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google.com	TITANIC WRECK 'COULD BECOME MUSEUM' The wreck of the Titanic could become an underwater museum, its discoverer said.Footage of the doomed vessel, which now has Unesco world heritage protection, from 4,000m under the ocean off the coast of Canada could be broadcast live, Dr Robert Ballard said.The oceanographer uncovered the vessel in 1985 and said the technology existed to beam material from the depths across the world."I see the Titanic becoming an underwater museum, accessed, with wonderful facilities," he said. "We hope to come live on the anniversary of the discovery, September 1."...	14th April 2012
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC WRECK GETS UNESCO PROTECTION The wreck of the Titanic is to come under the protection of the United Nations cultural agency Unesco. The agency says more than 700 divers have visited the site, 4,000 meters underwater off the coast of Canada, often taking artefacts back with them. As it will soon be 100 years since the Titanic sank, the ship will fall under the 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. The convention aims to prevent unscientific or unethical exploration. ...	5th April 2012
BBC News	UK DIVER DIES ON BRITANNIC FILM SHOOT The man, one of Britain's most experienced dive masters, was leading a filming expedition around the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic....	24th May 2009
	FIRST VIDEO FROM EXPEDITION TITANIC
MSNBC.com	UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT LAUNCHED IN TITANIC SEARCH The wind and the seas have not been cooperating with a group of scientists effort to document the debris field where the Titanic sank in the middle of the North Atlantic....	31st August 2010
Seattle Post Intelligence	12-YEAR-OLD STUDENT FINDS A TITANIC MENTOR When you want to find out about a profession, sometimes it's best to go straight to the expert.It was 1985 when underwater explorer Robert Ballard made his discovery of the Titanic shipwreck and Kris Ludwig was growing up in Colorado....	27th February 2008
bbc.co.uk	RACE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN: CAMERON Hollywood director James Cameron has long been passionate about ocean exploration. He pioneered new underwater filming techniques while making The Abyss......	22nd February 2012
guardian.co.uk	US COURT AIMS TO ESTABLISH OWNERSHIP OF OVER $100M IN TITANIC ARTEFACTS The wreckage of the ship so famous it remains a metaphor nearly a century later is collapsing on itself two miles underwater. The ashes of the last survivor, a child of just nine weeks when the giant vessel went down, were scattered at sea last week after her death at 97. ...	27th October 2009
Arizona Republic	EXPLORER TO SHARE LATEST INFO ON TITANIC AT MESA ARTS CENTER Robert Ballard, the marine biologist and deep-sea explorer best known for discovering the Titanic shipwreck, will be at Mesa Arts Center to share tales of his underwater explorations....	15th January 2009
go.com	TITANIC EXHIBITION COMING TO HENRY FORD MUSEUM The first comprehensive map of the Titanic wreck site has been created as researchers pieced together some 130,000 photos taken by underwater robots in the depths of the North Atlantic Ocean. Resembling the moon's surface, the map shows debris and parts of the ship scattered across a 15 square-mile patch of ocean floor. The detailed images might provide new clues about what happened after the "unsinkable" luxury liner hit an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912, killing more than 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers and crew on board....	9th March 2012
discovery.com	TITANIC WRECK SITE MAPPED The first comprehensive map of the Titanic wreck site has been created as researchers pieced together some 130,000 photos taken by underwater robots in the depths of the North Atlantic Ocean. Resembling the moon's surface, the map shows debris and parts of the ship scattered across a 15 square-mile patch of ocean floor. The detailed images might provide new clues about what happened after the "unsinkable" luxury liner hit an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912, killing more than 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers and crew on board....	9th March 2012
Associated Press	TITANIC SHOULD BE ?MARITIME MEMORIAL,' U.S. SAYS Washington - The United States, Canada, Britain and France will work together to increase protection for the Titanic and its wreck site under legislation the U.S. administration sent to Congress Friday.State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said concerted action by the four countries most closely associated with the Titanic would effectively foreclose financing for and the technical ability to conduct unregulated salvage and other potentially harmful activities.Much of what remains of the Titanic rests underwater, about 560 kilometres from Newfoundland, where the British liner sank on April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg. A total of 1,522 passengers and crew were killed in the wreck. More than 700 survived....	10th June 2006
	HAROLD BRIDE - MARCONI RADIO OPERATOR Titanic Stories The Marconi Radio Operator's descendants visit Titanic's birthplace....	14th November 2011
EurekAlert	WOODS HOLE ENGINEERING TEAM FROM TITANIC DISCOVERY TO BE HONORED The underwater research vehicle Jason Jr., which gained international attention for its exploration inside the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic in July 1986, and its engineering team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will be honored July 14 with the 2006 GlobalSpec Great Moments in Engineering award.The honor comes on the 20th anniversary of the Institution's second expedition to the wreck of Titanic, nine months after the initial discovery by an unmanned towed camera system named Argo. At the time the Deep Submergence Laboratory (DSL) at WHOI, part of the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, was developing the dual vehicle Argo/Jason system for deep ocean exploration. Jason Jr. was a prototype meant to test design concepts for the planned and much larger remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason, which is controlled from the surface via a miles long cable....	12th July 2006
San Francisco Chronicle	NEW TITANIC EXHIBIT IN SAN FRANCISCO In telling the oft-told tale of engineering hubris and an iceberg in the night, the show's organizers and designers feed the public's sturdy appetite for Titanic lore and kitsch. They do it by merging some 300 relics with reconstructed spaces from the ship, theatrically dramatic lighting, ambient sound and period music, photomurals, video and hands-on details. The viewer's sensory pleasure is foremost throughout, right down to a freezer-cooled iceberg you can walk up to and touch. Everything here is meant to seduce and entertain -- with a pinch of education as a bonus -- and much of the show succeeds in doing just that. ...	12th June 2006
Santa Barbara News-Press	RUTH BLANCHARD DIES, WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Ruth Becker Blanchard, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Friday at home in Santa Barbara. She was 90. Mrs. Blanchard died of complications of a stomach ulcer and old age, said Don Lynch, spokesman for the Titanic Hist...	8th July 1990
Titanic Research	THE GROUNDING OF TITANIC David G. Brown and Parks E. Stephenson Explores the hypothesis that that Titanic grounded on an underwater shelf of the iceberg....	6th June 2001
guardian.co.uk	SINKING OF THE TITANIC: THE WATERY SOUND MEDITATION RETURNS Gavin Bryars's piece of 'conceptual art' music has been performed in a swimming pool and water tower by child violinists and an experimental DJ. It now comes to the Roundhouse...	11th May 2009
Peoria Journal Star	TITANIC EMOTIONS PEORIA - More people have been to outer space than have journeyed 2.5 miles below the ocean surface to view one of the most famous shipwrecks in history. Even so, when Lowell Lytle got the opportunity to tag along on a salvage mission to the Titanic in 2000, he had no idea the experience would move him so deeply....	25th May 2009
	TITANIC ON ICE James Tennant The Titanic sideswiped an iceberg and disappeared into history. What we haven’t heard about is the ice that broke her apart as she sank. The latest clue to this ice was the discovery of two intact pieces of double hull far from...	11th March 2011