Rip to all those people who died on April 15, 1912.... You are not forgotten in our hearts.

I love how they have respect for the sight where the bodies fell.

Wow! I had no idea that skeletons will not remain at that depth. I always wondered if there were skeletons down there; I guess that answers my question.

"You really should not take things from this site." I honestly think that was very well said.

It really is surreal and eerie at the same time when you think about the way he explains hundreds upon hundreds of bodies raining down to the bottom of the Atlantic. I can't imagine seeing something like that. Can you imagine hundreds of bodies falling out of our skies? That's exactly how it is for whatever lives below the surface.

I can't even imagine the horror those people felt

"It takes about five years". So by the time we entered WWI in 1917, everyone was gone. Wow...

R.I.P guy with shoes

The shoes have a natural position, like someone laying down.

Such a horrific event, the sight of seeing such a huge ship sinking before your eyes and hearing the screams, can only imagine. Then the deathly eerie silence. What an experience. RIP :(

I'm looking at those boots and keep thinking "Wow, those are some damn good quality boots to have lasted that long down there! They look great!"

Unlike others who have explored the remains of the Titanic and exploited it, and many who have salvaged the wreck and in the process caused great damage - Dr. Robert Ballard has a deep respect and reverence for what remains of the ship and the victims, and doesn't want to exploit it for personal greed or fame. He wants to preserve what is possible. I truly admire this man.

Im lost deep in youtubes "related videos" right now

They also found the swimming pools with the water still in them.

Robert Ballard was the ideal person to make this discovery. You can tell he has the up most respect for his work with the Titanic.

I remember when i was a small child and when i first heard about this for the first time..It does something to you ...you're not the same.. There's a lost.. a sadness that just crawls into your heart ..into you're soul ..you cannot shake it...It's there, its like a whisper, a forgotten voice a cry long gone and yet you still hear .. It's too late now.. You know.. its here the sadness of the forgotten, the cry the lost souls, it's part of you... This is how I remember feeling the first time I heard about the Titanic and I still feel the same way .... I didn't realize this until years after I was married. .. April 14... 19--

Imagine those still in the ship as it plummeted! They could survive for a couple of minutes underwater, the feeling would have been insane. It’s complete darkness, they can feel the ship rapidly falling to the bottom of the ocean which meant pressure all over their body, like they were being squished and it also meant the water would have felt more cold as the sank! All this while knowing there was no way out 😳

Some of you commenting do realize Jack and Rose were completley fictional passengers and were only in the 1997 movie and not real 1912 Titanic passengers

its amazing how a human body quickly disolves yet they find a playing card still in tact or a pair of boots well they were definately of good quality them boots

Oh look I just saved myself 250,000 dollars and my life.

Hopefully in the future, I would like to go see the Titanic in person. You could pay (not sure how much, must be pricy) to go see it. They'll take you in a submarine and you could see it. The Titanic is going to collapse within the next 50 years due to all the water pressure, I would love to go down and see it some day. RIP.

Does anyone ealse get creeped out when they shown the bottom of the ocean

he's exactly right, I believe in preservation efforts to keep the Titanic alive for future generations, retrieving some artifacts. After all, the Titanic itself is decaying rapidly and will be a spot of rust of the ocean floor in 100 years or so, but it is a graveyard. Enough artifacts have been recovered and let's all agree to not pluck anything else for the aera.

I followed his expedition years ago and agreed that he did the right thing as regards the resting place of so many unfortunate souls. Mr. Robert Ballard is a real gentleman, I wish him well.

I watched some documentary about the titanic and the commentator mentioned dive companies went down to the wreck to look for items of value. During the program the person showed a ring and said it was found on a body/skeleton. And I'm like "that's impossible!. This video proves it. Thank you Robert ballard. For the record there shouldn't be skeletons down there because the sea life would eat the bones.

