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Even then, its condition is likely to grow increasingly worse over time, she says. Expedition team leader Vescovo tells TIME that the shipwreck was actually in better condition than he expected. The fact that there are still many glass portholes intact amazed me, and really impressed me just how durable this ship is. Write to Gina Martinez at gina. By Gina Martinez. Imagine looking for something tiny, like an earring, on a football pitch in total darkness.
That's a bit like looking for the wreck of the Titanic in the middle of the huge Atlantic Ocean. People had been searching for the Titanic since it sank in It was the most famous ship of all time and explorers were desperate to find it.
Why was the Titanic so famous? It was the biggest ship in the world. When it was built, people said it was unsinkable. On its first voyage, the Titanic sailed for just 4 days before it hit an iceberg and sank. Over 1, people lost their lives. Scientists and explorers competed to find the Titanic.
One scientist even wanted to take his pet monkey called Titan on a mission to find the wreck! It took over 70 years for explorers to find the Titanic. Robert Ballard was a deep sea explorer with a dream to find the Titanic. The US Navy asked Ballard to find and photograph two sunken submarines in the Atlantic on a secret mission. When Ballard looked for the submarines he realised a crucial piece of information.
When a vessel sinks, the wreckage is carried by undersea currents. This leaves a trail of debris like the tail of a comet.
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