Leisure time was spent swapping tales of swimming with sharks or giant squids, or, for the more adventurous, joining free-diving volunteer Adel in a scuba-less dive to depths I couldn't reach with my tank on.
When we meet after the press conference he tells me repeatedly that the only reason he made Titanic was so a film studio would pay for him to go on deep-sea dives to see the wreckage: "Anything I had to do after that was just part of the deal, I make no bones about that".
Every city where you get a recipe from, we talk about our favorite places to go, from dives to five-stars to what I love to eat.
When he sings, "If the river was whiskey and I was a duck/I'd dive to the bottom and I'd never come up," there's a deep sense that Poole inhabits the song, is alchemizing it into autobiography.
Just to manage expectations, it's not the full first-person perspective of his entire dive to earth that I think many of us have been waiting for.
"After the last game, the five-and-dive I did, I wanted to go a little deeper into the game and be more efficient," Pelfrey said.
The reason I now live in Rimouski and enter the St. Lawrence River every morning with 5,000 psi's of mixed air on my back, the reason I dive to the Empress and explore it with hopeless resolution is because something I lost a long time ago rests buried in its depths.
"I dove to the floor of the boat and locked my arms underneath the rail and by the motor because I knew the propellers were moving," Paul Groverr" Cleveland, a TV producer who was in the capsized boat, told Hawaii News Now.
I dove to the bottom and retrieved his goggles drifting there.
I dove to retrieve it but found my underwater vision blurry.
