Dr. Ballard is one of the most accomplished men of his generation. Most importantly his upmost respect and decency he portrayed throughout his entire Titanic exploration and the decades that followed. He never lost sight of the tremendous event of human loss that the Titanic was. He has shown genuine compassion from day one. And in a way that so many others have failed to do. For me, it sets him apart. Thank you for all the pain staking work you’ve done sir. You’ve done so much for science.
I was given a titanic book by professor Ballard for my 13th birthday. I’m 42 now and I still look at it every couple of weeks. A fascinating subject by an incredible man. We have a lot to thank him for.
Highly respected and honorable man. I was a paperboy in '85 and remember the headlines reading 'Titanic Found' with a grainy image. It was a big deal back then because it was lost for 73 years and so difficult to find. Armstrong landed on the moon and Ballard the Titanic. The stuff of legend.
Man I love old timey stories like that. I wasn’t born until 89. Most significant historical event I grew up with was 9/11 lol. Nothing as cool as being a paper boy and seeing a TITANIC FOUND headline. That sounds awesome.
@@MisterK-YTit was the moon landing moment for a generation. The story of the Titanic was one of intrigue and mystery. It sank in a remote area of the ocean , deep and complex terrain. Assumed lost forever never to be found. Oceanographers did not have the technology to find the illusive wreck prior until Argo technology. Ballard was very intelligent and apparently dyslexic. He was originally hired by Reagan to find Thresher and Scorpion nuclear subs which suffered implosions and sunk.
I remember as a kid learning about Dr. Ballard and Titanic. He’s humble, admits mistakes, and gives credit where it’s due. A true explorer (Titanic) and public servant (Thresher/Scorpion) at the right place and time in history. The world needs more Dr. Ballard and fewer grandstanding entrepreneurs.
I could listen to Dr. Ballard talk about deep sea exploration for hours...and I have. He's incredibly smart and speaks about his area of expertise with so much enthusiasm - he wants everyone to know what he's talking about how exciting his discoveries are and why.
I wonder how people felt that day when they thought the ship sank in one piece but instead they realized some of the survivors were right it did split apart during the sinking
I was only 6 months old at this time, so I am really loving this. I can't imagine what it was like back then to see such a discovery. Bob has an amazing personality!
@@2HitWonder wow I can’t imagine the wonder and excitement she must’ve felt looking at those pictures and grainy videos as they were being released. That must’ve felt like such a surreal bombshell for her. I’m glad she’s still here in 2023!
@@2HitWonder❤ Awww that's wonderful. So glad she got to see that The Titanic had been discovered. Our love for the ship never waivers. We mourn the extreme loss of this disaster. 😢
Amazing that this search was actually used as a cover when they where actually looking for 2 sunken nuclear submarines (Thresher and Scorpion) . They had a couple of days after finding them to locate Titanic. And found it they did.
Common sense conveys to most human beings that you would never go up to a grave in a cemetery and take something off of it or desecrate it, in any way. You just don't do it. With everything he has going for him...Robert Ballard has a good heart. He didn't even like subs hitting the ship and doing damage, much less looting it. He deserved to make that find. His heart was pure and he had good intentions. ♡
Unfortunate some American company did make a hole in the ship and retrieve items before they were gone forever. I’m sure they were looking for the ship safe to retrieve.
I would’ve grabbed a souvenir. Can’t help myself. Not to sell or boast about though. I’d need that physical connection to remember. Even in my life, I have little things from when I was younger, mementos.
@@sweett9987 no, of course not. But I don’t think it’s the same. A grave implies someone was properly buried and you’re looting a corpse. Grabbing a bottle of wine from the titanic doesn’t feel like looting someone’s grave/corpse to me.
@@MisterK-YT I get the detachment of it, I do. Two sides to every stone, I suppose. My father is buried at sea. When I see people litter on the beach, it feels akin to them trashing his grave. Likely why I see it differently. Idk. Not knocking your view, at all. I know they'd have given everything on that ship to have a chance at life. Seems almost sacrilegious to take anything, imo.
This video is what I've been waiting for for a really long time. I hope that similar videos from 1986, if available, are posted as well (I wish to know more about the moment when they finally found the stern).
I'm also fascinated by this and would love to know how/when they actually found the stern and the state it was in. It's incredible watching this press conference though and learning what they knew or thought they knew before they were able to accomplish a more thorough survey the following summer.
The Titanic took over 73 years to be found after she sank at a depth of about 12,500 feet, but her rescue ship Carpathia took over 81 years to be found after she sank at a depth of somewhere between only 500 and 600 feet. As for her ignoring ship, the SS Californian, she sank at a depth that is believed to be even deeper than the Titanic and even to this time in 2024, she still hasn't been found.
