Word: jessop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quickly became one of the most lucrative deep-sea salvage missions ever undertaken. By week's end, more than $50 million worth of bullion had been recovered. At current prices, the full trove of the Edinburgh will be worth about $85 million. Said Britain's Keith Jessop, 48, who organized the expedition: "That's one in the eye for all those people who've been calling me a blind fool...
...veteran diver, Jessop runs a salvage firm that has worked in the cold and turbulent North Sea. It took two years for Jessop to find the real position of the Edinburgh. The ensuing $4 million expedition used a vessel equipped with special computers to maintain its position over the wreckage. Divers, working in pairs, were conditioned to the extreme pressures of the Barents Sea bottom in special chambers aboard the ship, then were lowered to the hulk in a diving bell. To protect themselves from the killing cold of the water as they cut through the Edinburgh 's hull...