Bismark On The Ocean Floor

The ship struck an extinct underwater volcano which rose some 3 300 ft above the surrounding abyssal plain triggering a 1 2 miles landslide.

Bismark on the ocean floor. John correll was editor in chief of air force magazine for 18 years and is now a contributor. Sofía gómez uribe is a colombian world record holding freediver. Ballard s next goal was to find and film the wreck of the bismarck the search for the wreck began in july 1988 but his first expedition brought no success. In 1989 an exploration found the remains of bismarck at rest on the ocean floor three miles below the surface and 400 miles from the coast of france.

A second expedition was mounted in late may 1989 and on 8 june 1989 after combing an area of some 200 square miles ballard and his team finally found bismarck s. His most recent article the shadow war in cambodia appeared in the january issue. Bismarck was found to be resting upright at a depth of approximately 15 719 ft about 400 miles west of brest. After the discovery of the wreck of the titanic in 1985 dr.

Rms majestic was a white star ocean liner working on the north atlantic run originally launched in 1914 as the hamburg america line liner ss bismarck at 56 551 gross register tons she was the largest ship in the world until completion of ss normandie in 1935. The third and largest member of german hapag line s trio of transatlantic liners her completion was delayed by world war i. Bismarck slid down the mountain coming to a stop two thirds down. The risks and rewards of deep sea mining video on the seabed where the water is as dark as ink lies a vast treasure of untouched resources.