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In 1931, Britain's most advanced submarine collided with a cargo ship off the coast of China and sank. Three hours later | dG1fVWFNQjRpU3hLc1U
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00:00I started diving in 1980 when I was 10 years old it was the first thing that I
00:10ever wanted to do. The first TV program that I ever remember watching was the
00:16Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau and from the moment I saw that on TV I wanted to do it.
00:30They were essentially asking themselves to do something that no one had ever
00:48succeeded in doing before. No one had ever succeeded in escaping from a downed
00:52submarine before. So it was like well we're either gonna make history or we're
00:56gonna die trying. It was front-page news at its time it was the kind of event
01:07that inspired a feature film. This accident really had a major effect on
01:12the way that submariners in every Navy handled their accidents. That tower
01:17exists specifically to train submariners to do what the HMS Poseidon heroes did
01:24for the first time in 1931. I was looking for dive sites that essentially would
01:30relate to the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. When I found that there was a
01:34British submarine that had sunk in these waters, just put that aside it was far
01:38more interesting it was far more exciting.
01:42This is the original of Edward Heath's response. But he was a clerk and she never
01:54remarried because that was the love of her life. To me it just seems a bit more
01:58tragic to die in these accidents in peacetime. I can see my brother in him. I'm
02:03sure my dad knows. There will probably be some people who feel that it was a
02:07sleeping dog that I should have left to lie. George Malcolmson from the Soho Museum
02:13had said to me you're really good if you can find where those graves were. We were
02:19concerned that the authorities might stop the trip today. There's a garden.
02:24That's when we got a phone call. You need to get out quickly. I'm getting you guys into trouble.
02:31There used to be a Mandarin to English phrasebook called the man with the key is
02:36not here. People who will essentially help you to champion your cause. In China
02:41that's critical. If you don't have those people, forget it. You're dead in the water.
02:49I know what you're doing. You're gonna make me look like some Don Quixote figure.
02:53What the fuck do we do now? For a long time I've just felt that there's a
02:58piece of this thing out there somewhere. It was a shipwreck that we were gonna go
03:02dive. That was really it.

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