Rose from the deep! Necklace found at Titanic wreck
A necklace - like that worn by Rose DeWitt Bukater in the film Titanic - that has not been worn or seen since the sinking of the RMS Titanic has been discovered in the ship's wreckage.
Deepwater investigation specialists Magellan (Magellan (@magellangg) has produced the first full-sized digital scan of the stricken luxury passenger liner. The ‘unsinkable’ ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg.
In the largest underwater scanning project in history, two submarines produced 700,000 images of the wreck, which were then combined into a moving scan. During the imaging, the subs and their cameras picked up a necklace made from the tooth of a Megalodon, a pre-historic shark, with gold jewellery built into it.
OK, it is not quite the Heart of the Ocean, the heart-shaped blue diamond necklace Kate Winslett’s character Rose casts into the ocean at the end of Titanic, but it’s still a remarkable find!
However, the necklace won’t come to the surface as an agreement between the UK and the US prevents members of the public from removing artefacts from the wreck.
Therefore, to find the necklace’s owner, Magellan is using artificial intelligence to contact the family members of the 2,200 passengers onboard the Titanic when it sank. Footage of passengers boarding the ship will be analysed in a bid to spot the item.
