Finding the Titanic | Bob Ballard: An Explorer’s Life

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World renowned explorer, Bob Ballard, describes what it was like hunting for the Titanic and explains that it was actually a cover story for a top-secret naval operation.
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@wittydrolls Год назад

I was born in the 90s and grew up with the movie, I never thought about how or when the Titanic got discovered. Only now after the OceanGate incident that I realized how vast and dark the deep sea is. To see how these explorers found her with 80s technology, with blurred cameras and all that, is just out of this world.

@ce_l24_beddeepghosh84 Год назад

Me too brooo

@theones261 Год назад

i was there

@ni5439 Год назад

Ocean exploration is older than what most people think. And it has been done with very rudimentary technology. The first somewhat accurate mapping of the ocean floor topography was made by using ropes and counting the length it took until the weight at the end reached the floor. They did that several times in an area and created maps

@Scottemmanuel01 Год назад

Do you have the link to the full video

@Maalus3857 Год назад

Same here😢

@31webseries Год назад

I like that they showed their respect to those 1500 men, women and children from across the world who died horrifically, freezing and terrified in the dark. This isn't just a tourist attraction, it's a memorial.

@MarkSmithhhh Год назад

100%

@NStacey1987 Год назад

Agreed. Growing up I always thought it was haunted.

@knowledgeispowerofgod 6 месяцев назад

Wdf I like that ?? This is how humans r ..r u not

@AzlianaLyana 2 года назад

This is one of those historical events that will forever be remembered.

@alimustofa2418 2 года назад

💙💙

@Phlegethon Год назад

@@alimustofa2418good choice of color and icon

@jitenmehra17 11 месяцев назад

No. It wont

@Ezrasghost Год назад

Love the whole story of how they found it. Most people don’t know it’s discovery was a cover up to go find our two missing subs. Rest in peace to those aboard rms titanic as well as our sailors lost aboard thresher and scorpion!

@georgebarnes8163 5 месяцев назад

The Titanics location was already known, it was discovered by the deep sea research vessel HMS Hecate in 1980

@jesusprado9048 2 года назад

Respect. Honestly been fond of people finding the impossible.

@udhayabala8621 2 года назад

Not impossible when it's possible

@Spooky1862 Год назад

@Ellie5621 No one knew exactly where she sank; the Titanic’s reported position turned out to be in error by 13-1/2 miles. Jack Grimm’s expeditions to find the Titanic failed, despite the fact that he had good equipment. Bad weather and bad luck prevented Grimm from succeeding.

@spoons250 11 месяцев назад

@@Ellie5621 It only would have moved a mater of feet from where they gave the distress point at (had it been right). It didnt drink aimlessly, most reported it being as still as if it were being swallowed up by the ground.

@stevenhill3136 Год назад

"'It’s been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was"' - Rose

@lizs8506 Год назад

I love this quote. Thank you for the nice memory

@THOMMGB Месяц назад

Nice words, James Cameron.

@thesportlad 2 года назад

The word 'TITANIC' still gives me nightmares and goosebumps now even though it's been more than a hundred years!

@starsign0805 2 года назад

Same

@tumppu123-h4s 2 года назад

lol

@TransitionedToAShark Год назад

Pretty sure it happened in 1997

@bennieboi7114 Год назад

Yea because you’re guy. Women think of a nice love story.

@NatetheKindaOK Год назад

Why

@ZenZill Год назад

What great respect they showed. Initially joy of finding a lost piece of history, then the reality of a gravesite that had been unearthed in a sense. It's 2023, I think we're losing people of such great intelligence.

@rasulallahkagulamshorts7697 Год назад

Bob Ballard is a legend

@CatholicForever1 Год назад

Good job that they had the respect and sense to give the poor people a moment of silence

@cricuts1 Год назад

Titanic then and Titan now. Heart goes to all those who lost their lives in both incidents.

@scotie690 2 года назад

Not many have guts to do endeavors like this. Ballard had an immense will to do it and got it.

@nflbleudollars4534 2 года назад

Lack of funding is not lack of guts. Where did he get the funding?

@scotie690 2 года назад

He was a reputed oceanographer and working in a secret project with the US Navy.

