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Argo is launched from the Knorr during the 1985 Titanic expedition.
Argo is an unmanned deep-towed undersea video camera sled developed by Dr. Robert Ballard through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's Deep Submergence Laboratory. Argo is most famous for its role in the 1985 discovery of the wreck of the RMS Titanic. Argo was also used in the discovery of the wreck of the German battleship Bismarck. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is a soft money institution founded in 1930, whose mission is to extend our understanding of how the oceans in all there parts function. ... Jump to: navigation, search The New York Herald reports the disaster. ... Bismarck was a German battleship during World War II. She was named after Otto von Bismarck and is famous for sinking HMS Hood in 1941, and for the subsequent pursuit which ended with her destruction just three days later. ...
With this in mind, Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard designed his first bathyscaphe, a navigable deep-sea vessel consisting of a pressure sphere that is kept buoyant by a float (a large container filled with gasoline).
Unmanned, robot submersibles are also being used for underwater exploration and are capable of descending to even greater depths.
One such craft, called Argo, was used in 1985 to locate the wreck of the Titanic, and a smaller robot, called Jason, was used to explore the wreck.
Triumphant, Ballard and the team returned in 1986 with Alvin, a Navy submersible, capable of carrying three people to depths of 4,000 m.
The crafts mechanical arms, each capable of lifting about 115 kilos, recovered some 4,000 artefacts, often by attaching them to lift bags filled with diesel fuel or syntactic foam, which floats but does not compress at great depths.
Submersibles, ROVs and sonar scans have launched us into the space age of deep sea exploration.
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