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A three-dimensional version of the remains of the Titanic has begun its journey in the hope that the unique audiovisual reconstruction will shed clues about the causes of the sinking of the great British ocean liner. The pioneering White Star ship, built at Harland & Wolff's shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York when it struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. A century later, a "digital twin" of the Titanic has been created from thousands of photographs taken from the bed of the Atlantic Sea, where it rests about 700 kilometers off the coast of Canada.

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An unpublished video of the first dive that filmed the remains of the Titanic in 1986 comes to light

  • Editor: AP Falmouth 8UK)

An unpublished video of the first dive that filmed the remains of the Titanic in 1986 comes to light

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The dubious role of the orchestra of the 'Titanic' and other hoaxes to discover in Cobh, the last European port of the ocean liner

  • Writing: ISABEL GARCÍA Irlanda

The dubious role of the orchestra of the 'Titanic' and other hoaxes to discover in Cobh, the last European port of the ocean liner

More than 1,500 passengers and crew members lost their lives in the maritime incident, whose international echo has never ended. The ship lies about 3,800 meters deep, with the hull split in two, and surrounded by banks of debris that are universally protected. The wreck was discovered in 1985 and, after successive operations of inspection of the environment and the recovery of the precious relics and personal objects scattered inside the hull and in its surroundings, it was declared cultural heritage under the protection of Unesco.

James Cameron brought us closer to the wreck in the 2013 documentary Mysteries of the Titanic, and 10 years later, specialists in new underwater visual technologies have built a 3D replica of the ship in its current state. The project is being carried out by seafloor mapping expert Magellan and production company Atlantic, which is preparing a documentary about the feat. "There are still issues to be resolved. Basic points about the ship remain unanswered," Parks Stephenson, an expert on all things Titanic, told the BBC.

Detail of the first 3D scan of the Titanic.ATLANTIC PRODUCTIONS/MAGELLAN

Magellan hopes that the audiovisual work will shed "new light on what really happened when it sank in 1912." The company has created the first scanned image of the wreck in its current size, documenting the two sections of the ship that lie about 600 meters apart surrounded by vestiges hidden in the sand of the North Atlantic. The project used two underwater robots, dubbed Romeo and Juliet, which took some 700,000 photographs of the wreckage. Operated by remote control, the submersibles operated for more than 200 hours without altering the hull or the rest of the burial area, according to the producers.

The result is a spectacular 3D view of the sunken but seawater-free Titanic that is tearing apart its structure day by day. The first video broadcast shows the different parts of the mythical ocean liner, from the entrance to the boilers and the radio room to a wide hole where the now famous central staircase was once installed.

Part of the bow is covered with scab stalactites, but there are still various elements that made up the upper deck. The stern, on the other hand, has become a lake of metallic debris on the bottom of the sea.

Magellan's Gerhard Seiffert told the BBC about the scale of the project: "The depth alone, at almost 4,000 metres, is a challenge, but there are also currents in the area and it is not allowed to touch anything in a way that does not deteriorate the wreck." The adventure, he added, required "mapping every square centimeter" of the marine monument in order to show panoramic views of the ship and capture hundreds of details that help reconstruct the tragedy of the Titanic.

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