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  • Divers Looked for Treasure in the Titanic's Wreckage—and Discovered a Stunning Lost Statue

    09/07/2024 7:41:15 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 24 replies
    Popular Mechanics ^ | September 4, 2024 | Tim Newcomb
    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...
  • Wireless Message Traffic From the Titanic Disaster in real time (more or less)

    02/05/2018 8:42:43 AM PST · by NRx · 43 replies
    YouTube ^ | 03-17-2017 | CanadaDan
    The message traffic from the night the Titanic sank presented in more or less real time (removed long silences and messages repeated many times). I am not sure why, but reading each message as the situation becomes more and more desperate left me somewhat disturbed. Even knowing what happened and that it was over 100 years ago, the sudden silence at the end was... appalling.