ANALOGPHENOMENA t1_j995ney wrote
Reply to comment by Mugwumpen in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
It won’t. The ship is deteriorating, but the overall hull structure will still be around for a very very long time. What we know as the white part that’s all the decks above the waterline–the superstructure–will disappear within a few decades, but the hull will continue to exist for much much longer.
EDIT: used the wrong terms.
amehatrekkie t1_j99lm2j wrote
From what I've read, even if the exploration and taking artifacts and machines damaging the wreck, etc all stopped, the structure itself is still deteriorating from bacteria eating the iron in the body, etc.
czartaylor t1_j99i1m5 wrote
Mickey2Shoe t1_j99q0vb wrote
That article is almost 15 years old and says the titanic could be gone in "20" years
Powerful_Artist t1_j99f275 wrote
I've heard otherwise. Do you have a source for this?
ANALOGPHENOMENA t1_j99s9vb wrote
It was in one of James Cameron’s many Titanic documentaries, one where there’s a huge scale model of the wreck.
MithridatesX t1_j9c3mdm wrote
Your comment doesn’t make sense.
The “superstructure” of a ship is the decked structure above the waterline/shell. So the white upper decks are the superstructure.
ANALOGPHENOMENA t1_j9d35yk wrote
Okay wrong term sorry shoot me
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