Sean Kelly
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From time to time we get news about things related to the Titanic. Not much though. I figure we could realistically aggregate them into a single thread here.
Here's something I just came across:
Explorer Says Titanic Should Be Protected
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Legendary explorer Robert Ballard was nervous this summer as he prepared to return to the Titanic for the first time since he discovered the famous shipwreck nearly two decades ago.
He had been hearing reports of severe deterioration of the ship from natural causes and from damage done by scores of dives. Ballard, a professor at the University of Rhode Island, also worried that all of the personal belongings of passengers had been taken by salvagers.
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Last June, scientists with the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration visited the Titanic and reported it was deteriorating more rapidly than previously thought in its grave 2 1/2 miles beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Of the damage noted, NOAA researchers, scientists and other visitors have reported that parts of the stern are falling apart, the deck where passengers crowded as the ship sank has folded under itself and the crow's nest from which a lookout shouted, "Iceberg, right ahead!" has disappeared.
Ballard, who visits the shipwreck without touching it, said he was disturbed by the damage done by visitors. Submarines that weigh 30 tons have punctured large holes in the ship's deck when they land, he said. |
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12-04-2004 03:35 AM
