I’ll never forget the first images that came back -— showing the pool was still full.
The ship broke in two just under the surface. The front half is estimated to have descended at approx 25 mph upright, angled, taking around 5 or 6 minutes to hit the bottom. The back half spiraled down taking more than twice that much time. It is very doubtful anyone left aboard lived all the way down.
History of Titanic discovery ping!
"In the summer of 1985, Ballard and his crew quietly set out for the North Atlantic on the Navy-owned research vessel Knorr, with new WHOI-developed underwater imaging technology to survey the wreckage of the USS Scorpion, a nuclear submarine lost at sea in 1968."
Did you know that Neil Armstrong replaced the Knorr?
In May 2010, the Office of Naval Research selected the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to operate one of two new research vessels. The research vessel Neil Armstrong was transferred to WHOI operation on September 23, 2015, and replaces R/V Knorr, which the Institution has operated since 1970. Named for the American hero whose "small step" provided humanity with a new perspective on our planet, this vessel will carry on its namesake's legacy of exploration.
The R/V Neil Armstrong meets the range, endurance, and technical requirements to support advanced oceanographic research in tropical and temperate oceans around the world. It will also serve the academic community's ongoing need for a general-purpose ship based on the East Coast of the United States.https://www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/explore/ships/ships-neil-armstrong/
September 23, 2015. It was Yom Kippur. I remember the date well. It's one of those "bookmarks in history" for a memorable personal event, an appointment with destiny in the same general neighborhood as her trials.
And at 238 feet, Our Ship Comes In
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Where's the beef? Where's the baSAR [בשר]?
Where's the good news? [בשר]
Small steps, titanic discoveries:
Isa 52:7
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings [בשר], that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings [בשר] of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
After 73 years! It was her maiden voyage! How could a Royal Mail Ship deliver the mail 73 years after snapping in two and sinking to the bottom of the North Atlantic? She was discovered in an ocean of tears, lying in two main pieces about 2,000 feet (600 m) apart.
Not possible? Okay, well tack on another 40 years to...
1985 in history:
They also carried one of the first uncrewed camera systems called ANGUS which was lowered on a non-conducting trawl wire that would be used to photograph the Titanic once it was found.
The plan was for the French to use their new side-scanning sonar called SAR that conducted a series of overlapping swaths called "mowing the lawn" to ensure they covered 100% of the ocean floor. But after covering 50% of the total search area, they failed to find it. Ballard was now faced with what seemed like an impossible challenge since the Navy wanted him to image the wreck of the USS Scorpion before heading to the Titanic search area.
Since the Titanic had broken apart well before reaching the bottom (as had the Scorpion), he decided not to look for the Titanic but to search for its trail of debris, which in the case of the Scorpion, was over one mile long. This way, he could spread his search lines one mile apart and quickly cover the remaining search effort.
In the early morning hours of September 1, after less than one week of scouring the seafloor for the trail of debris, his fatigued team recognized one of Titanic's boilers [דוד], and then they followed the debris to the north, leading them to the wreck of the Titanic itself. After 73 years lying at the bottom of the North Atlantic, the RMS Titanic had been found.
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210 North St, Boston, MA 02113
Like the sacred heart sign says at the very start of the journey, when the British were coming "Two if by Sea!" 250 shekels ago:
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