The discovery of the Titanic

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THE DISCOVERY OF THE
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by Dr. Robert D. Ballard Introduction by Walter Lord
On a cold April night in 1912, the magnificent new liner R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg and sank beneath the icy waters of the north Adantic. The foUowing day die words "TITANIC LOST" shocked the world. Seventy-three yeats later, on September 1, 1985, the headlines would proclaim "TITANIC FOUND." For on diat morning, Dr. Robert Ballard and a joint French/American expedition had located the legendary lost ship and had photographed her standing proudly upright on the ocean floor.
In the summer of 1986, Dr. Ballard returned to the Titanic and descended 2^/2 miles in a tiny three-man submarine to explore the ghostly wreck. Actually landing on the deck of the ship, Ballard sent the Jason Junior, his robotic "swimming eyeball," down the Grand Staircase to "see" glass chandeliers still hanging in place, unseen for three-quarters of a century. During eleven separate descents to the Titanic,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

''t.'r

THE DISCOVERY OF THE
TTDVNIC
by Dr. Robert D. Ballard Introduction by Walter Lord
On a cold April night in 1912, the magnificent new liner R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg and sank beneath the icy waters of the north Adantic. The foUowing day die words "TITANIC LOST" shocked the world. Seventy-three yeats later, on September 1, 1985, the headlines would proclaim "TITANIC FOUND." For on diat morning, Dr. Robert Ballard and a joint French/American expedition had located the legendary lost ship and had photographed her standing proudly upright on the ocean floor.
In the summer of 1986, Dr. Ballard returned to the Titanic and descended 2^/2 miles in a tiny three-man submarine to explore the ghostly wreck. Actually landing on the deck of the ship, Ballard sent the Jason Junior, his robotic "swimming eyeball," down the Grand Staircase to "see" glass chandeliers still hanging in place, unseen for three-quarters of a century. During eleven separate descents to the Titanic, Ballard and his team explored the entire ship - including the artifact-strewn debris field and severed stem section - and photographed her in remarkable detail.
THE DISCOVERY OF THE TITANIC is the compelling, firsthand account of Dr. Ballard's twelve-year quest to fmd the sunken liner. With the help of dozens of never-before-seen photographs, rare archival picmres, charts, paintings and a 25-inch "photo-mosaic" of the ship, Dr. Ballard recounts the Titanic s fatefiil last night and describes the moment-by-moment drama of the expeditions that found and explored her. For the first time, the exact location of the Titanic is revealed and, finally, many of the mysteries that have surrounded her tragic fate axe laid to rest.
Here is the fascinaring concluding chapter to a story that has capmred imaginations for almost a century, the dramaric account of the most exciting underwater discovery of our time.
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Cover painting by Ken Marschall depicts the underwater robotic vehicle, Jason Junior, exploring the Titanic 'j starboard anchor Vissza