In light of the recent submersible disaster, one detail that became apparent was the story of a sub that was swept into the propeller of Titanic some years ago. They got stuck in the debris, but the key detail for me is that some if these subs are obviously doing damage to Titanic. Not all, but some submersibles, which flies in the face of preserving the wreck.
I like how he says, " We mowed the lawn," as pertaining to his methodical search pattern. Self explanatory, and tedious on 30 ' seas and in winds of 40 knotts.
I was at school in 1985 when our teachers stopped class and let us watch the news reporting on the discovery of the Titanic..I had read many books on the subject for a couple of years by then and I was glued to the TV watching the video of the Titanic..it didn't seem real but it was ..Bob Ballard made history that day..he is my all time favorite scientist.
The whole bumping in the to second funnel story turned out to be wrong. They might have hit something, but the stack was long gone since the time of the sinking.
So articulate and advanced at that time.Rivetting breakthroughs.Just incredible and what an amazing explorer scientist and educator.Hats off to you.....Dr Bollard.
The one person I always wanted to meet in my life like others,and so charismatic and true his being when I did at Titanic Belfast at his seminar in 2014…
Looking at this old footage and compared it to the footage documented by OceanGate company, I really appreciated these old technologies, workers, engineers and scientists. They all managed to discover Titanic despite having blurry vision and video. Minimum lights and old cameras quality. I hope all people who attended that event are still alive right now and wish they have seen the documentary crystal clear footage taken by OceanGate with High Quality Camera (probably GoPro)
Ocean gate? 😂 Your kidding right? When did you write this comment? Right after it imploded? You need to do your research, look up Magellan and Atlantis, they are the ones who did detailed mapping, and even found jewelry and gold in the debris. Ocean gate was a joke, and I'll add James Cameron to the list of ppl that discovered more about the Titanic because of his obsession by it, and dives on it, movie on it ECT
This was almost entirely new information for me; I wish we had more Robert Ballard and less clueless news anchors. I have never seen anything like this; if only modern news conferences were conducted in such an informative, polite, and efficient manner!
So the second funnel was still intact?? In every other interview and documentary he’s stated that all the stacks were gone luckily bc they were afraid of bumping into them while exploring
I'm wondering what it was as well because it in fact was not intact. The funnels are all out in the debris field. At the point of this interview they didn't even know it was only half the ship.
Wondered the same thing myself. He talks about bumping into the stack, rubbing off some paint, even talks about the rig rubbing against the guy-wires. He was definitely convinced it was there. Yet everything I've ever seen says the stacks were gone when they found it. Very odd.
All funnels were gone when the ship went down. This was Ballard's very first visit to her wreck and he had no idea what to expect. I gues he bumped into the funnel's base and only assumed it was intact.
One thing I heard about Ballard's expedition is that one of his submersibles brought part of a cable to his research ship. Ballard thought it was undoubtedly from the Titanic so in order to avoid any gold rush on his ship he threw it back into the ocean
These are absolutely incredible images, Ballord did a great job educating the media about the incredible complexity of what they found. having no comparison to the technology of today and the enormous world of the water completely different dynamic vs filming above water
I'm gonna ask my mom if she watched this as it happened back in the day! Would have been a huge story! Just like when Titanic the movie with Leo and Kate was so huge cause there's still such a strong interest! I can only imagine how excited they were to finally have the tech to find it!
Probably the remnants of the 2nd funnels base or a vent of some kind. Keep in mind that the submersible he is talking about had a very low quality camera so he probably didn't see anything official but made a guess as to what it hit.
I remember this from when I was a child. I was 6 years old. I’ve been obsessed with titanic ever since. I love Bob Ballard. I believe his company is right here in Connecticut. Great video but his explanation of everything in this video was painful lol, he’s much better now that he’s older with almost 40 additional years of experience
Why did he say the funnels were intact??? Never heard that before. Obviously they were mistaken at first as we know the funnels are gone? Did they damage what was left maybe? Interesting
Its also interesting that they show that just the very stern of the ship was broken off and its was right next to the rest of the ship. We now know it broke closer to the middle and they are very far apart.
He accurately compared these first videos to the television coverage of the first moon landing, which was black and white and dark and fuzzy. Like later videos taken of the Titanic the moon landing videos will get progressively better. Technology progresses step-by-step.
Why are really indepth press conference like this not a thing any more? This one is great. Right up there with the one General Schwarzkopf gave after Desert Storm.
That’s a real man right there. My generation (millennial) doesn’t really have any great explorers. At least not that we’ve all known about. Prior generations had guys like Ballard, Armstrong, etc. Either there are no big famous explorers that came about while my generation was growing up, OR society just didn’t value explorers enough anymore to make them famous, so most of us don’t even know about them.
