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A bronze statue from the Titanic — not seen in decades and feared to be lost for good — is among the discoveries made by the company with salvage rights to the wreck site on its first ...
The statue was spotted in photos taken during a 1986 expedition, "but a tradition of secrecy around the Titanic wreck ensured her location would remain unknown," RMS Titanic Inc. said.
Divers rediscovered Titanic's lost bronze "Diana of Versailles" statue, highlighting ongoing ship decay and marking a key find since its last sighting in 1986.
[125] [126] At 4:30 p.m. (19:00 UTC) – at a U.S. Coast Guard press conference in Boston – the Coast Guard said that the loss of the submersible was due to an implosion of the pressure chamber and that pieces of Titan had been found on the sea floor about 1,600 feet (about 500 metres) northeast of the bow of the Titanic.
Part of Titanic's iconic front tip has fallen off at the bottom of the ocean, researchers report.. The prow inspired one of the most famous scenes in James Cameron's 1997 film about the shipwreck ...
A highlight was the rediscovery of the statue “Diana of Versailles,” last seen in 1986, and the statue now has a clear and updated image, the company said. On a sadder note, a significant section of the railing that surrounds the ship bow's forecastle deck has fallen, RMS Titanic said.
After the wreck of the Titanic was found in 1985 the former ambivalence of both Lichfield and Hanley disappeared as the statue suddenly became a tourist attraction. The words "Captain Smith was Captain of the Titanic" were added to its plinth and both Hanley and Stoke-on-Trent made requests for the statue to be moved to their towns. Lichfield ...
Investigators from the US Coast Guard, Canada, France and the United Kingdom are working closely together on probe into implosion