There's still so much we don't know about how the ship met its fateful end. This breakthrough could fill in the holes.
If you're planning a cruise in the near future, you're not alone. Cruise Lines International Association projects that 34 million adults over 25 years old will cruise in the next three years [source: reef or an iceberg? We all know what happened to the Titanic, but is it possible for ...
It’s unclear why the sub lost contact or, if found, what state the vessel and crew may be in. Over the years, few underwater rescues have been completed. Here’s how submarine rescues in the past have happened. HMS K13, 1917 During World War I, theRoyal Navy HMS K13was on a tr...
Many scientists fear that global warming could affect the global conveyor belt. If global warming leads to increased rain, as some believe it might, the added fresh water could decrease the salinity levels at the poles. Melting ice, another possibility of global warming, would also decrease salin...
they were submerged underwater, an unheard-of feat that required years to engineer a solution.” Cameron also decided to film the second and third movies together, which took three years to complete. This, on top of the...
Braving the same unpredictable Antarctic sea ice that doomed the ship 109 years ago, the 2022 team miraculously found the final missing piece of the legendary expedition.
If you've ever gone snorkeling or scuba diving, you'll know that life underwater is very different from life on the surface. It's dark and difficult to see, there's no air to breathe, and intense water pressure makes everything feel uncomfortable and claustrophobic. Submarines are ingenious...
Scientific evidence suggests cyanobacteria began creating oxygen between 2.5 and 2.3 billion years ago in the world's oceans, which gave rise to the Earth's atmosphere and abundant oxygen for us to breathe [source: Konhauser et al.]. Bacteria can survive in air, water, soil, ice and extreme...
TheTitanicwas wonderful, far more splendid and huge than I had dreamed of. The other craft in the harbor were like cockle-shells beside her, and they, mind you, were the boats of the American and other lines that a few years ago were thought enormous. ...
there! Out of the darkness, like a ghostly apparition, the bow of the ship appears. Its knife-edge prow is coming straight at us, seeming to plow the bottom sediment like ocean waves. It towers above the seafloor, standing just as it landed 84 years ago. THE TITANIC. Or what is left...