In the year 1912, the Titanic sank, and scientists are claiming that it is vanishing once again!
The RMS Titanic, which sank nearly a century after it went down in one of history’s most famous maritime disasters, lies on the ocean floor off the coast of Newfoundland. According to News.com, theories are growing that the debris may be entirely gone by 2030.
“Halomonas titanicae” is a bacterium that is gnawing on the iron that was left over from the doomed liner’s maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg.
According to Insider, Patrick Lahey, Triton Submarines’ president and co-founder, stated, “Yes, like all things, eventually, Titanic will vanish entirely. It will take a long time before the ship completely disappears, but the decomposition of the wreck is to be expected and is a natural process. The ship has certainly deteriorated just as one would expect a steel vessel to degrade over time.”
Paul-Henri Nargeolet, an oceanographer who was part of OceanGate’s first Titanic Survey Expedition, returned last summer and reported a difference. He said, “Step by step, everything is collapsing. And we will, I’m sure, next year, see some difference. ” The bows of the vessel were failing, and the ship’s mast had already fallen.
“There is one place on the ship where I saw, maybe 20 years ago, some little pieces of coral starting to grow. And today they are huge. It looks like a megaphone or something like that, and they’re absolutely beautiful. ”
According to OceanGate CEO and founder Stockton Rush, there will be signs of the Titanic in the boat’s final resting place. He explained that, “The Titanic is going to be around for centuries. It just won’t be recognizable, at some point. You know, once the bow rail goes, it becomes just a pile. But it’s going to be an artificial reef way past my death.”
As a result, professionals are doing all possible to preserve and document anything they can at the moment. Nargeolet stated, “We have to recover artifacts, even pieces of the ship, and preserve them for the next generation — if we don’t do that, everything will be lost.”
Rush also said, “The ocean is taking this thing, and we need to document it before it all disappears or becomes unrecognizable.”
Many ideas have been suggested to try and raise the wreck from its two-mile-deep resting place, however the deterioration and practical difficulties make such a relocation nearly impossible, according to TheTravel.com.
This is, after all, what happens and Canadian biologist Lori Johnston stated that the microbes are winning this battle. She said, “There’s more life on Titanic now than there was when she was on the surface. It’s just not human life, it’s biological and organic life. And the wreck itself of the Titanic, because it is made of steel, is a very good food source at the bottom of the ocean.”
On April 15, 1912, the White Star Line passenger ship RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, United Kingdom to New York City and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.
There were approximately 2,224 people aboard, and more than 1,500 perished when the ship went down. It is still the most deadly superliner or cruise ship sinking to this day.
