National Geographic has the first-ever complete views
of the Titanic wreck. The photos are from the April 2012 edition of
National Geographic magazine.
National Geographic magazine's
April 2012 issue provides the first-ever complete images of the Titanic
wreck. (Credit: National Geographic)
Ethereal views of Titanic's bow (modeled) offer a comprehensiveness of detail never seen before
With her rudder cleaving the
sand and two propeller blades peeking from the murk, Titanic’s mangled
stern rests on the abyssal plain, 1,970 feet south of the more
photographed bow. This optical mosaic combines 300 high-resolution
images taken on a 2010 expedition.
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.
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.”
Two of Titanic’s engines lie
exposed in a gaping cross section of the stern. Draped in
“rusticles”—orange stalactites created by iron-eating bacteria—these
massive structures, four stories tall, once powered the largest moving
man-made object on Earth.
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