The first-ever comprehensive full Titanic wreck site imaged

Full Titanic site mapped for 1st time
NY POST/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Last Updated: 1:38 PM, March 8, 2012
Posted: 1:37 PM, March 8, 2012

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic and became a legend.

...An expedition team used sonar imaging and more than 100,000 photos taken from underwater robots to create the map, which shows where hundreds of objects and pieces of the presumed-unsinkable vessel landed after striking an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people.

The mapping took place in the summer of 2010 during an expedition to the Titanic led by RMS Titanic Inc., the legal custodian of the wreck, along with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Mass., and the Waitt Institute of La Jolla, Calif

Photo credit: AP

This composite image, released by RMS Titanic Inc., and made from sonar and more than 100,000 photos taken in 2010 from by unmanned, underwater robots, shows a portion of a comprehensive map of the 3-by-5-mile debris field surrounding the bow and stern of the Titanic on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.

...The expedition team ran two independently self-controlled robots known as autonomous underwater vehicles along the ocean bottom day and night. The torpedo-shaped AUVs surveyed the site with side-scan sonar, moving at a little more than 3 miles per hour as...

Titanic bow section, image credit: RMS Titanic Inc.

Titanic bow section with blown hatch cover (north of bow), image credit: RMS Titanic Inc.  

The stern of the Titanic on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean (AP Photo/RMS Titanic Inc.)

Close-up of the stern section of Titanic (RMS Titanic Inc.) 

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Additional info and readings (more images and graphics); MUST VIEW:

• HISTORY.COM - First Map of Entire Titanic Wreck Site Sheds New Light on Disaster (MARCH 8, 2012) --numerous, high quality specific images of Titanic wreck site with captions

• http://www.rmstitanic.net/expedition/

Understanding: In contrast to the previous photo, the photo above shows sonar imagery of the front of the ship which sunk first

The first complete views of the legendary wreck: As the starboard profile shows, the Titanic buckled as it plowed nose-first into the seabed, leaving the forward hull buried deep in mud—obscuring, possibly forever, the mortal wounds inflicted by the iceberg. Photo credit: RMS Titanic Inc., WHOI (larger image)

The first complete views of the legendary wreck: Titanic’s battered stern is captured overhead here. Making sense of this tangle of metal presents endless challenges to experts. Says one, 'If you’re going to interpret this stuff, you gotta love Picasso.' Photo credit: RMS Titanic Inc., WHOI (larger image)

READ & View: The Titanic as you've never seen it before: A century after it sank, stunning new hi-tech images reveal doomed ship on ocean floor - DAILY MAIL


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