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Top: Bud and Wink Gifford, now deceased, show press clippings from the Doria wreck. The wreck has been called the first "media event" of its kind; Middle: One of the many holes in the ship that divers use to access the vessel. The most famous is Gimbel's Hole, cut by Peter Gimbel in 1981. Gimbel and Joseph Fox were the first divers to photograph the Doria for Life Magazine in 1956; Bottom: Fishing nets drape much of the vessel. They were left behind by fishing boats in the 1980s. Like the cables that hang within the Doria, the fishing nets are a hazard to divers.