The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), dedicated to ocean research, exploration and education, releases a preview video, never before publicly seen, of the dive that first filmed the wreck of the Titanic in 1986.
The institution, based in the state of Massachusetts (USA), announced that at 10:30 pm this Wednesday, February 15, [hora argentina]the complete video, without cuts, lasting 80 minutes, is visible on his website.
The images were recorded nine months after the famous and immense liner was at a depth of 3,780 meters, a few kilometers from the place where she sank on April 14, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.
The ship lay at the bottom of the sea for 73 years, until a French-American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel, of Ifremer, and Robert Ballard, of WHO, located the remains on September 1, 1985 at 1 p.m. :05 at a depth of 3,780 meters, 625 kilometers southeast of Newfoundland.
The discovery of the wreck of the Titanic occurred after some failed attempts by other expeditions and was fundamental in clarifying the exact cause of the sinking. At the time, the vessel’s exterior was recognized and it was confirmed that she had not sunk into the sea in one piece, as some researchers thought, but rather it had split in two.
The WHO team enlisted the help of the famed research submersible Argo and later the remotely operated underwater exploration vehicle Alvin, which took iconic images of the vessel. It was the first time human eyes had seen the giant ocean liner since she hit an iceberg and sank.
Since the submarine Argo could not enter the liner, Ballard decided to prepare more advanced technology. One year after the discovery of the remains of the Titanic, on July 18, 1986, the researcher returned to the Atlantic Ocean with the submarine Alvin to explore its interior.
In this second expedition, the large halls with the lamps that still hung from the ceilings and many rooms of the ship were photographed.
Ballard’s expedition inspired director James Cameron to make a film about the story of the sinking and Titanic was released in 1997, one of the highest grossing films in history.
In fact, the diffusion of the video of its discovery, almost 111 years after the fateful end of the ocean liner built in Belfast, coincides with the 25th anniversary of James Cameron’s film about the sinking of the Titanic, in April 1912, after hitting an iceberg and sinking in the freezing North Atlantic on her maiden voyage from the British port of Southampton to New York. About 1,500 people died and there were about 700 survivors.
“More than a century after the loss of the Titanic, the human stories embodied in the great ship continue to resonate“, assured Cameron, who in addition to being a director is a marine explorer. “Like many, I was paralyzed when they ventured out and accessed the wreck. By publishing this video, WHOI is helping to tell an important part of a story that spans generations and spans the globe.”
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