![]() ![]() Sonar two very large metallic objects were located in the "general" vicinityĪnd "depth" were Dr. Russian nuclear submarines were hiding in the deep waters off the NorthĪtlantic coast around New Brunswick and Greenland.ĭuring one of these top secret tests in 1977, of the new deep underwater Underwater sonar equipment, which was to be used in locating andĭetecting Russian nuclear submarines. "In 1977 the British were conducting top-secret tests of new deep-sea Ballard had been told the location of the wreck of the Titanic by Navy personnel who had located it with a secret sonar system."Įventually, I was delighted to received a reply from Steve Anderson. Gibbons, a founder member of the society had said that, ""Bill Tantum told me in 1978 that Dr. I was able to ascertain that the Titanic Historical (THS) Society had been bequeathed Tantum's files, but I receivedĪ "sorry we can't help" when I asked if they had information regarding a pre-1985 discovery of the wreck. To get just one picture before breaking down. The story is that a camera package was lowered into the sea and managed Shown an image of the Titanic's stern many years before the Ballard find. When they found a large ship in two pieces sitting on the ocean floor.Īnderson would also be told by Bill Tantum's widow that Bill had been US Navy were doing some experiments with a sonar in the wreck site area One of the many posts that wrote wasĪbout the discovery of the Titanic before WHOI/IFREMER's 1985 expedition.Īccording to Mr.Anderson, some years before, a group of people, probably Message boards based on my knowledge of what was discussed in the mid 1990s: I had placed the following appeal for information on the Encyclopedia-Titanic With Dr.Ballard in the late 1970s to find the wreck: see "The Discovery of (The Late Bill Tantum (sic) was a massive Titanic enthusiast who had teamed up You will find out why certian parties are really mad over this." ![]() You might find out something really interesting. What was Bill Tataum IV doing in the wreck area with a Deep Sea UnderwaterĬamera in 1979? Ask your friends about this, and who supplied the camara? Lovers and a certian organization flamed me off the boards. Heap of S***, as the last time I mentioned the SOLLIS PROJECT, The Ballard I won't comment any further on this, as you my old friend are now in for a Information will be declassified in 2027. "TWO WORDS ONLY: "SOLLIS PROJECT" 1977 / ROYAL NAVY This is a partial resume of the salient information, with I have been unable to unearth the mailing list archives, he did provide the same The source of this claim was researcher Steve Anderson. The wreck had been found by a rival team many years previously. ButĪll that changed when I joined a Titanic mailing list c.1995, and was faced with the claim that The niggle over the "Observer" was a scarcely mentioned piece of spurious noise in the data. The discovery of the Titanic by Ballard and his team seemed like an unquestionable fact, and Or had someone been eavesdropping on our radio conversations between the vanĪnd that was it! No word of explanation, and the matter was dropped by Ballard. That was true, then the paper had gone to press at about the time we'd found the ship. Apparently, there'd been a story in the Sunday London Observer. Me that the press had been calling all morning wanting details of our Titanicĭiscovery. The guard who answered the phone informed Titanic having been found], I was met with a jolt. ", When I called Woods Hole to give them the good news [about the The London "Sunday Observer" newspaper had runĪn article stating that the Titanic had been found. One oft mentioned, but little researched incident, occurred at precisely the time It vanished beneath the waves at 2.20am on April 15th, 1912. They and their jubilant crowd were the first to see the fabled ship since Had found probably the greatest "lost" shipwreck in history The Titanic. Nondescript portion of the North Atlantic seabed and saw a massive ship's boiler.Īfter weeks of searching, first by sonar and then by visual means, they Of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute trawled a camera package over a ![]() IFREMER (The French Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea) and Dr.Robert Ballard On 1st September 1985, on board a ship called "Knorr", aįrench-American expedition led by Jean Louis-Michel of
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