They were almost two miles down when, in July, 2000, the drill got stuck again.
During that search, the company stumbled on an ancient shipwreck nearly two miles down, apparently Greek.
At the resting place of the Titanic, more than two miles down, the pressure is 2.8 tons per square inch.
"This is the opportunity of a lifetime," Renata Rojas, a banker in New York City, said of diving more than two miles down to the muddy seabed.
Turn left and 400 yards later turn left again, following the waymarkers for two miles down and through Old Mill Creek.
The world's most famous shipwreck was found in 1985 resting on the North Atlantic seabed more than two miles down, upright but split in two.
In the nearly frozen water, two miles down, the bodies would be extraordinarily fragile, but they might also be preserved more fully than those found floating on the surface two years earlier.
The fight for protection began shortly after the Titanic was found in 1985 more than two miles down at the bottom of the North Atlantic, upright but split in two.
Ride two miles down into the gloom, hanging from a wire, and after a torch-lit hike past underground streams and conveyor belts you arrive at a black wall.
That the bag survived was owed in part to the fact that the objects scattered from the wreck spent the last century, "two miles down, in an environment with no light, and hardly any oxygen," the conservator said.
