Renata Rojas been diving ever since she was 12; her father taught her in Mexico. Now she’s 49 and a banker in New York, and she spends weekends diving for shipwrecks in the waters off New York and New Jersey. Her lifelong ambition, however, is diving for the Titanic. “I actually wanted to find the wreck, but somebody beat me to it,” she says.
But now Rojas can do the next best thing: In a year she will dive down to the Titanic on a manned research sub owned by OceanGate Expeditions, which is launching a series of dives to the most famous shipwreck in the world. Rojas is paying $105,000 for the dive, but she thinks it’s worth it. “I don’t own an apartment,” she told Reuters. “I don’t own a car. I haven’t gone to Everest yet. All my savings have been going toward my dream, which is going to the Titanic.”
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