The Titanic as you have never seen it. This is what OceanGate Expeditions promises, which led a recent expedition to explore the remains of the sunken ship in 1912, and has just delivered impressive images.
“During our 2022 expedition to the world’s most famous shipwreck, we were able to shoot the first 8K video of the Titanic,” stresses the company, which operates three mini-submarines, organizes scientific expeditions and produces movies.
OceanGate Expeditions has just published a first extract of these images, of incredible precision. It shows the bow of the ship, as well as the anchor chain, the number one hold and the port anchor.
“New Details”
“We see new details in these images,” says OceanGate Expeditions expert Rory Golden in a press release. For example, he had never seen the name of the anchor manufacturer, Noah Hingley & Sons Ltd., on the port anchor. I’ve been studying the wreck for decades and have done several dives, and I don’t remember seeing another image with this level of detail. It’s exciting that after so many years, we’ve discovered a new detail that wasn’t so obvious with previous camera technologies.”
“At the beginning of the video you can see the crane used to deploy the massive 15-tonne anchor still on the deck of the wreck and the shackle that was originally attached to the main mast which has now collapsed,” the aquanaut marvels. Paul-Henri Nargeoleta great specialist of the Titanic, who also notes the slow disintegration of the ship.
“Dramatic evidence of the decomposition was also filmed, when part of the Titanic’s rail collapsed and separated from the ship.”
A new expedition should take place in 2023.
The world’s largest ocean liner, the Titanic, left Southampton in England on April 10, 1912 for her maiden voyage to New York. After hitting an iceberg, she sank on the night of April 14-15, 1912. Since then she rests at a depth of 3,821 meters in international waters of the North Atlantic, off Newfoundland.
For 110 years, the history of the luxurious ship, considered unsinkable, continues to fascinate. James Cameron’s film, released in 1997, remains one of cinema’s biggest hits and has done much to fuel this fascination.
Items exhumed from the remains are regularly displayed around the world. Last April, a postcard sent by a young man who worked on the ocean liner was estimated at $15,000.
Of the 2,223 passengers on board the Titanic, 1,504 drowned.
Source: BFM TV
