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Two children in front of the wreck of the Titanic in the Titanic Belfast Experience museum, in Northern Ireland, on March 27, 2012. PETER MUHLY / AFP
NARRATIVE – Since its discovery in 1985, dozens of expeditions have been organized around the wreck of the famous liner, which sank during the night of April 14 to 15, 1912.
In 1985, the first images of a submerged legend flood the world’s television channels: those of Titanic, a mastodon of the oceans, presented as unsinkable, which sank after hitting an iceberg on the night of April 14 to 15, 1912, off Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic. They reveal a gaping hole in the bow of the ship, caused by the loss of the first of the four funnels. On another part of the rail, there are ropes hung by men to escape the liner before it sinks to the bottom of the icy waters. A camera slipped into the dining room of the first class, located to starboard, also reveals plates, a dish or even hundreds of bottles of wine which age there, frozen forever. More than seventy years after the tragedy, the images of the wreckage of the transatlantic liner maintain the fascination of scientists and the general public.
Since the night of its sinking, many have embarked on…
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