From the archives: Footage of Titanic shared by Robert Ballard in 1985
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2023
- Robert Ballard discussed the Titanic wreckage site after discovering the sunken ship on Sept. 1, 1985 - more than 70 years after it disappeared about 12,600 feet below the ocean's surface.
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Dr. Ballard is one of the most accomplished men of his generation. Most importantly his upmost respect and decency he portrayed throughout his entire Titanic exploration and the decades that followed. He never lost sight of the tremendous event of human loss that the Titanic was. He has shown genuine compassion from day one. And in a way that so many others have failed to do. For me, it sets him apart. Thank you for all the pain staking work you’ve done sir. You’ve done so much for science.
All true.
Yeah bro Bobby B is a real one. I'd smash a 40 with him him any day.
I was given a titanic book by professor Ballard for my 13th birthday. I’m 42 now and I still look at it every couple of weeks. A fascinating subject by an incredible man. We have a lot to thank him for.
I'm jealous,!
Same! Although I look at it a couple times a year. Still so good!
This is amazing. 32 years as a Titanic enthusiast and I've never seen this...
Isn’t it wild the amount of stuff we are seeing now about the Titanic since the sub accident?
I’ve seen this multiple times so I’m not sure what you’re insinuating
@travisp5747 well now, aren't you special.
@@travisp5747He's insinuating that he's happy to finally see this.
@@travisp5747 thats hes never seen this, pretty self explanatory comment id say
Highly respected and honorable man. I was a paperboy in '85 and remember the headlines reading 'Titanic Found' with a grainy image. It was a big deal back then because it was lost for 73 years and so difficult to find. Armstrong landed on the moon and Ballard the Titanic. The stuff of legend.
Bollards story is painfully real unlike 'Armstrongs'
@@ohgoshtash3137lol ok Natasha
Man I love old timey stories like that. I wasn’t born until 89. Most significant historical event I grew up with was 9/11 lol. Nothing as cool as being a paper boy and seeing a TITANIC FOUND headline. That sounds awesome.
@@MisterK-YTit was the moon landing moment for a generation. The story of the Titanic was one of intrigue and mystery. It sank in a remote area of the ocean , deep and complex terrain. Assumed lost forever never to be found. Oceanographers did not have the technology to find the illusive wreck prior until Argo technology. Ballard was very intelligent and apparently dyslexic. He was originally hired by Reagan to find Thresher and Scorpion nuclear subs which suffered implosions and sunk.
@@MisterK-YT next year will be Artemis II launch, Followed with III landing. I'd say exciting.
I remember as a kid learning about Dr. Ballard and Titanic. He’s humble, admits mistakes, and gives credit where it’s due. A true explorer (Titanic) and public servant (Thresher/Scorpion) at the right place and time in history. The world needs more Dr. Ballard and fewer grandstanding entrepreneurs.
I could listen to Dr. Ballard talk about deep sea exploration for hours...and I have. He's incredibly smart and speaks about his area of expertise with so much enthusiasm - he wants everyone to know what he's talking about how exciting his discoveries are and why.
I have been in that auditorium many times to listen to Dr. Ballard talk about his missions. Such an amazing time every time.
I wonder how people felt that day when they thought the ship sank in one piece but instead they realized some of the survivors were right it did split apart during the sinking
I was only 6 months old at this time, so I am really loving this. I can't imagine what it was like back then to see such a discovery. Bob has an amazing personality!
I was 4 months
I was 27 then, and always a titanic enthusiast. When she was finally found, it was wonderful news and we have been talking about it ever since!
Damn you look like ur 25 tops. I’m 33 n I would’ve guessed you were younger than me. N I look fairly young for 33.
Love from sweden Stockholm ❤️🙏
I was negative two years old.
Being from Belfast Northern Ireland my Dad and I always had a fascination with Titanic 😎 Sadly Dad passed away in 1983 ...He would have been fascinated
My mom was really into the Titanic and I remember her saying in the early 80's that it would never be found. Really cool footage!
Was she able to see the discovery, and if so what was her reaction and response to it?
@@Drew791 yep, she was thrilled! Talked and read about it nonstop. I was a kid then so it intrigued me. She is still with us…
@@2HitWonder wow I can’t imagine the wonder and excitement she must’ve felt looking at those pictures and grainy videos as they were being released. That must’ve felt like such a surreal bombshell for her. I’m glad she’s still here in 2023!
@@2HitWonder❤ Awww that's wonderful. So glad she got to see that The Titanic had been discovered. Our love for the ship never waivers. We mourn the extreme loss of this disaster. 😢
When they discovered the Titanic, I was listening to him on the short wave bands in the UK, their call sign was "station collect" on the 20m band .
So glad you found it! Such an incredible find!
This press conference was shot in the month I was born back in 85. What a crazy life this is and man does it go by fast!
