Sunday, 25 March 2012

Photos of Titanic Shipwreck

Professor Danny Gorman has sent me this link to some fabulous photos of RMS Titanic lying on the seabed.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/photos/never-before-seen-photos-of-titanic-shipwreck-1332420397-slideshow/

In the above photo, two of Titanic’s engines lie exposed in a gaping cross section of the stern. Draped in “rusticles” - orange stalactites created by iron-eating bacteria -these massive structures, four storeys-tall, once powered the largest moving man-made object on Earth.

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