Olympic-class ocean liner
When "Titanic" sank in 1912 and "Britannic" sank in 1916, their sinkings did not receive the same attention, due to the death toll (1,517 on "Titanic" and 30 on "Britannic"). Because the exact position of the sinking of the "Britannic" is known and the location is shallow, the wreck was discovered relatively easily in 1975. "Titanic", however, drew everyone's attention in 1912. After several attempts, the wreck was finally located by Jean-Louis Michel of Ifremer and Robert Ballard following a top secret mission for the US Navy to investigate the wreckage of two nuclear submarines, USS Thresher (SSN-593) and the USS Scorpion (SSN-589), that sank in the North Atlantic in the 1960s. The discovery of the wreck occurred on 1 September 1985, at 25 kilometres from the position given of the sinking. The wreck lies about 4,000 metres deep, broken in two. The bow is relatively well preserved, but the stern partially imploded, and to a large extent disintegrated during the descent and impact on the seabed.
Premier Exhibitions
G. Michael Harris opened the first Permeant Titanic exhibition on April 10, 1999 and is the largest, Titanic Exhibition in the world, located in Orlando, Florida and sold it to Premier Exhibitions in 2012. G. Michael Harris was the Expedition Leader in the summer of 2000 with over 120 hours on the wreck of the RMS Titanic and made 11 dives in the Russian Deep Diving Submersiable MIR1 & MIR2. Expedition 2000 was the last manned salvage dives on the RMS Titanic but was the most successful from an artifact recovery operations. Mr. Harris also found the now world-famous perfume bottles from the Titanic on August 2, 2000 in the Mir2 Russian Submersible along with Mr. Harris' Director of Operations, David Walker.