(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.)
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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 …
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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
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'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 …
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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
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(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.")
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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
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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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