World Records
Barry Mitchell talks with Fran Capo, author of "Adrenaline Adventures," who recounts her three-and-a-half hour trip to the ocean's floor to view the wreckage of the Titanic. Fran also explains why it's never a good idea to wear lipstick in a submarine. From "Study With The Best" (c) 2005 CUNY-TV.
Fastest Song to Nationally Syndicated Radio Broadcast: 24 hours
12/12/2008: Mark Shepard and Fran Capo. Mark Shepard, ASCAP, co-conceived, wrote, and recorded the song. Fran Capo, ASCAP, publisher, had it broadcast on nationally syndicated radio as “Adventure Girl: The Fran Capo Theme Song.” The entire process took 24 hours, Fran and Mark had not met prior to this world record. It all happened through one email exchange and one phone call. Impressed, Fran had it nationally aired via broadcast radio (not internet) within 24 hours.
Mark Shepard and Fran Capo on “Live it Up” TV show.
On April 4th and 5th, 2008, RockMeTv host, Fran Capo and cameraman, Jeff Cobelli, volunteered to document the humanitarian world record efforts of Chiromission.org in the Dominican Republic. Armed with a group of 28 chiropractors, 31 chiropractic assistants and 5 volunteers, which included the host and cameraman, 21,545 patients (ages 6 months to 98 years old) were cared for over a two-day period throughout the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Chiromission, which was founded by JC Doornick, Todd Herold and Pete Morgan, broke into teams and went into orphanages, jails, churches, schools and village streets to volunteer their services.
Date: July 10, 2005
World Record: The first and only author to do both a book signing and the first memorial prayer said down by the wreck site of the Titanic in my capacity as an ordained minister.
Documentation: Photos, videos, newspaper clippings, television appearances, certificates and name in log on the Kelydysh.
Depth: 12, 465 feet down. (2 1/2 miles)
Where: The wreck site of the Titanic, 380 miles Southeast of New Foundland. North Atlantic Ocean.
Exact Coordinates of shipwreck: 41 43' 70? N
Interesting side notes: Less than 180 people have been down to the wreck site of the Titanic. More people have been to outer space!
Quick facts: The RMS Titanic was the luxury liner of it’s time. It was thought to be unsinkable. Yet on it’s maiden voyage in 1912, tragedy struck. The Titanic hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912, by 2 a.m. on April 15th it sunk. There were 2223 passengers aboard, 1517 of them died. In 1985, 73 years after the Titanic sank, Robert Ballard found the ship via sonar. In July of 1986 he went down to the wreck via a submersible at got the first glimpse of the famed ship.
