![]() "And the other challenge is that you have to map every square centimetre - even uninteresting parts, like on the debris field you have to map mud, but you need this to fill in between all these interesting objects." Gerhard Seiffert, from the company, who led the plans for the project, told BBC News: "The depth of it, almost 4000m, represents a challenge, and you have currents at the site, too - and we're not allowed to touch anything so as not to damage the wreck. ![]() It was 73 years before its final resting place was even discovered. We don't even know if she hit it along the starboard side, as is shown in all the movies - she might have grounded on the iceberg." "We really don't understand the character of the collision with the iceberg. And what it's showing you now is the true state of the wreck. "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. Maybe we haven’t heard the real story of Titanic yet. That was the first scenario put out by a London magazine in 1912. Mr Stephenson said: “She may actually have grounded on the submerged shelf of the ice.
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