Published by the BBC, the unprecedented, high-resolution images were created using deep-water cartography. The remains of the ship sunk at sea almost 4.000 meters deep have been reconstructed in great detail.
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On its maiden voyage from the English city of Southampton to New York, in April 1912, the luxury liner sank after colliding with an iceberg.
Of the 2.224 passengers and crew traveling aboard the ship, the largest in the world at the time it was chartered, more than 1.500 died.
Its wreckage has been explored several times since its discovery in 1985, located about 650 kilometers off the coast of Canada. However, the cameras were never able to capture the entire boat.
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The reconstruction was carried out in 2022 by the nautical cartography company Magellan LTD and Atlantic Productions, which is producing a documentary about the project.
Several submarines, controlled remotely from a specialized boat, spent more than 200 hours inspecting the remains of the “Titanic” at the bottom of the Atlantic and recorded more than 700.000 images for the digital version.
They were not allowed to touch anything “so as not to damage the remains”, Magellan Ltd boss Gerhard Seiffert, who led the expedition, told the BBC.
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“The other challenge was to map every square centimeter, even the uninteresting bits like the mud between the rubble, which are still needed to fill the space between the interesting objects,” he explained.
The images show the stern and bow separated and surrounded by remains of the ship, as if it had been lifted from the seabed. They reveal even the smallest details, such as the serial number of one of the propellers.
New scanning could reveal exactly what happened to the ocean liner, as historians and scientists race against the clock as its wreckage continues to disintegrate.
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Historian and engineer Parks Stephenson, who spent many years studying the most famous shipwreck in history, told the BBC that “now we can finally see the 'Titanic' without human interpretations, directly from evidence and data.”
“There is still a lot to learn” from the wreckage, which is “essentially the last surviving eyewitness to the catastrophe,” he added. He states that the ship “has stories to tell”.
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