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Issue 206
Finding the Titanic
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“The Navy never expected me to find the Titanic… they got really nervous because of the publicity”
The tragedy of the Titanic’s 1912 sinking is a well-trodden story made legend long before James Cameron’s 1997 epic movie. But the journey to locating the long-lost Titanic wreck 40 years ago is an even more fascinating tale – depending on who you talk to – that in many ways is still playing out today. It has all the elements of a blockbuster Hollywood script: a race against time, cutting-edge technologies tested to their limits, highly classified military secrets, high human emotions, danger and enormous risk versus epic reward. We’ve gone behind the scenes of the journey that oceanographer Robert Ballard made as the head of the 1985 Titanic expedition to bring you both the drama and science of this iconic shipwreck’s discovery.