Timeline of United States discoveries four days into the ship's maiden voyage, "Titanic" struck an iceberg and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on April 15, 1912. The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 of the 2,223 people on board, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. After nearly 74 years of being lost at sea on the bottom of the ocean floor, a joint Franco-American expedition led by American oceanographer Dr. Robert D. Ballard, discovered the wreckage of the RMS "Titanic" two miles (3 km) beneath the waves of the North Atlantic on September 1, 1985. Ballard
Titanic: The Legend Goes On Titanic: The Legend Goes On Titanic: The Legend Goes On ( or Titanic: La leggenda continua), also released as Titanic: The Animated Movie, is a 2000 Spanish-Italian animated feature film about the sinking of the RMS "Titanic", written and directed by Camillo Teti. The movie begins on a White Star Line chartered boat train, boarding passengers to the RMS "Titanic". A poor girl named Angelica, treated as a servant by her wicked stepmother and two stepsisters, dreams of finding both love and her missing mother, with only a blue locket as a clue to the mother's identity. At the same