Former ABC News science editor Dr. Michael Guillen detailed his experience in a submarine accident that occurred in 2000 while he was studying the underwater wreckage of the R.M.S. Titanic — an accident that he said nearly cost him his life.

Guillen tweeted a video that showed a combination of actual footage from the accident and a computer-generated recreation of what it might have looked like to someone watching from outside the submarine.

“TITANIC ACCIDENT,” Guillen captioned the video. “When I was at ABC News, I became the first TV correspondent in history to report from the wreck of the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, 2-1/2 miles below the surface. An accident happened that almost claimed my life. Here’s what happened.”

WATCH:

TITANIC ACCIDENT. When I was at ABC News, I became the first TV correspondent in history to report from the wreck of the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, 2-1/2 miles below the surface. An accident happened that almost claimed my life. Here's what happened. #Titanic… pic.twitter.com/b4t3WtaRdc

— Dr. Michael Guillen (@DrMGuillen) June 19, 2023

The submersible was named the Mir 1 and had been built 13 years earlier in 1987 — and the video showed members of the team reacting in real-time as a fast-moving current pushed them toward the massive propellers of the sunken ship.

“Oh my gosh, look at the size of that thing,” one of them said as they approached the propeller, and another said, “Look at the blade! It’s still clean, like it’s still brand new!”

“I felt a little bit of a boom, didn’t you?” one asked, and the view from the porthole was suddenly filled with falling chunks of rusted metal. “Look at the size of those things! … So, are we stuck, or what?”

In his 2021 book “Believing is Seeing,” Dr. Guillen described the situation in more detail, saying, “It seemed to me we were heading toward it [the propeller] too fast – and, worse, accelerating. Later, I learned that our sub accidentally got caught in a fast-moving, deep-underwater current. A split-second later, Mir 1 slammed into the Titanic’s propeller.”

“I felt the shock of the collision: rusty debris showered down on our submersible, obscuring my view through the porthole,” he added, going on to explain that the crew attempted to rock the submersible out of its position for some 30 minutes, much in the same way that a driver might rock back and forth to get a car that was stuck out of mud or ice.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP

Guillen, who is a Christian, said he truly believed that they were not going to make it out of the situation — and at that moment, he “experienced God’s presence and peace right when I was resigned to kissing my life goodbye.”

But a short time afterward, he said he had felt an “invisible presence” with them on the Mir 1 — and the submersible dislodged from its stuck position.

After COVID came and mostly went, suddenly, prices began to rise. The cost of nearly everything soared, especially eggs, a dozen of which eventually cost more than a pound of beef.

Corporate CEOs — who in 2022 made $14.8 million a year compared to the average worker’s $58,800 salary — say it’s all because the cost of doing business, from higher interest rates to the cost of fuel, rose. Yeah, no.

“Higher interest rates haven’t stopped S&P companies, especially in the big food industry, from inflating consumer prices despite reporting billions in extra net earnings and over a trillion dollars in giveaways to wealthy investors,” Liz Zelnick, the director of economic security and corporate power at the nonprofit Accountable.US, said in a release.

The watchdog group found “many of the largest general consumer S&P 500 companies have admitted to benefiting from increased prices as their net profits increased year-over-year and they rewarded shareholders with billions in new shareholder handouts.”

For instance, Accountable.US found that Tyson Foods saw its net income increase from $3 billion in FY 2021 to more than $3.2 billion in FY 2022. The mega-company turned around and delivered $1.35 billion in handouts to shareholders — $652 million more than the previous year.

In addition, PepsiCo’s net income soared by 16.9% to almost $9 billion, and the company shelled out more than $7.5 billion in stock buybacks and dividends in 2022, the report said. General Mills, too, saw its income increase by double digits, 16.5%, to $2.7 billion.

And amid the greedflation, there’s no end in sight. “Some of the world’s biggest companies have said they do not plan to change course and will continue increasing prices or keep them at elevated levels for the foreseeable future,” The New York Times reported. “That strategy has cushioned corporate profits. And it could keep inflation robust, contributing to the very pressures used to justify surging prices.”

Greedflation has long been dismissed as a conspiracy theory, but some economists now say it’s real, even as one labels it “profit-led inflation.” Paul Donovan, UBS Global Wealth Management’s chief economist, said there were three waves: the first caused by the COVID pandemic and the second by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but Donovan called those “excuses” corporations used as “cover” to raise prices. Now comes wave three, caused by … greed.

“The third wave of inflation, the one we’re getting now, is this unusual profit-led inflation story,” Donovan told Fortune. “This occurs where firms towards the end of the supply chain, so that’s consumer facing companies or near consumer facing companies, increase margins and pretend it’s all due to costs and other factors. They sneak in a margin increase.”

CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP

“We’re seeing this expansion of margin under the cover of, ‘Oh, it’s a general inflation problem, we can’t help it.’ But actually they’re expanding margin and basically persuading consumers to accept that,” he said.

And Donovan said it’s time for people to get angry and make their dissatisfaction known.

“I think that social media can help inflame profit-led inflation by creating excuses that companies can use, but it can also work, by threatening brand values, to cause companies to rethink some of their pricing strategies,” he said.

For the record, you can’t say the cost of doing business rose and then make record profits. Americans need to wake up and make their unhappiness known.

The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.