- Well, thank you.

- One of the next, I know there's a really exciting exhibit opening up any day now, very soon.

It's the Titanic exhibit.

- This is amazing.

- You wanna talk to me about that?

- Right, so September 1- - Okay.

- 1985, the US Navy had assigned an officer named Robert Ballard, Dr.

Robert Ballard, as a naval intelligence officer.

They'd assigned him to try to find a lost sub at the bottom of the North Atlantic, but they couldn't put the word out that we had a lost sub at the bottom of the North Atlantic.

So they put the word out that Dr.

Robert Ballard and then the team was searching for the wreck of the Titanic.

- [Blake] Okay.

- And sure enough, Ballard found what he was looking for with the Navy and had ten days to spare.

And he said to the Navy, "Would you mind if I actually take these last ten days on the time that I had been allotted to try to find this and actually try to find the wreck of the Titanic?"

Which had been down there for nearly a century.

- Yeah.

- He found it.

September 1, 1985, Bob Ballard found the Titanic.

It was the greatest maritime discovery in history.

And of course, the Titanic itself had been this unbelievable tragedy.

- Yeah.

- Some of the wealthiest people in the world on board, the indestructible maiden voyage coming over from Europe across the Atlantic.

And so what has transpired since, of course, is a further lore to not only the tragic loss of the Titanic, but the rediscovery of where it was on the floor of the Atlantic, how deep it is, incredibly deep.

- [Blake] How deep was it?

- So it's more than two and a half miles deep.

- Wow.

- And so what happened, right.

And of course we had a tragedy last year.

- Yeah.

We did.

- Involving a guy who came to Peoria.

One of the scientists was lost in that implosion who had spoken in Peoria just when I came to the museum eight years ago.

We had a Titanic exhibition about the artifacts of the Titanic.

This exhibition, first location, international debut for this exhibition, Dr.

Robert Ballard's personal exhibition of the story of how he found the Titanic, what tools he used, what the now declassified naval intelligence is.

It's unbelievable that Peoria is the international launch pad for this exhibition.

So opening September- - Incredible.

- 27th, Saturday and running through the holidays, we will have "Finding the Titanic" will be the international premier, so thank you for asking.

- I can't wait.

Yeah, I cannot wait for that.

- And Dr.

Ballard's coming here personally, speaking at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on September 25.

And so, we're excited about that- - Incredible.

- And also will make appearances at the museum, of course, and the opening for our members, so very cool stuff going on at museum.

- That really is.