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

nypost ^ | 5/17/2023 | andrew court

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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.”

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I won’t yell at you. I agree with you mostly and in part. It is mildly interesting like a giant wreck naturally should be, but the gains are from aquatic scientific surveillance, not from much else. The 3D game is strong.

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