First human visits to the wreck
Ballard returned with the deep submersible Alvin and the tethered robot Jason Junior, which flew down the grand staircase well and into the hull. The dives produced the first close photography of the bow, the debris field and the interior, and established the wreck's condition and rate of decay as a baseline for later surveys.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Robert Ballard · person · not located
- Titanic wreck site · wreck site · International waters
Evidence
Verified — Every field is supported by a cited authoritative source.
Records of the 1985 Franco-American Titanic search (R/V Le Suroît and R/V Knorr, Argo imaging sled)
The wreck was located on 1 September 1985 by the towed imaging sled Argo; the hull lay in two major sections roughly 600 m apart with an intervening debris field, at approximately 3,800 m depth.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and IFREMER · 1985 · Verified
R/V Knorr cruise, August-September 1985, with the Argo towed imaging sled (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), preceded by the R/V Le Suroit sonar sweep (IFREMER)
Recorded on Robert Ballard
Related
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- Wreck located by the Argo camera sled · 1985-09-01
- First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS · 1912-04-15 00:15
- Lights fail and the hull breaks in two · 1912-04-15 02:18