I wouldn't say I'm a Titanic groupie or a fanatic, but every time we go to Titanic, it's a very challenging place to explore. What is it like to explore the Titanic wreck? We asked Gallo about the 2010 expedition, what he hoped to do with the data, and if he is planning any future excursions to the site. That work is just now being released to the public in stunning new mosaic images. They also photographed the Titanic and its debris field with high-definition digital video cameras deployed using robotics. (The same AUVs would be used in 2011 to locate the black boxes of Air France Flight 477, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.) With funding from the salvage company RMS Titanic, Inc., the team mapped the area of the wreck, which lies four kilometers deep, in unprecedented detail using sonar. In 2010 Gallo's team at Woods Hole used autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to return to the wreckage site. With new camera systems, robotics and sonar devices, Gallo found that he could explore the mysterious dark world of the deep sea in exquisite detail. Gallo, director of special projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, got hooked on the technology of exploration in 1987, two years after Bob Ballard and a French–U.S. There have been books, movies, in-depth reports and a musical about the Titanic, so why not a video game? That's what deep-sea ocean explorer David Gallo hopes for-not a game to best an opponent, but one to explore the world’s most famous shipwreck in ways never done before.
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