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Finding the Titanic: How Images from the Ocean Depths Fueled Interest in the Doomed Ship

Finding the Titanic: How Images from the Ocean Depths Fueled Interest in the Doomed Ship book cover
Chapter One SEARCHING FOR THE TITANIC Robert Ballard looked out over the North Atlantic Ocean and wondered whether he would find what he was looking for Somewhere beneath the Knorr the ship that had carried him to this spot lay the remains of the Titanic After years of research Ballard was convinced he had found the area where the great steamship had come to rest more than 70 years earlier On the night of April 14 1912 as it made its first voyage the Titanic had struck an iceberg almost 400 miles 645 kilometers southeast of Newfoundland Canada A few hours after midnight on April 15 the ship sank nearly 2 5 miles 4 km before settling on the ocean floor Of the more than 2,200 passengers and crew only 705 had survived