Wreck of the RMS Titanic intact and undamaged dresser behind it. Robert Ballard has suggested that areas within the ship or buried under debris, where scavengers may not have been able to reach, may still contain human remains. According to Charles Pellegrino, who dived on "Titanic" in 2001, a finger bone encircled by the partial remains of a wedding ring was found concreted to the bottom of a soup tureen that was retrieved from the debris field. It was returned to the sea bed on the next dive. The longest-lasting inhabitants of "Titanic" are likely to be bacteria and archaea which have colonized the metal
Wreck of the RMS Titanic on "Knorr"s screens. One of them was identified as a boiler, identical to those shown in pictures from 1911. The following day, the main part of the wreck was found and "Argo" sent back the first pictures of "Titanic" since her sinking 73 years before. The discovery made headlines around the world. Following his discovery of the wreck site, Ballard returned to "Titanic" in July 1986 aboard the research vessel RV "Atlantis II". Now the deep-diving submersible DSV "Alvin" could take people back to "Titanic" for the first time since her sinking, and the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) "Jason Jr."