~~~TITANIC FANATIC~~~

[Lady Cop]

with the 100^th anniversary of the sinking coming up in April, i expect to see many more Titanic articles.
here are some awesome pictures from national Geographic,
more at link:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/0...sides-text

New images from the April 2012 edition of National Geographic magazine show the complete wreck of the Titanic for the first time ever. The luxury passenger liner sank about 375 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada, after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage from England to New York, killing 1,517 people.

New images of the wreck of the RMS Titanic reveal for the first time ever the full stretch of the “unsinkable” boat -- sprawled silently 12,500 feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

The set of new photographs, released in the April 2012 edition of National Geographic magazine to coincide with the 100^th anniversary of the shipwreck, reveal the full expanse of the ship, rather than the dim images of bits of the hull or pieces of wreckage seen to date.

The meticulously stitched-together mosaic took experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) months to construct, the magazine said.

“Now we know where everything is,” Bill Lange, head of WHOI’s Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory, told National Geographic. “After a hundred years, the lights are finally on.”

The images were created by layering optical data onto the sonar images, Lange explained. They reveal a site strewn with man-made detritus and cratered by boulders dropped over countless years from melting icebergs.