It’s early 1980s and Dr. Robert Ballard has a dream. That dream was to discover the Titanic. The depth of the Atlantic Seabed would force Dr. Ballard to go deeper than any deep-sea diver had gone before. In 1973, the ALVIN (a manned deep- ocean research submersible owned by the United States Navy) had to go through structure changes to withstand the depth necessary to reach the Titanic which was around 13,000 feet. The researchers did not have much to go on in terms of a location for the ship itself. A documented distress signal placed the Titanic at 41*46’N, 50*14’W but seemed inaccurate. The Carpathia, the vessel responsible for rescuing the survivors, reached the lifeboats before they should have. After one failed attempt, Dr. Ballard factored
