Scientists to Create 3-D Map of Titanic site - The Boston Globe

New Images From Titanic Expedition
Boston Globe, September 3, 2010

Scientists Create 3-D Map of Titanic Site - The Boston Globe


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View Lara Logan's profile of Robert Ballard on 60 Minutes:

Robert Ballard discovered the Titanic, the Bismarck and the PT 109 and now 60 Minutes cameras are there for his latest discovery, 1,500 feet down in the Aegean Sea off Turkey. Lara Logan reports.

The deep sea between Turkey and Greece is a graveyard for ancient shipwrecks. Many still lie undiscovered at the bottom of the ocean, fragments of history that remain beyond reach thousands of years later. Now, one of the greatest undersea explorers in the world, Robert Ballard, is trying to uncover their secrets. You may know him as the man who discovered the Titanic, but what he couldn't say then is that he was on a clandestine mission for the Navy at the time. It was a secret he kept for more than two decades until the mission was declassified. You'll hear how that mission helped him find the most famous wreck in modern history and about Ballard's many other discoveries in his 50 years at sea.

Here is how Robert Ballard found the Titanic:



Exploring wrecks is a dangerous business. That point was brought home to Dr. Robert Ballard during his search for the Lusitania, a passenger liner sunk by the Germans during World War I.