Wrecks of the Titanic scanned in full size, providing an unprecedented view
The planet’s most renowned shipwreck, Titanic, has been revealed as never seen before.
The only full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, which lies 3,800m (12,500ft) deep in the Atlantic, has been completed using deep-sea mapping.
A wreck scan of the Titanic has been completed:
It provides a fantastic 3D view of the whole ship, allowing it to be glimpsed as if the water had been drained away. The expectancy is that this will shed new light on precisely what occurred to the liner, which sank in 1912.
Over 1,500 people were dead when the ship hit an iceberg on its maiden journey from Southampton to New York. “There are still fundamental questions that ought to be answered about the ship,” Parks Stephenson, a Titanic critic, said to BBC News.
He expressed the model was “one of the first primary steps to moving the Titanic story towards evidence-based analysis – and not belief.”
The Titanic has been broadly studied since the wreck was found in 1985. But it’s so massive that in the gloom of the deep, cameras can ever show us compelling images of the rotten ship – never the entire thing.
The new scan sees the wreck in its whole, revealing a complete view of the Titanic. It is in two parts, with the bow and the stern divided by approximately 800m (2,600ft). A vast waste field surrounds the damaged ship.
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The scan was taken out in the summer of 2022 by Magellan Ltd, a deep-sea mapping firm, and Atlantic Productions, who are making a documentary regarding the project.
Submersibles, remotely managed by a group on board a specialist vessel, spent almost 200 hours exploring the length and breadth of the impact. They took over 700,000 photos from every angle, making an accurate 3D reconstruction.
