On the anniversary of the titanic wreck found in 1985 here s a look at the breakthrough underwater operation which discovered and studied the wreckage of the ill fated british passenger ship.
Underwater real ocean floor wreck titanic.
The rms titanic was visited by divers for the first time in 14 years and the ship that was once a picture of luxury was found in the process of being swallowed up by the ocean floor and ravaged.
The steam liner sank to a depth of more than 12 000.
In 1985 a joint american french expedition tracked down one of the biggest prizes in maritime archeology.
The wreck sleeps in darkness a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the north atlantic seabed.
The photos are the clearest most high resolution images that have ever been developed of the titanic on the ocean floor.
Newly released photos show the haunting images of titanic victim s clothing lining the bottom of the ocean floor 100 years after the new york bound ship sank in the north atlantic.
An excerpt from the magazine s article reads.
The titanic sank on april 15 1912 after it hit an iceberg during its maiden voyage from england to new york the accident killed 1 517 people.
A photograph depicting what a federal official claims to be human remains entombed in the mud surrounding the rms titanic s wreckage site has been released in its full form to the public for the first time saturday in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking the associated press reports.
Photos were taken during submarine explorations of the site and the release of some of those photos suggest.