Woods Hole Oceanographic Settinga private research and education center in the town of Woods Hole, Massachusetts (USA), will be on display this Wednesday evening a rare never-before-seen video of the first dive on the Titanic wreckafter its discovery in 1985.
The images, taken in 1986, show the historic dive in unprecedented detail. Over 80 minutes of footage on the channel WHO YouTube will describe some of the remarkable achievements of the dive, directed by Robert Ballard.
The footage is shared to mark the 25th anniversary of the release of director James Cameron’s classic film about the maritime disaster. It was the first time human eyes had seen the giant liner since it hit an iceberg on April 15, 1912 and sank in the North Atlantic.
A team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in collaboration with the French ocean research organization IFREMER, discovered the ship’s final resting place at a depth of 3,800 meterson September 1, 1985, using a towed underwater camera.
Nine months later, a WHOI team returned to the site in the famous Alvin research submarine, which can carry three people, and the Jason Jr. remote-controlled underwater reconnaissance vehicle, which captured iconic images of the ship’s interior.
“More than a century after the loss of the Titanic, human stories continue to resonate in the great ship.Cameron, who is also an ocean explorer in addition to being a filmmaker, said in a statement. “Like many, I was transfixed when Alvin and Jason Jr. ventured into the wreckage. By posting this video, WHOI is helping to tell an important part of a story that spans generations and the globe.”
The story behind the discovery of the Titanic wreck in 1985 involved the United States Navy. The mission was to trick the Soviet Union into thinking that the US military was only after the ocean liner.when in reality he was also looking for two missing nuclear submarines.
The team led by Ballard eventually found the Titanic at the bottom of the oceanbut it all started three years earlier, when he was a naval intelligence officer and oceanographer trying to develop his own remote-controlled underwater vehicle.
About 1,500 people died during the maiden voyage of this famous ocean liner., which departed from Southampton, England on April 10, 1912 and would arrive in New York City (USA).
Source: Eluniverso
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