Straus, who refused to leave her husband of many years to enter a lifeboat. Isidor Straus of Macy's was lost, as was Mrs. They were aboard in a suite that cost $4,000 for the one-way voyage. The Titanic was carrying some of the richest of the world's rich, including John Jacob Astor and his wife, who bore his child after Astor went down with the ship. Ten millionaires were aboard the Titanic,and the safe storage room was filled with valuables, including diamonds valued at $7 million in 1912. 13 in Paris and Washington at which the discoverers will describe their findings, according to the French announcement. Their final agreement, code-named White Star after the White Star line, the British company that owned the Titanic, specifies the rights to anything recovered from the wreck under both French and American law, according to the French announcement.Ī news conference will be held Sept. The American and French research teams are said to have reached their agreement only after long, secret negotiations. The French announcement did not give the site of the wreck, apparently to maintain secrecy. The cameras of the American Argo system came in the past few days and confirmed the discovery.'' ''But we had to be certain, and the agreement prevented making any statement. ''Those on board the Suroit were almost sure they had pinned down the Titantic,'' the announcement said. It added that the responsibilities of the two teams had been set forth in an agreement signed in June just days before the French ship set out. The French announcement yesterday said that a French research ship, the Suroit, began work in the area on June 28 and was joined on Aug. But the expedition's leaders were later unable to confirm this. In 1980 an American expediation surveyed the North Atlantic with sonar and announced that it might have traced the Titanic's hulk. She was believed to be ''unsinkable'' because of her double bottom and reinforced bulkheads. She took more than 1,500 of her approximately 2,200 passengers and crew to their death. The Titanic sank on her way from Southampton, England, to New York after striking an iceberg April 14, 1912. The French said that the French and American organizations in charge had agreed beforehand to make no public statement on the success of their search ''unless they were absolutely certain of the facts.'' ''It's my understanding,'' she said, ''that it was the Argo that made the discovery.'' Shelly Lauzon, a spokesman at Woods Hole, Mass., said the institution's own people had not reached their team. Ballard said, adding that it seemed somehow to have a far larger dimension - ''a true disaster.''Īfter the announcement was made in France, the Knorr was beseiged by ship-to-shore callers, and the ship ceased taking calls. Our initial reaction was excitement, then a coming down off that to realize we had found the ship where 1,500 people had died.''įor ''a lot of us who had researched it for so many years, the Titanic has taken on more than a shipwreck,'' Dr. ''It was just bang, there it was on top of it. ''We came on it early this morning,'' he said. ''We went smack dab over a gorgeous boiler,'' Dr. The ship, 244 feet in length, tows Woods Hole's robot submarine Argo, equipped with video and still cameras. The American part of the expedition, financed by the National Geographic Society, is based aboard the oceanographic survey ship Knorr, built for the Navy. In an announcement, the Institute for Research and Exploitation of the Sea, a French Government organization, said the wreck was positively identified by a French-made submarine sonar system and American-made underwater cameras. The American-French team was working in the general area where the Titanic was believed to have gone down, generally put at 41 degrees 46 minutes north latitude, 50 degrees 14 minutes west longitude. One account put the wreck at 370 miles south of Newfoundland, but there were conflicting figures. Researchers have come back with only dim, tantalizing hints. The Titanic's wreckage had eluded at least three teams who set out to find it. Ballard told the Canadian television network CTV. ''To finally put those souls to rest was a very nice feeling,'' Dr.
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