09/01/1985 AD discovered
The wreck of the Titanic is finally located by a joint French–American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution after numerous unsuccessful expeditions tried using sonar to map the sea bed in the hope of finding it.
The wreck has been the focus of intense interest and has been visited by numerous expeditions. Controversial salvage operations have recovered thousands of items, which have been conserved and put on public display.
Many schemes have been proposed to raise Titanic, including filling the wreck with ping-pong balls, injecting it with 180,000 tons of Vaseline, or using half a million tons of liquid nitrogen to encase it in an iceberg that would float to the surface. However, the wreck is too fragile to be raised and is now protected by a UNESCO convention.
Lattitude: 41.7255° N
Longitude: 49.9469° W
Region: North America
Modern Day Canada
