1985 the prow of the hms titanic as she lies on the atlantic ocean floor south of newfoundland.
Titanic in ocean floor.
Sadly it won t be there for much longer as the ocean claims it for its own.
March 22 2012 9 08am.
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The ship was explored by manned and unmanned.
Seventy three years after it sank to the north atlantic ocean floor a joint u s french expedition locates the wreck of the rms titanic the sunken liner was about 400 miles east of newfoundland.
One photo was taken in 2004 and released in 2012 when the 100 year anniversary of the titanic tragedy was marked.
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The bow of the titanic wreck as it looked in 1996.
Photos were taken during submarine explorations of the site and the release of some of those photos suggest that corpses were indeed dragged to the ocean floor.
On september 1 1985 a joint u s french expedition located the wreck of the titanic lying on the ocean floor at a depth of about 13 000 feet.
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Deep sea currents salt corrosion and metal eating bacteria are whittling away the wreckage which lies more than 2 miles under the ocean surface.
It has been there since it struck that iceberg over a hundred years ago.