![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During eleven separate descents to the Titanic, Ballard and his team explored the entire ship -including the artifact-strewn debris field and severed stern section -and photographed her in remarkable detail. Actually landing on the deck of the ship, Ballard sent Jason Junior, his robotic “swimming eyeball,” down the Grand Staircase to “see” glass chandeliers still hanging in place, unseen for three-quarters of a century. Ballard returned to the Titanic and descended 21/2 miles in a tiny three-man submarine to explore the ghostly wreck. Robert Ballard and a joint French/American expedition had located the legendary lost ship and had photographed her upright on the ocean floor. Seventy-three years later, on September 1, 1985, the headlines would proclaim “TITANIC FOUND.” For on that morning, Dr. The following day the words “TITANIC LOST” shocked the world. Titanic struck an iceberg and sank beneath the icy waters of the North Atlantic. On a cold April night in 1912, the magnificent new liner R.M.S. ![]()
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