King of the World - View of Titanic's Bow

Nothing is as thrilling as gliding on the ocean's floor and coming up on a huge structure. At first, you are a bit puzzled by the sheer immense size of this piece of steel. As the suspense lingers and you try to look for something familiar, a sudden realization occurs like a bolt of lightning. What you now recognize before you - face-to-face - is the bow of the famous RMS Titanic.

Nautical Research Group is taking many different photographs and video of the bow section of Titanic. Since the bow is relatively intact, any changes in the morphological structure can be cataloged and assessed. Microbes have caused damage to the steel of Titanic and they have left their characteristic signature mark in the form of rusticles. The wood planking has been consumed by worms and the only thing left is that off the chalking used to glue the decking to the steel hull. The ship's auxiliary anchor can be seen in the front-end bow shot and later in our video, you can see the massive port side anchor with over two-thirds of the bow embedded into the sandy bottom of the ocean.

Comments

[Paige]

Today is my Birthday and the Titanic is my favorite thing to learn about and i love to watch the movie. When i get older i would love to work with the Titanic and learn more about it and discover more about it aswell. This Christmas i asked for the Titanic movie and i think my mom got it for me and i hope she did. However the first time i saw this movie was in england and i fell in love wiht everything about it and i hope that in the near future i can learn a lot more about the Titanic! I also dont know why i love this topic so muuch but it is wounderful to learn abou tsomething so popular and how it was unsinkable but somehow it sank. This is wat i love to learn about! Sincerely Paige.

[David A. Bright]

Hello Paige,
Happy Birthday and thank you for reading our Titanic web log articles on our site. Please continue with your studies and keep up with your good grades especially in science and math. Hopefully, one day, you will attain your goals. Thank you for your wonderful comment and I invite you to get your friends involved in reading about Titanic and our other shipwrecks that we dive.
Best birthday wishes,
David Bright