Seventy three years after it sank to the north atlantic ocean floor a joint u s french expedition locates the wreck of the rms titanic the sunken liner was about 400 miles east of newfoundland.
Underwater real ocean floor wreck titanic.
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.
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 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.
Photos were taken during submarine explorations of the site and the release of some of those photos suggest.
The photos are the clearest most high resolution images that have ever been developed of the titanic on the ocean floor.
An excerpt from the magazine s article reads.
The steam liner sank to a depth of more than 12 000.
The 73 year old wreck of the unsinkable ocean liner titanic.
The wreck sleeps in darkness a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the north atlantic seabed.
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.