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Divers Looked for Treasure in the Titanic's Wreckage—and Discovered a Stunning Lost Statue
Popular Mechanics ^ | September 4, 2024 | Tim Newcomb

Posted on 09/07/2024 7:41:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Chronicling the changes in the Titanic has shown a 15-foot-long section of the port side of the bow's railing has fallen to the seafloor.

Researchers have uncovered the bronze "Diana of Versailles" statuette, once a centerpiece in the doomed Titanic's first class lounge, and now mired in oceanic muck. It marks the first sighting of the Roman goddess Diana statue since 1986 and highlights the sunken ship's ongoing decay.

The Georgia-based RMS Titanic, Inc. has the only legal salvage claim to the Titanic, the famous British passenger liner that struck an iceberg and tragically sank on April 14, 1912. A 2024 expedition to the North Atlantic Ocean wreck site was the ninth by the company, and the first since 2010. In the latest expedition, the crew spent 20 days taking over two million photos of the site, fully mapping the wreck and debris field.

The researchers hoped to uncover Diana, the 2-foot-tall statue that once signified luxury and design in the most expensive passenger area of the ocean liner, they wrote in a statement. When the wreck occurred 112 years ago, the lounge couldn't withstand destruction. Diana once appeared in a photograph in 1986, but it hasn't been seen since—until now.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: britannic; dianaofversailles; godsgravesglyphs; olympic; popularmechanics; statuette; timnewcomb; titanic; violetjessop; wboopi
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To: Vendome

That is what people on GAB would consider proof of a conspiracy.


21 posted on 09/08/2024 5:11:48 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

Piss and moan, piss and moan.


22 posted on 09/08/2024 5:24:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: BenLurkin

I agree.


23 posted on 09/08/2024 5:25:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Well at least they are getting a lot of air out
thru their vocal system. Might be a bit nasty
if comes out thru the lower discharge location.


24 posted on 09/08/2024 6:04:16 AM PDT by deport
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To: Larry Lucido

OR the Boeing STARLINER?


25 posted on 09/08/2024 10:41:19 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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