News about Robert Ballard

Deep sea explorers have obtained a large collection of three prominent shipwrecks from World War II's Battle of Midway in the Pacific Ocean. The photographs, which were taken hundreds of miles off the coast of Midway Atoll, halfway between the United States and Japan, are the first close-up photos of the Japanese aircraft carrier, the Akagi, which has not seen since 1942. The Ocean Exploration Trust, a non-profit group, conducted the underwater surveys using the Exploration Vessel Nautilus. During a mapping survey in 2019, the Akagi's location was first identified. In addition to the Akagi, the expedition team conducted the first comprehensive examination of the Japanese Imperial Navy's Kaga and the USS Yorktown. The USS Yorktown was first reported 25 years ago in 1998.

As the world awaits the discovery of the missing Titanic subpoena, a renewed interest has been poured into the tragic 1912 sinking of the passenger liner, which sparked the tourist expedition. The event, more than a century later, remains the deadliest cruise-ship disaster in history, and the world is still fascinated by it. Of course, there was also the much-heralded dramatized version of the disaster, directed by James Cameron in 1997. The film has remained popular decades later, and it deserves a lot of credit for the fact that the Titanic's plight is so well known. Let's revisit what happened on the day, when tour operator OceanGate Expeditions disappeared in the North Atlantic, and as search efforts continue, as the five passengers' air supply decreases.

When the Titanic sank in the Atlantic in 1912 after striking an iceberg, notice of how the ship could be rebuilt was almost immediately. Several proposals for bringing the luxurious liner up from its resting place were inception decades before expert Robert Ballard's 1985 discovery of the wreck. They include a 1914 plan to use electromagnets to find and drag the ship from the ocean floor, as well as a 1960s attempt to float the Titanic to the surface using gas-filled balloons. Other Vaseline projects included ping pong balls, glass spheres, and even 180,000 tonnes of Vaseline. The first attempt to raise the Titanic began just months after the tragedy, when three of the world's richest passengers, including John Jacob Astor (inset left), arrived together. However, the task of commissioning of a salvage firm to raise the ship and recover the bodies was fruitless because the procedure was impractical given the time. Douglas Woolley, an eccentric Englishman from Baldock, Hertfordshire, stayed in on the act from the late 1960s to today. The factory worker's first attempt was to reach the vessel by submersible before lifting her using nylon balloons attached to her hull. These would be pumped full of air, allowing the ship to 'gently rise to the surface.'

For the first time in 73 years, the ship was discovered by a team led by US Navy officer Robert Ballard in September 1985. The photo, which was published in the Daily Mail and other publications, was taken two and a half miles below the Atlantic waves, more than seven decades after the ship struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank with the death of more than 1,500 people. Ballard's discovery was all the more remarkable when he revealed in 2008 that it had been really a cover story that allowed the US Navy to search the wrecks of two nuclear submarines during the Cold War. Ballard was only given 12 days to search for the Titanic after discovering USS Thresher (top right) and USS Scorpion (bottom right), which were both lost during the 1960s with more than 200 men on board. He may not have found the wreck at all if fortune was not on his side.

Despite the fact that the Titanic was declared to be 'unsinkable' when she was launched, the tragedy, which resulted in the death of more than 1,700 people after it collided with an iceberg, occurred. Despite the fact that the vessel's demise may have been unexpected at the time, the ship appears to have been jinxed right away from the time she sailed from Southampton. Even her departure was postponed by three weeks after her sister ship, RMS Olympic, suffered multiple collisions. Experts have previously discussed the ship's design flaws, including the height of the bulkheads that did not reach the deck above, which meant that water could flood between the Titanic's 16 compartments. A fire broke out on board shortly after she set sail. According to experts, the fire may have caused the ship's sinking by weakening its hull. Since the ship's original second officer forgot to leave the key behind when he was replaced, a new twist of fate emerged when a pair of binoculars that might have been used to identify the iceberg earlier were locked in a cabinet. Photo: Michael Guillen (top right) during a dive into the ship in 2000, when he'almost died' after his craft became trapped in the wreck; the Titan ship (bottom right) that disappeared this week with passengers aboard, including British billionaire Hamish Harding.

The popular RMS Titanic's stunning digital scans (top row) show her more detail than ever since she sank in 1912. MailOnline compares the eerie new photographs of Titanic with how she looked before crashing the iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912 (bottom row), a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of over 1,500 people, including children.

The 191-foot Ironton, which was lost in September 1984, is shown standing on the lake bottom, with the chilly, fresh water that has been sorely preserved' by many other Great Lakes shipwrecks over the years. Officials from the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary remarked on the finding in a region of the Great Lake named 'Shipwreck Alley', a seafarer's term, on Wednesday, noting that the boat's location had long confounded shipwreck hunters for more than a century. The US freight ship came to an abrupt end in 1894, colliding with a grain hauler before sinking in the lake's frigid waters. After a lifeboat carrying its captain and six seamen was pulled to the lake floor before they could detach it from the sinking ship, only two of the ship's crew survived. Officials from Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary had no idea of the boat's fate for more than 120 years, and they's last resting place has long eluded them.' In this photo taken from a video provided by the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the bow of the Ironton is seen in Lake Huron, Michigan's east coast, in a June 2021 snapshot. Searchers have found the long-lost ship that met a tragic end more than a century ago

For the first time since the Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912, a more than 80% video showing the first humans seeing the Titanic up close and personal since it fell to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912 has been broadcast. The haunting video, shot in July 1986, shows the craft approaching the Titanic, inspecting the bow, and finally settling on the deck once packed with wide-eyed passengers embarking on a trip to America 111 years ago. Robert Ballard, a paddler who went 12,400 feet below the sea with two other induvials, was able to search the ship's 'unsinkable' wreck.

On Wednesday, a rare and largely unseen video of the 1986 dive into the Titanic's wreckage is being posted. The video, which is being released by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will premiere at 7.30 p.m. and show the historic dive in unprecedented detail. On the WHOI's YouTube channel, more than 80% of the dive led by Robert Ballard chronicles some of the dive's remarkable accomplishments.

EXCLUSIVE: Investigators may be a step closer to understanding what really happened to female aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (pictured right) after new, yet to be found clues on a critical piece of evidence. The letters and numbers 'D24', XRO, and either '335' or '385' (inset) were found on an aluminium panel (left) which washed up on a small island near where the aviator's plane went missing, according to a scientific report published with MailOnline, including the letters and numbers 'D24', 'XRO' and either '335' or '385' (inset) were discovered on an aluminium panel etched on an aluminium panel (left) etching on '335' or'(inset) were ' According to one, the panel on Nikumaroro island in the western Pacific in 1991 is the metal patch that was added to the aircraft when repairs were made during Earhart's ill-fated round-the-world flight attempt. According to experts, the previously unseen letters and numbers that are not apparent to the human eye may have been related to a manufacturing product code.

Off the coast of Virginia, a long-lost World War II German U-boat that sank a century ago was discovered by a sleuthing diver. The SM U-111, a 235-foot ship that sank three Allied merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean during its time with the German Imperial Navy, sank in waters that the US Navy estimated were 1,600 feet deep, on August 31, 1922. Over Labor Day, diver Erik Petkovic was on board the R/V Explorer about 40 miles off Virginia's coast peering into a video monitor linked to a remotely operated vehicle searching 400 feet below when he yelled out: 'That's it!There it is!'