A digital reconstruction, based on a complete scan of the famous ocean liner's wreck, sheds light on elements never studied ...

The project, led by National Geographic and Atlantic Productions for a new documentary titled Titanic: The Digital Resurrection, marks the first time the entire wreck has been mapped in such detail ...

New details have emerged about the Titanic’s final hours ... The punctures were spread across six watertight compartments — while the ship, which was deemed “unsinkable” — was only ...

If only one or two of the compartments had been opened, Titanic might have stayed afloat, but when so many were sliced open, the watertight integrity of the entire forward section of the hull ...

Famously touted as unsinkable, the Titanic was designed to stay afloat even if four of its watertight compartments filled with water. The problem is that the small punctures stretched across six ...

Yet the collision was deadly. The Titanic's builders designed the ship to withstand four of its 16 compartments flooding. Edward Wilding, a naval architect who worked on the design, speculated ...

Although the Titanic was engineered to remain afloat with up to four flooded watertight compartments, the simulation determined that the iceberg damage compromised six compartments, sealing the ...

Upon inspecting the damage, Titanic's chief naval architect Thomas Andrews said to Captain Smith that the ship would certainly sink. Six of the watertight compartments at the front of the ship's ...

Franklin and was as follows: "While we are not in direct communication with the Titanic, we are perfectly ... This may be due to water filling the forward compartment and the ship may go down ...

Had the blow been shorter and only four compartments been breached, the ship would likely have survived. “[The scan] preserves the Titanic wreck site for future generations,” National ...

A new full-scale digital scan of the Titanic ... size of an A4 sheet of paper. While small individually, these holes collectively compromised six of the ship’s watertight compartments.