@christophergardiner5351 Год назад

@@nflbleudollars4534 yeah, but getting the funding was not easy. It was a challenge and achievement as well. I don't see it as a bad thing that he was able to get what he needed especially since it was by persuasion. He wasn't the first as well. Christopher Columbus had to do the same thing.

@georgebarnes8163 Год назад

@@nflbleudollars4534 He got the funding and equipment from the US navy, he was not looking for the Titanic but was employed by the navy to find two sunken nuclear subs in the area, he tripped across the Titanic purely by accident. The Titanic was located in 1980 by the deep sea research vessel HMS Hecate, Ballard did not discover the ship but the first to reach it thinking it was a submarine.

@georgebarnes8163 Год назад

@@user-lr6nj4rm5k certainly was and Ballard has stated the same.

@sonicbm Год назад

The discovery of the titanic regardless if it was a cover or not is so wholesome. Its so beautiful that not only did they get excited but they were able to shorten that excitement of discovery into a moment of silence and pay tribute and respects to the tragedy.

@jaycatenza4194 Месяц назад

“She sinks in 20 minutes” that makes my heart ache beyond explanation.

@somonnitaacharya4371 Год назад

4:08, my heart pays homage

@dynamosaurusimperious2718 2 года назад

I remember first hearing about a submarine finding the long lost Titanic,and I was amazed,and this video just remain of that.

@livinginavwvan207 Год назад

Subs dont operate at 2 mile depth

@lucca9234 Год назад

Bro tricked the government to get him to find the titanic

@viprthered 2 года назад

Love how they found it right before it sink so they gave the people who lost their lives respect with the moment of silence

@a.walters123 Год назад

… I’m not sure what you’re talking about. There was 73 years between the sinking and discovery of the Titanic.

@sananton2821 Год назад

What about daylight savings time? Was it really the same time?

@bena8121 Год назад

@@sananton2821 I don't think they have daylight saving in the middle of the ocean.

@mirfangu Год назад

@@a.walters123 maybe the former comment meant that when titanic discovered (the very first time them saw her on that computer) coincidently it was 2:00 am in the morning and titanic was sink about 2:20 at that time so it wasnt wrong to paid respect for those who lost their life.

@celtictarotreadings333 Год назад

I can just only imagine being alive in that time and hearing the news that she had been found

@DR-mq1vn Год назад

I was 17 in 1985 when they found Titanic. It was a huge deal and everyone was excited!

@Spooky1862 Год назад

I’ll never forget it-I was 15 years old and had been a Titanic buff since the age of 9. I remember the whole family being engrossed with the National Geographic article with Ballard’s photos when it was published shortly after he found the wreck. I didn’t think anyone would ever find it!

@caseybarnes4221 2 года назад

I've never seen such insurmountable proof that someone failed- and then to watch them say "let's try watching the currents" and then winning.

@dreamerjn5375 2 года назад

@LuC-k777 2 года назад

Everything important always happens at midnight

@stevekonbass 2 года назад

Never knew about the cover story and I've had interest in the Titanic since seeing A Night to Remember as a kid.

@jasijones790 Год назад

Who else watching this after this Titan debacle 🥴

@musheghhayrapetyan8982 Год назад

Respect ! You did great job !

@NK-iw6rq Год назад

Here because of the miss submersible. It bewilders me that the wreckage is so deep that it is virtually like finding a needle in a haystack looking for this sub, BUT somehow 37 years ago, they were able to locate any kind of wreckage (nuclear sub or titanic wreck site) that deep on the ocean floor.

@kasperpedersen1527 Год назад

Well as the guy that found the subs and the titanic said. Dont look for big parts. Look for all small fragments and narrow the search down. Titan is very small. So even the fragments wont help to narrow it down. Thats what makes it a needle in the haystack.

@SHAWNEESKYWALKER Год назад

Titanic / Titan. Is anyone really surprised this happened ? I'm not. Talk about tempting fate.

@rockhardsolid3394 Год назад

@@kasperpedersen1527Well they found it 500 yards from the Titanic so it wasn't that difficult.

@kasperpedersen1527 Год назад

@@rockhardsolid3394 yepp i was wrong. Really impressive that they found it so quickly.

@chhive Год назад

Everything important occurred right around midnight, that gave me chill as that’s also the time Titanic sunk, sounds like Titanic’s calling….

@animalinnature7429 2 года назад

good documentary!

