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“My God, Roger, some of the stuff in that transcript is B-movie material — faces in portholes, for Christ’s sake.”

No one’s a believer until something happens to them

“We’ve also developed these carbon-fiber diving suits capable of protecting the human body from pressures as high as eight thousand pounds per square inch”

Carbon fiber huh? I’ve heard that one before…

“You’re going after the gold.” “Yep.”

HAVE THEY LEARNED NOTHING?????

“Anyway, whatever they saw must have departed the premises years ago. There have been three expeditions to the Titanic since the Lefferts fiasco, and nobody saw anything bigger than a sardine.”

Yeah maybe because no one’s trying to blow up the ship that is the final resting place for 1,500 people in order to get some freaking gold 😭

“Trevor, do you suppose that someone — or some thing — doesn’t want looters inside that ship?”

YEAH NO KIDDING?????

Robertson said philosophically, “Well, there’s no way you can go down there and grab him by the scruff of the neck.”

😂

“That’s exactly what it was like, Montague thought. The fleeting impression of a woman’s face surrounded by a shawl, staring at him. Out of a porthole.”

This gave me slight chills…

“John, I swear those look like dried tears. As if she was crying all the way down and through all these years.”

😭😭😭

I reallyyyyyy am starting to dislike hawke and his stupid mentality of “I wAnT tHe GoLd I dOn’T cArE aBoUt tHe sHiP!1!!1!”

“He thought he saw a face in one of the portholes. The face of a woman, framed by a shawl. He blinked and the image was gone.”

Oh these poor souls..

“There was a strange air of death around the wreck, a foreboding silence, as if they had stumbled on the remains of a gigantic cadaver that was staring malevolently back at them.”

The foreshadowing…*chef’s kiss*

“Damned right it’s not. If it was seawater, we could start humming ‘Nearer My God to Thee.’”

THE WAY MY EYES BUGGED OUT

“And, ghoulish though it was to consider, were there human remains left?”

Morbid curiosity, Montague 😩

“About a guy’s gettin’ fixed on one thing, one target, maybe, so it drives him batty and destroys him.”

Many such cases. The foreshadowing in this book is insane and I’m only 86 pages in 😭

“Only the Lord himself knows where that ship really is. I still say let’s try farther south.”

Real

“Although, he had to admit, Trevor’s clapping reminded him of a man who had fallen asleep during a dull opera and had joined belatedly and guiltily in the applause that had awakened him.”

😂😂

“Dead reckoning in his case wasn’t a very accurate cross-check of a celestial fix, because it failed to include the crucial factor of ocean currents. I’ll concede you can’t blame Boxhall for not taking currents into consideration; in 1912, oceanography as a science wasn’t out of its diapers yet.”

lol

“They wound up at a nearby McDonald’s, with Lefferts extolling the culinary virtues of the Big Mac and “the best damned French fries in the world.”

A TRUE AMERICAN, USA USA USA USA MCDONALD’S RAWHHHH

i hope the rest of the book isn’t as boring as the first chapter good lord