FINDING THE TITANIC
3D models, helping researchers further study the past and
future of the ship.
How long will the Titanic remain intact? “Everyone has
their own opinion,” said Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti-
tution research specialist Bill Lange. “Some people think the
bow will collapse in a year or two. But others say it’s going to
be there for hundreds of years.”
However long the wreck lasts, the story will surely live
on—of a vessel with too much pride in her name, sprinting
smartly toward a new world, only to be mortally nicked by
something as old and slow as ice.More than two miles
down, the ghostly
bow of the Titanic
emerges from the
darkness draped in
“rusticles”—orange
stalactites created by
iron-eating bacteria.
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