New Titanic Discovery Reveals Details of Sinking

Recent technological advances have enabled the most accurate digital reconstruction of the Titanic to date, using 700,000 high-resolution images captured by deep-sea robots to map the entire wreck and uncover new details about the ship's last hours. This comprehensive scan has provided fresh insights, such as evidence that Titanic's engineers worked until the end to keep the lights on and that the ship likely sank due to a line of small hull punctures. New research has also challenged longstanding rumors about Captain Edward Smith's death, with author Dan E Parkes asserting that Smith did not take his own life but instead died heroically, possibly by drowning or freezing, as supported by several eyewitness accounts. The Titanic, captained by Smith and carrying numerous wealthy passengers, struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, leading to the rupture of multiple watertight compartments and its eventual sinking. Most experts now believe that the ship might have survived if it had collided head-on with the iceberg, rather than scraping along its side. These findings offer a deeper understanding of both the disaster's technical causes and the human stories involved.