Finding the Titanic
by Robert Ballard
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Describes the voyage of the Titanic, the accident that caused it to sink, and the rescue of those who survived.Tags
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This book is a great informational book for any young child interested in learning more about the Titanic. I know personally I found myself very interested in the sinking of the Titanic at a young age, but I never had a book such as this one available for me to read. It will for sure be a book that I will keep in my classroom for any history lovers. I love that this book is a chapter book, but it also has pictures avaiable throughout. I think by putting the pictures in the book really keeps the child reading it engaged. All of the pictures included in this book are actual pictures from their journey. The main idea of this book was to just educate its reader on this extremely sad event that way it doesn't get lost and forgotten. All in show more all , I thought this book was a great informational read. show less
This book is good for two reasons. The first reason is that it follows the story of a man, and his team, as they make an important discovery. The head of the discovery team said, "I dreamed of finding the Titanic since I was a boy." The second reason this book was good, was the excitement the author builds through detailing the final days of the Titanic's voyage. Chapters 2 through 4 tell the story of a 12-year-old survivor, Ruth Becker, and her family. When they were rescued the book read, "Mrs. Becker, Marion, and Richard threw their arms around her. Ruth's eyes filled with tears of relief." The overall theme of this book is to inform people of the discovery of the wrecked Titanic.
This book is about a crew who finds the Titanic ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The story is told through a twelve year old named Ruth, and her experience when the ship was sinking. The book changes dates and tells the stories of both Ruth, and the crew who found the sunken ships close to seventy five years later. It talks of how they explored the sunken ship and all that was with it, and how this was such a huge discovery.
An early chapter book authored by the man who discovered the Titanic. New and historic photographs, and illustrations supplement the text well.
Genre: Informational
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Robert Ballard was born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1942, and was educated at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Hawaii, the University of Southern California, and the University of Rhode Island, where he received his Ph.D. in 1974. Part explorer, part geologist, part oceanographer, and part marine engineer, Ballard has show more worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Falmouth, Massachusetts, since 1969. He is currently director of the Center for Marine Exploration there. Ballard is perhaps best known to the general public in connection to the luxury liner Titanic. Ballard organized and participated in the expedition that discovered the ship in 1985. More important, however, is his work in designing underwater survey vehicles and in participating in dives to explore the ocean floor. His work in marine design and engineering, in particular, has led to a dramatic increase in the scope of deep-sea exploration. In the 1960s, Ballard helped develop the Alvin, a deep-sea, three-man submersible equipped with a remote controlled mechanical arm for collecting specimens from the ocean floor. The device played an important role in mid-ocean studies, including exploration of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and dives to the Cayman Trough, a 24,000-foot-deep gash in the ocean floor south of Cuba. Ballard was part of the Galapagos Hydrothermal Expedition in 1977, which discovered and investigated deep-sea thermal vents spouting mineral-rich water from volcanic cracks in the Earth's crust. In the 1980s, Ballard helped develop the Argo-Jason unmanned submersible system, the most advanced craft of its kind. Argo is a 16-foot submersible vehicle and Jason is a self-propelled robot tethered to Argo. The search for the Titanic was undertaken as a test of the Argo-Jason system; the success of the expedition demonstrated its capabilities and, according to Ballard, "ushered in a new era of undersea exploration." The author of several bestselling books on deep-sea exploration, Ballard also contributes regularly to National Geographic and other magazines and he has produced several videotapes of deep-sea expeditions. His reputation as a "science populizer" has prompted harsh criticism from some of his scientific colleagues. In 1985, Ballard was one of four scientists awarded a Secretary of the Navy Research Chair in Oceanography, an award that carries with it an $800,000 grant for oceanographic research. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Hello Reader! (Level 4)
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- Canonical title
- Finding the Titanic
- People/Characters
- Robert D. Ballard
- Important places
- Titanic; Atlantic Ocean; North Atlantic Ocean
- Important events
- Discovery of the Titanic (1985-09-01)
Classifications
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 910.91634 — History & geography Geography & travel modified standard subdivisions of Geography and travel Explorers & Travelers Geography of and travel in areas, regions, places in general Air And Water Atlantic Ocean
- LCC
- G530 .T6 .B495 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Geography (General) Adventures, shipwrecks, buried treasure, etc.
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- Reviews
- 5
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- (3.53)
- Languages
- English, Norwegian (Bokmål), Spanish
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 13
- ASINs
- 2