How terrifying. I couldn't even imagine

Well the grave has grown recently

It's even more of a reminder than a gravestone. This is their last evidence of existence and how their corpse came to rest and it is still here 106 years later. There is so much more tragedy in this than a grave site. We might even know the name of this passenger but will never be able to find out. It's incredible, tragic and chilling at the same time.

Lincoln was shot on April 14th and died of the 15th. Titanic hit the iceberg on the 14th and sank on the 15th. Two titans lost to the world on the same date; 47 years apart.

These artifacts are so incredible, each and every single one is a human life, tells a story about each person that either survived or perished. It’s a sad thing to see these items , but yet it’s amazing to connect these items cuz we tend to forget about how many lives were truly lost.❤

Brian Williams barely escaped the sinking and watched the Titanic go down while on the last life boat that left the ship.

I really enjoyed the exhibit I went to. Our entrance tickets were boarding passes that gave our names, history, and why we were travelling to America. We didn't get to find out if we lived or died until the end of the exhibit where we had to scour the giant list of survivors on the wall. It was an excellent exhibit. I also couldn't believe that the perfume samples still smelled!!!!

Seeing "The Big Piece" at the Luxor in Vegas 2 years ago. ..the several ton piece of the hull they hoisted up in 1998...was beyond words. I had yearned to see real Titanic wreck artifacts since I was a 9 yrs old child, so to finally stand next to it at 36 years old was a blessing. The exhibit did not disappoint and you could feel the sacredness of what you were witnessing with each artifact. I said a silent prayer in my head for those who died so unnecessarily and just gave thanks for those souls letting me be a witness to things that truly belong to them now.

Great respect for Bob Ballard for the respect he shows towards the dead ... great job Sir !!

Today Titanic 109 years 😭 this is great history in the world from india

What’s scary is that photo of the shoes you can see the outline of the ankle..

My mother met this guy and I went to see him speak. He was hilarious and such a great inspiring speaker

Anyone into Titanic should consider visiting the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. It's larger than the Titanic and, although a couple of decades newer, it is still very impressive and reminiscent of that style of transatlantic ocean liners. You will not be disappointed 😉

Rest in peace to all the people that lost their lives on the Titanic 😪

To all of those who experienced fright, to all of those who lost their lives that night. You all will be missed ❤️❤️

I love how Robert Ballard has respect for the Titanic because it is a gravesite........with now 5 new bodies to the gravesite.

My hat is off to the first seven comments on this site! They all were well said and very heartfelt. Titanic has always been emblematic to me, and seeing this by Dr. Ballard and seeing those shoes where a person once laid, is especially heartbreaking. After the movies and the motion pictures and the editing for movie purposes begins to fade, this is when you really get a taste of what really happened and the suffering that all those real people must have gone through knowing that it was the end for them. I remember when I saw the exhibition in New Jersey right after Dr. Ballard and his team discovered the wreck. Being able to see the physical representation... so many people's innocent lives..was in itself a tremendous blow to me personally and emotionally, and I remember at the end of the exhibition there was a signing book, much like there is after a funeral. I thought it was apropos considering we were not just there at any museum, this was a memorial and a remembrance. My entry was: "... how fragile life is!" And now looking at this, I realize even more the importance of appreciating every day that God wakes us up in the morning, and truly taking in the whole day and deeply appreciating the day we have to enjoy. It's good for our spiritual healing, our mental health; it's good for our soul. Ultimately, it's good for our families and communities! May they all rest in peace, and may all who watch this become thankful. ☮️

Titanic will be a rust stain at the bottom of the sea and then you'll be sad when you can't go down there and see it anymore. Most parts of the Titanic should be saved and put into a museum! Raise as much as possible. Oh but it's ok when people grave rob Egypt mummy graves. Titanic is a grave but it should be saved!

what i find scary is how hundreds of bodies wouldve plunged into the freezing atlantic from the stern when it went almost vertical in the final moments of the titanic. All those people falling to their doom off the end of the ship to sink to the bottom of the atlantic

I agree...it's a sacred grave site and should have remained that way. No relics could ever replace the life of one of those poor souls that perished. :(

Wow, that actually sent a chill right through me

"Bodies rained down" :O damn..

