The famed ocean liner, which sank after hitting an iceberg on April 14, , was discovered in near Newfoundland under some 12, feet 3, meters of water. Many historical accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic describe the Earlier this month, research on the ship continued as a team of experts completed five manned submersible dives at the site over an eight day span.
Using high tech equipment, the team captured footage and images of the wreck that can be used to create 3D models for future augmented and virtual reality. The assets will help researchers further study the past and future of the ship. The Titanic is in severe decay caused by salt corrosion and metal eating bacteria, Caladan Oceanic, the company overseeing the expedition, said in an announcement about the dives.
A manned submersible reached the bottom of the north Atlantic Ocean in August. The Titanic dive is being filmed by Atlantic Productions for the documentary special, "Mission Titanic", which will air globally on National Geographic in The hull had started to collapse taking staterooms with it. At p. From this moment onward, sinking was a certainty. The demise may have been hastened, however, when crewmen pushed open a gangway door on the port side of Titanic in an aborted attempt to load lifeboats from a lower level.
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The incident dramatically increased tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States. Two years later, in , Ballard transferred to the Navy, where he was assigned to the Deep Submergence Group at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Research Institution in Massachusetts, thus beginning his illustrious career with submersibles.
By , Ballard had received two doctoral degrees marine geology and geophysics from the University of Rhode Island and had spent a lot of time conducting deep-water dives in Alvin, a manned submersible he helped design. During subsequent dives in and near the Galapagos Rift, Ballard helped discover hydrothermal vents , which led in turn to the discovery of the amazing plants that grew around these vents.
Scientific analysis of these plants led to the discovery of chemosynthesis, a process in which plants use chemical reactions rather than sunlight to get energy. However many shipwrecks Ballard explored and however much of the ocean floor he mapped, Ballard never forgot about the Titanic.
Everest in my world—one of those mountains that had never been climbed. Over the years, there had been several teams that had set out to find the wreckage of the famous ship; three of them had been funded by millionaire oilman Jack Grimm. On his last expedition in , Grimm had taken an underwater picture of what he believed to be a propeller from the Titanic ; others believed it was only a rock.
The hunt for the Titanic was to continue, this time with Ballard. But first, he needed funding. Given Ballard's history with the U. Navy, he decided to ask them to fund his expedition. They agreed, but not because they had a vested interest in finding the long-lost ship. Instead, the Navy wanted to use the technology Ballard would create to also help them find and investigate the wreckage of two nuclear submarines the USS Thresher and the USS Scorpion that had been mysteriously lost in the s.
Amazingly, Ballard maintained the secrecy of his mission even as he built the technology and used it to find and explore the remains of the USS Thresher and the remains of the USS Scorpion.
While Ballard was investigating these wreckages, he learned more about debris fields, which would prove crucial in finding the Titanic.
Once his secret mission was complete, Ballard was able to focus on searching for the Titanic. However, he now had only two weeks in which to do it.
It was late August when Ballard finally began his search. He had invited a French research team, led by Jean-Louis Michel, to join this expedition.
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