A recent expedition by the RMS Titanic, Inc., an organization dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Titanic, spent 20 days at the wreck site thissummerto map the sunken ship and take more than 2 million images and video, according to the team. ...
Weather Forces Hasty Work Documenting the Wreck 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 fir...
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 Titanic wreck site as a testament to those that sailed on her, we need to understand the disposition and physical state of what's there," Titanic expedition co-leader David Gallo, director of special projects at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Mass., told Discovery News....
A bronze statue from the Titanic — not seen in decades and feared to be lost for good — is among the discoveries made by the company with salvage rights to the wreck site on its first expedition there in many years.
The team also fully mapped the wreck and its debris field with equipment that should improve understanding of the site, RMS Titanic said. The next step is to process the data so it can be shared with the scientific community, and so “historically significant and at...
however, the iconic bow has suffered. The railing that surrounds the forecastle has collapsed, but otherwise is still intact. While some newspapers are saying that the ship is collapsing, that is not the case. It is slowly decaying as evidenced by photos of the wreck taken over the years. ...
The wreck of the liner Titanic has been found by a joint U.S-French expedition off Canada in waters more than 13,000 feet deep, a French government institute and the American head of the expedition announced Monday.
Release date July 24, 1994 (United States) Country of origin United States Language English Also known as Titanic: Death of a Dream Filming locations Titanic wreck, Titanic Canyon, North Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean(41° 46' N 50° 14' W) ...
Robert Ballard is a American oceanographer and marine geologist whose pioneering use of deep-diving submersibles laid the foundations for deep-sea archaeology. He is best known for discovering the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.