I agree... and the older we get the faster it seems to go. 😢❤
Shocking how in just 40 years, how the meaning of "Extremely detailed" has changed.
This video is what I've been waiting for for a really long time. I hope that similar videos from 1986, if available, are posted as well (I wish to know more about the moment when they finally found the stern).
Thanks for the upload !! Nice to see The ship was Found !! 73 years later !!
Amazing that this search was actually used as a cover when they where actually looking for 2 sunken nuclear submarines (Thresher and Scorpion) . They had a couple of days after finding them to locate Titanic. And found it they did.
So articulate and advanced at that time.Rivetting breakthroughs.Just incredible and what an amazing explorer scientist and educator.Hats off to you.....Dr Bollard.
Such an amazing professional at an amazing moment!
Thank you for sharing this! Amazing footage
Anything Titanic related he's always my go to guy.
Great footage!
Looking at this old footage and compared it to the footage documented by OceanGate company, I really appreciated these old technologies, workers, engineers and scientists. They all managed to discover Titanic despite having blurry vision and video. Minimum lights and old cameras quality.
I hope all people who attended that event are still alive right now and wish they have seen the documentary crystal clear footage taken by OceanGate with High Quality Camera (probably GoPro)
It wasn't just Ballard and Oceangate that were down there.
The one person I always wanted to meet in my life like others,and so charismatic and true his being when I did at Titanic Belfast at his seminar in 2014…
I like how he says, " We mowed the lawn," as pertaining to his methodical search pattern. Self explanatory, and tedious on 30 ' seas and in winds of 40 knotts.
Common sense conveys to most human beings that you would never go up to a grave in a cemetery and take something off of it or desecrate it, in any way. You just don't do it. With everything he has going for him...Robert Ballard has a good heart. He didn't even like subs hitting the ship and doing damage, much less looting it. He deserved to make that find. His heart was pure and he had good intentions. ♡
Unfortunate some American company did make a hole in the ship and retrieve items before they were gone forever. I’m sure they were looking for the ship safe to retrieve.
I would’ve grabbed a souvenir. Can’t help myself. Not to sell or boast about though. I’d need that physical connection to remember. Even in my life, I have little things from when I was younger, mementos.
@@MisterK-YT any of them collected from graves?
@@sweett9987 no, of course not. But I don’t think it’s the same. A grave implies someone was properly buried and you’re looting a corpse. Grabbing a bottle of wine from the titanic doesn’t feel like looting someone’s grave/corpse to me.
@@MisterK-YT I get the detachment of it, I do. Two sides to every stone, I suppose. My father is buried at sea. When I see people litter on the beach, it feels akin to them trashing his grave. Likely why I see it differently. Idk. Not knocking your view, at all. I know they'd have given everything on that ship to have a chance at life. Seems almost sacrilegious to take anything, imo.
In light of the recent submersible disaster, one detail that became apparent was the story of a sub that was swept into the propeller of Titanic some years ago. They got stuck in the debris, but the key detail for me is that some if these subs are obviously doing damage to Titanic. Not all, but some submersibles, which flies in the face of preserving the wreck.
OMG I've never seen this. Thanks for sharing this with the world.
These are absolutely incredible images, Ballord did a great job educating the media about the incredible complexity of what they found. having no comparison to the technology of today and the enormous world of the water completely different dynamic vs filming above water
The whole bumping in the to second funnel story turned out to be wrong. They might have hit something, but the stack was long gone since the time of the sinking.
IF you look at Jack thayer testimony, he say he saw Titanic Second funnel collapse above the water with a Explosion.
I'm gonna ask my mom if she watched this as it happened back in the day! Would have been a huge story! Just like when Titanic the movie with Leo and Kate was so huge cause there's still such a strong interest! I can only imagine how excited they were to finally have the tech to find it!
So the second funnel was still intact??
In every other interview and documentary he’s stated that all the stacks were gone luckily bc they were afraid of bumping into them while exploring
I'm wondering what it was as well because it in fact was not intact. The funnels are all out in the debris field. At the point of this interview they didn't even know it was only half the ship.
Wondered the same thing myself. He talks about bumping into the stack, rubbing off some paint, even talks about the rig rubbing against the guy-wires. He was definitely convinced it was there. Yet everything I've ever seen says the stacks were gone when they found it. Very odd.
All funnels were gone when the ship went down. This was Ballard's very first visit to her wreck and he had no idea what to expect. I gues he bumped into the funnel's base and only assumed it was intact.
What a great video!!!!!
This is awesome,.i remember watching parts of this with my dad
I remembered watching the morning news before going to school. I was 17 a Junior in highschool. That was beyond fascinating!
I remember this from when I was a child. I was 6 years old. I’ve been obsessed with titanic ever since. I love Bob Ballard. I believe his company is right here in Connecticut. Great video but his explanation of everything in this video was painful lol, he’s much better now that he’s older with almost 40 additional years of experience
Amazing how far we have come on resolution, this is like watching tv in the 50's
The forgotten art of wearing a cap.
