понедельник, 5 марта 2012 г.

HE'S IN DEEP OVER `TITANIC'.(MAIN)

Byline: DENNIS YUSKO and BECHETTA JACKSON Staff writers

With ``Titanic'' sailing toward all-time box office records, interest in what happened to the 882-foot ship on April 14, 1912, shows no sign of sinking.

But what happens with the remains of the ship, now two-and-a-half miles under the Atlantic, is in the hands of George Tulloch, an energetic entrepreneur from South Bethlehem. Tulloch is president of RMS Titanic Inc., which has owned salvage rights to the wreck since 1994.

Tulloch, a former BMW dealer, has made four trips to the site at which the ship sank after hitting an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people. The wreckage was found in 1985 about 400 miles south of Newfoundland.

Since 1987, Tulloch's company has retrieved more than 4,000 artifacts from the ship. On Friday, Tulloch, 53, had a homecoming at Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School, …

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