2023-06-28 21:24:24
There was even talk of blowing up the wreckage to bring the bodies to the surface of the water.
The shipwreck is located southeast of Newfoundland, a province in eastern Canada, about 780 kilometers from the coast, at 3820 meters deep. “As early as 1912, several projects aimed at raising the wreckage were under study. There was even talk of blowing it up to bring the bodies to the surface of the water. It’s very macabre, but the families wanted recover their belongings and the bodies of the missing” says the liner enthusiast.
The technological means of the time did not allow such large-scale projects to be carried out. The projects were therefore all abandoned and it was only 73 years after the sinking of the boat that the wreckage was discovered by chance, during a mission by the American army. “In September 1985, a Franco-American team, led by Professor Ballard, accidentally discovered the wreckage. By chance, because we learned in 2008 that Ballard had obtained a contract with the Navy, the American Navy: he had to locate two wrecks of missing nuclear submarines and in return, the army financed its project to search for the wreck of the Titanic”.
Today, experts estimate that there will not be much left of the wreck by 2030. The boat is in fact eaten away by a bacterium, the halomonas titanicae. Experts do not know if it was already present on the steel during the construction of the Titanic or if it appeared after, but this bacterium is of interest to all the scientific community linked to shipbuilding (oil platform, pipeline, etc.).
There is therefore a certain race, a certain scientific urgency which aims to map the wreckage to save as much detail and information as possible.
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