The 45-year-old artist used specialist underwater cameras to capture the ship, before heading back to the studio to photograph models in 1940s and 1950s costumes.

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First, once the ship has been stabilized, an underwater platform will be built and watertight boxes, or caissons, fixed to the side of the ship that is above water.

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To pluck them from the ocean, Bezos used Remotely Operated Vehicles (underwater drones) operated from a command ship on the surface.

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