At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanic disappeared beneath the waves, taking with her 1,500 souls. One hundred years later, new technologies have revealed the most complete and most intimate images of the famous wreck.
Did Titanic have a fatal design flaw? John Chatterton and Richie Kohler of "Deep Sea Detectives" dive the wreckage of Titanic's sister ship, Britannic, to investigate the possibility. WATCH NOW Sign up for Inside History Get HISTORY’s most fascinating stories delivered to your inbox three time...
Did Titanic have a fatal design flaw? John Chatterton and Richie Kohler of "Deep Sea Detectives" dive the wreckage of Titanic's sister ship, Britannic, to investigate the possibility. WATCH NOW Sign up for Inside History Get HISTORY’s most fascinating stories delivered to your inbox three time...
Diving multiple times to the wreckage in a submersible, the expedition crew took hundreds of images of the wreckage, which inspired a variety of Titanic documentaries and shows and since have become some of the most famous images of the Titanic shipwreck. Since that journey, Josyln has ...
Sidonie Nargeolet, the 40-year-old daughter of the deep-sea explorer known as “Mr. Titanic,” Paul-Henri Nargeolet, says no one at OceanGate offered condolences after her father perished aboard the submersible as it approached the wreckage of the Titanic on June 18, 2023. “My anger is...
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In 1987, I embarked on the adventure of a lifetime. Two years earlier, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute had discoveredTitanicand now I co-led a 6 million dollar dive expedition to the site of the sinking. Our team’s mission was to explore the wreckage, retrieve artifacts and film ...
Brand new images of the Titanic reveal unprecedented views of the shipwreck and may shed new light on how the iconic liner sank more than a century ago. The first ever full-sized digital scan of the ship liner's wreckage, which lies 12,500 feet below water on the floor of the Atlantic...
The scan provides a three-dimensional view of the wreckage in its entirety, enabling the ship once known as"unsinkable"to be seen as if the water has been drained away. In the debris surrounding the ship, lies miscellaneous items including ornate metalwork from the ship, statues and unopened...
It was so dark out, apparently, most people didn’t even know the ship broke into two, including a lot of people who were there when it happened, until they found the wreckage in 1985. Titanic’s surviving officers and some prominent survivors testified that the ship had sunk in one piec...