https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65602182
'The world's most famous shipwreck has been revealed as never seen before.
The first full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, which lies 3,800m (12,500ft)
down in the Atlantic, has been created using deep-sea mapping.
It provides a unique 3D view of the entire ship, enabling it to be seen as if
the water has been drained away.
The hope is that this will shed new light on exactly what happened to the
liner, which sank in 1912.
More than 1,500 people died when the ship struck an iceberg on its maiden
voyage from Southampton to New York.
"There are still questions, basic questions, that need to be answered about the
ship," Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst, told
BBC News.
He said the model was "one of the first major steps to driving the Titanic
story towards evidence-based research - and not speculation."
The Titanic has been extensively explored since the wreck was discovered in
1985. But it's so huge that in the gloom of the deep, cameras can only ever
show us tantalizing snapshots of the decaying ship - never the whole thing.
The new scan captures the wreck in its entirety, revealing a complete view of
the Titanic. It lies in two parts, with the bow and the stern separated by
about 800m (2,600ft). A huge debris field surrounds the broken vessel.'
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