At 882 feet, 9 inches and 66,000 tons displacement, R.M.S. "Titanic" was the largest ship of her day. She was also beautiful, expensive and reputed to be unsinkable. History knows differently.

She sunk on April 15, 1912 with only 705 survivors. For seventy-three years thereafter, the world's worst sea disaster lay lost and hidden. Then on September 1, 1985, a joint United States-French expedition found the R.M.S. "Titanic" under 2-1/2 miles of sea water off the coast of Newfoundland.

The search, led by Dr. Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Jean-Louis Michel of the Institut Francais de Recherches Pour L'Exploitation des Mers answered many questions about about "Titanic's" final hours. She has been studied and photographed, but it is said she will never be raised. She lies 13,000 feet below the waves, a mute memorial to those who sailed on her only voyage.