2023-05-23 19:00:00
The first scan in three dimensions and real size of the remains of the Titanic was released Wednesday and may help scientists more accurately determine the conditions of the most famous shipwreck, which occurred in 1912.
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These never-before-seen, high-resolution images, released by the BBC, were created using deep sea mapping.
They reconstruct in great detail the remains of the ship, sunk in the sea at almost 4,000 meters deep.
The luxurious ocean liner sank following colliding with an iceberg on its maiden voyage from the English city of Southampton to New York in April 1912.
Of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard the ship, the world’s largest ocean liner at the time it was chartered, more than 1,500 died.
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Its remains have been the subject of extensive exploration since they were first discovered in 1985 some 650 km off the coast of Canada, but cameras were never able to capture the ship in its entirety.
This reconstruction was carried out in 2022 by the underwater mapping company Magellan Ltd and by Atlantic Productions, which is making a documentary on the project.
Several remote controlled submersibles from a specialized ship they spent more than 200 hours inspecting the remains of the “Titanic” at the bottom of the Atlantic and took more than 700,000 images to create the scanner.
They were not allowed to touch anything “so as not to damage the remains,” Gerhard Seiffert, head of Magellan Ltd, who led the expedition, told the BBC.
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“The other challenge was that you had to map every square inch, even the uninteresting bits like the mud in between the rubble, which you still need to fill the space between interesting objects.”he explained.
The pictures show the ship, with the stern and bow separated and surrounded by rubble, as if it had been lifted from the seabedrevealing even the smallest details, such as the serial number of one of the propellers.
The new scanners might shed more light on exactly what happened to the liner, at a time when historians and scientists are racing once morest the clock as its wreckage continues to disintegrate.
“Now we finally get to see the ‘Titanic’ without human interpretations, directly from evidence and data”Parks Stephenson, a historian and engineer who has spent many years studying the most famous shipwreck in history, told the BBC.
“There is still a lot to learn” of the ship’s wreckage, which is “essentially the last surviving eyewitness of the catastrophe,” he said. “And he has stories to tell.”
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