Photos via National Geographic
With the Titanic's 100 anniversary coming up in April, everyone is trying to find new ways to mark the historic tragedy. The History Channel is "live"-Tweeting the doomed voyage, as well as offering up new sonar mapping of the wreckage, Groupon is offering a Titanic vacation package (yes, really), and people are recreating the last meal. Now National Geographic has released some stunning images of the ship for their April issue.
The never-before-seen photos, taken two years ago, provide a new detailed look at the ruins as they are now. The images come from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who went around the ship in three state-of-the-art robotic vehicles taking hundreds of images per second—later they were stitched together. An archaeologist there told NatGeo, “In the past, trying to understand Titanic was like trying to understand Manhattan at midnight in a rainstorm—with a flashlight. Now we have a site that can be understood and measured, with definite things to tell us."
Be sure to check out National Geographic's slideshow right here.
