Noah talks with Don Degener, a diver for the Halliburton Company, about his experience as the only American diver working on the Kursk recovery mission. His job was to go down 350 feet of frigid water to cut holes in the hull of the submarine. The Russian divers entered through these holes to search for bodies inside the wreck. Degener says he got the assignment by being in the right place at the right time, and having twenty-five years experience.
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