I brought up another video of a plane 13 thousand ft in the air with footage pointing towards the ground, it gives you kind of a better understanding how deep this ship is, 😮
Dr. Ballard was very emotionally affected when he view the debris of the Titanic where Pairs of shoes were laying there from those who drowned in 1912. Robert Ballard said if the Titanic had hit hit the iceberg head on instead of sideways the ship would have survived.
If not for the CIA funding of his search he probably wouldn’t have found it in 85. He was also required to look for the wreckage of the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion submarines.
Wow… I always thought they knew where exactly it sank. I didn’t realise how much of a bog deal it was to have discovered the ship’s whereabouts. It was way 6 years before I was born, so…
No, they didn’t and it was proven that the coordinates the Titanic’s crew sent out when she was sinking were to the wrong location when she was finally found.
I thought it was interesting that he was saying the 3rd funnel was still standing -- with the guy wires. Did he ever retract that comment, or was the funnel truly still standing on the wreck back in 85?
@@christopherwaits7852 Yea I see Ballard corrected himself after his expedition found the wreck He went back in '86 one year after and a closer look revealed that all the funnels had toppled "Highlighted reply" here too btw
Very interesting, I easily remember them finding the legendary Titanic. That was a headline event itself. But what I remember is that the stern was found like a year later. I remember it being a total shock that they had found the stern, and the bow was missing, and that therefore the Historians were wrong on their accounts of the sinking. All the titanic movies and titanic paintings clearly showed it sinking bow first, with no breaking apart. Then suddenly, they were saying, no it didn't sink like that after all. They had made those eye witnesses (over a dozen) who saw it break apart believe they were imagining things. Many of them died thinking they had just dreamed up the Titanic breaking apart. So sad! But then they found the Titanic, then they discovered later that it was split in half, and then a year or so later they identified the stern almost a mile away. Them finding the bow and stern on that one trip is definitely NOT THE WAY I REMEMBER the discovery of the wreck. It was clearly in stages with a big gap of time between stern and bow discovery. Can anyone confirm or dismiss my memory?? Thank you!! GREAT VIDEO THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING WITH THE PUBLIC
I believe that has to do with the fact that they simply didn't have the full picture of what they were looking at when this was shot, given how little time they had to actually document the wreck (for instance, it was stated multiple times in the video that the second stack was still standing, although it collapsed at the time of the sinking). They didn't know how much of the bow was there past the front of the second stack, other than that the stern wasn't where it should be, and they had found components off of the stern in the debris field, but had yet to actually find the main structure of the stern itself, which was found in July of 1986
This was so amazing when I first saw it in National Geographic magazine. I used to absorb information from those books like Johnny 5 from Short Circuit.
It's kind of scary that life works so weirdly that this same conference inspired such things as the Titanic movie and the rise of DiCaprio, but also to inspire Stockton Rush and also millionaires to die going to the ship.
@@Legitcar117 he literally said at one point they knocked into a stack didn't damage it but probably got paint on the rov lol it must have been something that looked like a stack
@@titan-tm7kl when they ripped they left jagged pieces, they wouldn’t have been still attached at that point, they were said to have all fallen off during the initial sinking prior to breaking in two. The cables not being attached on the wreck also wouldn’t have been supporting it therefore it wouldn’t be standing either way.
@@Legitcar117 I know about the condition it ended up in after the decent to ocean floor , Its just that in the news report and Robert Ballard talking they talk about standing stacks not just jagged edges from where they broke away but bumping into still erect smoke stacks so it was either very murky and low light and they thought it was a smoke stack but you'll hear him say it
@@mrlionsfan1135One of the Marconi operators from titanic got annoyed with the Californians repeated iceberg warnings so Californian operators turned their machines off. The Titanic operators were too busy relaying messages from first class passengers to pay much attention to the iceberg warnings. I guess you could call the whole experience a sinking ship 😢
The Californian Captain was definitely very disappointed in the creation of the 1958 movie A Night To Remember which was released just 4 years before he died and his son spent the rest of his life trying to get his father’s name off the Titanic’s list and really complained big time when the Titanic wreck was finally found just 9 years before he died.
Well the captain of the titanic didnt listen to warnings on a moonless night that he was headed into icebergs, so without the iceberg it wouldn't have sank, so my advice to them would've been to sail further SOUTH!!!
@@vicvega3614 they changed the route to South to avoid icefields. Most of the ice would've melted by then. But the ice fields of that year were large, they didn't melt when they should've. So they never expected it to be on the path. Changing the route was one of the reasons they didn't get enough ships closer to come rescue quickly. They were going on regular cruising speed and based on the warnings, lookouts were posted early on and officers were given command to slow down if anything was encountered. The ,then unknown phenomenon, false horizon made it difficult along with calm conditions and moonless night. They could only spot it when it was near.
