Jack Grimm
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Biography
Jack Grimm (September 25, 1910 – October 12, 2000) was an American oil executive, adventurer, and amateur ocean explorer best known for organizing and funding early expeditions in the 1980s to locate the wreck of the RMS Titanic. A successful businessman with a passion for maritime history, Grimm used his own resources to mount search missions in 1980 and 1981 that employed emerging deep‑sea sonar technologies. Although these expeditions did not ultimately find the Titanic, they were among the first to apply systematic acoustic surveying techniques to the deep Atlantic and helped pave the way for later scientific searches. Grimm’s efforts were documented in television specials such as Search for the Titanic (1981) and Return to the Titanic (1981). Beyond Titanic exploration, Grimm was known for his interest in historical shipwrecks and oceanographic research, working with scientists, engineers, and filmmakers to raise public awareness of deep‑sea exploration. He died in 2000 at the age of 90.
Known For
For seven decades after its tragic sinking, the Titanic lay undiscovered on the ocean floor. This compelling two-part documentary tracks the search for the wreck across the depths of the Atlantic.
Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck
In “Search for the Titanic”, Orson Welles takes viewers into a massive expedition attempting to locate the remains of the famous unsinkable ship at the bottom of the North Atlantic several years after its sinking on its maiden voyage in April 1912.
Search for the Titanic
A television special hosted by Telly Savalas that features artefacts recovered from the 1987 salvage mission. Filled with expert testimonies and conspiracy theories, the centerpiece of the special was the opening of a safe recovered from the wreck. Also features interviews with a survivor, clips from the 1958 film A Night to Remember, and a wide array of glitz and spectacle.
Return to the Titanic... Live!
A ship half the size of the Queen Mary, made of hand-tooled oak, lies frozen in a glacier on Mt. Ararat in northern Turkey. In this documentary, producer-director-actor Bart LaRue advances the theory that this ruined ship is Noah's Ark. LaRue became so obsessed with this theory that he risked his life to photograph every scrap of evidence he could glean, even bribing an entire company of Turkish soldiers on the Russian frontier to "look the other way" while he took a team of 17 pack horses and his film crew up the mountain. The legend of Noah and his magnificent ship has endured for centuries; now there is scientific proof that the legend is indeed reality. Now you can decide for yourself. Is this the real ARK OF NOAH?
Bart LaRue's The Ark of Noah
Explorer Mike Harris leads a second North Atlantic expedition to locate the RMS Titanic, joined by television star James Drury, as the team uses improved technology to investigate promising sonar clues on the ocean floor following their earlier search.