Titanic: Tragedy in Three Dimensions
Photographs by Joseph B. MacInnis and Emory Kristof
Are the details of any other maritime disaster as familiar as these? Shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912, the luxury liner Titanic struck an iceberg and less than three hours later sank into the North Atlantic, carrying more than 1,500 of her passengers and crew to their death.
Abyssal darkness shrouds the Atlantic seafloor two and a half miles down. In 1991 high-intensity lighting systems allowed filmmakers to record Titanic in unprecedented detail. Here, made possible with computer video-editing tools, are never before seen 3-D images from that expedition.
NGM 1998/08