@@Notorious_Neal this statement directly contradicts the sole purpose of the construction of Olympic class. They knew they can't beat Cunarders for speed, so Ismay intended to focus on luxury when the idea of Olympic class was pitched by him. And they used the old reciprocating engines to operate then economically. Unlike Cunard, they didn't have access to high pressure turbine engines that were powerful. So white star line used the combination of reciprocating engines and a low pressure turbine engine and operate economically. And the focus was given to luxury.
When my 8 year old heard about the implosion of the submersible Titan. His first question to me was "Was Robert Ballard onboard?" I said no. My son's response was "What a shame those poor people but I am so glad Robert Ballard is ok because if anything happens to him it would be a national tragedy" I couldn't agree more.
Dr. Ballard is one of the most accomplished men of his generation. Most importantly his upmost respect and decency he portrayed throughout his entire Titanic exploration and the decades that followed. He never lost sight of the tremendous event of human loss that the Titanic was. He has shown genuine compassion from day one. And in a way that so many others have failed to do. For me, it sets him apart. Thank you for all the pain staking work you’ve done sir. You’ve done so much for science.
All true.
Yeah bro Bobby B is a real one. I'd smash a 40 with him him any day.
On top of finding the titanic and filming it, HE BUILT ALVIN. What a scientist and great man.
I was given a titanic book by professor Ballard for my 13th birthday. I’m 42 now and I still look at it every couple of weeks. A fascinating subject by an incredible man. We have a lot to thank him for.
I'm jealous,!
Same! Although I look at it a couple times a year. Still so good!
This is amazing. 32 years as a Titanic enthusiast and I've never seen this...
Isn’t it wild the amount of stuff we are seeing now about the Titanic since the sub accident?
I’ve seen this multiple times so I’m not sure what you’re insinuating
@travisp5747 well now, aren't you special.
@@travisp5747He's insinuating that he's happy to finally see this.
@@travisp5747 thats hes never seen this, pretty self explanatory comment id say
Highly respected and honorable man. I was a paperboy in '85 and remember the headlines reading 'Titanic Found' with a grainy image. It was a big deal back then because it was lost for 73 years and so difficult to find. Armstrong landed on the moon and Ballard the Titanic. The stuff of legend.
Bollards story is painfully real unlike 'Armstrongs'
@@ohgoshtash3137lol ok Natasha
Man I love old timey stories like that. I wasn’t born until 89. Most significant historical event I grew up with was 9/11 lol. Nothing as cool as being a paper boy and seeing a TITANIC FOUND headline. That sounds awesome.
@@MisterK-YTit was the moon landing moment for a generation. The story of the Titanic was one of intrigue and mystery. It sank in a remote area of the ocean , deep and complex terrain. Assumed lost forever never to be found. Oceanographers did not have the technology to find the illusive wreck prior until Argo technology. Ballard was very intelligent and apparently dyslexic. He was originally hired by Reagan to find Thresher and Scorpion nuclear subs which suffered implosions and sunk.
@@MisterK-YT next year will be Artemis II launch, Followed with III landing. I'd say exciting.
I remember as a kid learning about Dr. Ballard and Titanic. He’s humble, admits mistakes, and gives credit where it’s due. A true explorer (Titanic) and public servant (Thresher/Scorpion) at the right place and time in history. The world needs more Dr. Ballard and fewer grandstanding entrepreneurs.
I could listen to Dr. Ballard talk about deep sea exploration for hours...and I have. He's incredibly smart and speaks about his area of expertise with so much enthusiasm - he wants everyone to know what he's talking about how exciting his discoveries are and why.
I have been in that auditorium many times to listen to Dr. Ballard talk about his missions. Such an amazing time every time.
I wonder how people felt that day when they thought the ship sank in one piece but instead they realized some of the survivors were right it did split apart during the sinking
Unfortunately I think most of those people from the original Titanic inquiry were deceased at this time.
I'm sure shocked and amazed if they had been.
I was only 6 months old at this time, so I am really loving this. I can't imagine what it was like back then to see such a discovery. Bob has an amazing personality!
I was 4 months
I was 27 then, and always a titanic enthusiast. When she was finally found, it was wonderful news and we have been talking about it ever since!
Damn you look like ur 25 tops. I’m 33 n I would’ve guessed you were younger than me. N I look fairly young for 33.
Love from sweden Stockholm ❤️🙏
I was negative two years old.
Shocking how in just 40 years, how the meaning of "Extremely detailed" has changed.
My mom was really into the Titanic and I remember her saying in the early 80's that it would never be found. Really cool footage!
Was she able to see the discovery, and if so what was her reaction and response to it?
