The Titanic, the legendary ship that sank on April 15, 1912, was discovered in 1985 by Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel. After this, the company Rsm Titanic Inc., specially created in 1986, which has exclusive rights, sent many expeditions to the ocean liner and recovered more than 5,500 items from the ship, including porcelain dishes, silverware, gold coins and much more.
Titanic Tour
In recent years, the hull of the Titanic has undergone serious destruction, the reason for which was not sea water, but souvenir hunters who are gradually bringing the remains of the liner to the surface. For example, the ship’s bell or mast lighthouse disappeared from the ship. In addition, damage to the ship is caused by time and the action of bacteria, leaving behind only rusty ruins.
You have a chance to look at the Titanic in the form in which it opened 24 years ago to the eyes of Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel.
Titanic Tour 1) The Argo search engine begins its two-hour descent to the Titanic's hull in the North Atlantic Ocean.Titanic Tour 2) Two piston engines the height of a four-story building (one of which is shown in the photo) drove the Titanic's propellers.Titanic Tour 3) The light of the bathyscaphe Mir 2 illuminates the left main anchor on the forecastle of the sunken Titanic.Titanic Tour 4) In the early morning hours of September 1, 1985, oceanographer Robert Ballard and photographer Emory Christophe discovered and photographed the remains of the Titanic. Krisztof and his team used an underwater search vehicle and a towed skid with a camera to take more than 20,000 images, including this one, which shows the starboard propeller of the sunken ocean liner.Titanic Tour 5) Surviving window glass from Captain Edward J. Smith's cabin on the Titanic, which lies two and a half miles (four kilometers) underwater in the North Atlantic Ocean.Titanic Tour 6) Bathyscaphe Mir-1 illuminates the railings on the Titanic.Titanic Tour 7) A ceramic cup and wreckage from the Titanic lie at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland.Titanic Tour 8) A fragment of a ship’s hull on the ocean floor.Titanic Tour 9) A hole in the right side of the ship's hull - probably caused by the Titanic's collision with an iceberg on April 14, 1912. From this blow, the ship split in two and sank, resulting in the death of 1.5 thousand people.