![]() Onboard, there were rich people, poor people and immigrants coming to North America pursuing a dream." "I think everyone can find something they like in it. "I wonder, why are people so fascinated with the Titanic after a century?" Nargeolet said. The sinking of Titanic remains a compelling story on the eve of its 100th anniversary because it still speaks to human folly and people of all walks of life, Nargeolet said. Researchers suggest that artifacts from Titanic are far more than simply windows into the past - rather, they are glimpses into the mirror. And then you realize that yours are also moist." "Sometimes, you look around the control room and see that people have moist eyes. "I think all of us that worked on that site are always clearly aware of the tremendous tragedy that played out because we see evidence of those that died," Delgado said. Nargeolet recalled salvaged artifacts that stood out as "very emotional" - a man's trunk filled with sheet music, a clarinet and letters to his fiancee, still legible after nearly a century buried on the muddy ocean floor. Researchers share a desire to surface the lost stories of passengers that perished aboard the ship, Gallo said. It worked its way into my work, my mind and my soul." "But, as I began to know Titanic better, I realized that there are thousands of stories at that spot in the middle of the ocean. "When I first came to Wood's Hole in 1987, I was only interested in pure science of the deep sea," he said, referring to Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution, a private, nonprofit corporation dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of oceanography. "Just below the surface in this scientific coldness is an intense passion for this ship," Gallo said. But, for most divers who study Titanic, the passion for the wreck extends far beyond mere scientific motivations, researchers said. "Processing the data created something that raises the bar and sets a challenge for expeditions and explorations to follow."ĭelgado hopes the success of the expedition will be impetus to advance scientific understanding of the world's oceans, which remain largely unexplored, he said. "This represents a fundamental change in how people can work to understand sites at depth," Delgado said. Delgado, who was responsible for compiling the expedition's final report, claims that Titanic now bears "no more secrets" because their research presents a compelling theory of how Titanic broke apart and how its mangled pieces scattered across the ocean floor. The expedition's findings will be the subject of History Channel's upcoming documentary "Titanic at 100: Mystery Solved," which premieres at 7 p.m. "We can see a crab crawling up the port side of Titanic." "My metaphor is that, for the first time, we can look at an area the size of Manhattan and zoom right in to a single tulip in Central Park," said Gallo, also director of special projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. The images serve to "virtually raise the Titanic in 3-D," said James Delgado, the head archaeologist of the expedition and director of maritime heritage at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. Using an autonomous underwater vehicle, a camera mounted on a torpedo-like structure, the research team created a seafloor photomosaic composed of more than 130,000 pictures. ![]() The 2010 expedition alone created Titanic's first comprehensive site map with an unprecedented level of detail, he said. Indeed, Nargeolet's work has broken boundaries in the field of underwater exploration. Its sinking caused the deaths of 1,514 people. In the background is a poster of the ship, the biggest passenger ship of its day, that sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after it struck an iceberg. Nargeolet, a deep sea-diver and explorer, has visited the wreck of the Titanic dozens of times in the past few decades. Bob Luckey Show More Show Less 2 of15 Paul-Henry Nargeolet, director of underwater research for RMS Titanic Inc., the sole legal guardian of Titanic artifacts., works on the computer at his Greenwich home, Friday, April 6, 2012. In the background is an image of the ship, the biggest passenger liner of its day, that sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after it struck an iceberg. ![]() Nargeolet, a deep sea-diver, has visited the wreck of the Titanic dozens of times in the past few decades. 1 of15 Paul-Henry Nargeolet, director of underwater research for RMS Titanic Inc., the sole legal guardian of Titanic artifacts, at his Greenwich home, Friday, April 6, 2012.
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