yeah it is, I had the same thought, scary but then fascinating and haunting at the same time

Thank you ! Everyone said “amazing”, I have always thought “terrifying”! Fascinating, hard to look away, but it also scares the bejeebers out of me if I think about it too long,

But Why? it’s a slab of steel on the seabed. It’s a century old mass grave actually resting in peace, un disturbed for it’s last moment’s of eternity. To be pillaged and plundered. It’s sad not nightmare fuel

AF

It really is. I always thought the same thing about the Edmund Fitzgerald.

his crew gave interviews when it happened, you could tell the elation they had. Once they pinpointed it, now suddenly people could return and salvage parts of it.

@@jackson5116 it's also why he never publicly released the location of Battleship Bismarck. He viewed the locations as graveyards and salvaging them would qualify as grave robbing.

@jackson and ballard and his team scannend the sea bed a few times looking for it. But nothing. And a wonder if he was far away from it or even just 30 yards from it but the darkness kept it well hidden or even closer. Then he started seeing the debris from the ship and he knew he was near it, imagine just out the blue the huge long ship just coming out of the dark and we have no idea what thats like as we just see photos of it old and new. And it still looks huge in a photo, so to see it up close it would be bigger than we think. The stern at least 400 feet long and most of it about 130 feet high, thats in 1985. But now with decks collapsing it might be about 80 to 90 feet high but its still big. When i saw the huge hole where the grandstaircase was and the view jim cameron had over it and looking down it i thought my that looks a huge ship? And that was in 2001 it was amazing to see the view jim had on this huge hole and seeing alot of the decks as he went down the hole and looked around that area, its the best i have ever seen of the wreck. Jim showed how big the ship still was as that huge hole allowed him to see so much at the top down to the 3rd deck i thinck, as i thinck it was to dangerous to go down further from that height and angle. But pure amazing, the decks looked well roughed up but i thought you could still walk on them easy. But maybe not now, that was 22 years ago. Alot has changend. Some decks have collapsed as in B and C decks into each other mostly, as there so long bits havent fallen but will in years to come.

It was epic, really captures the imagination.

lol

No frl he puts so much into these ans I love that I know this was 2yrs ago for you but I'm hyperfixated and he is my favorite ship teller

Imagine how he looked when he found that out

Yes,I thought this would have been pointed out. I really like these videos he's very good but so much of the Area had already been searched,Balard went in an area which hadn't been looked at because of the out coordinates of the ship. Balard was greatly helped by this,not that there's anything wrong with that,I have a book where he mentions this himself,I just thought the French expedition earlier would have been pointed out.

Yeah, his primary goal was for the french to find the wreck and for him to document/film it while he was searching for and documenting the Tresher and the Scorpion.

So wouldn’t she have found debris? So she missed the debris field by 900 feet

A missed it by this 🤏 much joke. Poor guy

Wilder that we now take it for granted that we can see it, to be honest ;)

@@renegadeexpress1983 He shot the footage, that was used in the film 1995. The movie came out 1997.

it's crazy how 1985 to 1995 feels like a longer distance of time than between 2013 and 2023

@@SlumberBear2k That's because we lost 2 to 3 years during the pandemic...

​@@SlumberBear2kThere is a theory that one year is a big portion of a child's life, but a much smaller percentage of an adults life. This contributes to the feeling that time passes by much quicker as you get older. It makes sense that 85-95 felt like a much longer period of time. I have similar feelings too.

For real i told myself the same thing lol

I already was interested in the titanic before watching him but I love listening to his info about things related to it.

@@TinasLastFriday its really grim and I can't imagine how terrifying it must have been to know you were going down for the final count, but at the same time it is so very interesting to learn from history and the mistakes of our past.

This cause same and I love the effort we get in every video. I am hyperfixated so hard on his videos like yeah the ships but I only want to watch it from him idk why

Did they really ?

2am they passed over the boiler... "She sinks in 20 minutes" was what was muttered in the control room

The debris began appearing on Argo’s screen at 12:48am, and they found the main part of the wreck around 2am

Came here to say this. The Alvin was having technical difficulties on the first dive of the 1986 expedition, and so they had to leave before the batteries were destroyed, which, if that happened, would have spelled the end of the expedition.

No Thats WRONG Thay Didint Have Enoff Time To Exsplore The Ship Thats Fact. >:3

@@TheSwedishGuy15 You are correct. They didn't have enough time to explore the ship on their first dive, because of a technical problem with the batteries which, if not addressed quickly, would have destroyed the batteries and meant no more dives for the entirety of the expedition. The problem was rectified that night, and they had no further issues with the sub's batteries.

“Sightless eyes” I don’t know why, but that gives me shivers…

@@feralhawg867 Agreed, it's an expression that pertains to 'Death'.. The death of a once great Ship, and the majority of passengers {especially the Crew and steerage passengers that went down with her.

And how old are you now, if you don’t mind me asking?

I was 24 when it was found. I remember it quite well…it was Labor Day weekend (9-1-85).

I know it's not the same thing, but you can find and watch underwater videos exploring the wreck of the Costa Concordia. Quite interesting.

​@@allendracabal0819the most eery pictures of Costa Concordia were when she was straightened up an you could see the exact line of dry parts and the parts which had been under water. Such a contrast!

She would’ve been in such better shape too 😢

She? What woman would wana be called titanic?

@@tigerfist5120 A woman you love very much, whom has a great and enduring soul.

@@tigerfist5120all boats are called She.

At least the submarine would have been a quick death

@@stevennorris7181 true

@@stevennorris7181 well, there are the intense minutes leading up to the implosion on a sub, just like people stuck in the stern of Titanic.

A sub imploding would be a quick death at least

Funny how you mention submarine imploding 😂

I think I

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His name is Robert Ballard. Yep, they were jubilant at first, then remembered how many people had died there, and the mood was more somber. I think at 2:20 am, they had a little memorial service on board their ship. The date was Sept. 1, 1985 that she was found. (Jan Griffiths).

I actually found out about the existence of the Titanic by reading the article about Ballard's discovery of the wreck in the September 1985 issue of the National Geographic magazine. I have been fascinated by lost ocean liners ever since.

Absolutely brilliant.

I concur 👍🏼

He found the wreck of the Bismarck too, IIRC.

the souls of the dead asking not to be forgotten

​@@MrAcer4I think about the 1,500 souls and the Titanic when I hear the song " Nearer to My God to Thee"

I watched an interview where he said he was struggling to find it, so he began operating under the assumption it split in two, because one survivor testified that they saw it snap in half, and with that in mind, in combination with his hunt for the nuclear subs, he decided to look fir a debris field.

Witnesses saw it snap in half

I thought there were accounts of survivors saying it split in half

There was a video of Ballard saying he wanted to see that and he thought the hull under the mud may be in better shape too.

@@HerpDerpNV Ballard, make it work!!

I'm sure an expedition did a sonar scan and it revealed, don't quote me, 5 or 6 gashes. The biggest one being around 10ft in length

@@jamieneil6123 What is amazing that all the punctures are said to add up to less than 12 square feet.. but that is many tons of water coming in every second.

@@patrickhorvath2684 especially if they didn't stay still. They restarted the engine for a bit too