The ship lies 2 miles down and both halves are 1,960 feet apart. It would take two hours to get to the bottom. Down there, there's so much pressure that if there were a leak, the water would jet out powerful enough to slice a human body in half. The wreck has decomposed so much, that if we tried to move it, it would collapse into orange dust. The stern is a scrap heap because when the stern sank, it was not completely flooded with water and once it hit the bottom, it imploded. The bow, however is more intact and is more explored which deteriorates it. The cabins, Turkish Bath, Reception Room, and Dining Room all have some bit of elegance in them. When Ballard discovered the wreck, he saw rust hanging down the ship looking like icicles so he called them rusticles. Rusticles not only decompose the wreck, they also preserve it,s shape. In another 50 years, the TITANIC will become a orange spot on the sea floor. When the ship broke apart, contents spilled out like china, chairs, beds, coal, and many other things. The TITANIC is a graveyard. When bodies sank, their flesh was eaten by scavengers and their bones dissolved leaving pairs of shoes as a marker of where they died. The wreck is being scavenged and it's pieces sold (unlawfully). There is only one company that has salvaging rights. Survivors were outraged and made protests about them robbing their family member's grave but that didn't stop their greed. They're even bringing up their shoes and putting them on display without even letting them rest in peace!
The stern is a scrap heap because when the stern sank, it was not completely flooded with water and once it hit the bottom, it imploded. The bow, however is more intact and is more explored which deteriorates it. The cabins, Turkish Bath, Reception Room
, and Dining Room all have some bit of elegance in them.
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