The discovery of the Titanic - Exploring the greatest of all lost ships

Dr. Robert D. Ballard

Madison Publishing

1987

232 páginas

7h 44m

ISBN-13: 9780670819171

Descend 2 1/2 miles to the ocean floor and explore the haunting wreck of the legendary lost liner

The disaster:
April 14, 1912
R.M.S. Titanic, the largest and most luxurious ship afloat, lies stricken in the north Atlantic. A brief with an iceberg has just scaled her fate - and that of more than 1500 people on board.

The discover:
September 1, 1985
after weeks of frustrating, fruitless searching, Dr. Robert Ballard and his team suddenly see one of the Titanic's massive boilers. After 73 years, the greatest of all sunken ships has at last been found.

Here is Dr. Robert Ballard's thrilling account of how he dove into the darkest reaches of inner space to explore the most famous lost ship of all time.