Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1988.

Includes index.

To dare God -- The 70,000-ton sky -- The argossey -- A fancy-dress ball in Dante's hell -- The emblem of death at sea -- Killing joke -- The weeping dolphins -- A unity of feeling -- Humanity -- Infamy -- A family tradiition -- Popping the superman balloon -- And the stars did speak -- Like a coffin long and narrow -- Camp 4-H sings -- Scared to death -- The eye of the hurricane -- A pilot's story -- Introducing Jacques Cousteau, Tom Dettweiler and the Canadian mafia -- The crash of two worlds -- The disappearance of Robert Ballard -- Phaeton Rising -- Hatch out -- Mission to destiny -- An unnatural Calm -- The ghost under the grand banks -- jj and the pit -- Rendezvous -- Double encounter -- Trace Fossils? -- Graveyard shift -- Verdict on the gash -- Voice from the past -- Introducing Edith Russell's pig -- What Mrs. Abbott saw from the stern -- Over the Panama basin -- Her name, Titanic -- Afterward -- The Titanics cargo manifest -- bibliography-- index

Provides an account of the sinking and finding of the Titanic, covering the scientific aspects of the expeditions.

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