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Ocean Robots: RMS Titanic
After RMS Titanic was discovered in 1985, scientists returned several times to photograph and map the fabled wreck, shedding light on how it sank, and how wrecks around the world […]
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RMS Titanic, Meet DSV Alvin
The wreckage of RMS Titanic was discovered on the seafloor 25 years ago this week. A year later, a WHOI-led expedition returned with the deep-sea vehicle Alvin and […]
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Argo and Titanic
Thirty years ago today, a group of scientists, engineers, and technicians aboard the research vessel Knorr discovered the final resting place of RMS Titanic. The team found the […]
Read MoreTitanic Homecoming
A Titanic Task
William Lange (right), director of the Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory at WHOI, Dave Conlin (center), chief of the National Parks Service’s Submerged Resources Center, and James Delgado […]
Read MoreThe Original Titanic Map
Following the 1985 French-American expedition that discovered the wreck of Titanic, WHOI researchers William Lange, Elazar Uchupi, and Bob Ballard examined all the still and video images captured […]
Read MoreA Titanic Puzzle
WHOI scientist Hanu Singh and former graduate student Sacha Wichers examine a photo mosaic of the wreck of RMS Titanic. The 866 individual photos that make up […]
Read MoreRevisiting Titanic
A film crew interviewed David Gallo, WHOI’s Director of Special Projects, on Dyers Dock in October 2011 for a documentary about the RMS Titanic. Gallo served as co-expedition leader […]
Read MoreReaching Titanic
On September 1, 1985, scientists working on board the R/V Knorr captured the first photographs of the wreck of the RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic beneath more […]
Read MorePiecing Together Titanic
Expedition Titanic 2010
In 1985, a WHOI-led team discovered the site of the most fabled shipwreck in history—the RMS Titanic. In 1986, a group returned to examine the wreck in more […]
Read MoreFinding Titanic
The sunken luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic was located on September 1, 1985 by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s new imaging vehicle Argo, towed from the Research Vessel Knorr. Today […]
Read MoreA Field Trip for the Alvin Sphere
National Geographic is hosting a Titanic exhibit from May 30, 2018, to Jan. 6, 2019, at the Society’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The exhibit will include the old personnel sphere from […]
Read MoreHomeward Bound
In its four decades of operation, R/V Knorr has traveled more than a million miles, from the Galapagos Islands in the equatorial Pacific, to the frigid North Atlantic and many […]
Read MoreAlvin’s New Quarters
At a public event in Woods Hole in October 2010, visitors get a close look at a mock-up of the new personnel sphere the research submarine Alvin will receive during […]
Read MoreReady for pickup, please
RV Atlantis steward Carl Wood chats with the Alvin pilot inside the sub during a recovery in the Equatorial Pacific. Launched in 1964, the sub’s most famous exploits include […]
Read MoreWorkhorse of the sea
The once and future Alvin
Underwater Maintenance
Ocean Termites
Those exploring the wreck of the Titanic have found none of the elaborate woodwork that was the hallmark of the luxury liner’s grand staircase. Any wood that does remain […]
Read MoreRobotic Trailblazer
Shortly after a WHOI-French-led expedition found the wreck of Titanic on the seafloor in 1985, the Navy commissioned a return mission to test a small remotely operated vehicle […]
Read MoreHail to the Discovering Heroes
Crowds of family members, WHOI staff, and other well-wishers—including hundreds of journalists and 18 film crews—thronged the pier at WHOI in September 1985, as the research vessel Knorr returned […]
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