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The debris trail led to the wreck. Just after 1:00 a.m. on September 1, 1985, under more than 12,400 feet of water, one of the Titanic’s boilers was identified, confirming the wreck had been found. Video filming from Argo and 35-mm filming from ANGUS were conducted throughout the remaining four days of the voyage. Return to Woods Hole
The first evidence that researchers aboard the R/V Knorr had found the RMS Titanic came on September 1, 1985, from this mundane-looking photo of what turned out to be one of the ship's boilers. Excitement over the discovery among the crew and scientists was tempered by the knowledge that they floated above the final resting place of more than ...
The Titanic was taller above the water than most urban buildings of the time. At the time, Titanic was the largest ever movable man-made object. The press labeled the ship "unsinkable." For more, see the History of the Titanic Feature. Few disasters have had such far-reaching effects on the fabric of society as the sinking of the Titanic.
The Titanic discovery, however, remains one of its proudest moments. Argo. Argo, the system of television cameras and sonars that helped find the Titanic, was named by Titanic expedition leader Robert Ballard for the mythical Greek vessel that carried Jason on his quest for the Golden Fleece.
In June of 1985, news came that Bob Ballard aboard the research vessel Knorr had found the RMS Titanic. Almost immediately, the rumors started that an expedition from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) would go back to the wreck the next year with the deep-submersible vehicle Alvin.
Titanic had three huge propellers, two three-bladed ones on each side measuring 23 feet, 6 inches, and a smaller one in the center at 16 feet, 6 inches. The ship could make better than 23 knots. After the Titanic was found in 1985, it was determined that the propellers were buried in the sediment. (©Harland and Wolff, Ltd.)
Bill Lange was aboard Knorr in 1985 when the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research vessel brought back the first grainy black-and-white images of Titanic resting on the seafloor. Ever since, Lange has made it his quest to push the boundaries of imaging technology, engineering one-of-a-kind camera systems and operating them…
The Original Titanic Map May 13, 2012. Following the 1985 French-American expedition that discovered the wreck of Titanic, WHOI researchers William Lange, Elazar Uchupi, and Bob Ballard examined all the still and video images captured by deep-sea cameras and created this first map of the wreck site, published in 1988.
The team found the wreck with Argo, a then-new towed system of television cameras and sonars named by expedition leader Robert Ballard for the mythical vessel… Thirty years ago today, a group of scientists, engineers, and technicians aboard the research vessel Knorr discovered the final resting place of RMS Titanic.
A third objective of the 1986 return expedition to Titanic was to finish the film documentation of Titanic begun during the final four days of the 1985 discovery cruise aboard the Knorr using the Argo and ANGUS vehicles. This filming had two primary purposes: to capture carefully the present state of Titanic, should other organizations ...