Finding the Titanic was like searching for a needle in a haystack—at the bottom of the ocean! 🌊 For decades, people knew it sank in the North Atlantic, but the exact spot was a mystery. The problem? The ship broke into pieces as it sank, scattering debris across a massive area. Plus, the wreck was sitting over 12,000 feet deep in the dark, freezing ocean, making it nearly impossible to spot with old technology. It wasn’t until 1985 that scientists used special sonar equipment and underwater cameras to finally locate it. 🛳️ Turns out, the Titanic was hiding in a deep underwater canyon. 🌌 Credit:
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00:00The unsinkable Titanic didn't go down peacefully, which made finding its final resting place
00:06all the more difficult.
00:08The world-famous RMS Titanic sank in 1912, but was only discovered in 1985 on a secret
00:16mission.
00:17Although people back in the early 1900s had the approximate location of where the Titanic
00:23was, they didn't have the right technology to find it.
00:27As it went under, the ship sent several CQD signals, standing for Come Quickly, Distress,
00:33to a nearby ship named Carpathia.
00:36Come at once, we have struck a bird, it's a CQD, old man, were some of the final words
00:41transmitted from the Marconi wireless on the ship.
00:45These Morse code messages were also what made the first research missions to the wreck possible.
00:51RMS Carpathia found the lifeboats filled with Titanic survivors, but the world also desperately
00:57wanted to see what became of the famous liner.
01:03The distress call was made two hours before the entire ship slipped beneath the water.
01:08A little over half an hour after the last lifeboat left the ship, the bow was completely
01:14submerged, the stern was sky-high, and the middle of the ship was being ripped apart.
01:20The bow hit the ocean floor hard enough to leave marks that are still there today.
01:25It didn't sink in smoothly beneath the waves, like James Cameron's flick led us to believe.
01:31That's why researchers kept on finding pots, pans, and shoes scattered all over the ocean
01:36floor.
01:37The families of the wealthiest people aboard the ship, like the Astors and the Guggenheims,
01:43wanted to fund a mission to raise the Titanic back to the surface.
01:47But they faced the total lack of technology to do something as simple as locating the
01:52ship.
01:54Fast forward to 1953.
01:57That's when the first serious attempt to find the Titanic wreck happened.
02:01A man named Rizdan Beasley tried using a loud eruptive device to locate the ship.
02:07It sounds weird, but there's science to back it up.
02:10When dynamite goes off, the waves from the detonation hit the bottom of the ocean floor.
02:16With the help of sonars, scientists would be able to locate if there was anything solid
02:21at the bottom of the ocean.
02:23But Beasley had no luck.
02:26Another 20 years would pass before oceanographer Robert Ballard would make his attempt to locate
02:31the Titanic.
02:33Ballard had a bit more luck than Beasley.
02:36Over the previous years, underwater technology had gotten more funding, and so worked much
02:41better.
02:42He tried it the first time in 1977.
02:46Ballard partnered with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on a mission to map the ocean
02:50floor.
02:51While the Institute hired him to test out their new mapping technology, Ballard's intention
02:57was to go a little further and find the Titanic wreck.
03:01In the middle of this new technological ship, there was a hole that allowed for a long pipe
03:06to be extended into the water just above the ocean floor.
03:10Attached to the end of this pipe, Ballard installed a pot with sonars and cameras.
03:16They thought they were in for something big, and so they took this ship to sea to run some
03:20tests.
03:21That's when, on a trial run, adversity struck.
03:25The drill pipe broke, sending all of their expensive material to the bottom of the ocean
03:29floor, just like the Titanic.
03:32When Ballard failed, another important character came into this story, a man named Jack Grimm,
03:39an eccentric oil tycoon.
03:41Grimm had become famous for trying to find things such as Noah's Ark, the Loch Ness
03:46Monster, and Bigfoot.
03:48He also tried to prove the Hollow Earth theory that says that the interior of Earth is entirely
03:54hollow and hosts underground cities and nations.