@@Drew791 yep, she was thrilled! Talked and read about it nonstop. I was a kid then so it intrigued me. She is still with us…
@@2HitWonder wow I can’t imagine the wonder and excitement she must’ve felt looking at those pictures and grainy videos as they were being released. That must’ve felt like such a surreal bombshell for her. I’m glad she’s still here in 2023!
@@2HitWonder❤ Awww that's wonderful. So glad she got to see that The Titanic had been discovered. Our love for the ship never waivers. We mourn the extreme loss of this disaster. 😢
This press conference was shot in the month I was born back in 85. What a crazy life this is and man does it go by fast!
I agree... and the older we get the faster it seems to go. 😢❤
Amazing that this search was actually used as a cover when they where actually looking for 2 sunken nuclear submarines (Thresher and Scorpion) . They had a couple of days after finding them to locate Titanic. And found it they did.
When they discovered the Titanic, I was listening to him on the short wave bands in the UK, their call sign was "station collect" on the 20m band .
So glad you found it! Such an incredible find!
Common sense conveys to most human beings that you would never go up to a grave in a cemetery and take something off of it or desecrate it, in any way. You just don't do it. With everything he has going for him...Robert Ballard has a good heart. He didn't even like subs hitting the ship and doing damage, much less looting it. He deserved to make that find. His heart was pure and he had good intentions. ♡
Unfortunate some American company did make a hole in the ship and retrieve items before they were gone forever. I’m sure they were looking for the ship safe to retrieve.
I would’ve grabbed a souvenir. Can’t help myself. Not to sell or boast about though. I’d need that physical connection to remember. Even in my life, I have little things from when I was younger, mementos.
@@MisterK-YT any of them collected from graves?
@@sweett9987 no, of course not. But I don’t think it’s the same. A grave implies someone was properly buried and you’re looting a corpse. Grabbing a bottle of wine from the titanic doesn’t feel like looting someone’s grave/corpse to me.
@@MisterK-YT I get the detachment of it, I do. Two sides to every stone, I suppose. My father is buried at sea. When I see people litter on the beach, it feels akin to them trashing his grave. Likely why I see it differently. Idk. Not knocking your view, at all. I know they'd have given everything on that ship to have a chance at life. Seems almost sacrilegious to take anything, imo.
Anything Titanic related he's always my go to guy.
This video is what I've been waiting for for a really long time. I hope that similar videos from 1986, if available, are posted as well (I wish to know more about the moment when they finally found the stern).
I'm also fascinated by this and would love to know how/when they actually found the stern and the state it was in. It's incredible watching this press conference though and learning what they knew or thought they knew before they were able to accomplish a more thorough survey the following summer.
The Titanic took over 73 years to be found after she sank at a depth of about 12,500 feet, but her rescue ship Carpathia took over 81 years to be found after she sank at a depth of somewhere between only 500 and 600 feet. As for her ignoring ship, the SS Californian, she sank at a depth that is believed to be even deeper than the Titanic and even to this time in 2024, she still hasn't been found.
Thanks for the upload !! Nice to see The ship was Found !! 73 years later !!
In light of the recent submersible disaster, one detail that became apparent was the story of a sub that was swept into the propeller of Titanic some years ago. They got stuck in the debris, but the key detail for me is that some if these subs are obviously doing damage to Titanic. Not all, but some submersibles, which flies in the face of preserving the wreck.
I like how he says, " We mowed the lawn," as pertaining to his methodical search pattern. Self explanatory, and tedious on 30 ' seas and in winds of 40 knotts.
He was wrong about the stern. It actually was intact and resting about half a mile from the bow half, but he had no way of knowing that at the time.
I was at school in 1985 when our teachers stopped class and let us watch the news reporting on the discovery of the Titanic..I had read many books on the subject for a couple of years by then and I was glued to the TV watching the video of the Titanic..it didn't seem real but it was ..Bob Ballard made history that day..he is my all time favorite scientist.
The whole bumping in the to second funnel story turned out to be wrong. They might have hit something, but the stack was long gone since the time of the sinking.
IF you look at Jack thayer testimony, he say he saw Titanic Second funnel collapse above the water with a Explosion.
So articulate and advanced at that time.Rivetting breakthroughs.Just incredible and what an amazing explorer scientist and educator.Hats off to you.....Dr Bollard.
The one person I always wanted to meet in my life like others,and so charismatic and true his being when I did at Titanic Belfast at his seminar in 2014…
Looking at this old footage and compared it to the footage documented by OceanGate company, I really appreciated these old technologies, workers, engineers and scientists. They all managed to discover Titanic despite having blurry vision and video. Minimum lights and old cameras quality.
