We've all been shaken by what we've known of the Titanic shipwreck, from seeing old black-and-white photos to watching the 1997 adaptation film. But now, a new 3D reconstruction of the Titanic shipwreck is showing perspective into the incident like never before. New details have emerged about the harrowing events that took place in April 1912.
The 3D images were created from more than 700,000 scans of the wreck. Those scans were captured by Atlantic Productions and deep-sea-mapping company Magellan Ltd.
Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst, shared that this is "one of the first major steps to driving the Titanic story towards evidence-based research — and not speculation." He also explained that the scans could even offer perspective into how the ship hit the iceberg in the first place.
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More than 200 hours were spent capturing the scans. Parks talked about how they allow people to see the wreck from a submersible viewpoint.
“You can see the wreck in its entirety," he explained. "You can see it in context and perspective.”