The more you learn about the Titanic disaster the more tragic and horrifying it becomes. It's the complete lack of control these people had over their fate. I think the 9-11 attacks have a similar sadness and tragedy and why it resonates so deeply with everyone, anyone can relate to being a passenger on a large vessel or plane of some sort, completely at the mercy of nature and human engineering, and this is the stuff of nightmares for us all.

....i was expecting pictures of the debris field.... The history of this ship & it's demise has always been beyond fascinating!

It was a horrible tragedy and with so many unlucky events that could have helped but didn't. It's a graveyard and it should remain so. No one owns the Titanic anymore. It belongs to the world because of the tragedy. The world mourned.

what he said towards the end drove me to tears. he's 100% right.

Whatever ship it was bless all who perished or suffered

I love everything that has to do with the Titanic but I get teary eyed & sometimes cry when I see the ship & the debris field...all those poor souls that lost their lives that early morning....like at the end of the movie Titanic when Rose meets up with Jack at the clock on the staircase I like to think that those that died that morning are all there like that. May they all be at peace....

Knowing the fact that these people wanted to be rescued and live gives me the feeling they wouldn't mind their belonging to be brought up and shared in their memory. Leaving them there is sad and will ensure they will be forgotten someday. Bringing these items back is not as if you would be really be digging into a real intended grave yard.

I wish they had the same respect for the Egyptians.

Who else is here after the submersible ?

Good lord I had no idea the shoes were in the spots where the bodies hit the ocean floor. I had no idea the deep oceans lack of calcium hastened the decomposition of the victims. I’m glad it did though cause those people deserved an appropriate burial

I think this guy is wrong. The bodies in the debris field are probably passengers who got sucked down with the ship. Although it's morbid to think about, I can't help but wonder how many people went down locked in their cabins. Between those on deck, and those in lifeboats, there's a lot of people unaccounted for.

It really is a magnificent photograph. I remember seeing it for the first time as a 6 year old in primary school. Happened across a Discovery book about Titanic and it’s demise and there was that exact photo. It has stuck with me ever since. I would love to know whose shoes they were; what they did, how old they were, whether life was hard or not for them.

Personally if that was me, I’d be fine with you guys taking my boots back to a museum. Just leave a chalk outline.

i start watching James Charles and ended up here after watching the two hour long sinking video, the 1984 45 minute documentary... yeah i’m lost deep right now y’all 💀 rest in peace to the souls that floated down there to their forever resting place 💜

My grandfather's uncle was supposed to travel to America on Titanic. As he said in his diary soon Titanic's departure, he was very sorry that he couldn't get on board due to inflammation in his eye, which was detected on the health examination. Just hours before Titanic's departure. So because he was on the passenger list and his absence on the ship wasn't documented properly, obviously afterwards he wasn't found among the people who were rescued from the sea. Then authorities thought he had died and lost in the sea as he wasn't found. Actually he was left behind on the shore as Titanic sailed away without him and his family. Later, as he read his own death announcement on the news paper, he had to prove to the authorities that he was alive with birth documents etc. and that he wasn't on the ship. He wasn't so sorry afterwards to not get on the great Titanic, so he sailed with different ship to United States after recovering from his illness. He's one of the few of my finnish cousins that got to the America in the early 1900's and returned. I'm glad that his trip was well documented as he kept diary along the way and lived long to tell the story onward.

He brings up a great point about taking objects fro sites. If you want a souvenir, buy something from a gift shop. But if you find a spent round in gettysburg, you leave it where you found it, and at least tell the national park service.

I have one word for this; Damn.

