Word of the new photograph! Searches to surge on "titanic remains," "real titanic images underwater and titanic may hold passengers."
Dr. James P. Delgado, the director of the Maritime Heritage Museum at the National Oceanic & Atmosphere Administration told: the phone that the way the boots are placed together makes a "compelling case" that they belonged to a body.
The scientist, who was responsible for mapping the shipwreck in the work of a 2010 expedition for NOAA, says that the picture was released in its full form (it was originally published to show boot) to serve as a reminder that the ship is an "underwater resting place", needs to be better protected and revered.
The newly published picture was first reported by the New York which also noted that not all Titanic specialists agree there's bodies at the site of the wreckage, first discovered in 1985. James Cameron, who directed the film "Titanic," & has explored the site multiple times, said he is seldom seen human remains: "We've seen shoes. We have seen pairs of shoes, which would strongly recommend there was a body there at point. But we have seldom seen any human remains."
Delgado said that the issue is more of "semantics." The researcher said of Cameron, "He's seen the pairs of shoes & clothing that is down there, & so when they see that, perhaps he is not seeing what they see as archeologists." They added, "When I see shoes together I see anyone who came to rest." Delgado added that when Titanic finder Robert Ballard first showed the photograph in 2004, "the room went silent." They said the explorers who looked at it could tell it had one time been a lost soul from the ship.
A bill introduced by Sen. John Kerry would fine-tune the Titanic Maritime Memorial Act of 1986 to protect the wreck from salvage & intrusive research. But since the ocean liner sank in international waters after hitting an iceberg on April 14, 1912, there are limits to what the U.S. can do.
Thing that is in Delgado's power: the undersea site, which they believe, ought to be treated as a museum and as hallowed ground. Noting that plenty of the ship's passengers were on their way to the U.S. to become American citizens, they said, there are some places that are so special they ought to take a different approach.
A newly released photograph from the North Atlantic site of the shipwrecked RMS Titanic shows proof of human remains, federal officials are saying.
In observance of the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking, a 2004 picture was reissued to the public in an outcropped version, which shows a coat & boots buried in the mud at the site two-and-a-half miles below the ocean's surface, where the legendary passenger liner now lies.