{"id":1237,"date":"2025-04-14T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:52:15","slug":"titanic-the-digital-resurrection-unveils-an-unprecedented-view-of-the-harrowing-maritime-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/titanic-the-digital-resurrection-unveils-an-unprecedented-view-of-the-harrowing-maritime-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Titanic: The Digital Resurrection\u2019 Unveils an Unprecedented View of the Harrowing Maritime Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"&#8216;Titanic: The Digital Resurrection&#8217; Unveils an Unprecedented View of the Harrowing Maritime Disaster\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/titanic-2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2022, a team of deep-sea researchers spent six weeks in the North Atlantic Ocean at a remote site about 370 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland. The final resting place of <em>RMS Titanic<\/em>, which sank on April 14, 1912, the ocean floor bears the magnificent remains of the 883-foot-long vessel. When the ship disembarked from Southampton, England, it carried more than 2,200 passengers and crew, but only about 700 were rescued after it struck an iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>Using remotely operated underwater vehicles, scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/titanic-3d-scan-images-180982219\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explored the wreck<\/a> from a range of vantage points, expanding their survey across a debris field that stretches as wide as three miles. The aim of this expedition revolved around capturing an unprecedented digital view of the ship, enabling a lifelike, virtual reconstruction.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Titanic: The Digital Resurrection | Official Trailer | National Geographic\" width=\"832\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ywm0RERswmY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Two submersibles captured a whopping 16 terabytes of data, comprising 715,000 images and a high-resolution video. The files were processed and assembled over the course of seven months to create what Atlantic Productions head Anthony Geffen describes as a \u201cone-to-one digital copy, a \u2018twin,\u2019 of the\u00a0<em>Titanic<\/em>\u00a0in every detail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Released last Friday, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ywm0RERswmY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Titanic: The Digital Resurrection<\/a><\/em> chronicles the monumental task of capturing the footage and creating a never-before-seen view of the famous site. Produced by Atlantic Productions and National Geographic, the film follows the crew of deep-sea investigation outfit Magellan as they explored the iconic, hulking remains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accurate to the rivet,&#8221; a statement says, the film traces nearly two years of research by historians, scientists, and engineers. &#8220;Their mission is to review and challenge long-held assumptions, including reconstructing a minute-by-minute timeline of the tragedy to uncover new insights into the ship\u2019s final moments on that fateful night in 1912.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Titanic: The Digital Resurrection<\/em> is now streaming on Disney+ and Hulu.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"544\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-453638 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/titanic-1-960x544-1.jpeg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"538\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-453640 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/titanic-3-960x538-1.jpeg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\">Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/04\/titanic-the-digital-resurrection\/\">&#8216;Titanic: The Digital Resurrection&#8217; Unveils an Unprecedented View of the Harrowing Maritime Disaster<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\">Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2022, a team of deep-sea researchers spent six weeks in the North Atlantic Ocean at a remote site about 370 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland. The final resting place of RMS Titanic, which sank on April 14, 1912, the ocean floor bears the magnificent remains of the 883-foot-long vessel. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/titanic-the-digital-resurrection-unveils-an-unprecedented-view-of-the-harrowing-maritime-disaster\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thishabbo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}