I agree hole heartedly with what Robert ballerd says. The titanic wreck site is more than just a wreck site. It's also a underwater grave Yard and should be treated with reverence and respect.

the Titanic wreck site is not only a wreck site. But it is also a grave site because all those unfortune passengers and crew members that died there that night and should be treated as such. May god grant them eternal everlasting life in new heaven and new earth.

i think the best thing would have been leaving it alone ...it has so many memories

They gonna get 10 new shoes eventually

May God bless all the souls lost in TITANIC.

I love the titanic

Can you imagine being on this ship when it happened? This legend of a ship and actually witnessing and hearing the sounds. This tragedy fascinates me to no end. I encourage you all to try to do this in a VR experience.

Who's here because you're gripped to submarine search and rescue... 😮

Heard this man on TED Talks. Amazing guy!

My God, just when you think the stories, the movies, the magazines, the interviews, and your imagination has you feeling you've become acquainted with all the horrifying imagery that took place that night....

Absolutely right nothing should be taken from this site it is a mass grave I had Irish descendants go down on the Titanic which included a small child. Always remember my Grandmother saying it should never have happend!

What was the state the bodies of those that were dragged down to the bottom? Probably imploded half way down? Did the bodies remained normal in the sea bottom or were simply smashed by the pressure? Like organs all over the water and all since the pressure would rip them apart?

Most profound gravesite! RIP Sweet souls

I agree, you shouldn't take things from the site, but damn is it hard not to. I'm to impulsive so knowing me I probably would, good thing I'm not going ever.

no bs,straight simple facts,love it,this place is a grave site

I met Dr. Ballard in person Had my Picture taken with him so glad I did.

The wreck will soon be completely gone. I used to think wreck and artifacts should be left alone. I now believe as much as possible that everything should be brought up and cataloged and displayed to honor those victims.

Ive never looked at it like that, the man in the clip is spot on and its really sad to think of the bodies raining to the ocean floor :( lets hope they're left in peace

I wonder if the souls of those people still walk the broken decks of the once unsinkable ship

110 years later! The dead ones especially won´t care if they had a say if someone preserves things that can be obtained from these depths for God sake ! You can really overdo it with "respect"!

Wouldn’t the water pressure very much damage the bodies even once they started falling to that depth, never mind the decomposition? Or since they filled up with water was the pressure equalized?

They actually did bring up a small part of the ship. I saw it when it was on display in the Las Vegas titanic exhibit a few years back. It was really cool to see.

And crabs came along and made them into houseshoes.

0:16 Only true players can pull off the polo over the button up look.

Hope there is full version of this video

Keep in mind that when the titanic it was freezing water and a moonless night so it was just ice cold pitch blackness.

I get so tired of people claiming the remains shouldn't be moved. It's history and is better understood if people are standing a few inches from the boots than at the bottom of the ocean. When those boots rot away, then what of the person's memory? It's lost for good. The sense of mortality and folly will be preserved for generations above water. The first discoverer of the Titanic was altruistic and believed that the ship should be left as a graveyard and foolishly didn't bring up something to prove he had found her so he lost the salvage rights. In time, there will be nothing left. What's to be gained by that rather than bringing things up and preserving them for history?

At what point in time is it no longer a desecration but a gathering of historical, archaeological finds? The Cairo Museum, e.g., is full of grave-robbings.

Dat nigga obv had some Nike Air Max's LOOL!

2:07 - This is just one of the many reasons why Dr. Ballard is among my very favorite people.

The image he projects that those shoes represent exactly where the feet landed is unforgettable.

The robbery thing is so annoying from all the comments

Ballard is wrong about preserving the wreck until nothing left. Also, the soldiers from Gettysburg knew what they were getting into and the people on the Titanic did not. We need to recover as much as possible for the sake of the people who died.

Wow :o That is powerful yet heartbreaking. :(

People need to remember that is the passengers and crews final resting place, he made a great point, don;t disturb it.

Thank goodness its over and may it never be repeated. Rest in peace titanic!