A pensioner winched to safety in the deepest underwater rescue in history last night sent a message to the missing Titanic sub crew, saying: “There’s always hope.”
Former Royal Navy engineer Roger Mallinson, now 85, survived 84 hours trapped inside a tiny six ft-diameter steel ball after it plunged 1,600 ft to the seabed.
Along with his submariner pal Roger Chapman, then 28, the men had only 12 minutes of oxygen left when they were finally rescued 50 years ago in 1973.
