Yet it took decades before the wreckage was discovered.
Sea floor wreck pictures.
Fungi feed on it.
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The whole stern had broken away.
1 1985 30 years ago tuesday.
Deep sea currents salt corrosion and metal eating bacteria are whittling away the wreckage which lies more than 2 miles under the ocean surface.
When the titanic sank in 1912 the famous ship wasn t exactly sailing in obscurity.
The bow of the titanic wreck as it looked in 1996.
Ballard kept the wreck s exact location a secret to prevent other divers from taking artefacts from the ship a practice he considered a form of grave robbing.
As it was not near the main wreckage and as of 2015 had not been found it can be assumed this did not occur on impact with the sea floor.
The 882 5 foot long 268 9 meters craft sank in april 1912 after it struck an iceberg off southern newfoundland and now rests on the ocean floor at a depth of 12 460 feet 3 7 kilometers.
It wasn t until sept.
An excerpt from the magazine s article reads.
The wreck sleeps in darkness a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the north atlantic seabed.