The famous passenger ship Titanic sank 100 years ago. It wasn’t until May that the British broadcaster BBC released new footage of the wreck for the first time.
LONDON — The legend of the Titanic lives on — now that it has claimed five more lives. The crew’s days of fear ended on Thursday evening (CET) when it was revealed that the small submarine carrying Titanic tourists must have exploded.
The Titanic had only been in the spotlight for a few weeks. In May, the British broadcaster BBC released new footage of the wreckage for the first time. said Gerhard Seifert, head of planning for the trip BBC News, participants were not allowed to touch anything “lest damage be done to the decoy”. The wreck of the Titanic, probably the world’s most famous passenger ship, lies 3.8 kilometers below the seabed in total darkness. According to Siefbert, not only was the depth a challenge, but so were the currents at this point.
New pictures of the Titanic sinking in the Atlantic in 1912
Researchers went underground with the aim of providing new insights into what happened to the Titanic on that fateful night in 1912. Previous posts only showed snapshots of the wrecked ship, but not the entire ship. In May, Seifert and his team produced the first fully digital scan of the Titanic using deep-sea mapping. For the first time, it offers a 3D view of the entire ship – “never seen before”. The images are shown in a short video slideshow by production company Atlantic Productions on Twitter.
The new images show the foredeck separated from the stern. Even small details like the serial number of the ship’s propeller can be seen. A huge debris field surrounds the ship. Including ornate metalwork, figurines and unopened champagne bottles from the ship. There are also personal items, including dozens of shoes, lying on the sediment, reports said BBC News. The model is “one of the first big steps toward moving the Titanic story toward evidence-based research — not speculation,” Seifert said. BBC News. Twitter users are also intrigued and comment under the video footage: “Huge” and “That’s unbelievable.”
The Titanic sank
In April 1912, the luxury liner sank after hitting an iceberg while en route from Southampton, England to New York. More than 1500 people died out loud BBC In a shipwreck. The Titanic has been the subject of extensive research since the wreck was discovered in 1985, nearly 400 miles off the coast of Canada. However, the cameras were unable to capture the whole ship.
The sinking of the Titanic: a reconstruction created from 700,000 images
The scan was conducted in the summer of 2022 by deep-sea mapping company Magellan and Atlantic Productions. BBC News Also make a documentary about the project. Submarines spent more than 200 hours surveying the length and breadth of the wreck. The boats were controlled remotely by a crew on board a special vessel. A perfect 3D reconstruction of the Titanic was created from 700,000 images.
“There are still questions about the ship, fundamental questions that need to be answered,” Titanic researcher Parks Stephenson said. BBC. The records may help historians and scientists figure out exactly what happened to the passenger ship in April 1912. So far, their research has been a race against time as the decay continues to worsen. “Now we can finally look at ‘Titanic’ without human interpretation, based on evidence and data,” Stephenson said. He examines the ruins BBC According to several years.
Examining the stern, for example, can shed light on how the ship hit the seabed and its dynamics. […] So it helps to fully understand the shipwreck. Thanks to new high-resolution 3D images, researchers hope the Titanic can reveal more of its secrets.
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