The Titanic goes down in about 20 minutes, 100 years ago...

[Larkspur]

1. The story always fascinated me

as well as the story about how Ballard found the wreck site. He learned to follow the debris trail from finding the 2 subs the Navy wanted him to find first.

I saw the Titanic exhibit when it came to Boston, MA a few years ago. It was neat. I've got mixed feelings about the artifacts. I think they should mostly be in a museum so all can see them. I'm not fond of having them sold, especially if they were personal items of the victims or survivors.

I also read that today, the Titanic wreck site is now protected by the U.N., so maybe now someone can protect the site from further damage by sub companies offering wealthy folks joy rides to the wreck site. However, it would be neat if someone could follow Ballard's suggestion about putting cameras at the site and beaming the images to the Internet so we all can see the site and scientists can monitor what goes on down there.