Thursday, March 8, 2012

Titanic wreck site mapped with photographs

Titanic wreck site mapped with photographs

We all know that the Titanic hit an ice berg and sank on its maiden voyage, and thanks to James Cameron's award-winning movie we have a rough idea of how it went down - but is it accurate. It looks like we might be able to find out in the future. With the aid of autonomous underwater vehicles (UAV), expedition teams covered a 2-by-3-mile area of where the remains of the Titanic lay, snapping 130,000 high-resolution photographs. The photographs were then stitched together with a computer to provide a detailed photo montage of the debris.

Ubergizmo, Titanic wreck site mapped with photographs