The Titanic is one of the world's greatest mysteries on the 15th of April
1912 the Titanic set off the 882 foot ship was holding two thousand two
hundred and twenty-eight passengers and crew but just four days into its first
voyage it hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the sea this happened all the
way back in 1912 but 108 years later the Titanic is still at the bottom of the
Atlantic Ocean today we're going to find out why this is the case and also how
you can visit the Titanic before it disappears for good in a few decades I'm
Charlie and today we're going to look at why can't the Titanic be recovered from
the bottom of the ocean but before we dive into it why not subscribe and press
the notification pill - so the RMS Titanic set off from Southampton UK to
New York USA but at 2:00 a.m. the ship smashed into a massive iceberg in the
North Atlantic Ocean the ship then proceeded to sink twelve thousand six
hundred feet to the bottom of the ocean and to the state's never been fully
salvaged it was bizarre that the Titanic actually sank the ship's designer Thomas
Andrews even said the ship was unsinkable and at the time the ship sank
there was two thousand two hundred passengers and crew there was a total of
1,300 passengers and nine hundred crew members but on that fateful night a
gigantic iceberg hit the hull of the RMS Titanic
this caused five major holes in the ship these compartments were related to the
storage onboard and also the mechanisms of the ship there were no actual
passenger areas stuck but as these five holes filled with water half of the boat
turned over then the whole front of the boat was pretty much underwater with the
back half sticking up in the air vertically then due to the Titanic's
length the ship broke in half and then the two halves both sank to the bottom
of the sea 1,500 people lost their lives some did not escape the ship and were
dragged down to the bottom of the ocean while others who did escape were frozen
in the ice cold ocean after all the temperature would have been about minus
4 degrees Celsius or 28 degrees Fahrenheit
however 700 people mainly women and children who were able to leave first
were saved however there are no living survivors of the Titanic as the last one
named millvina dean passed away in 2009 but why is this amazing artifact from
history never been recovered well first of it sank very deep about two miles
down to the bottom of the ocean that's about 10 Empire State buildings on top
of each other there's also the difficulty of the ship not being one
piece it's actually snapped in two and it's a mystery as to why these two
halves are so far away from each other the two halves of the ship are about 600
metres away from each other but this doesn't mean people haven't
tried to recover the Titanic in 1985 one man named Robert Dwayne Ballard set out
to find the Titanic prior to this date no one had ever seen the ship since its
sank after 11 submarine dives taking around one year they finally found the
wreckage of the Titanic so it actually took 74 years after the Titanic sank
just to find it again but after what dr. Ballard saw in the submarine he said I'm
confident the Titanic will never be raised he said for various reasons it
would be impossible to pull the Titanic up from the bottom of the ocean for one
all of the rust on the ship would cause it to be very delicate and crumble if it
was pulled there a year after dr. Ballard discovered the Titanic some
American investors went down again they used nautical submarine and divers
and recovered 1,800 objects from the ship but some people were not pleased
about this as they kind of took what wasn't theirs they simply took some of
the things the ship was carrying like expensive treasures and not any parts of
the actual ship and in 1996 they did actually try and raise a part of the
ship itself they attempted to raise part of a first-class cabin on c-deck there
are only four portholes on this thing and it was a very small part of the ship
but nonetheless it weighed 20 tons and was very difficult what they did was put
balloons underneath this piece of the ship they then used a tank of diesel to
pump the balloons full then over six days they were able to use this to pull
the area of the ship up they also used a French submarine with mechanical arms to
help and they also recruited NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin to help out
that's how complicated this operation was you need a real-life rocket
scientist however at a great cost they did succeed but if you think we'll
recover any more of the ship then you're mistaken the reason why is because in a
few decades the Titanic may cease to exist recently scientists have found a
new form of bacteria which is eating away at the ship that's right and
never-before-seen bacteria is destroying the Titanic eventually it will eat away
at the ship and it will be lost in the ocean forever but how can you see the
Titanic before it disappears well in 2019 a company known as ocean gate
actually did an expedition of the Titanic people paid 105 thousand dollars
each to go down there and inside a submarine with strong lights they were
able to check out the Titanic up close another firm known as the blue fish also
offers tools to the Titanic they're tourists actually cheaper coming in at
sixty thousand dollars so if you want to see this old boat before it disappears
better start saving so there we go that's why the Titanic can't be
recovered from the bottom of the ocean at least not in full and honestly it's
pretty sad that soon the Titanic will be no more thanks to this new bacteria
thanks a lot bacteria but now it's time to make your voice heard vote in the
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