{"id":1859,"date":"2005-12-06T01:25:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T06:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/titanic_discovery\/"},"modified":"2005-12-06T01:25:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T06:25:11","slug":"titanic_discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/12\/titanic_discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Titanic<\/em> Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Scientists: Titanic may have sank faster\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/1501AP_Titanic_Find.html\">From deep under the sea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The discovery of two large pieces of the Titanic&#8217;s hull on the ocean floor indicates that the fabled luxury liner sank faster than previously thought, researchers said Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This part is funny:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Explorer Robert Ballard found the bulk of the wreck in 1985, at a depth of 13,000 feet and about 380 miles southeast of Newfoundland. Ballard was not impressed with the expedition&#8217;s find.<br \/>\n&#8220;They found a fragment, big deal,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Am I surprised? No. When you go down there, there&#8217;s stuff all over the place. It hit an iceberg and it sank. Get over it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting how Mr. Ballard is so cavalier about the matter<em> now<\/em>.  Where was this &#8220;the ship sunk&#8211;get over it&#8221; attitude a few years ago when he was involved in a multi-million dollar venture investigating the debris field?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/12\/titanic_discovery\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Titanic Discovery\"><p>From deep under the sea: The discovery of two large pieces of the Titanic&#8217;s hull on the ocean floor indicates that the fabled luxury liner sank faster than previously thought, researchers said Monday. This part is funny: Explorer Robert Ballard found the bulk of the wreck in 1985, at a depth of 13,000 feet and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}