Unseen Titanic

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TUnseenAt 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, theunsinkable R.M.S.Titanicdisappeared

beneath the waves, taking with her1,500 souls. One hundred years later,new technologies have revealed the


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Te propellers of the Olympicthe nearly identical sister ship of the

Titanicdwarf workers at the Belfast

shipyard where both ocean liners werebuilt. Few photographs exist of the

Titanic, but the Olympicgives a

sense of its grand design. NatioNal MuseuMs NortherN irelaNd, collectioN

harlaNd aNd Wolff, ulster folk & traNsport MuseuM


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Revealed through newimagery, the greatest shipthat ever sailed continuesto hold and haunt ourimaginations.

by hampton sides

The lights arefnally on. THE WRECK SLEEPS in darkness,

a puzzlement o corroded steel strewn across athousand acres o the North tlantic seabed.Fungi eed on it. eird colorless lie-orms, un-azed by the crushing pressure, prowl its jaggedramparts. From time to time, beginning with thediscovery o the wreck in 1985 by xplorer-in-esidence obert Ballard and Jean-ouis Michel,a robot or a manned submersible has swept over

Titanics gloomy acets, pinged a sonar beam inits direction, taken some imagesand le.

n recent years explorers like James ameronand aul-enry Nargeolet have brought backincreasingly vivid pictures o the wreck. Yet weve

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But something else, beyond human lives, wentdown with the Titanic: An illusion o orderliness,a aith in technological progress, a yearning orthe uture that, as urope dried toward ull-scalewar, was soon replaced by ears and dreads all

too amiliar to our modern world. e Titanicdisaster was the bursting o a bubble, James Cam-eron told me. ere was such a sense o bountyin the rst decade o the 20th century. levators!Automobiles! Airplanes! Wireless radio! very-thing seemed so wondrous, on an endless upwardspiral. en it all came crashing down.

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Titanics battered stern, captured here in prole (above)

and overhead, bears witness to the extreme trauma

inicted upon it as it corkscrewed to the bottom.

Making sense o this tangle o metal presents endless

challenges to experts. Says one: I youre going tointerpret this stuf, you gotta love Picasso.COPYRIGHT 2012 RMS TITanIC, InC; PROduCed bY aIVL, WHOI


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real action will likely be concentrated in years tocomeespecially with the new MS imagesproviding a clearer guide. e bows very sexy,but weve been to it hundreds o times, Saudersaid. ll this wreckage here to the south is whatIm interested in.

In essence Sauder was hunting or anythingrecognizable, any pattern amid the chaos aroundthe stern. We like to picture shipwrecks asGreek temples on a hillyou know, very pic-turesque, he told me. ut theyre not. eyreruined industrial sites: piles o plates and rivetsand stieners. I youre going to interpret thisstu, you gotta love Picasso.

Sauder zoomed in on the image at hand, andwithin a ew minutes had solved at least a smallpart o the mystery near the stern: ying atopthe wreckage was the crumpled brass rameo a revolving d oor, probably rom a rst-classlounge. It is the kind o painstaking work that

only someone who knows every inch o the shipcould perorma tiny part o an enormousWheres Waldo? sleuthing project that couldkeep ill Sauder busy or years.

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modern shipping industry, the experts painted agruesome portrait oitanics death throes.

Te ship sideswiped the iceberg at 11:40 p.m.,buckling portions o the starboard hull alonga 300-oot span and exposing the six orwardwatertight compartments to the sea. From thismoment onward, sinking was a certainty. Tedemise may have been hastened, however, whencrewmen pushed open a gangway door on theport side in an aborted attempt to load lieboatsrom a lower level. Since the ship had begun list-ing to port, they could n ot reclose the massivedoor against gravity, and by 1:50 a.m., the bowhad settled enough to allow seawater to rush inthrough the gangway.

By 2:18, with the last lieboat having departed13 minutes earlier, the bow had flled with waterand the stern had risen high enough into the airto expose the propellers and create catastrophicstresses on the middle o the ship. hen the

itanic cracked in hal.Cameron stood up and demonstrated how

it happened. He grabbed a banana and beganto wrench it in his hands: Watch how it exesand pooches in the middle beore it breaksseeth t? T b ki t th b tt hi h


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Wandering room to roomthrough the sunken wreck,the explorer and flmmaker

fnds himsel at homeamong the spirits.

by james cameron

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Visible or the rst time through sonar imaging,

the remains o the ship and its contents sprawl

across a thousand acres o gently sloping

seafoor. Combined with optical mosaics oindividual artiacts (colored images), this map

o the main wreck area will help experts

explore, manage, and protect the Titanic as

a long-term archaeological site.

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