03:57His search consisted of trying to find a large hole on the North Pole and thus venturing
04:03inside the Hollow Earth.
04:05After his attempts failed, he set his eyes on the jewel liner that had sunk – the RMS
04:11Titanic.
04:13Grimm had the money, but he didn't have the know-how.
04:16So as a billionaire, he made a big donation to Columbia University and asked in return
04:23to use some of their equipment.
04:24He hired a team of highly qualified scientists to help operate the machinery.
04:29Here's where it gets a little strange.
04:33Jack Grimm was a believer in folklore and non-conventional ways of doing things.
04:38So he brought a monkey on board and surprised the research team.
04:43This monkey, called Titan, was believed to point to a map and locate lost things – in
04:48this case, the Titanic.
04:50The scientists went crazy when the monkey appeared and told Grimm it was either them
04:55or the monkey.
04:58This expedition left Florida without Titan.
05:01Yes, there would be no monkey business.
05:04They set the course to the exact location of Titanic's last distress signal.
05:09They arrived, examined every inch of the ocean floor, but still found nothing.
05:15This made them come up with a new important theory.
05:18It might just be that the Titanic's captain gave out the wrong coordinates of the ship's
05:23location.
05:24It isn't too hard to believe this, since the lifeboats were found far away from Titanic's
05:30distress signal coordinates.
05:31What could have happened is that the ship's captain forgot to account for the time zone
05:35change during their travel.
05:37That's understandable for someone under such stress, right?
05:41Grimm's first expedition lasted three weeks, but unfortunately, they found absolutely nothing.
05:48They tried a particularly good search method known as mowing the lawn, where they mimicked
05:53such movements to map every inch of a larger area around Titanic's distress coordinates.
05:59The reasons for failure were important defects in the equipment and terrible weather.
06:05That's when that prior searcher of the lost Titanic came back into the picture, Robert
06:10Ballard.
06:11He didn't have the millions Jack Grimm had, but he had one thing going for him.
06:16The marine geologist was working closely with the U.S. Navy to locate two nuclear submarines
06:22which had sunk in the 1960s.
06:25Ballard himself says he was living two lives, one as a researcher and the other as a Navy
06:31intelligence officer.
06:32The deal was simple – he'd have a green light to search for the Titanic after he found
06:38the two missing submarines.
06:40To find Thresher and Scorpion, he used an unmanned submarine vehicle called Argo.
06:46Argo was like a little snow sled.
06:49It was attached to a bigger ship that sailed above the water.
06:52Argo was connected to the ship by a long cable, and it was piloted by a team on board.
06:58The sled had sonars and cameras that provided real-time imaging of the ocean floor, so it
07:04was a real advancement on other attempts.
07:08After much thinking, he had a eureka moment.
07:11He supposed the force of the wreck should've left a comet trail that led back to the ship.
07:16While searching for the Titanic, most people had tried to find the ship itself.
07:21But until then, it had been trying to find a needle in a haystack.
07:26That's why Ballard's logic was so brilliant – he needed to invert the order.
07:31He had another obstacle on his hands – time.
07:35He could only look for the ship after finding the lost subs.
07:38And by the time that happened, he had 12 days left.
07:43He teamed up with another scientist, and they applied the mowing-the-lawn method to
07:47map the ocean bed.
07:50Another important piece of information that most researchers left out was that there was
07:54a sea current moving south on the day of the disaster.
07:58This meant that the debris field should be south of the distress signal coordinates.
08:02To save time and resources, he would do a quick reconnaissance of the ocean floor, spacing
08:08lines more than 3 miles apart to look for debris fields.
08:12He also relied more on the camera visuals than on the sonar signals.
08:16His team took turns piloting Argo and watching the video.
08:21Days rolled by, with nothing but the empty ocean floor showing up – until the rocks
08:27they were used to seeing started to look like man-made debris.
08:32Suddenly there it was – the Titanic's boiler.
08:36Ballard was right – the debris field would take them back to the ship.
08:41After 73 years of searching, they had finally found the Titanic wreck.
08:47That's it for today!
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