The whole stern had broken away.
Sea floor wreck pictures.
An excerpt from the magazine s article reads.
The bow of the titanic wreck as it looked in 1996.
The 882 5 foot long 268 9 meters craft sank in april 1912 after it struck an iceberg off southern newfoundland and now rests on the ocean floor at a depth of 12 460 feet 3 7 kilometers.
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It wasn t until sept.
Yet it took decades before the wreckage was discovered.
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Deep sea currents salt corrosion and metal eating bacteria are whittling away the wreckage which lies more than 2 miles under the ocean surface.
Ballard kept the wreck s exact location a secret to prevent other divers from taking artefacts from the ship a practice he considered a form of grave robbing.
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The photos are the clearest most high resolution images that have ever been developed of the titanic on the ocean floor.
1 1985 30 years ago tuesday.
When the titanic sank in 1912 the famous ship wasn t exactly sailing in obscurity.