Detailed analysis of real -sized digital scanning images of the Titanic provides new details about the last hours of the ill -fated passenger ship.
Digital scanning shows that the bow of the boat is located upright on the seabed. Image: Atlantic Productions/Magellan
The accurate 3D simulation shows the violent level of the broken train process during the sinking after hitting the ice mountain in 1912, the disaster killed 1,500 people. Photos of scan offers a new perspective on the steam room, confirming the witness’s narrative about the engineers working until the last minute to maintain the light on the train, BBC On April 8 reported. The computer simulation also revealed holes in the large body of A4 paper that led to the tragedy of the ship, according to Parks Stephenson, an analyst of Titanic accident.
Scan photos were studied in a new documentary called National Geographic and Atlantic Productions. The ship’s body is located at a depth of 3,800 m under the sea of the Atlantic, mapped with underwater robots. The digital version of the ship is a result of more than 700,000 photos taken from every angle.
Because the Titanic body was too big and lying in the darkness, the expedition of ships by diving boats only obtained a vague photo. However, the scan image provides the first full image of the Titanic. The huge nose of the ship lies upright on the seabed, as if the ship continued its journey. But 600 m away, the tail of the ship became a pile of ruin metals. Damage occurs due to the tail of the ship crashed into the seabed after the ship broke in half.
The new mapping technology also provides a different way to research ships, according to Parks Stephenson. The full image of the entire ship’s corpse area is the key to understand what happened. The scan image revealed many close -up details, including a window in the side of the ship that was definitely hit by the ice mountain. This is consistent with the survivor’s narrative that the ice floods into some cabin throughout the collision.
Experts research one of the huge steam rooms of the Titanic is easy to see from scan photos because it is located behind the bow of the ship at the broken ship position in half. Passengers shared that the lights were still bright when the ship was sinking under the waves. The digital simulation shows that some boilers are concave, proving that they are still active when sinking into the water.
On the deck of the tail of the ship, experts also discovered a valve in an open position, meaning steam still poured into the electrical production system. It was because the engineer team led by Joseph Bell still scooped into the furnace to keep the lights. All died in the accident but their heroic actions helped save many lives, according to Stephenson. “They kept the lights and the electrical system operating until the last minute, helping the crew have time to lower the lifeboat under the light instead of the dark light. They have prevented the chaos as long as possible,” he said.
The new simulation also provides more knowledge about the process of sinking. The researchers must set up the detailed structure version of the ship, created from the design of the Titanic, combined with information about speed, direction and position, to predict the damage when the ship crashed into ice mountains. “We use high-end digital algorithms, computer models and supercomputers to recover the moment of the Titanic sink,” said Professor Jeom-Ke Paik from the University of London, the leader of the research team.
Simulation shows that the collision with ice mountain leaves a series of holes running along the narrow area in the hull. Titanic was once said to be a ship that could not be sinked, designed to float even when 4 water -closed compartments were flooded. But the simulation calculates damage due to ice mountains spread across 6 compartments.
According to Simon Benson, Deputy Lecturer of Naval Architecture at the University of Newcastle, the problem lies in the small holes running along the length of the ship, so the water flooded slowly but certainly poured into all errors, eventually flooding all the compartments and causing the ship to sink.
The tragedy of the Titanic can still see clearly today. Personal property of passengers on the ship scattered throughout the sea floor. The scan image provided new clues at night happened in 1912 but experts will take many years to thoroughly check all details of the 3D simulation.