I hope all people who attended that event are still alive right now and wish they have seen the documentary crystal clear footage taken by OceanGate with High Quality Camera (probably GoPro)
It wasn't just Ballard and Oceangate that were down there.
Ocean gate? 😂 Your kidding right? When did you write this comment? Right after it imploded? You need to do your research, look up Magellan and Atlantis, they are the ones who did detailed mapping, and even found jewelry and gold in the debris. Ocean gate was a joke, and I'll add James Cameron to the list of ppl that discovered more about the Titanic because of his obsession by it, and dives on it, movie on it ECT
This was almost entirely new information for me; I wish we had more Robert Ballard and less clueless news anchors. I have never seen anything like this; if only modern news conferences were conducted in such an informative, polite, and efficient manner!
So the second funnel was still intact??
In every other interview and documentary he’s stated that all the stacks were gone luckily bc they were afraid of bumping into them while exploring
I'm wondering what it was as well because it in fact was not intact. The funnels are all out in the debris field. At the point of this interview they didn't even know it was only half the ship.
Wondered the same thing myself. He talks about bumping into the stack, rubbing off some paint, even talks about the rig rubbing against the guy-wires. He was definitely convinced it was there. Yet everything I've ever seen says the stacks were gone when they found it. Very odd.
All funnels were gone when the ship went down. This was Ballard's very first visit to her wreck and he had no idea what to expect. I gues he bumped into the funnel's base and only assumed it was intact.
I remember this day like it was yesterday. It changed the course of my life. I became a diver to dive wrecks. I still dive wrecks today.
Have you ever dove wrecks of any well-known ships?
I remember how exciting the discovery was. Watching the news for any information.
Rest in peace all lives lost of Titanic. May they all be at eternal rest! 🥀🪦💐
Bob ballard is a real amercan hero we should make people like this heros to our kids instead of the jokes we do today
Such an amazing professional at an amazing moment!
I think Ballard went about it all with the right attitude.
One thing I heard about Ballard's expedition is that one of his submersibles brought part of a cable to his research ship. Ballard thought it was undoubtedly from the Titanic so in order to avoid any gold rush on his ship he threw it back into the ocean
These are absolutely incredible images, Ballord did a great job educating the media about the incredible complexity of what they found. having no comparison to the technology of today and the enormous world of the water completely different dynamic vs filming above water
It blows my mind that at this point, just days after discovery, they had not found, or even knew, that the stern was there, albeit heavily damaged.
I guess they just couldn't imagine that the stern would be so far away from the bow, and pointing in the opposite direction.
My right ear enjoyed this.
What about you left ear?
@@magyaradamI think it's in mono
@@magyaradam Are you from Hungary
I'm gonna ask my mom if she watched this as it happened back in the day! Would have been a huge story! Just like when Titanic the movie with Leo and Kate was so huge cause there's still such a strong interest! I can only imagine how excited they were to finally have the tech to find it!
That funnel he’s claiming to be there just has 0% chance of even remaining up on impact with the ocean floor. What was he actually running into?
Probably the remnants of the 2nd funnels base or a vent of some kind. Keep in mind that the submersible he is talking about had a very low quality camera so he probably didn't see anything official but made a guess as to what it hit.
Real journalism right here.
I remember this from when I was a child. I was 6 years old. I’ve been obsessed with titanic ever since. I love Bob Ballard. I believe his company is right here in Connecticut. Great video but his explanation of everything in this video was painful lol, he’s much better now that he’s older with almost 40 additional years of experience
Why did he say the funnels were intact??? Never heard that before. Obviously they were mistaken at first as we know the funnels are gone? Did they damage what was left maybe? Interesting
Its also interesting that they show that just the very stern of the ship was broken off and its was right next to the rest of the ship. We now know it broke closer to the middle and they are very far apart.
@@mushieslushieJust under a half a mile away from each other
@@Notorious_NealThat’s the proof that it broke in two.
@@mushieslushieAt this time they hadn't even discovered the stern half.
I remembered watching the morning news before going to school. I was 17 a Junior in highschool. That was beyond fascinating!
The forgotten art of wearing a cap.
I didnt forget
Game of: How high can you wear your hat before it no longer stays on"
Funny how they thought stack 2 and 3 were still there.
He accurately compared these first videos to the television coverage of the first moon landing, which was black and white and dark and fuzzy. Like later videos taken of the Titanic the moon landing videos will get progressively better. Technology progresses step-by-step.
Great footage!
Is it just me or was Dr Ballard hot
Handsome man.
Ain't just u. He was definitely hot. As in Indiana Jones style hot! 😘
He still looks good and he’s like 80. He’s aging like a fine wine 😊
Why are really indepth press conference like this not a thing any more? This one is great. Right up there with the one General Schwarzkopf gave after Desert Storm.
