3D photos cast Titanic wreck in new light

Zoe McKnight

Just days into their effort to create what they call a ‘Google Earth view’ of Titanic’s resting place, scientists were back on dry land on Monday, seeking refuge in St. John’s from Hurricane Danielle.

But there was no hint of disappointment coming from the scientists at the helm of Expedition Titanic.

“Looking at what was forecast, we had to get out.... It’s nice to be on solid ground when there’s a hurricane brewing,” oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and expedition co-leader Dave Gallo, said in an interview from St. John’s. “But we’ve seen all sorts of stuff that we had not expected, already,” he said, like four-storey sediment dunes, the Titanic’s engines and boilers, and shots of the stern and bow so close up that the researchers were able to gauge their condition better than ever before.

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