The Nation - News from July 10, 1986
A research team set off for the North Atlantic to photograph the interior of the Titanic for the first time since the “unsinkable” luxury liner struck an iceberg and sank in 1912. About 100 well-wishers in Woods Hole, Mass., waved as the research vessel Atlantis 2 pulled away. The team will seek to confirm that the wreckage, which was found last September, is not deteriorating in its watery grave 400 miles south of Newfoundland. The sinking of the British liner claimed 1,513 lives.
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