CREW RAISES TITANIC HULL TO WITHIN 215 FEET OF SURFACE ASSOCIATED PRESS.Byline: Newfoundland After 84 years on the ocean floor, a 21-ton section of the hull of the Titanic Titanic (tītăn`ĭk), British liner that sank on the night of Apr. 14–15, 1912, after crashing into an iceberg in the N Atlantic S of Newfoundland. More than 1,500 lives were lost. was raised part of the way to the surface Thursday by salvagers using giant balloons filled with diesel fuel. Following two unsuccessful attempts, an underwater crew finally freed the huge piece of the liner, and it was lifted more than two miles from the seabed by the flotation balloons. The balloons broke the surface by midday. By late Thursday night, the hull was suspended about 215 feet below the surface, said George Tulloch, president of RMS Titanic The RMS Titanic, a British Olympic-class ocean liner, became famous as the largest ocean liner built in her day and also for sinking on her maiden voyage in 1912 with a huge loss of life. Inc., which is running the salvage operation 1. The recovery, evacuation, and reclamation of damaged, discarded, condemned, or abandoned allied or enemy materiel, ships, craft, and floating equipment for reuse, repair, refabrication, or scrapping. 2. . Engineers were concerned about the weight of the hull and the pressure on the ropes and balloons pulling it to the surface, he said. Crews planned to resume this morning and place the hull on a tugboat tugboat, small, strongly built vessel, used to guide large oceangoing ships into and out of port and to tow barges, dredging and salvage equipment, and disabled vessels. bound for Boston, where it will be exhibited, then moved to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . It wasn't clear when that would happen, though. ``I think we've proved that the Titanic is not something to put arrival schedules on,'' Tulloch said. About 1,700 cruise ship passengers, including three Titanic survivors, watched the salvage operation from ships near the spot where the Titanic sank, 420 miles southeast of Newfoundland. |
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