Almost immediately after the Titanic sank on 15 April 1912, proposals were advanced to salvage it from its resting place in the North Atlantic Ocean, despite her exact location and condition being unknown.

Jun 22, 2023 · In 1985, it took Robert Ballard eight days to find the R.M.S. Titanic around 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. For more than 70 years, the location of the liner's wreckage — about...

Oct 18, 2010 · Seventy-three years after it sank to the North Atlantic ocean floor, a joint U.S.-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. The sunken liner was about 400 miles east of Newfoundland...

Aug 22, 2019 · The Titanic had come to rest roughly 380 miles (612 kilometers) southeast of Newfoundland in international waters. (Discover how the Titanic was found during a secret Cold War mission.)

Apr 1, 2017 · In 1985, a joint American-French expedition tracked down one of the biggest prizes in maritime archeology: the 73-year-old wreck of the “unsinkable” ocean liner Titanic.

Sep 3, 1985 · A team of American and French researchers was reported yesterday to have found the hulk of the luxury liner Titanic south of Newfoundland.

Jan 22, 2020 · On September 1, 1985, a joint American-French expedition, headed by famous American oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard, found the Titanic over two miles below the ocean’s surface by using an unmanned submersible called Argo.

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.

Aug 31, 2018 · Over three decades ago the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, the former pride of the White Star fleet, was discovered – or, perhaps, re-discovered – two and a half miles below the surface of the Atlantic by the joint French-American expedition led by Dr. Robert D. Ballard, then the head of the Deep Submergence Laboratory at the Woods Hole ...

Apr 5, 2023 · Today, the bulk of the Titanic still remains at the bottom of the ocean. But what was lost and found might soon be lost again, thanks to a hearty strain of saltwater-dwelling bacteria eating away at the ship’s skeleton. When the ship was first uncovered, its remains were remarkably well preserved.