Expert Carl Hartsville, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, told the same news conference he had seen nothing to indicate that the sub had crashed into the Titanic or had imploded above it. He said the debris field suggested the disaster had happened away from the Titanic in "the wa...
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanic disappeared beneath the waves, taking with her 1,500 souls. One hundred years later, new technologies have revealed the most complete and most intimate images of the famous wreck.
"The deepest submarine rescue ever performed was 1,500 feet. ... This is 13,000 feet. There's no other craft that can get down there in time," Pogue said. He said there are only three or four machines in the world that can go to that depth, noting they take weeks to ...
"My role was to try to develop a viable science programme using the Titan submarine." He says from 2021 his role was to explore habitats in the deep sea. Asked what the primary mission of OceanGate was between 2021-2023, he says: "To visit and view the Titanic shipwreck...
On 1st September 1915 the Olympic was requisitioned by the British Government for war service as a troopship. Later she received a coat of dazzle paint designed to confuse enemy observers. Perhaps her most famous exploit of the war years was when she struck and sank a German submarine, U103...
to keep it safe(2)The first time he explored the Titanic, Ballard did NOT .A.visit the shipwreck in a submarineB.find a child's shoes in the shipwreckC.use a robot to look around the shipwreck(3)According to the passage, what did people see that made them want to visit the Titani...
sixth voyage to the Mediterranean Sea to pick up casualties from Greece. On 21 November 1916, she was shaken by an explosion after hitting a mine which was placed in the Kea Channel the previous month by an Imperial German Navy submarine. She sank 55 minutes later near the island of Kea....
What’s worse, the first lifeboats were launched half-empty, wasting precious spaces. In panic, many people jumped into the ocean to escape the sinking ship! 12) As Titanic sank, the bow (the front) went down first, causing the stern (the back) to rise out of the water and into the...
Space inside the submarine was similar to the interior of a minivan, and, with just one button and a video game controller used to steer it, the vessel "seemed improvised, with off-the-shelf components," Pogue said. On his voyage, thesub was lost for a few hours, Pogue said. ...
A torpedo from the German submarine U-20 hit the Cunard Line passenger ship RMS Lusitania at 2:10 p.m. May 7 off the coast of Ireland, and the huge vessel sinks in 18 minutes killing 1,201 who include 128 U.S. citizens, starting a wave of protest that eventually draws the United ...