““The bow still appears stately and upright. The stern lies in a shattered heap, mangled, we believe, by its violent break with the bow, by it's impact with the bottom, and perhaps by damage caused when air-filled pockets in the sinking hulk met deep-ocean pressures that near 6,000 pounds per square inch. Moist poignant was the debris field, where the effects of a floating city of 2,228 men, women, and children had drifted down for hours after Titanic broke apart. There, amidst huge chunks of twisted metal, fragile china cups appeared untouched. Peering through Alvin's small porthole, I saw the hollow eyes of a doll's head staring back, a haunting reminder of loss. Most wrenching for me was the sight of a pair of splayed boots, the body of the owner long ago consumed in the deep.””
