“I think perfection is ugly.
Somewhere in the things humans make,
I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”

― Yohji Yamamoto



Unseen Titanic - At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanic disappeared beneath the waves, taking with her 1,500 souls. One hundred years later, new technologies have revealed the most complete — and most intimate — images of the famous wreck.

Next week will mark the 100th anniversary of the sunken tragedy that is the Titanic. To coincide with the historic event, National Geographic Magazine is unveiling, in their April 2012 edition, new photographs that provide a greater understanding of what happened on that fateful day, April 15, 1912.

Unlike previous blurred and dark images of sections of the ship, the latest photographs are absolutely clear and reveal the full extent of the wreckage. The multi-million dollar project sent three robots down to the Titanic, and they moved the length of the ship capturing thousands of images with optical cameras and sonar devices. In total, the area covered measures three miles by five miles.

It took scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts months to collect the images during programmed sweeps of the surrounding areas. The expedition’s chief scientist James Selgado told National Geographic Magazine: “This is a game-changer. In the past, trying to understand Titanic was like trying to understand Manhattan at midnight in a rainstorm, with a flashlight.” Read more here.

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