European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday september 5. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 the titanic in his artist s Conception the titanic Rocs Down after striking an iceberg on april 14, 1912. More than 1,500 passengers perished. Everyone s heard of the titanic. They be written plays books and songs about it scientists probing the wreck release the Sar submarine sonar system. No Ordinary Shipwreck by Rick ii Ampson associated press new Yor there arc Rich or ones older ones and deeper ones hut of All the thousands of ship wrecks in All the i Arth s oceans seas and lakes the . Titanic was the one every treasure Hunter dreamed of finding. Everyone s heard til the Tilan said Harold . .1 Pioneer in the use of underwater detection equipment they be written . Books and songs about a s the most difficult wreck that s Ever been said Robert Marx who found the Spanish Gal Leon Maravillas in 1972 in the a Hamas. You re talking about mis Sion impossible. Nobody has Ever found anything that a French american team of scientists has found and videotaped the luxury liner which struck an ice Berg and Sank on its voyage 73 years ago. In i 3,1 20 feet of water about 560 mites off Newfoundland. The titanic was the biggest and most luxurious liner of its time and its More than 1,500 victims included american financier John Jacob Asior industrialist Benjamin Guggenheim and Isidor Straus of Macy s store in new York City. A Fortune in jewels and other valuables is rumoured to have gone Down with them. Hut cd tvs Ussiker author of the novel raise the to said he believes there is no Fortune mostly because first class passengers had the time to collect their valuables and carry them to the lifeboats to escape. Marx said that May miss the Point. Each Teacup is going to be Worth a Fortune he said noting that salvos now get for a German a boat Periscope Lens. The titanic will never be raised Cussler and Marx agreed. It s just so bloody Marx said. Scientist Robert Mallard a Mem Ber of the search team told his of fice any attempt at Salvage would be the . Team proposed making a Marine memorial site of the titanic. Question of ownership it is unclear who owns the titanic. Under admiralty Law a ship s owner retains right to its wreck unless it Abandons it or unless an extraordinarily Long period of Lime has passed since the sinking normally courts allow salvos some share of their findings. Texas oilman Jack Grimm who led three expeditions in search of the titanic said he considers the find a confirmation of our discovery and claimed we have All the rights to there Wras some question As to what Grimm discovered. In wk1, his expedition returned with a photo of what Grimm said appeared to show a ship s propeller critics said it looked like a Rock. I1 14h3. Grimm abandoned his last attempt saying. The Ocean was heaving the ship was heaving and All hands were heaving " hut he said sonar had indicated a shape similar to a ship s Bow and sides in an undersea Canyon. We gave them the Benefit of All our information about where it was on the Ocean he said of the French american team they have no claim
