Celebrities, such as the composer of The Phantom of the Opera Andrew Lloyd Webber, actress Nicole Kidman, and Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, all have their own underground extensions. These basements often have private cinemas, spas, swimming pools, bowling alleys, servants’ quarters, gym, car lifts, garages, wine cellars, and even museums. As a way to enrich their lives with more luxury, the rich there have started building multi-storied basements. “But we should remember that the wreck has been down there 107 years in strong currents and seawater, so it is a matter of not if, but when, the sea will reclaim it in its entirety.The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea of London is well known for being covered by more domestic buildings than anywhere else in England and has a higher proportion of people with high incomes (around £100,000 per year) than any other district in the country. “Biology and current are slowly eroding the wreck as one would expect it to,” he continues. The fact that there are still many glass portholes intact amazed me, and really impressed me just how durable this ship is.” “There was less of a ‘collapse’ than just a slow, steady, degradation of the exterior areas. “I had read some projections by some scientists that major portions might have utterly collapsed since the last photo survey in 2010, but, at least at the bow, they haven’t,” he says. “The most fascinating aspect was seeing how the Titanic is being consumed by the ocean while providing refuge for a remarkably diverse number of animals,” he said in a statement.Įxpedition team leader Vescovo tells TIME that the shipwreck was actually in better condition than he expected. He said that the shipwreck is returning to its “elemental form.” Triton Submarines president Patrick Lahey piloted three of the team’s five dives. Read more: See Photos of the Wreck of the Titanic When It Was First Discovered
“Logic tells you more structurally it is damaged, the more quickly it will deteriorate.” Even then, its condition is likely to grow increasingly worse over time, she says. Her best estimation is that there remain approximately 30 years until the wreck has disintegrated entirely. Mann says it’s impossible to know exactly how long it will take for the ship to completely fall apart, but the observed damage can offer clues. Rusticles can be seen all over the wreck, in a constant state of disintegration and regrowth. This process results in rusticles, fragile rust formations which resemble icicles. Halomonas titanicae is among the bacteria found on the wreck, which eat away at the ship’s iron, breaking it down. In 2010 she co-discovered a new species of bacteria - Halomonas titanicae - found in rusticle samples taken from the wreck. Henrietta Mann, a researcher at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has studied the Titanic’s wreck for years. The team’s August expedition is the first time in 14 years that the wreckage site has been visited by a human-occupied vehicle. Fields of debris surround each part of the wreck, including some of the ship’s bunkers, passengers’ luggage, wine bottles and even the intact face of a child’s porcelain doll. The ship, which fell to the seabed in two parts, can now be found 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland at a depth of roughly 12,600 feet. The “captain’s bathtub,” a well-known part of the wreck (pictured above) has now disappeared completely due to disintegration, Titanic historian Parks Stephenson noted in Atlantic Productions’ statement.
And with the ship’s continued deterioration to consider, the urgency of such projects is increasing.
In recent years, a mapping project has been undertaken to track and memorialize Titanic’s resting place in 2012, the wreck became a UNESCO cultural heritage site. Xavier DESMIER-Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
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