I was just graduating high school when they found the Titanic I remember this on the news when I got home from work.
why is this so gosh darn interesting
He literally made history when he found Titanic.
Fascinating listening to Robert Ballard working out where the Titanic sat on the sea floor! A very smart scientist!
That’s a real man right there. My generation (millennial) doesn’t really have any great explorers. At least not that we’ve all known about. Prior generations had guys like Ballard, Armstrong, etc. Either there are no big famous explorers that came about while my generation was growing up, OR society just didn’t value explorers enough anymore to make them famous, so most of us don’t even know about them.
Lol we still have astronauts.
I brought up another video of a plane 13 thousand ft in the air with footage pointing towards the ground, it gives you kind of a better understanding how deep this ship is, 😮
I was following this as it happened. Ballard looks about 30 years younger than I remembered. I was 29.
Social media really plays tricks. Were all here watching these archives and it aint because of the movie.
This is amazing. Interesting to hear him talk about not wanting to hit the second smoke stack (funnel), when really the stack wasn’t there at all.
Robert Ballard is a great man.
He was the right person to go down there .
I still find it hard to believe that the Titanic was built near me,
Thank you for sharing this! Amazing footage
I did not know one of the stacks was still standing when they discovered the wreck
There wasn’t any stacks standing, they were long destroyed before they found the wreck
The stacks had collapsed before the bow even hit the bottom.
They were just guessing as to what they hit. Likely the funnel base.
Dr. Ballard was very emotionally affected when he view the debris of the Titanic where Pairs of shoes were laying there from those who drowned in 1912. Robert Ballard said if the Titanic had hit hit the iceberg head on instead of sideways the ship would have survived.
If not for the CIA funding of his search he probably wouldn’t have found it in 85. He was also required to look for the wreckage of the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion submarines.
The US Navy funded the expedition
What a great video!!!!!
Thank you CBS.
Wow… I always thought they knew where exactly it sank. I didn’t realise how much of a bog deal it was to have discovered the ship’s whereabouts. It was way 6 years before I was born, so…
No, they didn’t and it was proven that the coordinates the Titanic’s crew sent out when she was sinking were to the wrong location when she was finally found.
I thought it was interesting that he was saying the 3rd funnel was still standing -- with the guy wires. Did he ever retract that comment, or was the funnel truly still standing on the wreck back in 85?
It was probably still standing I think Ballard totally knew what he was doing.
@@fmyoungit was not standing at the time. They didn’t even stand at the surface when it broke in half
@@christopherwaits7852 Yea I see Ballard corrected himself after his expedition found the wreck He went back in '86 one year after and a closer look revealed that all the funnels had toppled "Highlighted reply" here too btw
I was 4 years old when this happened. Curious, why are there so many microphones??
There was independent press back then
different news outlets
Yes every news station has one.
Even singers sometimes had 3 microphones one to record and a two PA systems.
See back then every news outlet had to have their own microphone 🎤 today they are all combined in 1 to make the propaganda network, its horrible
Very interesting, I easily remember them finding the legendary Titanic. That was a headline event itself. But what I remember is that the stern was found like a year later. I remember it being a total shock that they had found the stern, and the bow was missing, and that therefore the Historians were wrong on their accounts of the sinking. All the titanic movies and titanic paintings clearly showed it sinking bow first, with no breaking apart. Then suddenly, they were saying, no it didn't sink like that after all. They had made those eye witnesses (over a dozen) who saw it break apart believe they were imagining things. Many of them died thinking they had just dreamed up the Titanic breaking apart. So sad! But then they found the Titanic, then they discovered later that it was split in half, and then a year or so later they identified the stern almost a mile away. Them finding the bow and stern on that one trip is definitely NOT THE WAY I REMEMBER the discovery of the wreck. It was clearly in stages with a big gap of time between stern and bow discovery. Can anyone confirm or dismiss my memory?? Thank you!! GREAT VIDEO THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING WITH THE PUBLIC
I believe that has to do with the fact that they simply didn't have the full picture of what they were looking at when this was shot, given how little time they had to actually document the wreck (for instance, it was stated multiple times in the video that the second stack was still standing, although it collapsed at the time of the sinking). They didn't know how much of the bow was there past the front of the second stack, other than that the stern wasn't where it should be, and they had found components off of the stern in the debris field, but had yet to actually find the main structure of the stern itself, which was found in July of 1986
What a professional, what a scientist!
I love his Doctor Venture speed suit
This was so amazing when I first saw it in National Geographic magazine. I used to absorb information from those books like Johnny 5 from Short Circuit.
Would have loved to have heard the reaction once they saw those boilers.
someone fix sound, only right channel work
my right ear thanks you.
