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Titanic - Discovery, Legacy, Shipwreck: Within days of the Titanic’s sinking, talk began of finding the wreck. Given the limits of technology, however, serious attempts were not undertaken until the second half of the 20th century. In August 1985 Robert Ballard led an American-French expedition from aboard the U.S. Navy research ship Knorr. The quest was partly a means for testing the Argo, a 16-foot (5-metre) submersible sled equipped with a remote-controlled camera that could transmit live i...

Within days of the Titanic’s sinking, talk began of finding the wreck. Given the limits of technology, however, serious attempts were not undertaken until the second half of the 20th century. In August 1985 Robert Ballard led an American-French expedition from aboard the U.S. Navy research ship Knorr. The quest was partly a means for testing the Argo, a 16-foot (5-metre) submersible sled equipped with a remote-controlled camera that could transmit live images to a monitor. The submersible was ...

The ongoing search for the missing deep-sea vessel that was viewing the wreckage of the doomed ocean liner RMS Titanic has renewed the public's fascination with the tragic shipwreck.

The ongoing search for the missing deep-sea vessel that was viewing the wreckage of the doomed ocean liner RMS Titanic has grabbed the public's attention and renewed its fascination with the tragic shipwreck.

More than half of the passengers and crew died when the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912.

The wreckage of the Titanic was discovered 36 years ago, on September 1, 1985.

Gibson in "Saved from the Titanic." Eclair Film Company American silent film actress Dorothy Gibson was one of the approximately 700 survivors of the tragedy. Upon arriving in New York City unscathed, she immediately began filming "Saved From the Titanic," the first film to depict the events of the sinking. It was released in May 1912, a month after the crash. She is famous for wearing the same clothes and shoes in the movie as she had worn during the actual sinking. While the film was successf...