An excerpt from the magazine s article reads.
Sea floor wreck pictures.
It wasn t until sept.
1 1985 30 years ago tuesday.
The 882 5 foot long 268 9 meters craft sank in april 1912 after it struck an iceberg off southern newfoundland and now rests on the ocean floor at a depth of 12 460 feet 3 7 kilometers.
Wwii aircraft carrier discovered on ocean floor and the spooky video is amazing deep in the south pacific ocean researchers have located the final resting place of the uss hornet the world war.
The whole stern had broken away.
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Ballard kept the wreck s exact location a secret to prevent other divers from taking artefacts from the ship a practice he considered a form of grave robbing.
Deep sea currents salt corrosion and metal eating bacteria are whittling away the wreckage which lies more than 2 miles under the ocean surface.
The bow of the titanic wreck as it looked in 1996.
The wreck sleeps in darkness a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the north atlantic seabed.
Yet it took decades before the wreckage was discovered.
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Fungi feed on it.