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The Titanic Disappeared in 1912, Now It’s Disappearing Again: Scientists Scramble

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February 16, 2022
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The fabled RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912 in one of the most chronicled maritime disasters in history, is slowly vanishing as it sits on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

As noted by the Australian news outlet News.com, speculation exists that by 2030, much of the wreck could have thoroughly eroded.

A bacteria called “Halomonas titanicae” is eating away at the iron that makes up much of what was left after the ill-fated liner plunged to the bottom after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage.

“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,” said Patrick Lahey, president and co-founder of Triton Submarines, according to Business Insider.

“The ship has certainly deteriorated just as one would expect a steel vessel to degrade over time,” Lahey said.

Paul-Henri Nargeolet, an oceanographer who explored the wreck as part of OceanGate’s inaugural Titanic Survey Expedition, returned last summer and noticed the change, according to Discover.

“Step by step, everything is collapsing,” he said. “And we will, I’m sure, next year, see some difference.”

He said the bow of the ship was deteriorating, and the ship’s mast had collapsed upon the remnants of the deck.

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“There is one place on the ship where I saw, maybe 20 years ago, some little pieces of coral starting to grow,” Nargeolet says. “And today they are huge. It looks like a megaphone or something like that, and they’re absolutely beautiful.”

Stockton Rush, CEO, and founder of OceanGate, said that the Titanic’s resting place will also have some presence of the ship.

“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,” he said. “But it’s going to be an artificial reef way past my death.”

Titanic Expedition Chief Scientist, Steve W. Ross, PhD., Spearheads First-Ever Effort to Study the Marine Ecosystem of the Iconic Titanic Wreck Site https://t.co/wJUVDV7UYX pic.twitter.com/fslapRdgX6

— diverdowndeep (@diverdowndeep) February 13, 2022

In the meantime, experts are trying to preserve what they can and record everything they can.

“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,” Nargeolet said, according to the Belfast Telegraph.

As noted on the website TheTravel, myriad schemes have been advanced to raise the wreck from its resting place two miles below the surface, but the deteriorated condition of the wreck and the logistics of salvage make such a step all but impossible.

An undersea exploration company is planning annual expeditions to the site of the Titanic wreck to chronicle the sunken ocean liner’s deterioration. https://t.co/pPVvbGoEK5 pic.twitter.com/rn62hqw0Ow

— ABC News (@ABC) August 8, 2021

“The ocean is taking this thing, and we need to document it before it all disappears or becomes unrecognizable,” Rush said, according to WMC-TV.

But bacteria are winning, Canadian microbiologist Lori Johnston 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,” she said, the Belfast Times reported.

“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.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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