Debris Field of the Titanic

[Concordia 33]

Has anyone seen these photos?

The Main mass of the Titanic.....

http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2012/03/09/1226294/507736-120309-titanic.jpg



Her stern and associated debris......

http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2012/03/09/1226294/508758-120309-titianic.jpg

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/titanic-debris-map-revealed/story-e6frg6so-1226294510142

[Figment]

Cool images, but I truly don't understand why people continue to expend energy and capital to study this wreck. What are we trying to figure out?

[MiddleAgesMan]

They have been interested in the mode of failure for 100 years. Witnesses contradicted each other--she broke in two parts, she went down whole, her stern lifted way out of the water before she sank, her stern lifted just a little. Stuff like that.

Our own Roger Long played a key role in solving at least part of the puzzle. Track down the series on the Discover Channel to see what the fuss was about and what has been learned.

[elf]

Lots to learn. Things like how materials survive under water, under water pressure, with pelagic creatures, etc. at low temperatures, over x years. How pelagic creatures react to the chemistry of such an object, over time, over temperature changes, over degeneration of the object.

I don't understand how people can't imagine why it would be useful to study this sort of thing.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

"She was all right when she left here!"

Harland and Wolff standard comment on the TITANIC for the past 100 years.

"Never mind that, Look at the paint job!"

Harland and Wolff comment on the discovery of the wreck.

[Peerie Maa]

I find this to be a very poignant image
http://www.titanicstory.com/shoes.jpg

[jimkeen]

"She was all right when she left here!"

Harland and Wolff standard comment on the TITANIC for the past 100 years.

"Never mind that, Look at the paint job!"

Harland and Wolff comment on the discovery of the wreck.

She left Liverpool on her way to southern Ireland to pick up passengers then onto the new world.

[Concordia 33]

They have been interested in the mode of failure for 100 years. Witnesses contradicted each other--she broke in two parts, she went down whole, her stern lifted way out of the water before she sank, her stern lifted just a little. Stuff like that.

Our own Roger Long played a key role in solving at least part of the puzzle. Track down the series on the Discover Channel to see what the fuss was about and what has been learned.
A recent dive team that looked at the wreck concluded that she broke in half on the way down, not as the bow lifted out of the water. Something to do with the way the metal is bent and twisted at the seam where she broke up.

[JimD]

I was expecting an image of Jesus.