Rosie,
Her email was under "TV specials/documentaries" Ballard's talk in the forum: I copied some of it:


Here are a few tidbits my friend Dea sent me from last nights Ballard Speech:
It was kind of hard to tell if he is going to go back to Titanic or not...he seemed kind of on the fence about it. He explained how the salvage crews have destroyed so much down there from carelessness. He said he placed two plaques on the Titanic, one on the bow and one on the stern. He said the one on the bow is still there, but the salvagers took his stern plaque and placed it inside a toilet on Titanic. He looked sick talking about that...his stern plaque meant the most to him because that's where several people leapt to their deaths.

I dont have national geographic. They better put it on another channel at some point. I will be very displeased if they dont...

i thought that te crows nest thing was a little too much he said it like four or five times. I would like to know whats in that trunk even though i think that the artifacts and debris should be left alone. I thought the whole thing was live too! but at the end was live i was upset that they didn't show any other parts of the ship we saw the bow a good couple of times and the bathtub and the crows nest. I also wanted to see what they were talking about when they said ohh but kept the camera on the reporter and Ballard. I thought it was a good show (its about titanic)! i think that we may find out whats in that trunk some day. because whan he pointed all that debris and things out. the salvagers are going to go down there and bring up more things and one of them might be the trunk.

Titanicfreek, That is what I also thought he discussed too much on the crow's nest and the bow of the ship.I also was waiting to see more of the ship. The trunk will probably be brought up, no doubt now that he showed it on TV!!!! I would love to see what mysteries it holds. IMO I think they did too much talking and did not show enough of other parts of the ship. Maybe I expected too much, but I wanted to see some other parts. I am not sure, but I thought I heard they will be selling a tape of the special?

i havent herd of them selling a special tape but if your intrested in seeing the special again the show is on again tonight Wed June 16 at 9:00 pm on national geographic just to let u know if u live on the west coast then i think its on at 8:00 pm ? just check. im going to tape it. Yes i also wanted to see more of the ship and they said that the show was live i thought the whole thing was what a bummer. and the trunk i really want to see what's in it even though i dont like things being salvaged. i also thought that when he said look but dont touch no one is going to listen to that he said it so many times. that was a little too much i thought.