Never-before-seen images of the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean revealed

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the premiere of the multi-award winning film Titanic by James Cameron, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution published Wednesday evening never-before-seen footage of the first wreck dive of the legendary ocean liner.

The 80 minute footage, filmed in 1986 and directed by Robert Ballard, is now available on the YouTube channel of WHO I. It showcases some of the notable achievements of historical immersion in unprecedented detail.

It all started on September 1, 1985 when a WHOI team based in Massachusetts, in partnership with the French oceanographic exploration organization IFREMER, discovered the final resting place of the ship at 12 thousand 400 feet deep in the icy waters of North Atlantic.

Nine months later, a WHOI team returned to the site in the notorious three-person investigative submersible Alvin and the underwater exploration vehicle remote-controlled Jason Jr., who took iconic footage from inside the ship, using a towed underwater camera.

On the night of April 14, 1942, the British liner RMS Titanic, of the White Star Line shipping company, hit an iceberg and after almost three hours (02:20 on the morning of April 15) it sank. Around 1,500 people died during the ship’s maiden voyage SouthamptonEngland, to the city of new YorkUnited States, which has not been completed.

“More than a century after the loss of the Titanic, the human stories embodied by the great ship continue to resonate”the ocean explorer and filmmaker said in a statement.

“Like many, I was transfixed when Alvin and Jason Jr. ventured into the wreckage. By releasing this video, WHOI is helping to tell an important part of a story that spans generations and spans on the world.”

There remastered version of Titanic It began airing on big screens in the United States on February 10.

On March 23, 1998, the film became the great protagonist of the 94th edition of the Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, better known as “Oscars”, win 11 statuettes out of 14 nominations:

– Best Film – Best Director – Best Art Direction – Best Cinematography – Best Costume Design – Best Visual Effects – Best Editing – Best Soundtrack – Best Original Song – Best Sound – Best Sound Editing.

The mission was to deceive the Soviet Union so that he thinks he United States Army he was only looking for the cursed liner when in fact he was also looking two missing nuclear submarines.

The team led by Robert Ballard finally found the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean, but it all started three years earlier, when it was naval intelligence officer and oceanographer who was trying to develop his own remotely operated underwater vehicle.

However, he was short of money and needed funding, so he appealed to the Deputy Chief of Navy Operations, Ronald Thunmannaccording CBS News.

“He said, ‘All my life I’ve wanted to go find the Titanic.’Thunman mentioned. “And that took me by surprise.”

“I said, ‘Come on, this is a serious, top-secret operation. Find the Titanic? It’s crazy!”‘.

Thunman agreed to fund the Titanic expedition on one condition: that Ballard use the money and time to also locate two nuclear submarines that they disappeared in the Atlantic in the 1960s.