to myself every morning, but every night I would go to sleep still longing to find the titanic. That morning was the same routine, waking up with hope. Night hadn’t come yet, so there was still the chance of discovery.
I smiled as I walked to the edge of Knorr, a research vessel owned by the US Navy. The sound of of the gentle waves crashing against the boat and the call of seagulls overhead calmed me as I closed my eyes. I let all my troublesome thoughts float away, and I had a second of true peace. That moment didn’t last very long.…show more content… “That’s one of her boilers!” We all started cheering and celebrating, because nobody thought we would find the wreck of the ship. But, we did it.The cheers got quieter and quieter as we all realized the grave reality. We were over the burial grounds for over one thousand people that didn’t make it off the ship the night of April 15, 1912. That night we all went to sleep with a feeling of pride, but also…show more content… The huge shadow that loomed on the screen grew more and more clear as Argo made her way toward it. Sure enough, the grainy image of the Titanic’s bow came into view. The beauty of the titanic was still there, but covered in rust and algae. Debris was scattered everywhere around her, and the first thing I noticed about the ship as a whole was that it was broken in half. The back half of the ship was nowhere to be seen. As Argo got closer, we could see the extravagant decks of the ship and fish darting in and out of