@thewalk7215 2 года назад

My heart will go on

@randomfacts6691 2 года назад

Does anyone know this interesting Facts about Titanic? The Titanic's Owners Never Said the Ship Was "Unsinkable". Despite what James Cameron's iconic 1997 film may have you believe, but the owners never said that it could never sink. Historian Richard Howells said that "the population as a whole were unlikely to have thought of the Titanic as a unique, unsinkable ship before its maiden voyage."

@CraftsmanShengCanweget10KSubs 2 года назад

I think that was said to heighten the dramatic effect and emphasize the tragedy , the entertaiment exaggeration, in reality everything failed at some point

@mooblu8837 2 года назад

What they meant is her design, she got 16 empty compartments to keep her afloat, Kinda exaggeration of saying she is unsinkable

@MadHatterDJ- 2 года назад

The newspapers had called her unsinkable. There’s documented testimony from some of the Surviving crew saying that there were passengers who were refusing to get into the lifeboats saying this ship is unsinkable.

@Yetaxa Год назад

Captain Smith famously said he couldn't imagine how ANY modern ship could sink

@dilarch. Год назад

amazing! here's another one Leo DiCaprio was not in the original Titanic when it sank. Despite what the film made you believe

@robertmartinez1231 Год назад

RIP to the 5 that lost there life’s going down to see this

@darren6687 2 года назад

Interesting story and account of the disaster

@leniszameit 2 года назад

wow.i remember when it was on the news.that was such a cool story.here's a family story of my foster mom's mom. granny taylor was still in england.her oldest child n her husband were in canada.he had sent money to granny to buy tickets to canada. so granny n kids go to portsmouth to buy tickets. the shipping agent said ship to canada fully booked. you need to go on next ship.the ship fully booked was titanic. foster mom was born in canada.

@tiffanyvarelli8834 Год назад

I think that area of the water is like the Bermuda Triangle, maybe worse, it has taken so many people & vessels

@amira_856 Год назад

I've always been extremely interested in the Titanic. I have never watched the film, nor was that how I discovered it existed. The history behind it has always been why I have loved to watch documentaries about it, even from a young age.

@PondokKlene77 2 года назад

Tragedi/ kisah pilu kapal Titanic yang terus di teliti. Terima kasih infonya NG.

@twstf8905 2 года назад

Awesome 👍

@aztronomy7457 Год назад

Just signed up for a submarine trip down to see the Titanic. Can't wait to go!

@tiffanyhopkinson2168 Год назад

😂😂😂 see u never

@thesportlad Год назад

Good luck, cos you are gonna greet and meet the Titanic passengers! 😂😂

@arushsewradj1234 Год назад

No dont go its unsave

@dcmastermindfirst9418 Месяц назад

Lol you got balls

@DSR32014 Год назад

What a great person you are! What a bravery👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏hats off to you sir 🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏

@fazer215 Год назад

who is here after oceangate

@BloodofaFool 2 года назад

i need to watch this whole documentary

@arturoguerra1249 Год назад

I love the respect you and your guys giving the men and women who perished on Titanic

@taslimchoudhary1253 2 года назад

Awesome Video 🎄🎄🇮🇳🎄🎄

@alparslankorkmaz2964 2 года назад

Nice video.

@user-jt1mp9ge7j 2 года назад

Respect

@tedsager9162 Год назад

What if mighty T broke apart under water instead of on surface? The stern still water tight would have been more bouyant when tried to be pulled down by bow. Breaking on surface would have been from weight, Being pulled underwater would break from bouyancy.

@kingofthings7929 Год назад

Current theories have a combination of both factors being what happened. The bow had lost all buoyancy and the stern was still buoyant so the ship was torn in two by the forces.

@dikshapatidar2888 2 года назад

That's crazy

@kassandrarivera4312 2 года назад

I love titanic

@kristjankodarin9730 2 года назад

Nice

@SharanyaDuniya 2 года назад

Wow

@Gamebred19964 Год назад

So Finding 2 US Nuclear submarines are the main objectives, finding Titanic was just a side quest, awesome

@jukie16 Год назад

Anybody else here bc that submarine went missing?

@tiffanyhopkinson2168 Год назад

Unfortunately they are all dead

@gbovm 2 года назад

I've never been this fast. What a great achievement...

