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Titanic revealed: Stunning full-sized scans show shipwreck like never before
Kamaji:
Titanic revealed: Stunning full-sized scans show shipwreck like never before
By Andrew Court
May 17, 2023
The legendary Titanic has been unearthed like never before — with the first-ever full-sized 3D reconstruction revealing incredible new details about the doomed cruise liner 111 years after its infamous sinking.
More than 1,500 passengers died after the ship struck an iceberg and sank while sailing from Southhampton, England to New York in April 1912.
The disaster has fascinated the world for more than a century. However, much is still unknown about the specifics of the shipwreck — but that could now change.
The stunning images were created from more than 700,000 scans of the wreckage that were captured last summer by Atlantic Productions and the deep-sea mapping company, Magellan Ltd.
“It allows you to see the wreck as you can never see it from a submersible,” Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst, told BBC News of the reconstruction.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/titanic-revealed-stunning-images-show-shipwreck-like-never-before/
Kamaji:
LMAO:
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Haunting
Another wreck that’s equally as haunting, and is in my neck of the woods, are the underwater pictures of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Kamaji:
--- Quote from: LMAO on May 17, 2023, 06:28:40 pm ---Haunting
Another wreck that’s equally as haunting, and is in my neck of the woods, are the underwater pictures of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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Has the Edmund Fitzgerald suffered as much degradation as the Titanic has?
Polly Ticks:
I wonder if they found the necklace. :laugh:
That really is very interesting. For some reason, I have trouble watching the various videos and even looking at the underwater photos of the Titanic. I think all the ocean stuff floating by and the barnacles and whatnot maybe trigger my claustrophobia a bit -- which also gives me trouble when I try to snorkel. But this is very cool, and something I can actually look at without feeling vaguely panicky. It will be interesting to see what conclusions they can draw based on these new 3D images.
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