To coincide with the historic event, National Geographic Magazine is unveiling, in
their April 2012 edition, new photographs that provide a greater understanding of
what happened on that fateful day, April 15, 1912.
Unlike previous blurred and dark images of sections of the ship, the latest
photographs are absolutely clear and reveal the full extent of the wreckage. The
the length of the ship capturing thousands of images with optical cameras and
sonar devices. In total, the area covered measures three miles by five miles.
It took scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts
months to collect the images during programmed sweeps of the surrounding
areas. The expedition’s chief scientist James Selgado told National Geographic
Magazine: “This is a game-changer. In the past, trying to understand Titanic was
like trying to understand Manhattan at midnight in a rainstorm, with a flashlight.”
Ethereal views of Titanic's bow (modeled by Stefan Fichtel) offer a
comprehensiveness of detail never seen before.
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.
The view from above.
As the starboard profile shows, the Titanic buckled as it plowed nose-first
into the seabed, leaving the forward hull buried deep in mud--obscuring,
possibly forever, the mortal wounds inflicted by the iceberg.
Titanic's battered stern, captured here in profile, bears witness to the
extreme trauma inflicted upon it as it corkscrewed to the bottom.
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