Titanic Is Falling Apart

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Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News
Published August 18, 2010

Slipping beneath the waves on April 15, 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic famously disappeared from view until 1985, when it was rediscovered on the bottom of the North Atlantic (pictures of Titanic's rediscovery).


Now, scientists say, the legendary liner—beset by metal-eating life-forms, powerful currents, and possibly even human negligence—could be vanishing for good.

Titanic is falling apart.

Already explorers have documented caved-in roofs, weakening decks, a stern perhaps on the edge of collapse, and the disappearance of Titanic's crow's nest—from which lookout Frederick Fleet spotted history's most infamous iceberg. (Watch an animation of Titanic's iceberg collision, breakup, and sinking.)

"Everyone has their own opinion" as to how long Titanic will remain more or less intact, said research specialist Bill Lange of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100818-titanic-3-d-expedition-shipwreck-science-collapsing/

[Vincardog]

1. What human negligence could possibly be responsible for the natural decay of a 98 year old wreck?

face it folks nature recycles

[Posteritatis]

3. Well, human negligence put it there in the first place...

Though considering how fragile it would be looters probably aren't helping much.

[cyr330]

2. Well, no shit!

What do they expect to happen at that depth after what, 90 years?

[Kaleva]

4. Hard to do maintenance on it at that depth.

[Orsino]

5. But its heart will go on. n/t