A new expedition to the wreck of the Titanic not only has it allowed the recovery of several objects from the famous sunken ocean liner, but note the slow deterioration of the ship, that has lost a part of the forecastle deck railing recreated in the most remembered scene of the 1997 film directed by James Cameron.
RMS Titanic INC.the American company that organized the expedition, has just published part of the thousands of images taken at the location in the North Atlantic where the transatlantic ship that was presented as the largest and The most secure ship ever built sank in April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg, killing some 1,500 people.Underwater robots used in the expedition discovered that a piece of the Titanic’s forecastle railingon the port side and 4.5 metres long, broke away from the hull and ended up at the bottom of the ocean. On the previous expedition, in 2010, the railing was intact.
It is on the bow of the ship where Jack (Leonardo di Caprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) celebrate their love before the shipwreck in the most memorable scene of Titanic.
“We are saddened by this loss and the inevitable deterioration of the ship and the wreckage (around it). Over the course of the coming weeks and months, We will be conducting a more comprehensive review of the Titanic’s condition and its changes over time. “While the collapse of the Titanic is inevitable, this evidence strengthens our mission to preserve and document what we can before it is too late,” RMS Titanic Inc. said on its website.
The Titanic 2024 Expedition, which began last July and is now concluded, He spent hundreds of hours documenting the area where they accumulate the remains of the ship in greater detail and with better technology than ever before.
“The first recovery mission of RMS Titanic, Inc. It was 75 years after the sinking of the Titanic. It’s been almost 40 years since then and we have seen it change over the years“, he adds.
The new discovered objects
Among the objects discovered during this expedition is a bronze statue of the Roman goddess Diana the Huntress, which was in the first-class dining room of the Titanic and was left in the debris field around the ship after the sinking, and was photographed once in 1986.
The Titanic, built in 1909 in Belfast (United Kingdom) and launched in 1911, was 269 metres long and was at the time the largest passenger ship in the world.
It sank in the Atlantic waters during the night of 14 and the early morning of 15 April 1912, while on its maiden voyage from Southampton (United Kingdom) to New York after colliding with an iceberg. 1,496 people of the 2,208 on board died.
