A team of imaging experts, scientists and historians will head to the remains of the sunken ship „ Titanic“. The aim is to take new pictures of the ship – the most detailed so far, bTV reported.
The BBC got exclusive access to the crew of the mission, which is meeting in the American city of Providence, Rhode Island. They will use the latest scanning technique to be able to map and photograph every corner of the famous sunken liner.
This will be the first mission to “Titanic“ after the tragedy with the submarine “Titan“ last year. Five men died trying to reach the sunken ship.
When the ship with the new mission reaches the site of the sunken ship, a special liturgy will be organized in memory of the people who died on the “Titanic” in 1912
The famous wreck will be explored with two robotic submarines. They will take millions of high-resolution photos from which a detailed 3D model of the remains will be produced. “We want to see the ship with a precision we have never had before,” explained the head of the expedition, David Gallo.
If all goes according to plan, the team should spend 20 days in the Atlantic Ocean.
The team will launch two submarines with a total weight of six tons. One of them will be equipped with high-resolution cameras, as well as a special lighting system. The other will carry a scanner and sensing tools. The creator of the image processing program claims that its cameras can produce pictures with millimeter accuracy.
„If all the gods – those of time, of computers, of submarines, of cameras – understand each other and are in a good mood, we will be able to capture the remains of the “Titanic“ like never before. IN the photos, we will be able to count the grains of sand on the bottom of the ocean, they will be of such high quality, explains Evan Kovach.
There are hardly many people on the planet who do not know the story of the “Titanic”. The ship sank on April 15, 1912, during its first transoceanic voyage after being struck by an iceberg. Countless books have been written about the event, films and documentaries have been shot.
Although the wreck site has been continuously explored since its discovery in 1985, no map of the sunken ship has yet been produced. The most studied are the stern and the bow of the “Titanic”, but there are huge parts of the wreck that are almost unstudied.
The team wants to photograph other more famous objects in the wreckage of the “Titanic”, such as one of the huge steam boilers that powered the liner's engines. Items that have been seen briefly during previous expeditions will also be searched. Among them is an electric candlestick, which in 1912 was an exceptional novelty.
Scientists hope to find the second grand piano known to have been on the “Titanic”. The wooden structure of the piano has long since been destroyed by seawater and pressure, but parts such as the metal structure, strings and harp, as well as the keys, should remain.