FORENSIC SCIENTISTS EXAMINE REMAINS OF ANONYMOUS TITANTIC VICTIMS GRAVES, 2001-05-17 (photo)

Forensic scientist Scott Fairgrieve (L) and Tracy Oost of Laurentian University examine a piece recovered during the exhumation of three unknown victims of the Titanic disaster, in Halifax, Nova Scotia May 17, 2001. Scientists from Lakehead and Laurentian Universities in Northern Ontario are exhuming three anonymous victims to try and identify them through sophisticated DNA analysis. The bodies of the passengers were pulled from the Atlantic by retrieval ships sent out from Halifax to collect the dead following the maritime disaster 89 years ago. AC/SV