The remains of the Titanic are in danger of disappearing forever after spending 110 years about four kilometers under the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. As a result of a number of expeditions, several experts agree that the structure of the ship is badly corroded.
Some sources cite 2030 as the irreversible end of the British ocean liner that sank on the night of April 14-15, 1912, a few days after beginning its maiden voyage from Southampton (UK) to New York (USA). ) .
Natural decomposition is accelerated by the reduction in the number of fish that previously fed on the organic matter currently concentrated around the ship, and additionally by the presence of a bacterium that wears down Titanic’s structure, collects TN.
In 1991, scientists at Canada’s Dalhoise University collected samples of the rust that had formed on the steel parts of the sunken ship and, through certain tests, discovered the activity of a bacterium then unknown to science. Almost two decades later, researchers reexamined the organism and named it after the vessel, Halomonas titanicae.
“Looking at photos from 1986 showed progressive deterioration of the bow and infrastructure is collapsing,” said diver David Bright, who was part of the scientific team aboard the Russian research vessel Akadémik Mstislav Keldysh, last year.
In August 2021, Washington-based private exploration company OceanGate Expeditions warned that the Titanic wreck was “deteriorating rapidly.”
Its President Stockton Rush stressed that “the ocean is taking over the remains of the world’s largest ocean liner” and that it is crucial “to document this before it all disappears or becomes unrecognizable”. For this reason, the company promised to conduct expeditions every year to record the inevitable disappearance of the mythical ship.