Titanic: Documentary and 3D model bring unpublished facts about wreck

A new documentary reveals the incredible results of a project to create underwater scanning in 3D of the failed RMS Titanic transatlantic, which wreck 113 years ago.

“Titanic: The Digital Resurrection” tells the story of how the deep water mapping company has created “the most accurate model of the Titanic ever made: a real-scale digital twin, 1: 1, I need even the last rivet,” according to a National Geographic statement, published on Tuesday (8).

When Titanic settled on April 10, 1912, he was the largest passenger ship in service and considered inable. Just four days later, Titanic’s inaugural journey became an international tragedy when he collided with an iceberg in the Northern Atlantic at 11:40 pm on April 14. He sank in less than three hours.

The ship did not have enough life boats for approximately 2,220 people on board. More than 1,500 people died in the accident, and Titanic became the most famous wreck in history. There were just over 700 survivors.

National Geographic’s 90 -minute documentary allows filmmaker Anthony Geffen to “rebuild the ship’s final moments, challenging old assumptions and revealing new discoveries about what really happened that fateful night in 1912,” the statement.

In the movie, Titanic Analyst Parks Stephenson, metalurgist Jennifer Hooper and master sailor Chris Hearn are walking through a full -size reproduction of the ship, highlighting previously hidden details.

A crucial discovery is a visibly open vapor valve that corroborates reports that engineers had their stations in the boiler room for more than two hours after Titanic reaches the iceberg.

This maintained the supply of electricity and allowed the crew to send signs of relief, meaning that the 35 men in the boiler room may have sacrificed to save hundreds of other people.

The team also reconstructs fragments of the hulls found scattered around the place, revealing that Titanic did not depart in two, but “was violently torn, tearing through the first class booths where prominent passengers such as JJ Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim may have sought refuge while the ship sink.”

The scan also helps to innocent the first officer William Murdoch, who was accused of leaving his post. The position of a life-boat Turk, an equipment used to lower the vessels, corroborates the testimony that Murdoch was actually dragged to the sea while the crew was preparing to launch it.

Magellan scanning also reveals how parts of the wreckage are crumbling, but National Geographic said that the digital twin means that “Titanic is preserved in perfect detail as it appeared in 2022, ensuring its place in history for future generations and marking a new era in underwater archeology.”

“Titanic: The Digital Resurrection” will debut in the United States National Geographic on Friday (11) and should be available at the Disney+ streaming service from Saturday (12).

Unpublished video shows 8K details of the ship that wreck in 1912

This content was originally published in Titanic: documentary and 3D model bring unpublished facts about the wreck on the CNN Brazil website.

Source: CNN Brasil

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