Even after 100 years and countless studies and one excellent movie, we still do not know everything about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, but many believe we have opened the gateway to discovering everything that happened that fateful April night in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
A process called “deep-sea mapping” was used to create the first-ever full-sized scan of the Titanic, allowing us to see the sunken ship as we never have before.
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This view allows us to look at the ship as if “all the water has been drained away,” with the hope that it will shed new light on what exactly happened in the early morning hours of Aril 15, 1912.
Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst, told BBC News, “There are still questions, basic questions, that need to be answered about the ship,” and that this model was "one of the first major steps to driving the Titanic story towards evidence-based research - and not speculation."
Stephenson said he was "blown away" when he first saw the scans.
"It allows you to see the wreck as you can never see it from a submersible, and you can see the wreck in its entirety, you can see it in context and perspective. And what it's showing you now is the true state of the wreck,” he said.
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