Discovery of the Titanic - Interview With Survivor Eva Hart (1985)

On 1 September 1985, the wreck of the Titanic was discovered on by a joint French–American expedition, some 73 years after the passenger liner sank on its maiden voyage. ITN spoke to one of the leaders of the expedition, Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as well as Eva Hart, who survived the disaster at the age of seven while her father died.

Ever since the Titanic's sinking in 1912, people had proposed schemes by which to salvage the ship's wreck. In 1985, John Pierce, who had recently raised the wreck of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior from the bed of Auckland Harbour using a system of inflatable canvas bags, proposed to do the same with the Titanic over two and a half miles beneath the ocean's surface. Eva Hart, however, argued the site should be left alone, it being the final resting place of the more than 1,500 people who died in the disaster. While a number of salvage dives have recovered items from the wreck, no efforts to raise the wreck progressed much further than the proposal stage. Since 14 April 2012 – the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking – the wreck of the Titanic has been protected under the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage.

It was announced on 17 May 2023 that deep-sea mapping company Magellan Ltd had produced the first full-sized digital scan of the Titanic since its discovery in 1985. It is hoped that the 3D imaging of the wreck will allow researchers to better understand what happened to the passenger liner, and answer questions that remain unanswered more than 110 years after the Titanic sank.

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[danieldonnelly]

1:33 I’ve watched many interviews with Eva Hart and she is normally so classically British and stoic, that’s the first time I’ve seen her look upset when talking about the disaster. RIP to a wonderful woman.

[DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

The Titanic took over 73 years to be found after she sank at a depth of about 12, 500 feet, but her rescue ship Carpathia took over 81 years to be found after she sank at a depth of somewhere between only 500 and 600 feet. As for her ignoring ship, the SS Californian, she sank at a depth that is believed to be even deeper than the Titanic and even to this time in 2024, she still hasn't been found.

[sgthree]

'almost in tact with three funnels'. That didn't age well, did it!?

[DanielMulloy-bggw]

Raising the titanic is just a laughable pipe