1 week Ago By Mashable News Staff
Experts analysing the digital scans of the Titanic have revealed new details about the ship's final moments before sinking. The extremely precise digital view of the wreckage suggests that a team of engineers tried their best to keep the ship's power running as long as they could to allow others to escape. The Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg on April 15, 1912 in the Atlantic Ocean during its voyager from England's Southampton to New York City in the US.
It had more than 2,200 passengers onboard and more than 1,500 perished in the tragedy. Fascinating! recent 3D scans of the titanic pic.twitter.
com/y4ZDQOejs6 — Kate Drawdy (@GummoXXX) April 8, 2025 The wreckage now lies nearly four kilometres in the Atlantic Ocean bed, which is only accessible using robots. Deep sea mapping company Magellan deployed two such robots in 2022 and has taken more than seven lakh images from every angle to create a digital twin of the wreckage. The visuals show the ship broken in half as it sank after the hull's front portion suffered a series of punctures the size of A4 pieces of paper.
Notably, Magellan's visuals have been used in National Geographic's upcoming documentary titled Titanic: The Digital Resurrection. "Titanic is the last surviving eyewitness to the disaster, and she still has stories to tell," Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst, told BBC. The Titanic images recently used for analysis has shed light on the ship's boiler room, that presented a heartbreaking story in the final moments.
The experts reportedly identified concave boilers that suggests they were operational until being completely submerged in the chilling waters. Besides, the analysts also spotted a valve in the open position, meaning a team of engineers must have been shoveling coal into the furnace to generate steam and keep the lights on while other passengers tried to escape. ALSO SEE: Titanic’s 112 Year Old Menu Goes Viral; Here’s What The First Class And Third Class Passengers Ate "They kept the lights and the power working to the end, to give the crew time to launch the lifeboats safely with some light instead of in absolute darkness," Stephenson told BBC.
Another detail is the porthole on the ship that was likely caused by the iceberg smashing into it during the collision. Further talking about Titanic's demise, researchers say that the ship, which was supposed to be unsinkable, sank due to a series of punctures on the narrow section of the hull that ran in a straight line. Unfortunately, six of the ship's watertight compartments flooded after the collision; it was reportedly capable of withstanding the flooding of four.
ALSO SEE: Decaying Titanic Shipwreck Upsets Explorers; New Pictures Released (Image: Magellan).
