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Ben Turner

Stunning full-scale scan of Titanic reveals complete shipwreck for the 1st time

Here we see the sunken bow of the Titanic underwater in extreme detail, with corroding metal and algae growing on the ship.

The first ever full-scale digital scan of the Titanic has revealed the world's most famous shipwreck in "astonishing," never-before-seen detail.

Caked in mud and surrounded by pitch-black water, the corroded wreck of the Titanic was scanned by submersibles using deep-sea mapping to create "an exact 'digital twin'" that experts will use to shed light on the ship's final hours above water.

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