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Robots Romeo and Juliet vanish under the icy waters of the Middle North Atlantic in a spray of sea foam. Destination: Titanic, the most famous shipwreck on the planet. The ocean is as flat as a swimming pool. Not an iceberg in sight.

Cameras and two manipulator arms are primed at the front of the remotely operated vehicle robots, flown by the joystick of a pilot sat safely inside the Freja research ship. No human is at risk. Lights, cameras, no action — yet. Four hundred miles off Newfoundland, it’s a 2.5-hour commute to the 12,400-feet-deep silent seabed.

What Romeo and Juliet did next is showcased in National Geographic’s latest underwater adventure, Titanic: The Digital Resurrection. The scientific wizardry is the work of Magellan of Guernsey in the Channel Islands and filmed by the award-winning Atlantic Productions.

Between April 15, 1912, when the ship hit an iceberg while trying to break...

National Geographic’s Titanic: The Digital Resurrection makes the Titanic wreck accessible without needing to dive to its final resting place. The documentary, which provides a groundbreaking look at the ship’s wreckage and the debris field, will air on April 11, 2025 at 9pm Et/Pt on NatGeo.

The documentary uses the digital restoration to examine the ship’s boiler room and verifies reports that 35 men remained at their posts long after the impact. Due to the details uncovered in digital scans, the documentary shows evidence that supports the claim by Second Officer Charles Lightoller that First Officer Murdoch was attempting to launch lifeboats right up until the moment the ship was engulfed with water.

National Geographic released the following description of the documentary that features the first “full-scale, 1:1 digital twin” of the shipwreck:

“In 2022, award-winning and pioneering filmmaker Anthony Geffen and his team followed deep-sea mapping company Magellan as...

April 14 marks the 113th anniversary of the R.M.S. Titanic’s sinking—an event that has fueled global fascination for over a century. National Geographic is presenting Titanic: The Digital Resurrection, a groundbreaking 90-minute documentary that offers an unprecedented look at history’s most infamous maritime disaster.

Using exclusive access to cutting-edge underwater scanning technology, including 715,000 digitally captured images, the special unveils the most precise model of the Titanic ever created: a full-scale, 1:1 digital twin, accurate down to the rivet.

From award-winning Atlantic Productions, Titanic: The Digital Resurrection premieres Friday, April 11, at 9/8c on National Geographic, streaming the next day on Disney+ and Hulu.

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In 2022, award-winning and pioneering filmmaker Anthony Geffen and his team followed deep-sea mapping company Magellan as they undertook the largest underwater 3D scanning project of its kind, mapping the wreck 12,500 feet below the North Atlantic. Over three weeks, they worked around the clock,...

“Titanic” director James Cameron spoke out during an ABC News interview about the tourist submersible Titan that lost contact on its way to reach the wreck of the famous passenger liner.

After submarine company OceanGate released a statement on Thursday saying that the five people who went down are believed dead, Cameron gave his thoughts on the tragedy as a longtime member of the diving community, who has made 33 trips to the Titanic himself.

“People in the community were very concerned about this sub,” Cameron said. “A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified. I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed...

Using deep-sea mapping, a team of scientists has created an “exact ‘Digital Twin’ of the Titanic wreck for the first time,” revealing never-before-seen views of the luxury passenger liner that tragically sunk after being struck by an iceberg while sailing from South Hampton, England, to New York in April 1912.

The disaster has long concerned the minds of researchers and historians believe that this new 3-D scan, 111 years after the Titanic’s infamous sinking, may provide some answers to the lingering questions surrounding the shipwreck that killed more than 1,500 people.

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“It allows you to see the wreck as you can never see it from a submersible,” a Titanic analyst, Parks Stephenson, told the BBC. “You can see the wreck in its entirety, you can see it in context and perspective,” he said of the Titanic that was discovered in 1985 resting 12,500 feet down in the Atlantic.