An Underwater TourThe Titanic is the world's largest passenger ship(客轮)of its time.It leftSouthampton,UK for New York,US on April 10,1912.But just five days later,it hitan iceberg(撞到冰山)and went under the sea.More than 1,500 people died.After73 years,people found the Titanic ...
Ballard and histeammates found that the huge ship was in pieces. Thedebris was spread across one square mile (2. 6 km2) ofthe ocean floor. They saw teacups, bottles, shoes, andother belongings(所有物)of the passengers.During his career, Ballard has made more than 100 tripsunderwater. He...
Harris said the Titan was "put on a sled and dumped in the water and their only navigation is from the support ship up top." "I don't adhere to that myself, personally," Harris said. Harris noted that he has worked with Nargeolet, who is listed as director of underwater res...
Passage Twenty-five (Exploration of the Titanic)After resting on the ocean floor,spit asunder and rusting for nearly three-quarters of a century,a great ship seemed to cone alive again. The saga of the White Star liner Titanic, which struck aniceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912,...
The model is larger than any other underwater 3D model ever made. The model can make scientists study the Titanic in a new way. The Titanic was a very large and strong ship. But some days after it left Southampton, England, it went into the Atlantic Ocean (大西洋) and broke into two...
Sensing no collision, the lookouts were relieved. They had no idea that the iceberg had a jagged underwater spur, which slashed a 300-foot gash in the hull below the ship’s waterline. By the time the captain toured the damaged area with Harland and Wolff’s Thomas Andrews, five compartm...
For Ballard, the discovery came with mixed emotions. “It was one thing to have won—to have found the ship,” he later wrote. “It was another thing to be there. That was the spooky part. I could see the Titanic as she slipped nose first into the glassy water. Around me were the...
The model can make scientists study the Titanic in a new way.The Titanic was a very large and strong ship.But some days after it left Southampton, England,it went into the Atlantic Ocean (大西洋) and broke into two parts. More than 1,500 people died under the sea. Some people found ...
He found many things that told the sad story of the Titanic's end, for example, a child's shoes.In 1986, Ballard visited the Titanic again. This time, he got to see the inside of the ship and took a lot of photos with the help of underwater machines. When other people saw the ...
The famous photo of the ship in dry dock and the men standing under the propellers clearly shows that the propellers were bolted together with giant nuts as was the practice at that time. The underwater shots of the propellers show smooth metal (no bolt heads/nuts) suggesting welding, which...