David Christensen of Amherst emerges from the Mir submersible after the 12-hour dive to the Titanic in 2005. Courtesy photo by DAVID CHRISTENSEN In addition to serving as a historical record, the ...

David Christensen said he still keeps in contact with colleagues from that trip and said some of them are out at sea now on the OceanGate's research boat and inside the missing vessel.

February 26, 1963 – May 18, 2017 BURLEY — David Earl Christensen, 54, of Burley, passed away on Thursday, May 18, 2017, as the result of a bicycling accident in Tazewell County, Virginia.