At the age of forty-three, Robert Ballard has more than seventy oceanic discoveries and counting. He uses an underwater video camera to search thirteen thousand feet beneath him.
Many men before him tried finding the famous ship that sank in the Atlantic in 1912, but was not successful. The men that failed however, did give Ballard a head start on where not to search.
With all his experience as a deep-sea explorer, Ballard would soon be known as the man responsible for finding the Titanic. Ballard says, “From a very early age, I wanted to be Captain Nemo and I wanted to explore the ocean floor” (Carter). With the encouragement from his parents he joined the Navy where he became a naval officer and an oceanographer. Over time and after …show more content…
collected over 5,500 artifacts from the legendary ship. Anything and everything that could be taken from china dishes all the way to bank notes was taken. Everything from the Titanic would be valuable. A cracker from a survival kit was sold at auction for twenty-three thousand while the last first class lunch menu was sold for eighty-eight thousand dollars. Ballard was not pleased with the outcome knowing that this was not only a historical figure, but a sacred gravesite. Many others believed that over time the ship would deteriorate even faster that it would on its own. Researchers believe they only have just about fifty years left, before the ship is non-existent. Ballard explains, “We went back in 2004 and did it all over again, and we can show you exactly where the submarines had landed, where they had crushed the deck, where they had knocked off the crow’s nest, where they pulled fixtures off the ship, and where they tried to break off the telemotor, all the debris, all the garbage that they left behind” (Carter). Today it has been one hundred and four years since the ship that served the richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor set sail. The ship is slowly falling apart and will soon never be
Many men before him tried finding the famous ship that sank in the Atlantic in 1912, but was not successful. The men that failed however, did give Ballard a head start on where not to search.
With all his experience as a deep-sea explorer, Ballard would soon be known as the man responsible for finding the Titanic. Ballard says, “From a very early age, I wanted to be Captain Nemo and I wanted to explore the ocean floor” (Carter). With the encouragement from his parents he joined the Navy where he became a naval officer and an oceanographer. Over time and after …show more content…
collected over 5,500 artifacts from the legendary ship. Anything and everything that could be taken from china dishes all the way to bank notes was taken. Everything from the Titanic would be valuable. A cracker from a survival kit was sold at auction for twenty-three thousand while the last first class lunch menu was sold for eighty-eight thousand dollars. Ballard was not pleased with the outcome knowing that this was not only a historical figure, but a sacred gravesite. Many others believed that over time the ship would deteriorate even faster that it would on its own. Researchers believe they only have just about fifty years left, before the ship is non-existent. Ballard explains, “We went back in 2004 and did it all over again, and we can show you exactly where the submarines had landed, where they had crushed the deck, where they had knocked off the crow’s nest, where they pulled fixtures off the ship, and where they tried to break off the telemotor, all the debris, all the garbage that they left behind” (Carter). Today it has been one hundred and four years since the ship that served the richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor set sail. The ship is slowly falling apart and will soon never be