In 1985 a joint american french expedition tracked down one of the biggest prizes in maritime archeology.
Underwater real ocean floor wreck titanic.
The photos are the clearest most high resolution images that have ever been developed of the titanic on the ocean floor.
The wreck sleeps in darkness a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the north atlantic seabed.
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The steam liner sank to a depth of more than 12 000.
The titanic sank on april 15 1912 after it hit an iceberg during its maiden voyage from england to new york the accident killed 1 517 people.
Seventy three years after it sank to the north atlantic ocean floor a joint u s french expedition locates the wreck of the rms titanic the sunken liner was about 400 miles east of newfoundland.
A photograph depicting what a federal official claims to be human remains entombed in the mud surrounding the rms titanic s wreckage site has been released in its full form to the public for the first time saturday in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking the associated press reports.
The 73 year old wreck of the unsinkable ocean liner titanic.
Newly released photos show the haunting images of titanic victim s clothing lining the bottom of the ocean floor 100 years after the new york bound ship sank in the north atlantic.
On the anniversary of the titanic wreck found in 1985 here s a look at the breakthrough underwater operation which discovered and studied the wreckage of the ill fated british passenger ship.