Sunday, April 29, 2012

A Titanic Search Area

I recently saw the new Titanic exhibit at the Mystic Aquarium, which opened for the 100th Anniversary of the sinking.  There is a short movie where Bob Ballard talks about how they searched for the wreck and ultimately found it.  He indicated that they had a search area of 150 square miles.  This really struck me, and I thought, "I could only DREAM of 150 square miles... try 900!" This is actually the size of our area, given that we do not know exactly what was happening for  a 20-hour period right before BHR sank.