They Just Scanned the Titanic in 3D And Found Things You’ve Never Heard Of

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Congratulations.

You can now forget everything you've seen in the movies or everything you've read in

books and newspapers and heard from people.

Now, we have the most detailed and reliable study of the famous sunken ship.

A large-scale Titanic 3D scan allows us to see in fine detail everything that happened

during the disaster.

And rest assured, there was a lot going on there that you've never heard of.

Are you ready for Titanic new discoveries?

Let's go!

There's a fat chance, or a thin chance, take your pick, that there are no people here

who haven't heard of what happened.

But just in case, here's the quick backstory.

On April 10th, 1912, the giant cruise ship Titanic sailed from Southampton, England to

New York City.

Four days later, the ship collided with an iceberg and sank in the freezing waters of

the North Atlantic.

It was one of the most tragic and biggest disasters in the history of sea voyages.

Since then, the wreck of the giant ship has been lying under a layer of icy water.

For decades, people wanted to get the ship from the bottom many times, but they never fully

tried.

Passing your stories, documentaries, and books have given us a complete picture of what

happened.

But, the only witness that can tell us about those tragic events is the ship itself.

And some people decided to ask it about that night.

A group of experts, oceanographers and cinematographers, recreated a virtual version of the events

and showed it in the documentary Titanic, The Digital Resurrection.

This is the most detailed digital reconstruction of how the Titanic sank ever made.

To create it, specialists from the Magellan Company sent marine robots to the bottom where

the ship lies at a depth of 12,500 feet.

In such a place, all objects experience immense water pressure.

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Experience divers with standard scuba gear can only swim at depths up to 130 feet and

a little deeper.

So it's a challenging, almost impossible mission to descend to such a depth and conduct research.

It's dangerous for people.

That's why the team of specialists sent robots there.

They equipped with cameras for deep sea surveys.

They took more than 700,000 photos and videos in 4K resolution.

They were collecting data for three weeks, exploring every part of the ship.

Eventually, they had about 16 terabytes of data.

Now one terabyte is a thousand gigabytes.

Is that a lot?

The largest game on PC, Microsoft Flight Simulator, weighs about a half a terabyte.

And it has maps of the entire planet to create a realistic flight simulator.

Still this huge program weighs 32 times less than that Titanic scan.

Imagine how detailed the model of the ship and the simulation of the disaster turned

out to be.

Moreover, the team combined all this information with the drawings of the ship.

They calculated the speed of Titanic that night, its direction, its position, and the

angle of impact with the iceberg.

All of this was uploaded to supercomputers to create precise crash simulations.

After that, specialists studied eyewitness reports, got consultations from historians

and maritime experts, and then presented a detailed staging of the tragic night.

Some things turned out to be different from what you know about them.

For example, the iceberg didn't make a huge hull in the side of the ship.

A Titanic wreckage scan shows that a piece of ice had struck a glancing blow and created

several holes in the hull.

Each of them was a size of an A4 sheet of paper.

How could such minor damage destroy a giant ship?

The problem was that those A4 size punctures covered the entire length of the case.

The Titanic's creators claimed that it was the most unsinkable ship in the world.

However, its unsinkability lay in the fact that it could stay afloat even if four of

its watertight compartments got flooded.

But the collision with the iceberg led to the flooding of six of them.

The iceberg had a mere 6.3 seconds of contact with the ship and still managed to sink it.

The Titanic wreckage scan also showed a portal with a broken window.

The iceberg probably crashed in there.

This finding confirms the words of eyewitnesses that pieces of ice got into the cabins.

Just imagine how frightening that was.

You're sleeping peacefully in your bed, then you hear a loud crash and a piece of iceberg

falls into your cabin, and after that absolute chaos begins.

The researchers found out exactly how the ship had split in half.

In the famous movie, we all saw how the back of the ship had risen above the water

and then broken off.

The ship indeed broke, but not as gently as we saw on the screen.

Yeah, the scale of the disaster was terrible, but the reality was even worse.

The ship wasn't just broken, it was torn in two.

Wooden and metal parts of the ship, pipes, chunks of the hull, walls, everything was torn and bent.

The first class cabins were torn in two.

Imagine the screeching of metal that sounded on that cold night.

Researchers compared other Titanic facts versus the movie.

One of them was a story about first officer William Murdoch.

In the movie, his character attacked passengers who were trying to bore the boat.

But in reality, everything happened.

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Titanic survivor Charles Lytola said William Murdoch had drowned when he was trying to lower lifeboat into the water.

He didn't attack any button, but still faced a tragic fate.

There are no exact details, but high-resolution scans have confirmed this version.

But one of the most impressive and heroic tales that happened on the Titanic occurred in the boiler room.

With the help of robots, experts discovered that one of the boat's steam valves

had been left open.

This finding only confirms eyewitness stories that the engineer stayed in the boiler room for more than two hours after the collision with the icebergs.

This group of brave people maintained a power supply until the very end.

Why did they do it?

Proper lighting on the Titanic helped people safely lower the boats onto the water.

Electric power also made the Titanic visible to distant ships.

Moreover, passengers reported that the Titanic's lights were on even when it was submerged underwater.

The brave feat of the engineers helped save hundreds of passengers' lives.

Who knows, perhaps further research of the ship will tell us more about other heroic actions of the passengers and crew members,

actions that will be worth making a movie about.

In addition to studying the ship, the researchers also scanned the seabed around the wreckage,

where not only parts of the Titanic, but also personal belongings of passengers,

including gold coins, pocket watches, columns, shoes, and so on, were scattered.

By the way, many of those items have been raised from the bottom and sold at various auctions.

You can also see some artifacts from the ship in specialized museums.

One of those is called Titanic Belfast and is located in Northern Ireland.

It is open to the public.

A digital replica of the ship not only shows us how the Titanic sank,

but also literally saves the ship.

The condition of the wreckage is getting worse every day.

Gigantic pressure, cold temperature, water, and marine life, all of this is slowly destroying the vessel.

Oh yeah, some companies that organized dive trips to the ship for tourists also pose a danger to the ship.

It turns out that there are a lot of people who wanted to go down inside a submersible to the legendary wreck.

As a result of some of these excursions, parts of the ship were damaged.

Experts predict that within the next 40 years, the unlucky liner may disappear completely.

Fortunately, the Titanic 3D scan has provided such a level of detail that you can imagine walking inside it.

This means that the tragedy will never be forgotten.

Of course, 10 videos like this one won't be enough to cover the full scope of the work that the filmmakers have done.

Fortunately, the documentary, Titanic, the digital resurrection, is available for viewing.

You can watch the movie and also study the 3D models of the ship.

Who knows, perhaps you can make new discoveries.

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