I didnt forget
Funny how they thought stack 2 and 3 were still there.
Fascinating
It blows my mind that at this point, just days after discovery, they had not found, or even knew, that the stern was there, albeit heavily damaged.
My right ear enjoyed this.
What about you left ear?
@@magyaradamI think it's in mono
😲 AMAZING
I remember this day like it was yesterday. It changed the course of my life. I became a diver to dive wrecks. I still dive wrecks today.
my right ear thanks you.
Thank you CBS.
Bob ballard is a real amercan hero we should make people like this heros to our kids instead of the jokes we do today
He accurately compared these first videos to the television coverage of the first moon landing, which was black and white and dark and fuzzy. Like later videos taken of the Titanic the moon landing videos will get progressively better. Technology progresses step-by-step.
This is amazing. Interesting to hear him talk about not wanting to hit the second smoke stack (funnel), when really the stack wasn’t there at all.
Robert Ballard is a great man.
Wow… I always thought they knew where exactly it sank. I didn’t realise how much of a bog deal it was to have discovered the ship’s whereabouts. It was way 6 years before I was born, so…
Real journalism right here.
Why did he say the funnels were intact??? Never heard that before. Obviously they were mistaken at first as we know the funnels are gone? Did they damage what was left maybe? Interesting
Its also interesting that they show that just the very stern of the ship was broken off and its was right next to the rest of the ship. We now know it broke closer to the middle and they are very far apart.
@@mushieslushieJust under a half a mile away from each other
@@Notorious_NealThat’s the proof that it broke in two.
@@mushieslushieAt this time they hadn't even discovered the stern half.
why is this so gosh darn interesting
Is it just me or was Dr Ballard hot
Handsome man.
Ain't just u. He was definitely hot. As in Indiana Jones style hot! 😘
He still looks good and he’s like 80. He’s aging like a fine wine 😊
Bob needs to find MH370
I agree
The search area for MH370 is orders of magnitude larger than it was for the Titanic. It is hard to comprehend just how enormous the oceans are.
Would have loved to have heard the reaction once they saw those boilers.
I was following this as it happened. Ballard looks about 30 years younger than I remembered. I was 29.
Why are really indepth press conference like this not a thing any more? This one is great. Right up there with the one General Schwarzkopf gave after Desert Storm.
you could have fixed the audio channels
I ❤listening to him
It just scared the Dickens out of me 😅
I love that he found the titanic the year I was born
Great explorer.
I did not know one of the stacks was still standing when they discovered the wreck
There wasn’t any stacks standing, they were long destroyed before they found the wreck
The stacks had collapsed before the bow even hit the bottom.
I was only 5 months old at this point
I love his Doctor Venture speed suit
someone fix sound, only right channel work
That funnel he’s claiming to be there just has 0% chance of even remaining up on impact with the ocean floor. What was he actually running into?
Probably the remnants of the 2nd funnels base or a vent of some kind. Keep in mind that the submersible he is talking about had a very low quality camera so he probably didn't see anything official but made a guess as to what it hit.
If not for the CIA funding of his search he probably wouldn’t have found it in 85. He was also required to look for the wreckage of the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion submarines.
The US Navy funded the expedition
My right ear is really enjoying this
Social media really plays tricks. Were all here watching these archives and it aint because of the movie.
Thanks dr Ballard for your hard work .!
The Captain of the Californian should have been brought up on charges.
I was 4 years old when this happened. Curious, why are there so many microphones??
There was independent press back then
different news outlets
Yes every news station has one.
Even singers sometimes had 3 microphones one to record and a two PA systems.
See back then every news outlet had to have their own microphone 🎤 today they are all combined in 1 to make the propaganda network, its horrible
🙏🙏🙏
Did they hit the smoke stack? I thought they were lost in the sinking
SAFETY FIRST.
Awesome how it had a smoke stack still up in 1985. Since according to him they had bumped into it.
Someone looks happy
IDK why I expected clear images knowing the Titanic was found in 1985! There was no such thing as a clear undersea image back then!
It's kind of scary that life works so weirdly that this same conference inspired such things as the Titanic movie and the rise of DiCaprio, but also to inspire Stockton Rush and also millionaires to die going to the ship.
When my 8 year old heard about the implosion of the submersible Titan. His first question to me was "Was Robert Ballard onboard?" I said no. My son's response was "What a shame those poor people but I am so glad Robert Ballard is ok because if anything happens to him it would be a national tragedy" I couldn't agree more.
Things that didn’t happen
He was wrong about the stern. It actually was intact and resting about half a mile from the bow half, but he had no way of knowing that at the time.
