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

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.

• The Bow of the Titanic: (580 Kbytes mpeg)
  Courtesy of Dr. Robert D. Ballard and the JASON Foundation for Education.
• Wreck of the Titanic: Sung by Doc Watson (406 Kbytes)
  from the Southern Folklife Collection Holdings

More Information:

• The Titanic: Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• R.M.S. Titanic; international maritime memorial; findings and purposes - Congressional findings and recommendations
• Titanic: Select Bibliography - from the Maritime History Virtual Archives in Sweden
• Deep Submergence Operations Group at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Deep Submergence Laboratory - at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• R.M.S. Titanic - 83 Years later - An online exhibit highlighting the potential of newspapers as sources for historical and cultural research.
• RMS Titanic Mailing List Information
• Frequently Asked Questions from the RMS Titanic Mailing List
• Titanic Societies in the United States - Addresses and Information.
• Ravensworld Titanic Web Site
• The Titanic Sinks int o the Internet - WWW page by Rohan McCarthy, a 13 year old from Ipswich, Que ensland, Australia.
• The Titanic Project - a student presentation from Exeter-West Greenwich Jr High School.
• The Sinking of the Tita nic
• The Story of the Titanic - a tale from Sweden
• What if they found a survivor of the Titanic? - a review of a play at TheatreWorks' Stage II
• In Memoriam: RMS Titanic
• Polar The Titanic Bear - a children's book by Daisy Corning Spedden
• The Sinking of the Titanic - a review of the record by English composer Gavin Bryars.
• Titanic: An Interactive Exploration - a description of the Phillips/Total Vision Titanic CD-i disc
• Titanic: a journey out of time - a soon to be released CD-ROM containing a fully 3D, digital facsimile of the RMS Titanic.
• Search the Digital Tradition Folk Song Database for all songs that contain the word Titanic.
• Words to yet another version of the Wreck of the Titanic
• The morning sky that greeted the survivors of the Titanic. [800x600 - 11 Kbytes]
• Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Museum contains artifacts from Titanic and some of the victims were buried in Halifax.
• The Marine Museum at Fall River - contains the twenty eight foot model of the Titanic used in the 1952 movie TITANIC.
• The Titanic Rises in Hobart - spend a luxurious night in The Empire Suite of the Titanic on your next visit to Hobart, Tasmania.
• `Owning' the Titanic - an article about the company, RMS Titanic Inc.
• R.M.S. Titanic Inc. - Titanic artifacts and sale of Titanic Coal

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This page is originally from the Smithsonian Institution's
Ocean Planet Exhibition

Gene Carl Feldman (gene@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (301) 286-9428
Judith Gradwohl, Smithsonian Institution (Curator/Ocean Planet)