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The discovery of the Titanic in 1985 made the front page, but just barely there in the bottom left https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/03/science/wreckage-of-titanic-reported-discovered-12000-feet-down.html …?pic.twitter.com/dvLVPClvNT
not gonna lie, a part of me loves that NYT's A1 story on the discovery of the Titanic was an aggregation jobpic.twitter.com/1tBCdNE7X7
the following day, The Times ran an AP piece on Bob Ballard's interview with ABC News (a ship-to-shore call that ran on the evening news). CBS, apparently, got the first footage of the Titanic. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1985/09/04/237108.html?pageNumber=15 …pic.twitter.com/Pu7hn9K4lo
Three days after Ballard's discovery ran on A1, the first photographs of the undersea Titanic were showing up in print. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/06/us/titanic-photos-may-hold-clues-to-final-hours.html …pic.twitter.com/hHukTYRqFc
Sept. 7, a week after the Titanic discovery was announced, it's back on A1 with an interview with Ballard. (mild eyeroll at the 'oh look we have the first newspaper interview' line in graf <squints> five? at least it was after the jump.) https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1985/09/07/issue.html …pic.twitter.com/KAXrvZEUGC
Sept. 8, Titanic's discovery creeps up the front page with the news that Ballard was also on a secret Cold War-era Navy mission https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/08/us/titanic-wreck-was-surrise-yield-of-underwater-tests-for-military.html …pic.twitter.com/RyucccO7fa
After Ballard found the Titanic, it didn't take long for others to as well, secret Navy mission be damned. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/08/us/titanic-wreck-was-surrise-yield-of-underwater-tests-for-military.html …pic.twitter.com/wxfHohpzMt
skipping ahead a year, Bob Ballard is back at the Titanic, and his efforts are chronicled near daily.pic.twitter.com/qoRHCxOiC4
Ballard is giddy to be getting a look at the Titanic. On that trip, they were to leave a plaque from the Explorers Club of New York. It urged "any who may come hereafter leave undisturbed this ship and her contents as a memorial to deep-water exploration." https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/16/us/undersea-robot-gets-a-look-inside-still-luxurious-titanic.html …pic.twitter.com/TI0SC4KRdg
(fast forward a few years and Alvin, the submersible that's helping Ballard and others visit Titanic is on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. 8-year-old Erin is obsessed with it on multiple visits.)
I love this one, when Ballad and crew — who are not generally interested in loot but are also human beings — find a safe in the Titanic wreckage https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/19/us/expedition-finds-safes-in-wreckage-of-titanic.html …pic.twitter.com/oBBhbxYg2j
(also spotted on this dive through the mid-1980s: the stereotypical NYT comma headline, long before I thought it first emerged to our collective modern ridicule)pic.twitter.com/lGP1l98fjk
skipping ahead a few decades, I've found this obituary of one of the scientists on Ballard's Titanic-discovery team (incredible headline her.) https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/09/us/ruth-d-turner-85-expert-on-the-wood-eating-mollusk.html …pic.twitter.com/zmkFAYw7yz
"She was comfortable in the male-dominated society of ocean research, often enjoying poker with her male colleagues."https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/09/us/ruth-d-turner-85-expert-on-the-wood-eating-mollusk.html …
"Do what sets you on fire," Dr. Turner urged her students."'If you do what you love, you'll succeed."https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/09/us/ruth-d-turner-85-expert-on-the-wood-eating-mollusk.html …
brb learning everything i can about Ruth D. Turner, Titanic researcher and expert on the wood-eating mollusk "WHO WAS AFFECTIONATELY CALLED LADY WORMWOOD" OH MY GOD https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/09/us/ruth-d-turner-85-expert-on-the-wood-eating-mollusk.html …pic.twitter.com/QJE83qgVqU
here is Ruth's wikipedia page which is tragically small https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Turner …
next stop on our rabbit hole: Ruth-who-helped-solve-Titanic-riddles was the first woman to be tenured in biology at Harvard https://guides.library.harvard.edu/WomenInScience/biology …
annnnnyway back to the Titanic. In 1987, two years after the discovery, The Times was displeased at plans to raid the watery grave. "A Texas oilman in cahoots with a French Government research institute plans a return to the Titanic for treasure and live TV."pic.twitter.com/2dsQjz4vUf
'On July 27, the French brought up dinner plates and wine bottles from the wreck. The next week, the United States Senate voted to ban the sale for profit of anything from the Titanic.' That is some quick work for the Senate.https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/14/us/french-will-raise-titanic-strongbox.html …
VERY LITTLE to do with the Titanic but wow this story about SeaQuest DSV as NBC's silver bullet to take on Murder, She Wrote's monster ratings. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/09/arts/review-television-nbc-and-abc-take-on-cbs-and-lansbury.html …pic.twitter.com/hv0HDTYnWR
(actually a little something to do with the Titanic because 12-year-old me came to know and obsess over Bob Ballard because of the SeaQuest end credits. "Hi, I'm Bob Ballard of the Woods-Hole Oceanographic Institute.")
back to Titanic, here's Ballard being called in to go all Snopes on a crappy TV documentary in 1987 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1987/11/01/575687.html?pageNumber=33 …pic.twitter.com/p9FhKXP4TT
i'm meandering off this rabbit hole now, but i'll just close by saying some of the most fun you can have on the internet is going to the https://timesmachine.nytimes.com and typing random key words and seeing where it takes you.
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