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Jeremy Weirich: A Personal Note
The primary challenges that we encounter at sea mostly have to do with environment. It’s one thing we cannot control. Things often brake. We need time to fix things, but if the weather gets rough and the seas get rough, sometimes we just cannot work. The nice thing about working at sea is being detached from land. Having no communication sometimes is a good thing. It helps you to focus on the work at hand and helps you concentrate more. In the case of marine archeology you actually get absorbed in the story of the wreck and you can concentrate on the items down there. Is it a mast or boom? You don’t have the distraction of phone calls or emails.
If you asked me twenty years ago if I would be helping to manage the Titanic site or be a marine archeologist, I probably I would have said it was something I would like to do, but I wouldn’t imagine myself here now. The path that I took to get here was somewhat of a winding river and the best advice I can give is to have certain goals in mind and to stick to it, but also understand that it’s not where you end up but how you get there. Follow your heart but also understand that there are a lot of adventures along the way that make it worthwhile.
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