As the search for the missing Titanic tour [url HREF="" TARGET="" REL=""]submersible and its five passengers continues[/url], the dangers of venturing 13,000 feet down to the ocean floor to see the wreckage of the infamous sunken ship are coming to light. A former ABC News science editor knows them all too well after a voyage to the wreckage more than 20 years ago went awry.
In September 2000, Michael Guillen, a trained physicist and then-science editor for ABC News, was invited on an expedition run by a group of Russians to be the first journalist in history to make the journey to report at the wreckage site in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Despite Guillen's deep fear of water, he felt he could not turn down the monumental assignment.
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