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Old 04-04-11, 11:16 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Torplexed View Post
Good point. I guess I always think of those empty shoes on the bottom with Titanic where they think a body used to lie. But that picture was taken after Titanic had spent eighty years on the bottom.

This, and the doll's head are probably the most haunting, spooky images I can immediately recall from Ballard's expedition, with the teacup perched upright atop the boiler in the debris field being another.

And, like you said, 80 years in the deep; yet much of Titanic's wood was identifiable, so who knows? This was more southerly than the wreck of Titanic, maybe that had some bearing on what kind of life is down there. An amazing world we live in, that's for sure.

Here's hoping this can lead to some kind of closure for the families of the lost.
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