That’s a real man right there. My generation (millennial) doesn’t really have any great explorers. At least not that we’ve all known about. Prior generations had guys like Ballard, Armstrong, etc. Either there are no big famous explorers that came about while my generation was growing up, OR society just didn’t value explorers enough anymore to make them famous, so most of us don’t even know about them.
Lol we still have astronauts.
Excelent
I thought the titanic is 12,500 feet down? 24:05
he is still with us he has not commented on titan, i wonder what he thought of the amateur RUSS
I didn't know stacks 2 an 3 survived the sinking on top of the ship until watching this. Woww.
They didn't and even wreck artwork from back then shows no funnels
No that’s what they thought, they didn’t get to explore titanic in major detail at this point, just certain target areas
@@Legitcar117 he literally said at one point they knocked into a stack didn't damage it but probably got paint on the rov lol it must have been something that looked like a stack
@@titan-tm7kl when they ripped they left jagged pieces, they wouldn’t have been still attached at that point, they were said to have all fallen off during the initial sinking prior to breaking in two.
The cables not being attached on the wreck also wouldn’t have been supporting it therefore it wouldn’t be standing either way.
@@Legitcar117 I know about the condition it ended up in after the decent to ocean floor , Its just that in the news report and Robert Ballard talking they talk about standing stacks not just jagged edges from where they broke away but bumping into still erect smoke stacks so it was either very murky and low light and they thought it was a smoke stack but you'll hear him say it
Odd that wine bottles remaing intact at that depth.
Interesting 🤔
It’s hard to find the Titanic when your real mission is searching for a Nuclear submarine.
🙌👏👏👏
Very interesting, I easily remember them finding the legendary Titanic. That was a headline event itself. But what I remember is that the stern was found like a year later. I remember it being a total shock that they had found the stern, and the bow was missing, and that therefore the Historians were wrong on their accounts of the sinking. All the titanic movies and titanic paintings clearly showed it sinking bow first, with no breaking apart. Then suddenly, they were saying, no it didn't sink like that after all. They had made those eye witnesses (over a dozen) who saw it break apart believe they were imagining things. Many of them died thinking they had just dreamed up the Titanic breaking apart. So sad! But then they found the Titanic, then they discovered later that it was split in half, and then a year or so later they identified the stern almost a mile away. Them finding the bow and stern on that one trip is definitely NOT THE WAY I REMEMBER the discovery of the wreck. It was clearly in stages with a big gap of time between stern and bow discovery. Can anyone confirm or dismiss my memory?? Thank you!! GREAT VIDEO THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING WITH THE PUBLIC
I believe that has to do with the fact that they simply didn't have the full picture of what they were looking at when this was shot, given how little time they had to actually document the wreck (for instance, it was stated multiple times in the video that the second stack was still standing, although it collapsed at the time of the sinking). They didn't know how much of the bow was there past the front of the second stack, other than that the stern wasn't where it should be, and they had found components off of the stern in the debris field, but had yet to actually find the main structure of the stern itself, which was found in July of 1986
People were so skinny pre 1999
I always thought there were no smokestacks ever recovered?! He says here his Argo ran into one
At this point, I feel like it was the Titanics' destiny to sink. It was gonna happen eventually
Well the captain of the titanic didnt listen to warnings on a moonless night that he was headed into icebergs, so without the iceberg it wouldn't have sank, so my advice to them would've been to sail further SOUTH!!!
@@vicvega3614The idiots didn't care, they were trying to set a transatlantic record.
@@vicvega3614 they changed the route to South to avoid icefields. Most of the ice would've melted by then. But the ice fields of that year were large, they didn't melt when they should've. So they never expected it to be on the path. Changing the route was one of the reasons they didn't get enough ships closer to come rescue quickly.
They were going on regular cruising speed and based on the warnings, lookouts were posted early on and officers were given command to slow down if anything was encountered. The ,then unknown phenomenon, false horizon made it difficult along with calm conditions and moonless night. They could only spot it when it was near.
@@Notorious_Neal this statement directly contradicts the sole purpose of the construction of Olympic class. They knew they can't beat Cunarders for speed, so Ismay intended to focus on luxury when the idea of Olympic class was pitched by him. And they used the old reciprocating engines to operate then economically. Unlike Cunard, they didn't have access to high pressure turbine engines that were powerful. So white star line used the combination of reciprocating engines and a low pressure turbine engine and operate economically. And the focus was given to luxury.
Really bad lighting.
Thanks to the french team for identification of right zone of fall and 80% research.
czcams.com/video/Fe54buLGWS8/video.html In the video just after 32 minutes Dr. Ballard mentions they bounced off the 2nd smoke stack and said they saw the 3rd one as well in the side scan sonar...I thought all the smokestacks were found to be ripped off the wreck due to the sinking? Interesting nonetheless. I remember the 1985 discovery as a kid and still fascinates me to this day.