The first-class lounge was styled after the palace at Versailles. When the Titanic headed out across the Atlantic on April 11, 1912, it had every luxury: a gymnasium, cafes, squash courts, a swimming pool, Turkish baths, a barbershop and three libraries. In this case, the French government's submersible Nautile carried the investigators down to examine the ship's remains. The opening of the Titanic to forensic analysis is part of a global trend in which the end of the cold war is accelerating deep-sea exploration as former military personnel and technologies enter the civil sector and start to engage in commerce. That remark was heard by a reporter who visited the expedition for about a week. But the bow, he added, "is still a very beautiful structure." "The stern is a terrible mess," Livingstone said over an undersea microphone while exploring the wreck. It was the first time anyone from the company had descended to the broken hulk. Garzke, a member of the Marine Forensics Panel of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, a Jersey City group that advised the Discovery Channel on the investigation, was one of the expedition's main experts.Īnother was David Livingstone, an official of Harland & Wolff in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the builder of the Titanic. (In November, an exhibit of about 400 objects from the Titanic is scheduled to open at the Florida International Museum in St. Discovery and its French partner, Ellipse Programme, paid nearly $3-million to produce the program.
The result, Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster, a two-hour special, is to be broadcast on Sunday night, the eve of the 85th anniversary of the disaster. The group of experts was assembled by the Discovery Channel, which visited the wreck during a monthlong expedition last August. Finally, the team investigated the likely fate of the rusting hulk in the decades ahead, examining the onslaught of metal-loving microbes. Working with computer simulations of the disaster and metallurgic analysis of retrieved fragments of Titanic steel, the team also addressed how the ship flooded, broke in two and plunged to the bottom. Garzke Jr., a naval architect who aided the analysis, said last week.
"Titanic was a victim that night," William H. A different pattern of damage might have avoided the disaster that started late on April 14, 1912, a quiet Sunday evening notable for its clear sky, chilly air and calm sea. What doomed the ship was the unlucky placement of the six wounds across six watertight holds, the experts say. The total area of the damage appears to be about 12 to 13 square feet. Peering through the mud with sound waves, the team found the damage to be astonishingly small _ a series of six thin openings across the starboard hull.
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