See the most detailed images ever taken of Titanic's wreckage, which was discovered 40 years agoNEWS | 09 October 2025This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
One of the most memorable scenes from James Cameron's 1997 movie "Titanic" showed the ship breaking in half — a dramatic moment that matched some survivors' stories of the early hours of April 15, 1912.
But it might not be accurate.
"They're contradictory," Titanic analyst Parks Stephenson said of the passengers' accounts. The ship itself would be better able to tell the tale. "Steel rarely lies," he told Business Insider in April.
The problem is that the wreck is over 2.3 miles below the waves in the Atlantic Ocean, but new technology has recently made it more accessible than ever.
In 2022, underwater mapping company Magellan Ltd., headquartered in the Channel Islands, took 715,000 images of the Titanic. It took months to piece them all together into a "digital twin" of the ship.
Now historians and researchers are hoping it can answer some of Titanic's biggest mysteries.
Earlier this year, a National Geographic special from Atlantic Productions, "Titanic: The Digital Resurrection," showed how Stephenson and other experts are using these images to examine the wreck in a whole new way.Author: Enter Your Email. Jenny Mcgrath. Source
