26 Rare Underwater Images Of Titanic, Released

Detached rusticles below port side anchor indicating that the rusticles pass through a cycle of growth, maturation and then fall away.

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With her rudder cleaving the sand and two propeller blades peeking from the murk, Titanic’s mangled stern rests on the abyssal plain, 1,970 feet south of the more photographed bow. This optical mosaic combines 300 high-resolution images taken on a 2010 expedition.

The first complete views of the legendary wreck Titanic’s battered stern is captured overhead here. Making sense of this tangle of metal presents endless challenges to experts.

Ethereal views of Titanic’s bow (modeled) offer a comprehensiveness of detail never seen before.

Rusticles growing down from the stern section of Titanic.

As the starboard profile shows, the Titanic buckled as it plowed nose-first into the seabed, leaving the forward hull buried deep in mud—obscuring, possibly forever, the mortal wounds inflicted by the iceberg.

Port anchor of the Titanic still in the same position as when it left Queenstown, Ireland.