After 107 years after the tragedy that occurred with the Titanic, divers plunged back to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean in order to see the force of the water element in action. Thanks to a new immersion, we can see how nature successfully eliminates all traces of one of the biggest disasters of the XX century.
So now looks like the Titanic
Why sank the Titanic?
Despite the fact that the fate of the “Titanic” has been widely covered in contemporary cinema, among you, perhaps there are those who are not familiar or a little familiar with the events of the Holocaust that happened over 100 years ago.
The Titanic crashed in 1912, was at one time the largest steamer in the world. Due to the collision with the iceberg, the ship received several hits, Zataevich a large part of the ship. Because of the rapid and uneven filling of the water inside parts of the ship, the ship before her sinking, broke in two, killing a thousand people.
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Frame from the film “Titanic” (1997)
How the Titanic looks like now?
One would expect that finding the steel giant under water for more than a hundred years had to introduce certain changes to the appearance of this famous ship. According to representatives of the company “Atlantic Productions”, the most severely affected by the time part of the ship was the right side of the officers ‘ quarters. The bridge deck and the cabin turned into a shapeless heap of debris, and the front mast fell.
Most of the “Titanic” corroded, gradually corroding what was left from the only “unsinkable ship of the XX century”
In the report, which was published by researchers involved in the expedition, says that as a result of vital activity of microorganisms and corrosion of the ship’s hull was covered with barnacles of rust, which gradually eats the most famous ship in the world. According to the head of the laboratory of deep-sea submersibles Institute of Oceanology, RAS Anatoly Sagalevich, to the complete destruction of “Titanic” remains only a few decades.
Along with “Titanic” will go away and the memories of the whole era of the beginning of XX century
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