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Titanic revealed: Stunning full-size images show shipwreck like never before
nypost ^ | 5/17/2023 | andrew court

Posted on 05/20/2023 5:56:59 PM PDT by bitt

The legendary Titanic has been unearthed like never before — with the first-ever full-size 3D reconstruction revealing incredible new details about the doomed cruise liner 111 years after its infamous sinking.

More than 1,500 passengers died after the ship struck an iceberg and sank while sailing from Southhampton, England, to New York in April 1912.

The disaster has fascinated the world for more than a century. However, much is still unknown about the specifics of the shipwreck — but that could now change.

The stunning images were created from more than 700,000 scans of the wreckage that were captured last summer by Atlantic Productions and deep-sea mapping company Magellan Ltd.

“It allows you to see the wreck as you can never see it from a submersible,” Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst, told BBC News of the reconstruction.

“You can see the wreck in its entirety, you can see it in context and perspective.”

He hailed the new model as “one of the first major steps to driving the Titanic story towards evidence-based research — and not speculation.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
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1 posted on 05/20/2023 5:56:59 PM PDT by bitt
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1500 “passengers”, almost all men, specifically.


2 posted on 05/20/2023 5:58:50 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bitt

Geez, can’t they just leave it alone?


3 posted on 05/20/2023 6:00:12 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: bitt

Shoes ... leather and other such apparently doesn’t dissolve in those conditions like bones do.


4 posted on 05/20/2023 6:02:26 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

and a 10 min BBC video about the new scans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2XtefrMNhg


5 posted on 05/20/2023 6:02:56 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: dljordan

> Geez, can’t they just leave it alone? <

There is a certainly an historical interest in the Titanic. But there is little of value to be learned. So I agree with you. The site is a graveyard. Graveyards should be left alone.

By the way, I mentioned something along those lines awhile back. And I got yelled at. I suppose that here I’ll get yelled at again.


6 posted on 05/20/2023 6:06:19 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right

I hope to see if the cause was striking an iceberg.


7 posted on 05/20/2023 6:13:34 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: Leaning Right

Try not to worry about FReepers that yell at each other. I’ve had others yell at me, too. I never know what’s up with their game. Maybe someone just had a bad day. Maybe someone is an a-hole. Who knows? All we can control is our response.


8 posted on 05/20/2023 6:15:15 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: dljordan

The Ballard pictures were the best. Since then, it has been picked over.


9 posted on 05/20/2023 6:25:24 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: FamiliarFace

> Try not to worry about FReepers that yell at each other. <

Thanks for touching base. It is appreciated.

Now here’s the thing. We conservatives rightly criticize those “progressives” who shout down anyone who doesn’t agree with them. No counter-arguments from those folks. Just shouts and insults.

Yet we occasionally see the same thing here. I try not to let it bother me. After all, we live in an imperfect world. There will be bumps along the way.


10 posted on 05/20/2023 6:27:58 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: bitt

Tragic….


11 posted on 05/20/2023 6:47:05 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

British Board of Trade Report:

There were 2,224 persons on board. 998 of them were crew (885 men, 23 women).

The 1,514 (68.1%) lost:

1,352 men (80%), 693 of whom were crew (78%),

109 women (26%), 3 of whom were crew (13%), and

53 children (49%).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Titanic#Casualties_and_survivors


12 posted on 05/20/2023 7:36:26 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: bitt

My Grandfather was an early Ham Radio Operator and heard one of the 1st SOS calls from the Titanic, nobody would believe Him. “It was unsinkable.”

Full sized ?!

That pic/video is gonna bring a whole new concept to the Big Screen.


13 posted on 05/20/2023 7:40:42 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: bitt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Titan:_Or,_Futility

Futility is a novella written by Morgan Robertson and published first during 1898. It was revised as The Wreck of the Titan in 1912. It features a fictional British ocean liner named Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg. The Titan and its sinking are famous for similarities to the passenger ship RMS Titanic and its sinking 14 years later. After the sinking of the Titanic the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly to the ship's gross tonnage.

14 posted on 05/20/2023 7:44:38 PM PDT by yelostar (AI takeover: another phony problem created to coerce the citizen into surrendering his freedom.)
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To: bitt

JAMBOG

Titanic revealed: Stunning full-size scans show shipwreck like never before

05/17/2023 12:11:59 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 10 replies
NY Post ^ | 05/17/2023 | Andrew Court

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4153928/posts


15 posted on 05/20/2023 7:51:04 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: ExGeeEye

Right, 9 out of 10 were men.


16 posted on 05/20/2023 8:12:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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"1500 “passengers”, almost all men, specifically."

.... Yup .... Back then "Women and Children" were evacuated first .... Of course today .... That would be considered Sexist and Ageist ..... And today we would need to use up precious time determining who identifies as a Woman or a Child ....

..... Welcome to the New Society of the New World Order .....

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17 posted on 05/20/2023 8:15:48 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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No, the NWO would just let ‘em all drown. Useless eaters.


18 posted on 05/20/2023 8:42:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bitt

It looks like the front end telescoped into main body of the ship.


19 posted on 05/20/2023 8:48:51 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: FamiliarFace

Try not to worry about FReepers that yell at each other. I’ve had others yell at me, too. I never know what’s up with their game. Maybe someone just had a bad day. Maybe someone is an a-hole. Who knows? All we can control is our response.
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20 posted on 05/20/2023 9:58:17 PM PDT by dagunk (Gravity Always Wins)
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