Sea Floor Wreck Pictures

Ballard kept the wreck s exact location a secret to prevent other divers from taking artefacts from the ship a practice he considered a form of grave robbing.

Sea floor wreck pictures.

An excerpt from the magazine s article reads. Deep sea currents salt corrosion and metal eating bacteria are whittling away the wreckage which lies more than 2 miles under the ocean surface. 1 1985 30 years ago tuesday. The 882 5 foot long 268 9 meters craft sank in april 1912 after it struck an iceberg off southern newfoundland and now rests on the ocean floor at a depth of 12 460 feet 3 7 kilometers.

When the titanic sank in 1912 the famous ship wasn t exactly sailing in obscurity. See more ideas about underwater under the sea diving. It wasn t until sept. As it was not near the main wreckage and as of 2015 had not been found it can be assumed this did not occur on impact with the sea floor.

Yet it took decades before the wreckage was discovered. Mar 8 2020 explore deborah jones s board deep sea wrecks on pinterest. The photos are the clearest most high resolution images that have ever been developed of the titanic on the ocean floor. The bow of the titanic wreck as it looked in 1996.

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