Robert Ballard's Titanic: Exploring the Greatest of all Lost Ships
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (723 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0760793891 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 239 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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John Peterson said This book is great. Titanic is a ship that nearly everyone has grown up knowing about it to some degree, whether its general talk or the movies or just general research on it. Titanic: Exploring the Greatest of all Lost Ships is a book written by Robert Ballard, the man who found the lost ship, through this discovery he became famous. After finding this hidden treasure of the deep, Robert put together this book. Trinity Xavier said Five Stars. very well-written book
Seventy-three years later, on September 1, 1985, the headlines would proclaim "TITANIC FOUND." For on that morning, Dr. Ballard's twelve-year quest to find the sunken liner. With the help of rare archival pictures, charts, paintings and a 25- inch "photo-mosaic" of the ship, Dr. Synopsis On a cold April night in 1912, the magnificent new liner R.M.S. Robert Ballard and a joint French/American expedition had located the legendary lost ship and had photographed her upright on the ocean floor. Robert Ballard's Titanic is the compelling, first-hand account of Dr. The following day the words "TITANIC LOST" shocked the world. For the first time, the exact location of the Titanic is revealed and, finally, many of the mysteries that have surrounded hertragic fate are laid to rest.. In the summer of 1986, Dr. Actually landing on the deck of the ship, Ballard sent Jason Junior, his robotic "swimming eyeball," down the Grand Staircase to "see" glass chandeliers still hanging in place, unseen for three-quarters of a century. Ballard returned to the Titanic and descended 21/2 miles in a tiny three-man submarine to explore the ghostly wreck. During eleven separate descents to the Titanic, Ballard and his team explored the entire ship -including the artifact-strewn debris field and severed s