Where is the titanic right now
Where is Titanic right now and how Deep is it ?
rms titanic was a british passenger
liner that sank in the north atlantic
ocean in the early morning hours of 15
april 1912 due to collision with an
iceberg during her maiden voyage
numerous expeditions tried using sonar
to map the seabed
in the hope of finding it but were
unsuccessful
in 1985 the wreck was finally located by
a joint french american expedition
the wreck of rms titanic lies at a depth
of about 12
500 feet or 3.8 kilometers
about 370 miles southeast of the coast
of canadian province newfoundland
it lies in two pieces about 600 meters
apart
a debris field around the wreck contains
hundreds of thousands of items
spilled from the ship as she sank
the bodies of the passengers and crew
would have also
been distributed across the seabed but
have been consumed by other organisms
as the ship went underwater it took
almost 5 to 10 minutes to reach the
ocean floor
of the 2200 or so people aboard the
titanic
only around 700 people made it into life
ports
almost immediately after titanic sank
proposals were advanced to salvage her
from her resting place in the north
atlantic ocean
despite her exact location and condition
being unknown
the families of several wealthy victims
of the disaster formed a consortium
and contracted a wrecking company to
raise titanic
the project was soon abandoned as
impractical as the diverse could not
even reach a significant fraction of the
necessary depth
where the pressure is over 6000 pounds
per square inch
or 410 bar the lack of submarine
technology at the time
as well as the outbreak of world war one
also put off such a project
in later years numerous proposals were
put forward to salvage
titanic however all failed because of
practical and technological difficulties
a lack of funding and a lack of
understanding of the physical conditions
of the wreck site
it was clear that the position given in
titanic's distress signals was
inaccurate
which was a major expedition difficulty
because it increased the search area's
already expansive size
titanic was discovered on 1 september
1985
after 73 years of its sinking with the
help of remotely controlled vessels
which used sonar and cameras to locate
the debris field
subsequent expeditions were made in the
later years
the 2000 expedition by rms titanic
inc carried out 28 dives during which
over 800 artifacts were recovered
in august 2019 a team of explorers and
scientists
used deep submergence vehicle limiting
factor
to visit the wreck site marking the
first manned dive to the ship in 14
years five types took place over a
period of 8 days
the team used specially adapted cameras
to capture the wreck in 4k resolution
for the first time
scientists observed that strong ocean
currents
salt corrosion and metal eating bacteria
are attacking the ship they said the
wreck has been down there for 107 years
in strong currents and sea water so it
is a matter of not if but
when the sea will reclaim it in its
entirety
they said it's impossible to know
exactly how long it will take for the
ship to completely fall apart
but the observed damage can offer clues
the best estimation is that they remain
approximately 30 years
until the wreck has disintegrated
entirely
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