An extremely detailed analysis of a full -size digital scan of ‘Titanic »reveals the last hours of the convicted ship, which sank into the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after a collision with an iceberg on his maiden trip from Southampton to New York.
The exact three -dimensional copy (3D) shows the extent of the violence with which the Titanic He broke in two as he sank after the impact where 1,500 passengers died.
Scan provides a new view of the boiler room, confirming testimonies of eyewitnesses that the Engineers worked to the end to keep the ship’s lights on.
And a simulation on the computer also suggests that holes in the hull in A4 paper size led to the destruction of the ship.
“The Titanic is the last surviving eyewitness of the disaster and still has stories to tell,” he said Parks Stephenson, analyst of the Titanic.
The scan was studied as part of a new documentary by National Geographic and Atlantic Productions titled Titanic: The Digital Resurrection.
The shipwreck, which is at a depth of 3,800 meters in the frozen waters of the Atlantic, mapped using underwater robots. Over 700,000 images from each corner were used to create the “digital twin” of the ship.
Due to the size of the shipwreck and the bottom darkness Its exploration only provides limited images– However, the scan provides the first full floor plan of the ship.
The huge bow is in good shape at the bottom, -almost as the ship continued its journey -but at a distance of 600 meters the stern is an amorphous metal mass. The damage was caused as it fell to the bottom of the sea after the ship broke in the middle.
‘It’s like a crime scene’
“It’s like a crime scene- you have to see the details, in the context of the place where they are,” Parks Stephenson said.
“And an extensive picture of the entire shipwreck is key to understanding what happened here.”
Experts have studied one of the huge Titanic boilers – it is easy to see it on the scan because it is on the back of the bow at the point where the ship broke in two.
Passengers said that The lights were still lit as the ship was lost in the waves.
The digital copy shows that Some of the boilers are hollow, which suggests that they were still functioning as they sink into the water.
On the deck of the stern also discovered a An open valve, indicating that the steam was still flowing into the electricity production system.
This will be due to a group of engineers led by Joseph Bell, who were left behind to shovel charcoal on the furnaces to keep the lights on.
Everybody lost their lives, but their heroic acts saved many lives, said Parks Stephenson.
“The lights and the current kept the electricity to the end, to give the crew time to launch the lifeboats safely with some light instead of absolute darkness,” he told the BBC.