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It's never faded from the world's imagination. 
這個世界對它的想像未曾消褪。

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Our own correspondent, Zain Verjee, asked the man who discovered the Titanic wreckage why he is now on a mission.
本台特派員潔茵．維爾吉訪問了那位鐵達尼號殘骸的發現者，為何他現在有任務在身。

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These are some of the last images captured of the Titanic until her wreck was discovered 73 years later on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.
這些是鐵達尼號最後拍下的一些照片，直到她的殘骸七十三年後在北大西洋海底被人發現。

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There's a knock on my cabin door, and it's 2:00 in the morning. I was, "That's odd." 
有人來敲我的艙門，當時是凌晨兩點鐘，我心想「奇怪了」，

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And I come into the command center, a room about this size, 
然後我來到指揮中心，一個大約像這樣大小的房間，

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and just as I walked in, our robot went over a boiler of the Titanic.
就在我走進去的時候，我們的機器人就從鐵達尼號的一座鍋爐上方經過。

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And we had the picture of that boiler hanging on the wall. And we went, "It's Titanic!" And we exploded. 
我們的牆上有掛那張鍋爐的相片。接著我們就說，「是鐵達尼號！」大家的情緒瞬間引爆。

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I mean, we were... you know, the tension. We were down to the last couple days.
我們當時……，你知道，那種緊張的情緒。我們只剩下最後幾天的時間了。

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And then, someone innocently looks at the clock and says, "She sinks in 20 minutes." 
接著，有人無心地看著時鐘說：「她二十分鐘內就沈沒了。」

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It was 2:00 in the morning; she sank at 2:20. 
當時是凌晨兩點鐘，鐵達尼號是在兩點二十分沈沒的。

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And that innocent comment, we were embarrassed that we were dancing and screaming and celebrating. There was nothing to celebrate.
那句無心的話，讓我們對自己又跳又叫地在慶祝感到很不好意思。根本沒什麼好慶祝的。

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And it was like someone hit an emotional switch, and we just -- poof. 
就好像有人按了情緒開關一樣，我們就，瞬間釋放掉了。

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And we were very moved. It hit us, because we were at the spot.
我們非常感動，深受衝擊，因為我們人就在現場。

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At the spot where 1,514 people lost their lives on a ship that was meant to be unsinkable. 
就在該處，有一千五百一十四個人在一艘應該永不沈沒的船上葬送了性命。

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For Ballard and his team, it was like stepping back in time.
對柏拉德和他的團隊來說，就好像倒退回到了從前。

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When we went down and we saw the human... where humans had landed. 
我們操控機器往下潛，看到人們……人們著陸海底的地方，

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That nailed us, because, you know, the Titanic hit the iceberg and it broke in half, 
那把我們震懾住了，因為鐵達尼號撞到冰山後斷成兩截，

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and this giant object, the largest moving object on the planet sinks violently, and everything comes raining.
這個龐然大物，這個地球上體積最大的移動物體慘烈地沈沒了，所有的東西如降雨般落入海中。

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Well, the people who were still trying to survive are floating above it, 12,000 feet above it, 
那些還在設法求生的人漂浮在鐵達尼號上方，深度一萬二千英尺的海面上，

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and the temperature's below freezing, and it finally gets the ones in the water. It takes about 25 minutes, the hypothermia. 
溫度在冰點以下，因此終究要了那些在海裡的人的命。約莫二十五分鐘，人體就失溫了。

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And they just loose grips. And now, all these bodies start coming down. Hundreds and hundreds of bodies are now raining down, landing all over the ocean floor.
他們的手再也抓不住，此時，全部的屍體開始下沈，成千上百具屍體紛紛往下墜落，四處降落在海床上。

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Well, animals immediately find them and consume them, exposing their skeletons. 
動物很快地發現這些屍體，並且吃了他們，只剩下骨架。

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Well, the deep sea at those depths dissolves bones. It takes about five years to completely cause the skeleton to vanish. 
如此之深的深海分解了骨頭，大約五年後，骨骸完全消失了，

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But what's left behind are their shoes they're wearing.
留下的只剩他們當時所穿的鞋。

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All over the Titanic are pairs of shoes. Not a single shoe, a pair of shoes. 
鐵達尼號上到處是一雙雙鞋子，並非一隻鞋，而是成雙的鞋。

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And you'll see scenes... the one that knocked me away was a mother's shoes, next to her were her daughter's shoes.
你會看到一些畫面……讓我感到震撼的是一位母親的鞋，旁邊就是她女兒的鞋。

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When we first found the Titanic, 
我們起初發現鐵達尼號的時候，

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we went in and made a beautiful mosaic of the whole bow section before people touched it. 
我們進入現場，在尚未有人觸碰過的情況下，我們為了整個船首製作了一張美麗的馬賽克拼貼照。

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We came back 20 years later and did it all over again, and we put them side by side, 
我們二十年後又回來了，同樣的事再做了一遍，然後我們把兩次的成品並排比對，

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and you can see the damage, not by Mother Nature, but by the submarines.
你可以看到破壞的情況，不是大自然帶來的破壞，而是潛艇造成的破壞。

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They're right there. See those big, orange... ? 
破壞之處就在那兒。有沒有看到那些大大的、橘色的…？

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That's where the submarines have been landing, and you can see it's just... it's breaking down the deck, it's crushing it.
那就是潛艇著陸的地方，你可以看得出來，潛艇就……把甲板給壓塌了，整個給壓爛了。

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By law, Ballard and his team could have claimed the Titanic as their own property, but they chose to leave it undisturbed. 
根據法律，柏拉德和他的團隊原本可主張鐵達尼號為他們所擁有的財產，但是他們選擇不去打擾鐵達尼號。

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Tourists and trophy hunters have not been as respectful. 
但觀光客和戰利品獵人並非如此心懷敬意。

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The famed crow's nest from where the iceberg was spotted is among the victims of visitors.
那座出了名的瞭望塔，也就是發現冰山之處，也成了受訪客之害的地點之一。

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They're not doing it on purpose, but it's like a bull in a china closet. 
他們並非故意這麼做的，但這麼做就像一頭牛在瓷器櫃裡一樣魯?。

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And they turn and they hit things, and you can see every place they landed. 
潛艇會轉向，會撞到東西，你可以看到每一個他們著陸的地方，

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And the question is . . . is we don't mind you visiting it. But you don't go to the Louvre and stick your finger in the Mona Lisa. 
問題是，我們不介意你們去探訪它，但是你不會到羅浮宮裡，然後用手指去戳《蒙娜麗莎》，

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So, there should be some sort of rules.
所以應該要建立一些規則才對。

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And not just for the sake of the Titanic. 
不只是為了鐵達尼號而已。

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Ballard has gone on to discover countless other wrecks, including a 1500-year-old ship in the Black Sea.
柏拉德後來又陸續發現了其他許許多多的沈船，包括在黑海裡發現了一艘有一千五百年歷史的古船。

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There's over a million -- think about this -- a million ancient shipwrecks yet to be discovered. Time capsules. 
海裡還有一百多萬艘……你想想看……一百萬艘古代的沈船至今尚未被發現，他們等於是時間膠囊。

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But there's no rules. It's like it's the biggest museum on the planet, but there's no lock on the door.
但是卻沒有規範，就好像那是世界上最大的博物館，而門卻沒裝上鎖。

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So, the question to society, technology is a two-edged sword. It can cut both ways.
所以，社會所面對的問題是，科技是把雙面刃，有利有也弊。

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Do we go through this new museum we're discovering to appreciate, or to plunder?
我們經過發現的這座新博物館時是要去欣賞，還是要去掠奪呢？