HOW DEEP can they go?

RMS Titanic's Final Resting Place
12,500 ft (3810 m)

Painting above © Jim Clary
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In 1985, Dr. Robert Ballard led a team of researchers in a joint French-American expedition and found the final resting place of the R.M.S. Titanic. He and his colleagues returned one year later with the DSV Alvin and a specially designed robot, the Jason Jr., to explore the ship.

Titanic-related Web Sites and Information

  1. The Titanic: Encyclopedia Smithsonian
  2. Posted Aboard R.M.S. Titanic
  3. Titanic's Lost Sister - NOVA online
  4. R.M.S. Titanic; international maritime memorial; findings and purposes - Congressional findings and recommendations Site
  5. The Grave of the Titanic from The Gulf of Maine Aquarium
  6. The 3D Titanic
  7. Titanic Tidbits
  8. Titanic-Titanic.com- an incredible array of links and information about the Titanic including a Titanic Discussion Forum

Titanic-related Organizations

  1. The Titanic Historical Society (THS)
  2. Belfast Titanic Society
  3. Scandinavian Titanic Society has now begun its work and welcomes new members.

Student Sites about the Titanic

  1. The Titanic in the classroom from the Department for Education and Children's Services (Australia)
  2. The Titanic in the classroom - more from DECS Australia
  3. Titanic Buff's Homepage
  4. Titanic and her Sisters - a great site with easy to follow topics

Newspaper and Magazine Accounts

  1. Images of the Titanic From Maryland Newspapers

Art, Books, Film, Video, Music, Dance and Literature

  1. Inside the Titanic - The News with Brian Williams on MSNBC
  2. The Last True Story of Titanic by Jim Clary
  3. TITANIC IN 3-D MOVIE from the National Geographic Society
  4. Titanic in Dream & Legend - paintings and story by Peter Selgin from Urban Desires
  5. Words to yet another version of the Wreck of the Titanic
  6. Titanic - The second part of the trilogy created in 1992 for the first Biennial International Dance Festival by Frédéric Flamand
  7. Secrets of the Titanic, History's Greatest Shipwrecks Collection and Last Voyage of the Lusitania videos from National Geographic
  8. Titanic: A Voyage of Discovery - a new interactive CD-ROM website

Museums, Organizations and Individuals Associated with the Titanic

  1. Dr. Robert D. Ballard
  2. Secrets of the Deep a lecture by Dr. Robert Ballard at the National Geographic Society - February 10, 1998
  3. The Deep Submergence Laboratory Homepage, and the Deep Submergence Operations Group at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  4. Photograph of Jason Jr.: Underwater ROV
  5. Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Museum contains artifacts from Titanic and some of the victims were buried in Halifax.
  6. Encyclopedia Titanica: -Titanic Research, Passenger and Crew Biographies, Pictures, Titanic Articles

Titanic-related Artifacts, Memorabilia and Nostalgia

  1. Titanic International- an organization dedicated to the research of ocean liners
  2. New Steamship Consultants - Ocean Liner Memorabilia Resources including pictures of some very Rare Titanic Memorabilia.
  3. The morning sky that greeted the survivors of the Titanic. [800x600 - 11 Kbytes]

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Judith Gradwohl, Smithsonian Institution (Curator/Ocean Planet)