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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sheila Flynn

One year ago OceanGate’s Titan sub imploded, taking 5 lives and dreams of deep-sea exploration with it

(Reuters/Jannicke Mikkelsen/OceanGate Expeditions/Getty)

The images were almost hauntingly romantic — underwater windows to one of history’s most famous shipwrecks, captured more than a century after RMS Titanic and the 1,517 souls aboard sank tragically to a deep-sea North Atlantic grave.

The new 2022 pictures were the highest resolution ever taken of the doomed ship; its sinking 110 years earlier had quickly become a global fascination that has endured for generations. The ship’s victims were among the richest and poorest on the planet at the time, the circumstances of their deaths among the most terrifying imaginable.

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