New high-quality footage of the Titanic’s wreckage released this week has provided “amazing” new images from the site which experts hope will enable scientists to figure out the speed at which the sunken ship is rotting.
The 8K video by underwater exploration firm OceanGate Expeditions is the highest quality clip ever taken of the wreck, showcasing the Titanic’s bow, portside anchor, hull, anchor chain and the crane used to deploy the anchor.
“I’ve been studying the wreck for decades, and have completed multiple dives, and I can’t recall seeing any other image showing this level of detail,” said Rory Golden, a veteran Titanic diver.
Golden said that among the features that can be seen for the first time in the clip is the single-ended boiler, a part of the Titanic’s engine room that sunk to the ocean floor when the ship sunk.
“One of the most amazing clips shows one of the single-ended boilers that fell to the ocean’s floor when the Titanic broke into two,” Golden told Sky News.
“I had never seen the name of the anchor maker, ‘Noah Hingley & Sons Ltd.,’ on the portside anchor,” he said.
“It is exciting that, after so many years, we may have discovered a new detail that wasn’t as obvious with previous generations of camera technologies,” he said.
Academics have noticed slight changes to the sunken vessel since the 2022 expedition, which will aid in their studies of the Titanic’s decay.
Out of 2,240 passengers, more than 1,500 people died when the Titanic sunk on April 15, 1912, after the luxury ship — then the largest passenger liner ever built — struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City.
The shipwreck was found in September 1985 by American explorer Robert Ballard and French scientist Jean-Louis Michel, around 370 nautical miles from Newfoundland in Canada.
