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Thirty years ago today, a group of scientists, engineers, and technicians aboard the research vessel Knorr discovered the final resting place of RMS Titanic. The team found the wreck with…

William Lange (right), director of the Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory at WHOI, Dave Conlin (center), chief of the National Parks Service’s Submerged Resources Center, and James Delgado (left), director…

Following the 1985 French-American expedition that discovered the wreck of Titanic, WHOI researchers William Lange, Elazar Uchupi, and Bob Ballard examined all the still and video images captured by deep-sea…

WHOI scientist Hanu Singh and former graduate student Sacha Wichers examine a photo mosaic of the wreck of RMS Titanic. The 866 individual photos that make up the mosaic were…

This mosaic of the RMS Titanic on the seafloor 2.5 miles below the surface was assembled in 1987 using nearly 100 of the 53,000 images taken by the towed sled…

The sunken luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic was located on September 1, 1985 by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s new imaging vehicle Argo, towed from the Research Vessel Knorr.  Today the…

National Geographic is hosting a Titanic exhibit from May 30, 2018, to Jan. 6, 2019, at the Society’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The exhibit will include the old personnel sphere from the…

In its four decades of operation, R/V Knorr has traveled more than a million miles, from the Galapagos Islands in the equatorial Pacific, to the frigid North Atlantic and many places in…

At a public event in Woods Hole in October 2010, visitors get a close look at a mock-up of the new personnel sphere the research submarine Alvin will receive during…

Built as the world’s first deep-ocean submersible, the human occupied vehicle Alvin can dive as deep as 4,500 meters (almost 3 miles), giving it access to some 63 percent of…

A photo, circa 1967, shows the research submersible Alvin with two support swimmers, as crew watch from Lulu, Alvin’s first tender ship. WHOI still operates the U.S. Navy-owned Deep Submergence…

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution operates the U.S. Navy-owned Deep Submergence Vehicle Alvin for the national oceanographic community. Alvin, built in 1964 as the world’s first deep-ocean submersible, has made more than…

Those exploring the wreck of the Titanic have found none of the elaborate woodwork that was the hallmark of the luxury liner’s grand staircase. Any wood that does remain is…

Shortly after a WHOI-French-led expedition found the wreck of Titanic on the seafloor in 1985, the Navy commissioned a return mission to test a small remotely operated vehicle (ROV) with…

Crowds of family members, WHOI staff, and other well-wishers—including hundreds of journalists and 18 film crews—thronged the pier at WHOI in September 1985, as the research vessel Knorr returned from…