How the Titanic was lost and found

Food for thought, here is the “titanic”; sank in 1912, found in 1985 in 12,500 feet of salty ocean water, 111year later and she still looking good with 6000lbs per square inch of pressure pushing on it, but Chevy cant make a automobile that can live at the beach for 11 years with out rusting holes in it The reason why people wants to visit to see the titanic is:... There's something special about titanic ship, imagine after 111years the iron metals used to build the ship are still looking good including the hand rail Some of the rooms and bars in the ship were decorated with gold and silver worth of $987,780 as of 1912. The oceangate that built titanic has the record book used in building the ship, Thomas Andrew kept the record book and people do visit the book to check.

A submersible's lights give a ghostly glow to the rusted prow of the RMS Titanic. The famed ocean liner, which sank after hitting an iceberg on April 14, 1912, was discovered in 1985 near Newfoundland under some 12,500 feet (3,800 meters) of water.

Lights from a Mir submersible, a deep-sea vehicle with room for three people, expose the Titanic’s port anchor winch on the foredeck.

Lead researchers Bob Ballard (second from right) and Jean-Louis Michel (far right) survey video from the unmanned submersible Argo while searching for the lost ocean liner. “Argo exceeded our highest hopes; the robot’s ultrasensitive ‘eyes,’ or video cameras, could see and record in almost total darkness,” wrote Ballard in the December 1986 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Ballard, a scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, wears his signature baseball cap while poring over charts with fellow scientists aboard the research vessel Knorr. Woods Hole partnered with the Institut Francais de Recherche s pour L'exploitation des Mers (IFREMER) for the expedition.

The railing at the prow, where Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio shared their iconic moment in James Cameron’s 1997 movie, is being eaten away by rust-colored, iron-oxidizing bacteria. The bacteria generate slime layers between the water and the iron surface to create a more acidic environment for them to live. These layers eventually form hanging “rusticles,” which eventually break off under their own weight.

A fragment of the Titanic’s hull rests along the ocean floor. The iceberg buckled 300 feet of the starboard hull and punctured six of the ship’s watertight compartments. Sinking was certain after impact.

A metal bench from the deck lies among the wreckage. First-class passengers enjoyed luxurious amenities including a heated swimming pool, Turkish baths, and a film screening room.

The ship’s lower prow, which once cut through the ocean, is now embedded in mud on the ocean floor. The prow’s rusticles reveal the direction of the current, which relentlessly erode the ship.

Two windows in the officers’ quarters now look out to a much darker view.

The ship’s crow’s nest—where crew member Frederick Fleet first spotted history’s most infamous iceberg—is now missing from the ship’s toppled forward mast.

The telemotor that once held the ship’s wheel remains mostly intact due to its bronze build.

The starboard propeller—which once dwarfed shipbuilders in Belfast, Ireland—broke off when the ship slammed into the ocean floor.

Crew members aboard Ballard and Michel’s expedition celebrate after finding the wrecked Titanic.

A submersible's lights give a ghostly glow to the rusted prow of the RMS Titanic. The famed ocean liner, which sank after hitting an iceberg... PHOTOGRAPH BY EMORY KRISTOF, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION CULTURENEWS How the Titanic was lost and found Researchers have pieced together debris from the Titanic to understand the final hours of the famed the ship and its passengers. Many historical accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic describe the 882.5-foot-long passenger ship as “slipping beneath the ocean waves,” as though the vessel and its passengers drifted tranquilly off to sleep, but nothing could be further from the truth. Based on years of careful analysis of the wreck, which employed then state-of-the-art flooding models and simulations used in the modern shipping industry, experts are able to paint a gruesome portrait of Titanic’s last hours and minutes. Earlier this month, research on the ship continued as a team of experts completed five manned submersible dives at the site over an eight day span. Using high tech equipment, the team captured footage and images of the wreck that can be used to create 3D models for future augmented and virtual reality. The assets will help researchers further study the past and future of the ship. The Titanic is in severe decay caused by salt corrosion and metal eating bacteria, Caladan Oceanic, the company overseeing the expedition, said in an announcement about the dives. A manned submersible reached the bottom of the north Atlantic Ocean in August.