Countless movies, books and articles have been written about the Titanic disaster, and people around the world know a lot about the disaster (thanks to James Cameron’s film), but there are still many things about the ship and its passengers. There are secrets whose answers are still unknown.
Some of the scenes have emerged that show the world’s most famous shipwreck in a way that has never been seen before.
A full-size digital scan of the Titanic at a depth of 3,800 meters in the Atlantic Ocean has been carried out for the first time using deep-sea mapping technology.
This produced unique 3D images of the entire ship and it looks like there is no water around.
Experts hope the digital scan will help shed light on what exactly happened to the ship that caused it to sink.
In April 1912, on its maiden voyage from Great Britain to America, the ship hit an avalanche and sank, killing more than 1,500 people.
Parks expert Stephen Sonn said there are still many unanswered questions about the accident.
He said that this 3D model of Titanic is the first step towards uncovering the real story based on evidence, beyond speculation.
After sinking, the wreckage of this ship also became a mystery and was discovered in 1985 after more than 7 decades.
But this ship is so big that the cameras can only take blurry pictures of it and it is not possible to show the whole wreckage.
But with the help of new technology, the whole wreckage was scanned and showed a clear view of it.
This ship is divided into 2 parts and lies at the bottom of the sea.
In the summer of 2022, Magellan Ltd, a deep-sea mapping company, began work on the project.
For this purpose, the help of submarines was taken which were controlled by experts on board a special ship and for more than 200 hours the length and breadth of the wreck was surveyed.
Experts took more than 700,000 photos from every angle of the ship and then created a 3D model with their help.
Experts said that it was not less than a challenge to work at a depth of around 4,000 meters while we were not even allowed to touch anything as it could damage the debris.
He said that one of the challenges was to map every square centimeter of the ship.
The scan showed the size of the aircraft as well as its finer details such as the serial number on the propeller.
The front of the ship is now rusted but still recognizable 111 years later.
Parks Stephenson has been researching the Titanic for years and says he was stunned by the 3D images.
Examining these scans will help determine what happened to the ship on the night of April 1912, such as which part of the ship hit the iceberg, he said.
For more than a century, the wreckage on the bottom of the sea has suffered a lot of damage, microbes have licked away at various parts of it.
Experts believe that time is running out to fully understand this shipwreck, but new scans will make the wreck forever etched in history and experts will be able to uncover its secrets.
