Word: undersea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Watching on television, they vicariously joined the undersea craft Alvin and Jason Jr. ("J.J.") as they toured the wreckage of the luxury liner, wandering across the decks past corroded bollards, peering into the officers' quarters and through rust-curtained portholes. Views of the railings where doomed passengers and crew members stood evoked images of the moonless night 74 years ago when the great ship slipped beneath the waves...
While the exploration of the legendary Titanic captured the imagination of the world, it was but one of many undersea forays now in progress. Even as J.J. roamed the corridors of the great ship, diving teams from Cape Cod, Mass., to the South Seas, wearing scuba tanks, masks and flippers, were peering at decaying wrecks on the sea floor. At depths ranging from dozens to hundreds of feet, they probed and photographed the remnants of rotting hulls and carefully marked the location of scattered debris like cannonballs, silver bars or shattered pottery. Returning to the surface, they often brought with...
Wolper's long career has produced more than 500 films and documentaries as varied as The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau and If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. His television triumphs include Roots and The Thorn Birds. The opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics were his first public spectacles. But as an exercise in patriotism and promotion, Liberty Weekend is even more demanding...
...ship that won the Battle of Midway (1942) and points out that the Soviet Union has been launching the capital ship of the next war--the submarine. The U.S. has 100 attack subs, the Soviets three times as many. American submarines are quieter, an important advantage in undersea warfare, but the Soviets' are faster and can dive deeper...
While investigators probed the possibility of human error, the search for evidence of the technical failure that caused the Challenger explosion continued off Cape Canaveral. A flotilla of four undersea craft and ten surface ships had located and photographed parts of the right booster, scattered on the ocean floor under about 1,200 ft. of water...