TITANIC's Mystery Shoes

For the complete version of this video... https://youtu.be/tVa7wtvO3s0

I love when people don’t sugar coat historical events. I’d rather they were transparent about history.

He's the first person that finally explained it in detail.

You gotta to appreciate Dr. Ballard's honesty in describing the details of the sinking, being direct and without softening the event.

Mr. Bob Ballard didn't only discover the legendary Titanic, he also discovered another legendary ship...... the famous AND infamous great German battleship Bismarck.

The visual of bodies raining down in the ocean is frightening poetry.

I want to memorize this monologue for next thanksgiving dinner with the extended family.

I've always been fascinated with shipwrecks, since Ballard found the Titanic. Later, I became a Master SCUBA Diver Trainer and taught Wreck Diving as one of the specialty courses. I lived in Las Vegas for awhile, and the Titanic exhibit came and I knew I had to go. To be able to touch the hull, to see the person artifacts, it was a very moving and humbling experience. To be able to fathom what those people went through, and to think of what was witnessed by the very few that survived...just leaves me speechless.

There just aren't words. May they rest at peace; every man, woman and child.

No amount of story telling could ever make us comprehend the horror that was felt that night.

He was direct and to the point, but not distasteful.

My great grandpa helped build the Titanic, he died from the diseases that were at the shipping yard years later. I was lucky enough to go and see the site of where it was built.

I watched a documentary years back, when they originally found the wreck. They said the hardest thing to get over, was finding hundreds of these shoes laying on the ocean floor. Knowing that was where over a thousand passengers came to rest. The tannic acid on the shoes preserved them.

Seeing those shoes really hits home.

No matter how the story of Titanic is told, it is one of the most tragic as well as horrific stories ever told.

This detail has always been omitted. Thanks for the reality update.

I love history. Thank you for your in depth analysis of the debris and human remains. I can't imagine what's like to stay in that freezing water waiting to die. Titanic is one of history saddest events😢

My great great uncle was from Germany and his wife from Ireland . They moved to France and he eventually came to the us (mystic Iowa) with 4 of his 8 children. His wife (my great great aunt) and the other 4 children were the only French passengers on the titanic I believe. They all perished tragically 💔 they were third class and more than likely had no life jackets either….I didn’t know them but it’s so sad to think my uncle lost half his children and his wife on that ship….lefebvre is the last name of anyone wants to look them up. Marie, Matilde, lidonie I can’t remember the other names but those r their names. Rest in paradise to the souls lost 🙏🏻

Dr. 'Bob' Ballard besides a brilliant mind is a really nice guy. When he did any work at the museum where i worked, he borrowed my desk as it was located near the space where his local people were and I was seldom using it. He never failed to both ask my permission and thank me at the end of his work. He seemed to always be smiling and would happily chat with anyone, staff or visitors. A true pleasure to be around. Let me assure you, not every guest lecturer was as personable. Dr. Ballard was never a diva.

Rip to all those victims. We might not know or remember them individually but they will always be remembered as part of the tragedy x