The Titanic sank on April 14, 1912, and only 700 passengers survived. About 1,500 people disappeared in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Find out why no human remains were found on the wreck.
After the salvage of the wreckage of the Titanic was completed, the CS Mackay-Bennett cable car was sent to the area to retrieve the bodies. After several days of researchthree boats alternate and return 328 corpses in total. But no human remains were ever found on the wreck of the famous ship. Filmmaker James Cameron, who visited it 33 times, told the New York Times in 2012 that he had only seen pairs of shoes and apparel, which indicates the presence of a body. The problem: at a depth of 3,800 meters, underwater corpses are beyond the “carbonate compensation threshold”. Calcium carbonate, a component of bones, dissolves under pressure. This is the reason why researchers explain the absence of human remains on the wreck of the Titanic.
What happened to human bodies after the sinking of the Titanic?
Of the bodies recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett, only 59 have been identified. 116 of them were thrown into the sea, due to lack of space on the ship and equipment for embalming. Priority was given to upper class passengers. After the Titanic sank, around 200 human bodies were transported to Halifax. We will no doubt be asking questions long after the wreckage is gone. Discoveries regularly revive interest. We found the wreck of the Carpathia in 1999, the ship that brought out the survivors, sunk in 1918, like the Mesaba, the ship that tried to warn the Titanic, found in 2023. In 2005, the expedition discovered two large parts of the wreckage of the Titanic, which made up the hull. Titanic was huge, 269 meters by 28 meters, but that is not much compared to the largest ship in the world today.
What happened to the Titanic survivors?
The last survivor from the Titanic died in 2009 at the age of 97. Millvina Dean, “Titanic Baby”, has given numerous interviews and received help from James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Other famous Titanic survivors include tennis player Karl Howell Behr, Molly Brown, Archibald Gracie IV, controversial director of the White Star Line, Bruce Ismay, Madeleine Astor, Eva Hart, Violet Jessop, Lucy Noël Leslie, Harold Lowe, crew member.
What objects were recovered from the wreck of the Titanic?
In 2023, from The submarine Titan that visited the wreck with Paul-Henri Nargeolet on board. An oceanologist was the first to reassemble the objects in the 1980s items helped identify passengers from the Titanic. About 5,000 objects were returned, such as well-preserved clothes in suitcases. Some are on display at the Titanic Museum Belfast, such as the latest lunch menu for first class passengerslife jacket or violin from the musician who played during the sinking and two letters to his fiancee.
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