Forty years ago, in the early hours of September 1, grainy black-and-white images of a metal cylinder appeared on the video feeds in the command center of Knorr, a research vessel searching the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bow of the Titanic in 1986, a year after scientist explorer Bob Ballard and his team discovered the wreckage. Rusticles are ...

The search concealed a top-secret mission The 1985 search for the Titanic was not Ballard’s first attempt at locating the wreckage. A 1977 expedition failed when a 3,000-foot drilling pipe to which ...