Titanic Ocean Floor Hull Damage
After a century on the ocean floor titanic is apparently in such bad shape it couldn t withstand such an endeavor for a variety of reasons.
Titanic ocean floor hull damage. Yet it took decades before the wreckage was discovered. 12 12 edt 21 march 2012. The hull chunk was charted by specialists aboard deep sea submersibles that take 2 1 2 hours to reach the ocean floor. The rms titanic was visited by divers for the first time in 14 years and the ship that was once a picture of luxury was found in the process of being swallowed up by the ocean floor and ravaged.
The photos are the clearest most high resolution images that have ever been developed of the titanic on the ocean floor. On an expedition in 1991 to the titanic wreck scientists discovered a chunk of metal lying on the ocean floor that once was a part of the titanic s hull. The photos and handwritten note are among a host of titanic artifacts that will be sold at auction in devizes u k. A heavily damaged part of the hull on the starboard side of the.
It wasn t until sept. The titanic as you ve never seen it before. But ole varmer a retired noaa attorney and a senior fellow at the ocean foundation said a salvage mission into the titanic s hull remains ripe with legal issues. The first high resolution images of the titanic wreckage were shown in the april 2012 issue of national geographic and they are astounding.
Underwater bacteria have been eating away at titanic s steel and transformed it into rust since the ship sank but because of the extra damage caused by visitors the national oceanic and atmospheric administration estimates that the hull and structure of the ship may collapse to the ocean floor within the next 50 years. When the titanic sank in 1912 the famous ship wasn t exactly sailing in obscurity. The lot containing the photos note and an oceanic log abstract has. The frisbee sized piece of steel was an inch thick with three rivet holes each 1 25 inches in diameter gannon 1995.
A century after it sank stunning new hi tech images reveal doomed ship on ocean floor.