@user-zj8hs1gg8z 2 года назад

Hi 😊

@marianatrench1609 2 года назад

😂

@user-zj8hs1gg8z 2 года назад

@@marianatrench1609 l want your account in Instagram

@safvan4089 2 года назад

The guy above me is starving

@violetlunna Год назад

Here trying to figure out where the subersimble might be

@royaltyblessed2454 Год назад

Sadly i think the submersible may have met the same fate.

@joelvanwinkle5976 Год назад

Respect honestly admire those that find the impossible

@brianconnelly1238 Год назад

History was definitely made that day, when they found Titanic

@tracyfins Год назад

“Everything important occurs right around midnight”. If that ain’t the truth 👏🏼

@user-uv4tg3fk9b Год назад

Очень интересно

@stevenattias1803 Год назад

Now the Titan submersible imploded right near the titanic. Rest in peace to the 5 souls.

@brandonsalas3811 Год назад

It seems like they only really cared if the Soviet’s were there first

@stevenattias1803 Год назад

@brandonsalas3811 yes regarding the Scorpion and Thresher

@danielbennion80 Год назад

@brandonsalas3811 not necessarily. However, the soviets may have been there prior to the U.S., unbeknownst to us.

@vantriho8513 2 года назад

You try to give the video more brightness it will be great if you do

@williamrunsatlanta9491 Год назад

Found it using the expanded lighter debri field. Smart

@johnnyirizarry1276 Год назад

Anyone here after those 5 people perished submersible 2023

@Sofia-qn6fs 2 года назад

Titanic is always nostalgia 😎

@Grimstar-nj9rf Год назад

You cant label it nostalgia unless you lived when it was discovered or when it sank.

@NateS917 Год назад

@@Grimstar-nj9rf that's like saying you cant be nostalgic for a song if you werent alive when it came out

@Grimstar-nj9rf Год назад

@Nathan91 yeah so true. Glad you agree.

@NateS917 Год назад

@@Grimstar-nj9rf I was disagreeing with you

@KhyyamK Год назад

@@NateS917 gottem xDDD

@Lillyshomer517 2 года назад

OMG OMG I love you guys I have your hammerhead shark pajamas and your sea turtle pajamas I even have your Bengal tiger and The grizzly bear and all the animals

@eldadominguez892 2 года назад

National geografic

@lalaymizo285 2 года назад

👍👍👍👍👍

@chandrajitsatapathy6289 2 года назад

Titanic forever,.

@FatemaAkter-gz3xj 2 года назад

I'm from Bangladesh

@narmada8640 Год назад

Who else is here after hearing a certain news? 😑

@arjungiri7449 2 года назад

❤❤🧡🧡🧡

@beebox9645 10 месяцев назад

I grew up reading about Dr. Ballard’s discovery of the Titanic. I can’t imagine what it felt lol to be at the exact spot where the ship went down and countless people lost their lives. I get chills just thinking about it. The Titanic is a graveyard and should be treated as such. It should not be a tourist attraction.

@georgebarnes8163 5 месяцев назад

Ballard never discovered the Titanic, he was on a US military funded mission looking for two sunken submarines and came across the Titanic by accident, the ship was discovered in 1980 by the deep sea research vessel HMS Hecate

@cleverfitz779 11 месяцев назад

Good evening everyone

@totoahmed1375 2 года назад

👍

@joeymarin2577 Год назад

Who’s here when the sub is on it’s last day 🙏🙏

@carljohnson5243 2 года назад

Eagerly waiting for the finding of Flight MH370

@crencottrell7849 2 года назад

Why is it not until decades later that secrets get revealed? 😕

@andrewjohnson7 2 года назад

Must be something about the word "secret" that's does it. I could be wrong though 🤷‍♂️

@Kole_D 2 года назад

Bc there secret

@albertoascari9390 2 года назад

Lost two submarines with nuclear reactors..... Ok

@Kayy_finaoo Год назад

2023? Extremely similar Submarine disaster

@PUBGrizzZZ 2 года назад

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@Stand_with_Israel Год назад

Never showed the part where they found the hull and as the camera began to rise they could see the whole ship

@saravananmuthusamykonar2292 2 года назад

Tha magic word TITANIC

@helenasyomina8194 Год назад

😮😊

@tonyloyafoos 2 года назад

Every event in history and every event that is bound to happen is all written somewhere, it’s all meant to happen.

