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.
kyle
2012/03/28 05:56:50
Unseen Titanic
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.
(These images cannot be used by third parties without permission from National Geographic and may not be shown on television.)
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.
(These images cannot be used by third parties without permission from National Geographic and may not be shown on television.)
Photograph by Walden Media
More than two miles down, the ghostly bow of the Titanic
emerges from the darkness on a dive by explorer and filmmaker James
Cameron in 2001. The ship might have survived a head-on collision with
an iceberg, but a sideswipe across her starboard side pierced too many
of her watertight compartments.
The idea at the time was that, because shipping lanes were so close to each other and that other ships could respond to an emergency, the lifeboats would go back and forth between the stricken ship and other ships. They would act as "ferries" between the ship that was sinking and the ships that responded to the distress call.
As it turned out, though, a lot of things happened that prevented this "ferry" practice. No ships responded, too few lifeboats with too few people on board were lowered, etc., etc.