All the world’s a sucker for bold, shoot-the-moon gamblers and con men, and this crackerjack biography makes a convincing case that Alvin “Titanic” Thompson was one of the boldest. No wonder he was ...
In 1985, it took Robert Ballard eight days to find the R.M.S. Titanic around 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. For more than 70 years, the location of the liner's wreckage — about ...
Over six decades, his deep-sea expeditions have used technology and intuition to reveal a bounty of cultural treasures. Robert Ballard emerges from the submersible Alvin after a 1979 dive to the ...
THE GRAND BANKS (WHTM) — On April 14, 1912, on her maiden voyage, the R.M.S. (Royal Mail Ship) Titanic struck an iceberg. She would sink on April 15, resulting in the death of 1517 passengers and crew ...