Argo is an unmanned deep-towed undersea video camera sled developed by Dr. Robert Ballard through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's Deep Submergence Laboratory. Argo is most famous for its role in the discovery of the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 1985. Argo would also play the key role in Ballard's discovery of the wreck of the battleship Bismarck in 1989.
The towed sled, capable of operating depths of 6,000 meters (20,000 feet), meant 98% of the ocean floor was within reach. The original Argo, used to find Titanic, was 15 feet long, 3.5 feet tall, and 3.5 feet wide and weighed about 4,000 pounds in air. It had an array of cameras looking forward and down, as well as strobes and incandescent lighting to illuminate the ocean floor. It could acquire wide-angle film and television pictures while flying 50 to 100 feet above the sea floor, towed from a surface vessel, and could also zoom in for detailed views.[1]
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The Titanic was first discovered in 1985 by Dr. Robert Ballard and a team of researchers with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Ifremer, a French institution. We returned to Titanic in 2004 with Dr. Ballard to conduct some further studies and scientific research at the site. We compared the information that was first discovered back in '85 and '86 with how the site has changed now. We conducted an updated photo mosaic of the site. We researched the rusticles that are growing on the wreck. We conducted high resolution video imagery of the debris field in the site itself, as well as at the back of the wreck.
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- ^ "Ships & Technology used during the Titanic Expeditions". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Archived from the original on 2020-04-04. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
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