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January 9, 2017

27 Haunting Photos of the Wreck of the Titanic When It Was First Discovered in 1985

Titanic, the world's best-known cruise ship was launched in May 1911, the ship sank in April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg en route from Southampton, England to New York City. Titanic was carrying more than 2,200 passengers and more than 1,500 reportedly died.

When the Titanic sank in 1912, the famous ship wasn’t exactly sailing in obscurity. Yet it took decades before the wreckage was discovered. It wasn't until September 1, 1985 that scientists, after years and years of searching, found what they were looking for.

Today, the Titanic rests, disintegrating at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 12,405 feet below the water’s surface. Take a look at some of amazing underwater images of the ship.

A view of the bow and railing of the RMS Titanic.

Two of Titanic's engines lie exposed in a gaping cross section of the stern. Draped in "rusticles"—orange stalactites created by iron-eating bacteria—these massive structures, four stories tall, once powered the largest moving man-made object on Earth.

A view of the bow of the RMS Titanic.

A view of the bow of the Titanic from a camera mounted on the outside of the Mir I submersible.

A view of the steering motor on the bridge of the Titanic.

A view of the bathtub in Capt. Smiths bathroom. Rusticles are observed growing over most of the pipes and fixtures in the room.

With her rudder cleaving the sand and two propeller blades peeking from the murk, Titanic's mangled stern rests on the abyssal plain, 1,970 feet south of the more photographed bow. This optical mosaic combines 300 high-resolution images taken on a 2010 expedition.

Detached rusticles below port side anchor indicating that the rusticles pass through a cycle of growth, maturation and then fall away. This particular "crop" probably was in a five to ten year cycle.

Rusticle hanging from the stern section of the RMS Titanic showing secondary growths during maturation.

Rusticles growing down from the stern section of Titanic.

China dishes are part of the debris left from the wreck of the Titanic, as she lies on the Atlantic Ocean floor south of Newfoundland.

The prow of the HMS Titanic.

This photo provided by the Institute for Exploration, Center for Archaeological Oceanography/University of Rhode Island/NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, shows a pair of shoes, lying in close proximity, are, while the visible remains of the victim have disappeared, suggestive evidence of where a victim of the Titanic disaster came to rest.

This photo provided by the Institute for Exploration, Center for Archaeological Oceanography/University of Rhode Island/NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, shows The remains of a coat and boots, articulated in the mud on the sea bed near Titanic's stern, are suggestive evidence of where a victim of the disaster came to rest.

This photo provided by the Institute for Exploration, Center for Archaeological Oceanography/University of Rhode Island/NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, shows The remains of a coat and boots, articulated in the mud on the sea bed near Titanic's stern, are suggestive evidence of where a victim of the disaster came to rest.

An officer's cabin window on the Titanic's boat deck starboard side.

Starboard wing propeller from Titanic shipwreck.

The low pressure cylinder head of the port steam engine of the shipwrecked Titanic.

Cooking pots from Titanic shipwreck.

An electric meter for the electric light from the compass of the Titanic was recovered from the shipwreck.

The stoking ports of a boiler in the debris field of the shipwrecked Titanic.

The insides of a power turbine of the Titanic lie on the Atlantic Ocean floor south of Newfoundland.

The prow of the HMS Titanic, as she lies on the Atlantic Ocean floor south of Newfoundland.

An intact glass pane from the window of Captain Edward J. Smith's cabin hangs open on the Titanic.

A ceramic bowl and other debris from the Titanic litter the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland.

A hull fragment from the Titanic lies on the ocean floor.

An opening on the starboard side of the ship's hull could be damage from the Titanic's collision with an iceberg on April 14, 1912. About 1,500 people died when the ship sank, breaking in two.

17 comments:

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    1. why do you say that

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    2. seriously?? are you kidding? that IS the Titanic!

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    3. Some people say Olympic really sank, not Titanic, because Olympic kept having problems, but then miraculously was fine after Titanic went down, so the theory is they swapped the ships to take out the insurance money they could not get on Olympic.
      The two ships had different window configurations, however, and while I've seen diagrams online which plainly lie, if you look at photos of both ships and then at the wreck, it is clearly Titanic that lies at the bottom of the sea.

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  2. THIS IS TITANIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  3. NANI HOW MANY LOBSTERS WERE FRIED

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  4. It's the sister ship Olympic, which was damaged on a previous journey and in bad repair. They switched her with the Titanic. You can read all about it on the internet.

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    1. I read all about it, and it's fake. The ship on the bottom of the sea is Titanic. Common meme pictures showing the window configurations are blatant lies - if you look at actual photos of the ships, Titanic had the uneven window configuration the wreck has, not Olympic.

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    2. I'm no stranger to conspiracy theories mind you, but this one just doesn't hold water (no pun intended).

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  5. Sigh �� Conspirators don't look at the big picture. They hear one crazy notion & run with it, no matter how farfetched. The richest & most powerful families of the world were on that ship. You really think the ship was sunk on purpose so that they would die?? Bruce Ismay, chairman and managing director of the White Star Line was on board, so was the designer. The last voyage of Captain Smith, who I seriously doubt, ran Titanic into an iceberg on purpose. Nor do I believe the WSL put an iceberg in their path. The sinking (on her maiden voyage no less) & the deaths of so many, ruined the WSL's reputation...so did the fact that Ismay lived when so many children died. And K...don't believe everything you see/hear on the internet.

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  6. HMS Titanic? It wasn't a warship.

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  7. Titanic had smaller windows on on part of the ship but not olympic

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  8. it will take years to switch out the titanic hull shell with the Olympic's .And if that were Olympic it would have the ship number :400.but in the titanic's case it was 401.also it would take longer because when titanic was just getting finished. so titanic or as you would call it the Olympic would be delayed for as long as it takes because the Olympic crashed .and then latter the titanic would be the biggest ship on the sea with the 4 day journey before hitting an iceberg latter sinking to the bottom of the ocean.

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  9. i dont understand people just leave the titanic its agrave just let the dead rest now we have lost more people so sad

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    1. because of the rusticles some experts think the titanic could completely vanish from the ocean floor by 2030. I think its awesome we went back and got these photos for the rest of mankind to study and see

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