Watersports blog

Thirty-seven year old Carl Spencer created shockwaves among deep sea diving enthusiasts when he died while filming Brittanic, a sister ship of the Titanic that sank in 1916 at the Aegean Sea.

According to reports, Spencer suffered an illness called “the bends” which means that nitrogen forms bubbles in the diver’s blood supply when surfacing too quickly. This happened when he released his emergency buoy.

The father of two headed the expedition with teams coming from the National Geograhic. The group went around the sunken ship located at the Greek island of Kia.

Dr. Panayiotis Bouras, a spokesperson for this big project, said that a military helicopter immediately arrived to transport Spencer’s body to a naval hospital in Athens for medical assistance. However, the deap sea diving expert no longer regained consciousness and declared dead.

Spencer’s colleagues in the field started paying tribute to the skillful diver who has been on the Brittanic for the past eight times. The esteemed diver has also explored other sunken ships such as the RMS Carpathia, the same boat that rescued more than 700 survivors of the Titanic in 1912. The said boat was sunk in 1918 by a German U-boat.