Return to Titanic: A New Look at the World's Most Famous Lost ShipNearly 20 years after making the world's most famous underwater discovery, Ballard returns to the Titanic with the most advanced instruments in underwater exploration to provide the clearest, most dramatic images of the ship ever seen. |
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... Scorpion mysteriously sank 400 miles . south of the Azores in the eastern Atlantic . Details of Scorpion's accident remained classified until the 1990s , after the collapse of the Soviet Union ended the Cold War . Theories conflict ...
... Scorpion mysteriously sank 400 miles . south of the Azores in the eastern Atlantic . Details of Scorpion's accident remained classified until the 1990s , after the collapse of the Soviet Union ended the Cold War . Theories conflict ...
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... Scorpion's condition could be detailed in less time , I would be allowed the remaining days for another , unoffi- cial exploration I had planned . By August 17 , the Knorr , with a crew of 25 and a scientific team of 24 , hovered above ...
... Scorpion's condition could be detailed in less time , I would be allowed the remaining days for another , unoffi- cial exploration I had planned . By August 17 , the Knorr , with a crew of 25 and a scientific team of 24 , hovered above ...
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... Scorpion was in better condition than Thresher , but its hull prevented the close - up torpedo study the Navy had hoped for . No conclu- sive evidence emerged in the photographs to explain Scorpion's demise . ( Several years later , the ...
... Scorpion was in better condition than Thresher , but its hull prevented the close - up torpedo study the Navy had hoped for . No conclu- sive evidence emerged in the photographs to explain Scorpion's demise . ( Several years later , the ...
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