Readers will feel as if they are among the over two thousand passengers on board in this gripping account of the terrible disaster of the Titanic. Initially, no one believed the ship was really sinking. The band played on deck to keep people's spirits up, and then, as panic spread, there weren't enough lifeboats for everyone. Years later scientist Robert Ballard laboriously searched for and finally found the sunken ship, which he left at the bottom of the sea as a memorial.