[1][2][3] His research includes interviews with survivors of the maritime disaster and dives to the Titanic shipwreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
He has collaborated with several other authors and documentary filmmakers as a consultant and archival material supplier.
In his scene he watches his character's son spin a top on the boat deck.
He also played the ship's designer Thomas Andrews for re-enactment scenes in Ghosts of the Abyss.
At one time Lynch also worked as Controller for a division of a major defense company.