2nd Titanic Expedition Sails

A seagoing safari set sail for a second look at the tomb of the Titanic today, carrying a robot that will search among chamber pots and bedsprings littered about the wreck, and even snap pictures of the luxury liner’s grand staircase.

Families threw kisses and spectators waved from piers as the Atlantis II pulled away from the dock of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In 12 daily dives beginning next week, expedition leader Robert Ballard plans to survey the damaged stern of the Titanic that last year’s expedition only skimmed.