Almost immediately after the Titanic sank on 15 April 1912, proposals were advanced to salvage it from its resting … See more

D. Michael Harris and Jack Grimm failed to find the Titanic, but their expeditions did succeed in producing fairly detailed mapping of the area in which the ship sank. It was clear that the position given in the Titanic's dis… See more

Following his discovery of the wreck site, Ballard returned to the Titanic in July 1986 aboard the research vessel RV Atlantis II. Now the deep-diving submersible DSV Alvin could take people back to the Titanic for the first time si… See more

The location of the wreck is a considerable distance from the location transmitted by the ship's wireless operators before she went down. The Titanic is in two main pieces 325 nautical miles (600 km) southeast of … See more

Prior to the discovery of the Titanic's wreck, in addition to the common assumption that she had sunk in one piece, it had been widely believed that conditions at 12,000 feet (3,700 metres) down would preserve the ship virt… See more

The Titanic's discovery in 1985 sparked a debate over the ownership of the wreck and the valuable items inside and on the sea bed around it. Ballard and his crew did not bring up any artefacts from the wreck, considerin… See more