Many people know the story of the Atlantic’s most infamous steam liner. But, many don’t know much about the Titanic discovery. When the ship sank, there were distress calls to all corners of the world, to almost all other ships at sea. After the sinking, the iceberg was examined and found to have red paint on it, leading experts to believe that that iceberg was the culprit. A French man called Jean Jarry and his team, working for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, discovered the Titanic July 1, 1985. The broken ship was found more than 12,400 feet, or about two and one half miles under the surface of the ocean. The team was out testing their new sonar system, the System Acoustique Remorqué, which was to be used for deep-water engineering. Debris from the Titanic was first spotted about 250 miles south of Nova Scotia, just after 1 in the morning on the first of September of ‘85, which led to the discovery of the rest of the ship, including a boiler. The three companies credited for the Titanic discovery, Argo, SAR and IFREMER, became quickly infamous over the few weeks following the initial discovery.
