DRAIN THE TITANIC
Removing over 2 miles of water.
The most famous shipwreck in the world, the Titanic, lies nearly 2 and a half miles (4 kilometres) down in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Using state of the art computer animation the infamous ship is seen in all its glory when we virtually remove 12,000 feet of water to reveal Titanic as she sits today on the seabed.
New Perspective
Advanced new underwater mapping combined with the latest computer graphics techniques, allow us to virtually ‘drain’ the Titanic. New science is painting a clearer picture of how the Titanic actually sank and what has happened to the wreck during a century underwater. Now investigators get an extraordinary new look at the most famous shipwreck in the world and new revelations are made.
State of the art Technology
Mapping the Titanic
An expedition to Titanic in 2010 completed a detailed survey of the entire wreck site. Using side scan and multi-beam sonars, AUV's (Automated Underwater Vehicles) and ROVs mounted with high definition cameras the expedition was the first to map Titanic in such incredible detail giving our animators the ability ‘drain’ the Titanic.
CG Recreations
Using this large amount of data we were able to create a detailed computer image of Titanic as she lies exactly on the bottom of the ocean, over 12,000 feet down. It’s amazing to see the famous shipwreck so clearly as if someone could walk up and touch her bow. And it gave the team a new information to investigate how she sank over 100 years ago.
Excerpts from the Show
Drain the Titanic: Opening
The Draining of the Titanic
