The Titanic is deteriorating.
Pictures from a recent deep-sea dive to the Titanic show the increasing deterioration of the doomed shipwreck.
OceanGate Expeditions, the company which is exploring the site with its Titan submersible, confirmed the mast of the famous ship has collapsed and there is increasing debris scattered at and around the 12,500-foot deep site.
“These changes are distinct and notable, including the missing Gorgonian Hydroid from the rail of the bow,” OceanGate said after a dive earlier this week.
Well, yes…
The Titanic sank in April 1912 and has remained at the bottom of the ocean for 109 years.
This just might have something to do with it.
Given that no one is trying to flog a used ship with some superficial damage (all shown in the pics as part of the description and no returns accepted) with one careful owner, here, why is this even news?
Oh dear: the 12,500-foot deep site. .
The site isn’t 12,500-foot deep. That would be one hell of a big hole at the bottom of the sea.
It might however be 12,500 feet below sea level .
Don’t they have proof-readers these days? Oh, sorry, stupid question, obviously not.
Maybe we need to start a GoFundMe to preserve it for future generations. You know, for the chirruns.
She was in a pretty shit state when they found her – I can’t imagine why anybody would think she would remain the same or improve in the next 36 years…?
According to some, the ship(whichever one) was in a pretty shit state before she went down
IanJ: Yes, I’ve read that book too!
Me too!
Olympic?
Made of steel and sitting in salt water for 109 years. I’m surprised there’s anything left.
We need the government to put a preservation order on it. That’ll fix it.
Believe it or not there have been several plans down the years to bring the titanic back to the surface these include carbon freezing it into a massive iceberg and filling it up with hundreds of thousands of ping pong balls so it will float again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raise_the_Titanic!
I loved the movie as a kid, but I suspect Lew Grade was right in his analysis.
The film grossed about $7 million against an estimated $40 million budget. Producer Lew Grade later remarked “it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic”
The book was better. Clive Cussler’s original novel was largely ignored.
Lousy movie, great soundtrack.
The book was better. A lot better.
Can’t they just put a plastic sheet over the top of it, to protect it
Maybe they could encase it in resin.
I’m sort of baffled as to why anyone is fretting about this. The bottom of the ocean must be littered with decaying wrecks, this one is only different because it is famous. What would really be gained by preserving it anyway?
It’s a triumph of emotion over reason. As you say, plenty of other wrecks out there. Usually they are left alone as they are graves.
I’m surprised they haven’t blamed climate change yet.
That’s because its waycist – a black ship owned by the White Star Line…