Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Shriver and I am sitting here with Anna Tijinski,
James Harkin and Andrew Hunter Murray and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with fact number one, and that's my fact,
my fact this week is that early proposals
for raising the Titanic back to the ocean surface included filling it up with ping pong balls,
injecting 180,000 tons of Vaseline into it, and turning the ship itself into an iceberg.
That would have been ironic.
What if another ship came along and then hit the Titanic as much as it did?
It would be a great reveal
if you did hit an iceberg and it cracked open and something there's the actual Titanic inside.
What, I mean who's got enough ping pong balls to do the first one of these things?
That is a large number of ping pong balls.
Are these all entirely serious suggestions I guess is what I'm trying to get ahead of?
Yeah well to an extent they are.
They're not necessarily practical but in most of the cases we've seen that some of these methods work.
For example the ping pong ball idea, that was actually used,
not actual ping pong balls but the premise of putting ping pong balls into a ship was used by a Danish engineer called Karl Kroger and back in 1964 there was a crash of a ship in the harbour in Kuwait city and the ship went down,