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...thought the stern was an appropriate place since that's where most died and it was the last part of the ship to go under," expedition leader Robert Ballard said in a ship-to-shore call from the Atlantis II research ship about 400 miles off Newfoundland...
...researchers cancelled plans to send Jason Jr., a camera-equipped robot inside, fearing that the stern's mangled opening would have snared the remote unit's electrical tether. "Too spooky," Ballard replied when asked how difficult conditions were...
...stern and then rose to maneuver atop it before settling on the poop deck. Between two mooring line rollers, the plaque was placed to commemorate the victims and William H. Tantum IV, who encouraged efforts to locate the ship but died five years before the 1985 discovery by Ballard...
Leading the way for the racquetmen, as usual, was Co-Captain Kenton Jernigan, one of the Harvard's most accomplished athletes. Jernigan concluded his college career by rolling over Penn's Stewart Ballard by a score of three games to none to take his third individual intercollegiate championship in four years...
...Ballard had another point to make: he is vehemently opposed to any plans to raise the Titanic. As he said earlier upon his return to Woods Hole, "There is no light at that depth, and little life can be found. It is a quiet, peaceful place and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless those now found souls...