What does he mean by the roll of the ship does titanic still move down there
Amazing how far we have come on resolution, this is like watching tv in the 50's
Did they hit the smoke stack? I thought they were lost in the sinking
It's kind of scary that life works so weirdly that this same conference inspired such things as the Titanic movie and the rise of DiCaprio, but also to inspire Stockton Rush and also millionaires to die going to the ship.
I didn't know stacks 2 an 3 survived the sinking on top of the ship until watching this. Woww.
They didn't and even wreck artwork from back then shows no funnels
No that’s what they thought, they didn’t get to explore titanic in major detail at this point, just certain target areas
@@Legitcar117 he literally said at one point they knocked into a stack didn't damage it but probably got paint on the rov lol it must have been something that looked like a stack
@@titan-tm7kl when they ripped they left jagged pieces, they wouldn’t have been still attached at that point, they were said to have all fallen off during the initial sinking prior to breaking in two.
The cables not being attached on the wreck also wouldn’t have been supporting it therefore it wouldn’t be standing either way.
@@Legitcar117 I know about the condition it ended up in after the decent to ocean floor , Its just that in the news report and Robert Ballard talking they talk about standing stacks not just jagged edges from where they broke away but bumping into still erect smoke stacks so it was either very murky and low light and they thought it was a smoke stack but you'll hear him say it
This is awesome,.i remember watching parts of this with my dad
My right ear is really enjoying this
The Californian was such an a sshole that night. I hope her Captain reflected alot about his action for the rest of his life
They didn't know what was happening. It's not like they could text each other
@@mrlionsfan1135One of the Marconi operators from titanic got annoyed with the Californians repeated iceberg warnings so Californian operators turned their machines off. The Titanic operators were too busy relaying messages from first class passengers to pay much attention to the iceberg warnings. I guess you could call the whole experience a sinking ship 😢
The Californian Captain was definitely very disappointed in the creation of the 1958 movie A Night To Remember which was released just 4 years before he died and his son spent the rest of his life trying to get his father’s name off the Titanic’s list and really complained big time when the Titanic wreck was finally found just 9 years before he died.
Kind of sad the second funnel wasn't there after all. Would have been interesting. I wonder what it was ARGO hit.
😲 AMAZING
I love that he found the titanic the year I was born
At this point, I feel like it was the Titanics' destiny to sink. It was gonna happen eventually
Well the captain of the titanic didnt listen to warnings on a moonless night that he was headed into icebergs, so without the iceberg it wouldn't have sank, so my advice to them would've been to sail further SOUTH!!!
@@vicvega3614The idiots didn't care, they were trying to set a transatlantic record.
@@vicvega3614 they changed the route to South to avoid icefields. Most of the ice would've melted by then. But the ice fields of that year were large, they didn't melt when they should've. So they never expected it to be on the path. Changing the route was one of the reasons they didn't get enough ships closer to come rescue quickly.
They were going on regular cruising speed and based on the warnings, lookouts were posted early on and officers were given command to slow down if anything was encountered. The ,then unknown phenomenon, false horizon made it difficult along with calm conditions and moonless night. They could only spot it when it was near.
@@Notorious_Neal this statement directly contradicts the sole purpose of the construction of Olympic class. They knew they can't beat Cunarders for speed, so Ismay intended to focus on luxury when the idea of Olympic class was pitched by him. And they used the old reciprocating engines to operate then economically. Unlike Cunard, they didn't have access to high pressure turbine engines that were powerful. So white star line used the combination of reciprocating engines and a low pressure turbine engine and operate economically. And the focus was given to luxury.
When my 8 year old heard about the implosion of the submersible Titan. His first question to me was "Was Robert Ballard onboard?" I said no. My son's response was "What a shame those poor people but I am so glad Robert Ballard is ok because if anything happens to him it would be a national tragedy" I couldn't agree more.
Things that didn’t happen
Fascinating
Awesome how it had a smoke stack still up in 1985. Since according to him they had bumped into it.
Wait the second smoke stack was intact on discovery?
Also I think he means to say that the funnel was intact at the wreck site, because one was though it has since disintegrated.
No, all four funnels are out in the debris field. It was probably just misinterpreted data at the time.
I was only 5 months old at this point
Incredible.
Thanks dr Ballard for your hard work .!
I thought the titanic is 12,500 feet down? 24:05
I hear the Titanic is the world's 6th-deepest known shipwreck at 12,467ft/3800m (so it is close to 12,500ft down)
Great explorer.
It’s hard to find the Titanic when your real mission is searching for a Nuclear submarine.
🙌👏👏👏
Wow the photography back then was really rudimentary and low tech compared to the Titanic photography today.
I like it that he said he knew the technology would move on and improve.😄
Well he proved he was there for the world ffs !!
I think most photos look bad because they're just stills from NTSC analog signal.