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30 years ago today the wreck of the Titanic was discovered
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Over 70 years after that fateful April night which would go down as one of the most famous historical events of the 20th century.
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/01/today-in-history-wreck-of-the-titanic-found/21229612/
The story of the discovery of the wreck is almost as interesting as the sinking itself. There is a bit about it here for anyone interested.
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2015271,00.html
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/01/today-in-history-wreck-of-the-titanic-found/21229612/
The story of the discovery of the wreck is almost as interesting as the sinking itself. There is a bit about it here for anyone interested.
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2015271,00.html
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It would be amazing if they could, not least from an engineering stance. Sadly though it will never be possible due to the state of the wreck. In a few decades from now she will probably be nothing more than a pile of rust.
An interesting fact about the discovery of the wreck is that until then it was generally assumed the Titanic sunk intact. When it was finally found it was revealed that it was in two pieces which was consistent with some of the eyewitness accounts from the sinking.
I don't have a 3D TV.
But I like the sound of that documentary. I think I saw something like that online once.
All in all she's just one of thousands of ship wrecks and best left on the seabed to rot in peace I think.
http://www.scapaflow.co/index.php/history_and_archaeology/the_20th_century/war/the_scuttling_of_the_german_fleet_in_scapa_flow/salvaging_the_german_fleet
http://www.scapaflowwrecks.com/history/salvage.php
Sadly, Titanic is too deep, too broken and too far gone.
The US Navy funded Dr Ballard's expedition to investigate the wrecks of two of their sunken nuclear submarines, Thresher and Scorpion, when that was done he was allowed to go off and find Titanic. The co-ordinates they had for the sinking were a bit off but because the ship split in two it left a huge trail of debris - they found one of the boilers and then followed the trail all the way to the wreck.
Basically; why did Ballard try to get his "agent" to stifle reporting of the expedition before it occurred? How was Ballard able to illegally mingle private (Woods Hole) and public (US Navy) money to fund the expedition? How did Ballard gain privately from the expedition (eg running a company that sold duplicates of the technology used during the search)? Why did Ballard use his clout to not only scupper other expeditions to use the wreck and steal their personnel and data, but also to get classified US Navy data? Why did Ballard try to get at least two museums to accept artefacts he was planning to salvage - and when he has turned down, he went 100% anti salvage?
And the most important question - was Ballard and his team even the first to find the wreck? Or was it another team in 1975...or even earlier? We shall know when classified documents finally get released in 2033 (I know, I tried to get them under a FOIA request and was turned down!)
I have to say, I find the stories about the handful of 1st class women/children who perished to be the most interesting, since the odds of survival really were in their favour.
That's true, but at this stage she is still recognisable as a shipwreck. One day though her hull will collapse onto the ocean floor and all that will be left is essentially a debris field.
There were conflicting eyewitness accounts at the time about whether or not she had split in two. While some survivors stated this was indeed the case, others insisted otherwise. The latter group were generally believed over the former, as reflected in films such as A Night To Remember. Hence it came as a bit of a surprise when the wreck was eventually discovered that she was lying in two main pieces.
This is all news to me.
Same. Well, shipwrecks in general really, but the Titanic more so because of all the myths and legends around the sinking. Something about the whole tale is just so bittersweet.
Yes, I could spend hours on that site.
What a bloody good read! Sadly i should be asleep as i have to work in the morning >:(
Whhen he was a little kid he was helping HIS grandad checking out some sheep (Mourne Mts). They watched titanic sail out of Belfast.
Awesome. I expect it was when the ship was doing its sea trials before heading to Southampton.
There were some youngsters around the time of the 100th anniversary of the sinking who were surprised to learn the Titanic actually existed. They were under the impression it was made up for the James Cameron film.