Word: jessop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrorist bomb. According to accounts in the British press, Pierce has suggested a similar approach for the Titanic. But raising the 418-ton Greenpeace ship from a shallow harbor is one thing, rescuing the 46,328-ton Titanic from 2 1/2 miles of ocean quite another. Says Keith Jessop, the Yorkshire diver who in 1981 salvaged $80 million in gold bullion from the World War II battleship H.M.S. Edinburgh: "You can't even speak of them in the same breath...
...trouble in the plane's left engine. At about the same moment, an explosion resounded throughout the airport. "It was like a dull thud," said Neal Andrews, 38, a cab-driver who was waiting in the airport's taxi line. "I thought it was a tire blowing out," Sharon Jessop, 18, a student from Manchester, recalled nine hours after her harrowing escape from the wreckage...
Inside the plane, passengers in the front section were still unaware of the gravity of their situation. Student Jessop, looking out of a window, saw "an orange glow" and thought it was the sun. A moment later, Terrington instructed passengers to remain in their seats. But before the pilot, co-pilot and four flight attendants could begin to evacuate the plane, choking smoke, billowing up from the back of the aircraft, enveloped the cabin. Passengers in the rear section are believed to have been overcome immediately by smoke and the toxic fumes that result when polyurethane seat coverings, acrylic carpeting...
...front of the cabin, pandemonium erupted. "One minute I was picking up my bag, getting ready to go," Jessop remembered. "The next minute I could not see my hand in front of my face, and I was screaming for my life." Terrified passengers piled into the aisles and began clawing their way toward the plane's exits. When people discovered that the door over the left wing was blocked by flames, the chaos grew. "People were just on top of each other trying to get out," Mike Mather, 21, of Norwich, said...
Both the British and Soviet governments cooperated with the treasure hunters. Under a tripartite agreement, Jessop and his fellow investors will get 45% of the value of the salvaged gold. The Soviets will receive two-thirds of the rest and the British the remaining third. As for the U.S. Treasury, it was paid long ago by insurance...