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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: Kamaji on May 17, 2023, 05:03:02 pm
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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/
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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.
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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.
Has the Edmund Fitzgerald suffered as much degradation as the Titanic has?
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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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Has the Edmund Fitzgerald suffered as much degradation as the Titanic has?
Actually, it’s pretty well preserved. The depths of Lake Superior are so cold, there’s no bacteria whatsoever.
They say even the bodies are well preserved. I guess there’s a shipwreck out there called the Kamloops that sank I believe sometime in the early 20s. It’s one of the few shipwrecks that divers are allowed to explore, and evidently there’s a well preserved body in the boiler room.
He’s very white, and the divers have called him “old Whitey”
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It was not until the 1980s that they finally found the Titanic. It was lost for that many decades.
I find shipwrecks fascinating, and it’s probably because I live 20 minutes from Lake Superior
But even ocean shipwrecks, and all the World War II lost ships, I find interesting
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I have always been interested in the sinking of the Titanic (and Amelia Earhart) since I was a kid.
Since there were several different compartments of the ship, I've always been of the opinion that if the ship hadn't hit like it did and cratered all the compartments, it would have stayed afloat. Hence earning it's name. Maybe this will give more information.
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I have always been interested in the sinking of the Titanic (and Amelia Earhart) since I was a kid.
Since there were several different compartments of the ship, I've always been of the opinion that if the ship hadn't hit like it did and cratered all the compartments, it would have stayed afloat. Hence earning it's name. Maybe this will give more information.
Apparently what happened is that the watertight compartments didn't go up high enough, so that once the forward compartments were fully flooded and the ship began to nose down, the water began to flood over the tops of the compartments and flooded the compartments that weren't ripped open by the ice.
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Since there were several different compartments of the ship, I've always been of the opinion that if the ship hadn't hit like it did and cratered all the compartments, it would have stayed afloat. Hence earning it's name. Maybe this will give more information.
Probably, if the shockwave didn’t open seams elsewhere along the hull. Murdoch would have been crucified in the press if he willingly crushed everyone in the forward cabins … so there was no chance of him doing it even if you pointed a gun at him.
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But, while it was the world’s largest passenger liner at the time in 1912, the famous ship was actually significantly smaller than the cruise ships we know today.
The Titanic was 10 decks high, 882.5ft long and 92ft beam, which is the widest part of the vessel.
Meanwhile the current largest cruise liner in the world, Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, which is due to make its maiden voyage in 2024, is 20 decks high, 1197.5ft long and 213ft beam.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/18/insane-image-reveals-titanic-compared-to-modern-day-cruise-ship/
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