Titanic Explorers Sail Home With Cargo of Images
Scientists, technicians and Navy officers completed their 12-day exploration of the Titanic and sailed for home Friday with more photos and videotapes of the shipwreck.
The deep-sea research team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Navy was expected to arrive in this Cape Cod port on Monday, spokeswoman Anne I. Rabushka said.
Researchers left the site 450 miles southeast of Newfoundland on Thursday after completing the 11th and final dive in the three-man submarine Alvin.
Chief scientist Robert Ballard, who relayed details of each day’s dive to reporters via ship-to-shore telephone conversations with Woods Hole officials, will not talk to reporters until he arrives in port, Rabushka said.
Celebration Planned
A welcoming celebration is planned Monday at Woods Hole, but the new photographs and videotapes will not be released until Ballard holds a news conference Wednesday in Washington.
Woods Hole officials said they do not know how many photos or videotapes Ballard would release.
Twelve color slides and a three-minute, 10-second videotape were flown ashore and released to the media on July 18. The film included up-close shots of the rust-encrusted deck and a crystal chandelier.
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