There is hardly anyone who has not heard of the Titanic. Although the builders claimed that it would never crash, the ship met with an accident on its maiden voyage. On April 10, 1912, the huge luxury liner, which was traveling from Southampton, England to New York, USA, hit a huge iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on April 15 and split in two. There were about 2200 passengers on the ship. It is estimated that more than 1500 people were killed. What happened to the Titanic after it sank into the depths of the frozen Atlantic seas?
There have been several attempts to retrieve the wreckage from the bottom of the ocean, but none have been successful. That is, the giant ship Titanic could not be brought out completely. Who found the wreckage and how did it happen? What happened to the Titanic under the sea?
More than 110 years after the accident, the remains of the Titanic remain there. An interesting fact is that the remains of the Titanic today are food for a group of bacteria.
The Titanic was exclusively fed by a bacteria known as Halomonas titanicae, which eats away the rust. With thousands of tons of rust left behind, the Titanic is becoming, in short, a rich feast for bacteria.
Halomonas bacteria, less than two micrometers in size and barely visible to the naked eye, will completely engulf the Titanic within the next decade or two.
Cursed by bacteria, Titanic is also home to many undersea creatures. Many creatures still inhabit the Titanic, including rattail fish, spider crabs and starfish.
70 years after the sinking of the Titanic, it was discovered under the sea for the first time. Robert Ballard, the US Navy officer who found the ship, actually sank in the deep sea, but not the Titanic. He accidentally discovered the wreckage of the Titanic while searching for two sunken American nuclear warships.
Blallard was actually a member of a secret team tasked with finding nuclear submarines. For this purpose, a probe was built to be buried a thousand feet down in the sea. The wreckage of the Titanic was found on board the Argo spacecraft.
Scientists have begun to study what changes have happened to the Titanic after it has been under the sea for so long. In 1991, a group of scientists at the University of Seville in Spain discovered that the Titanic was being eaten by bacteria.
This discovery was made by examining the wreckage of the ship collected from under the sea. The researchers then looked at how the bacteria ate the solid iron. Bacteria enter the Titanic by dissolving the iron into a slightly rusted form through the application of a chemical.
Scientists are now wondering why not use the same bacteria that ate the Titanic to get rid of the iron waste under the sea. On reflection, that’s not such a bad idea.
There is no better idea than this to rid the sea floor of so much garbage. But the problem is that they don’t curse all garbage.
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