The huge ship became a huge wreck over 100 years ago.
With the help of so-called “deep sea mapping”, researchers can now show what the Titanic looks like today – at a depth of 3,800 metres.
It is hoped that the new 3D images can solve the riddle: How did the world’s most famous cruise ship actually sink?
More than 1,500 people lost their lives when the Titanic sank in the Atlantic in 1912. For the first time ever, a 3D model has now been produced, which shows what the ship looks like at the bottom of the sea.
The ship left Southampton bound for New York but struck an iceberg and sank. Exactly how it happened is not known, and that is what the researchers hope to get an answer to.
– There are still questions, fundamental questions, that need to be answered about the ship, says Titanic analyst Parks Stephenson, to BBC.
– The model is one of the first big steps to push the Titanic story towards evidence-based research and away from speculation, he continues.
700,000 images
The wreck was already found in 1985 and has since been carefully examined, but because it is so large, cameras have previously only succeeded in taking snapshots, writes the BBC. With the help of the scanning of the ship, which was carried out by Magellan Ltd, analysts get completely new opportunities to get to the bottom of what happened.
The company spent a total of 200 hours mapping the length and width of the wreck, taking more than 700,000 images from all angles, to create an accurate 3D reconstruction, for an upcoming documentary on the project.