![]() ![]() In 1982, Ballard - an oceanographer and Naval Reserve commanding officer who had performed a number of top-secret Naval missions during the Cold War - started developing his own remotely-operated underwater vehicle. ![]() But the ship's remains remained undiscovered for decades. Global headlines about the ship's fate mesmerized the world. Only 700 passengers and crew members survived to be rescued by the R.M.S. For more than 70 years, the location of the liner's wreckage - about 12,600 feet below the ocean's surface - had been a mystery since the "unsinkable" ship struck an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912.īilled as the most luxurious ocean experience available, about 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank into the ocean depths within hours after impact with the iceberg. Titanic around 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. In 1985, it took Robert Ballard eight days to find the R.M.S. ![]()
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