@puppylove422 2 года назад

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. -Brittney Lee Hill Collier, Wednesday, July, 28th, 2021. 3:18 p.m.

@sailakshmithadimalla8707 2 года назад

@JBliehall Год назад

Why did he not bring just one item up from the depths and claim salvage rights to the Titanic? Then the ship could have been left in peace instead of being torn apart for "relics" to be sold on the open market by the French. Instead he placed a plaque. I find it very troubling.

@kasperpedersen1527 Год назад

Well now they have cut out a pretty big piece of hull to preserve the titanic indefinitely.

@melee148 Год назад

Because he was being respectful. It is a grave after all

@gokulgopan4397 5 месяцев назад

@@kasperpedersen1527the piece wasn't cut out. It was seperated during the breakup and found in the debris field.

@kasperpedersen1527 5 месяцев назад

@@gokulgopan4397 interesting. Was sure I’ve read/heard that it was cut out. Thank you for correcting me 🙂.

@alex16637 2 года назад

😃

@sar983 2 года назад

🙏😘😇😍

@e0n2006 Год назад

i dont like the fact that he says HE found it ... THEY found it

@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 2 года назад

Motor Vessel TITANIC is titanic.

@Neo-Reloaded 2 года назад

Finally, the truth came out.

@brainsandbeauty2832 2 года назад

Sorry I don't understand the video, what was the truth?

@brainsandbeauty2832 2 года назад

@@madladd8239 thanks, but did people really die?

@livealittle1100 Год назад

@@brainsandbeauty2832 of course. 1600 souls

@hastobe303 Год назад

@@brainsandbeauty2832 It's important to clarify that the Titanic itself was not a cover story, of course. Everything happened pretty much as you've always heard. It was Robert Ballard's endeavor to find the Titanic that was a cover story. He was really looking for something else.

@sananton2821 Год назад

He said "pressure hulls," not "pressure holes."

@brandonsalas3811 Год назад

It seems like they only really cared if the Soviet’s were there first

@francesco6008 2 года назад

Excuse my ignorance in the English language: would anyone be able to briefly explain to me what the discovery is?

@3.2mviews10 2 года назад

titanic? its clear

@francesco6008 2 года назад

@@3.2mviews10 Okok, the title it's clear too... Thanks!

@jerryawesom5928 2 года назад

@@francesco6008 The prefix dis in english is like un, meaning reversal of some action. So discover is removing the cover of the titanic. Reveal the titanic. Make what was once hidden known.

@francesco6008 2 года назад

@@jerryawesom5928 Yes, I had already learned that. But at the end of the video I thought that the discovery was the duration of the shipwreck instead it was the ship itself precisely because I was not sure I understood at the beginning ... and you confirmed it, thanks!

@ankitmyana 2 года назад

This feels like they just found it because they wanted to tell the story

@slydEvil35 2 года назад

You’d be surprised how many major accomplishments have been done for those exact reasons.

@syednaqvi1069 2 года назад

So you find the necklace huh??

@Teebiskit Год назад

If these two submarines imploded then unfortunately that titanic vessel had to of imploded as well

@therustynut1081 Год назад

The only time any item would implode is if its sealed.. that being said since the vast majority of the titanic was not 100% watertight, means that once it submerged it was able to equalize pressure

@Teebiskit Год назад

@@therustynut1081 I’m talking about the vessel that went down to look at the Titanic. Not the actual Titanic itself.

@therustynut1081 Год назад

My bad. Nope the ROV was designed to withstand that pressure so it was 100% capable of surviving and did so

@kasperpedersen1527 Год назад

I think he is taking about Titan, not the rov that first found the Titanic

@DR-mq1vn Год назад

Had to HAVE imploded. Not had to of.

@RISHABHRATHI-ko4es 2 года назад

I hate history subject but I love Titanic

@Jeremyy00 2 года назад

I love rose 🌹

@donsarde Год назад

Has the Titanic deteriorated very much since it's discovery in 1986 and today , 2023 ??

@northerners2828 2 года назад

Can they pull it up, then preserve it an history of titanic?

@livealittle1100 Год назад

Nope. It will crumble the moment you raise even 1metre. It's been in salt water for almost 100+ years. Bacteria and other microorganisms already ate 70% of the Hull. Plus it's a grave site.