Titanic met its doom just four days into the Atlantic crossing, roughly 375 miles (600 kilometers) south of Newfoundland. but actually they went with really low-resolution cameras and they could only speculate on what happened,' Atlantic Productions CEO Andrew Geffen told BBC News. “We now have every rivet of the Titanic, every detail, we can put it back together, so for the first time we can actually see what happened and use real science to find out what happened.'įurther Reading New 8K video footage showcases Titanic shipwreck in stunning detail “Great explorers have been down to the Titanic. Magellan Ltd, a deep-sea mapping company, and Atlantic Productions (which is making a documentary about the project) conducted the scans over a six-week expedition last summer. Now we have the first full-size 3D digital scan of the complete wreckage-a 'digital twin' that captures Titanic in unprecedented detail. The RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912, but the fate of the ship and its passengers has fascinated the popular imagination for more than a century. Magellan and Atlantic Productions deployed two submersibles nicknamed Romeo and Juliet to map every millimeter of the wreck.
