NEED TO KNOW The Knorr search vessel first found a piece of the wreckage from the Titanic on Sept. 1, 1985 The expedition used what was then-state of the art equipment to locate and search through the wreckage Robert Ballard, the expedition scientist involved in the search, said the discovery opened a new chapter in deep sea exploration On this day 40 years ago, a crew aboard a Navy-owned research vessel came across an object in the North Atlantic that would forever change deep sea exploration and further stoke interest in the most famous maritime disaster in history. On Sept....