How Many People Have Been To The Titanic Wreckage?

The first person to visit the Titanic in person after it sank was Robert Ballard in 1985, an oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island and National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence. As National Geographic reports, Ballard approached the U.S. Navy with a proposal to build a robotic submersible capable of embarking on the mission to discover the Titanic. The Navy was interested in the technology involved in the venture, agreed to it, and Ballard got lucky on the voyage. By following a trail of heaviest-to-lightest debris broken off from the Titanic as it was sinking, he was able to trace a path to the wreckage. He got the coordinates of the ship at a staggering 13,000 feet deep and 400 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland, and others have followed in his wake.

It's mostly researchers who've visited the Titanic, and those connected with expedition companies. Oceanographic Magazine says that EYOS Expeditions visited the Titanic in 2019, a full 14 years after the last time anyone visited in 2005. In 2000 the NY Post says that reporter and physicist Michael Guillen visited the craft, took some notable pictures, and barely made it out alive after a collision with one of the Titanic's propellers. And then of course there's James Cameron, whose 1997 film "Titanic" permanently cemented the tragedy of the ship's sinking in public consciousness. The Daily Mail says that his all-consuming preoccupation with the Titanic led him to dive down to the wreckage 33 times.

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