It’s Been 14 Years, This Is How Titanic Looks Today | Joey Tack

By Joey Tack on August 22, 2019

RMS Titanic passenger liner of the White Star Line. From The Story of 25 Eventful Years in Pictures, published 1935. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Hard to believe the Titanic sunk 107 years ago and we can still see it nearly intact, but that may not last forever. On the first dive to the wreckage in 14 years, scientists noted further decay and in the “process of being swallowed up by the ocean floor and ravaged by metal-eating bacteria,” says CNN. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The ocean floor is steadily swallowing up the Titanic as the ship becomes ravaged by metal-eating bacteria. For the first time in 14 years, a team of divers visited the wreck, some 4,000 meters below the surface of the water in the north Atlantic Ocean, to document the decomposition of the luxury ship that was once billed as “unsinkable.” The dive team laid a wreath and held a ceremony to honor the 1,517 people who died in ship’s sinking in 1912.

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