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...sense, it was a dream fulfilled for all seafaring scientists. To locate one of the most technologically advanced vessels of its day, the researchers employed the most advanced technology of today. A team of 13 Woods Hole investigators sailing on the U.S. Navy research vessel Knorr joined forces with a contingent of French scientists aboard the Suroit, operated by the Paris-based Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER). The two ships bristled with several million dollars' worth of sophisticated equipment. It included a high-resolution sonar device that can trace precisely the contours of the ocean floor...
...kind of intellectual hobby. "If something's been written about the Titanic, he's read it," says fellow Marine Scientist William Marquet. "He knows her, inside and out." That curiosity received a boost three years ago when the Navy decided to finance the development of a sophisticated submersible photographic vessel, christened Argo (see box). It was Ballard who suggested that the Argo's maiden task be to seek the Titanic. Knorr set sail three months ago, the compact submersible on board; after performing routine explorations off the coast of San Juan and the Azores, the crew arrived at the Titanic...
Over the next several days, the Knorr crew repeatedly lowered the Argo, only to raise it again when the waves got rough. Another unmanned vessel, named Angus, was dispatched to the depths to take high-quality still photographs that would complement Argo's videotapes. Acoustic transponders delineated the ship's massive profile. Each image proved more remarkable than the previous one. A small flagpole stretched forlornly from the tip of the bow. Lifeboat bays yawned, empty. Much of the Titanic was in "pristine" condition, but portions of the hull seemed to show the lethal gash inflicted by the iceberg...
Robert Brown, 42, Stow, Mass., international marketing director for the Boston Scientific Corp., a medical equipment company. An ex-Marine captain thrice decorated during Viet Nam duty, Brown was kicked in the face by one of the hijackers. The blow broke a blood vessel in his left eye that took eight days to heal. Later, Brown and three other captives were locked up for days in an underground room, 20 ft. square, which he believes was a command bunker. Brown, who kept a diary on folded white paper, got to be known as "the Coach" by his fellow hostages because...
...being carried under the plane's right wing might have had something to do with the crash. Although hopes had been slim that the two flight recorders could be found at an estimated depth of 6,000 ft., at week's end sonar scanners aboard a British seabed operations vessel, H.M.S. Challenger, detected a firm signal that Irish authorities identified as the recorders' "homing blip...