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On the night of April 14, 1912, as it made its first voyage, the luxury steamship Titanic struck an iceberg. Then, a few hours after midnight on April 15, the ship sank thousands of feet before settling on the ocean floor. And that's where it stayed, whereabouts unknown, for the next 73 years until it was discovered by oceanographer Robert Ballard and his crew. The pictures and video Ballard brought back from the 1985 discovery helped stir new interest in the Titanic's voyage and its resting spot.

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

02 novembre 2017

EAN13

9781474748544

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

FINDING THE

TITANIC

H OW I M AG E S F R O M TH E O C E A N D E P TH S F U E L L E D I NTE R E ST I N TH E D O O M E D S H I P FINDINGTHETITANIC

CAPTURED SCIENCE HISTORY

FINDING THETITANIC H O W I M AG E S F R O M T H E O C E A N D E P T H S F U E L L E D I N T E R E S T I N T H E D O O M E D S H I P

by Michael Burgan

Content Adviser: Brett Barker, PhD Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin–Marathon County

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CONTENTS

4 ChapterOne:Searching for theTitanic.................... 14 ChapterTwo:The best of its day......................... 28 ChapterThree:.............Deeper into the wreckage hapterFour:The fascination cont ....38 Cinues ..........

Timeline ................................. ........56 ................ 60 Glossary ......................................................... 61 Additional resources ......................................... 62 Source notes ................................................... 63 Select bibliography .......................................... 64 Index .............................................................

ChapterOneSEARCHING FOR THETITANIC

Robert Ballard looked out over the North Atlantic Ocean and wondered whether he would ﬁnd what he was looking for. Somewhere beneath theKnorr,the ship that had carried him to this spot, lay the remains of theTitanic.After years of research, Ballard was convinced he had found the area where the great steamship had come to rest more than 70 years earlier. On the night of 14 April 1912, as it made its ﬁrst voyage, theTitanichad struck an iceberg almost 645 kilometres (400 miles) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada. A few hours after midnight on 15 April the ship sank nearly 4 km (2.5 miles) before settling on the ocean ﬂoor. Of the more than 2,200 passengers and crew, only 705 had survived. Ballard knew that time was running out to ﬁnd theTitanicon this trip. The US Navy had paid for him to ﬁnd and investigate two of its submarines that had sunk during the 1960s. After Ballard ﬁnished that search, he could use whatever time was left on his three-week assignment to hunt for theTitanic. Now, on the night of 31 August 1985, Ballard had only a few days left to ﬁnd the wreck. And a storm was approaching. Ballard had once said that with the proper equipment and crew, ﬁnding theTitanicwould be

The sinking of theTitanicis one of the world’s worst disasters at sea.

easy. But now he began to wonder. The equipment for his expedition included sophisticated sonar on board the French research shipLe Suroit. Sonar uses sound waves to locate objects underwater. A device

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