Shipwrecks
RMS Titanic
Sank 1912 · found 1985 · N. Atlantic, ~370 mi SE of Newfoundland
ProtectedThe prize. A memorial, not for salvage
Where. N. Atlantic, ~370 mi SE of Newfoundland
Status. Protected
Where. N. Atlantic, ~370 mi SE of Newfoundland
Status. Protected
The account
Unsinkable, they said. Four days out she grazed the ice, and proved them wrong in two hours and forty minutes. Fifteen hundred souls went into freezing water; by every account, the band played on. Seventy-three years later a camera sled drifting over the abyss caught a boiler in its lights, and the most famous ship on Earth had an address again. Two and a half miles down. Bow upright. Still pointed at New York.
Leads, where the trail points now
- The wreck was found by Robert Ballard in 1985 at about 3,800 meters, 370 miles off Newfoundland, split in two with a wide debris field between bow and stern.
- It is a protected maritime memorial under a US and UK agreement, and recovery is restricted as the hull slowly collapses.
- There was no great treasure aboard, that is a myth; artifacts lie in the debris field, and the real work is documentation before the ship is gone.
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