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THE FIRST FULL-SIZED 3D scan of the Titanic shipwreck may reveal more details about the ocean liner’s fateful journey across the Atlantic more than a century ago.
The high-resolution images, published by the BBC today, reconstruct the wreck that lies at a depth of nearly 4,000 metres in great detail and were created using deep-sea mapping.
The reconstruction was carried out in 2022 by deep-sea mapping company Magellan Ltd and Atlantic Productions, who are making a documentary about the project.
Submersibles remotely controlled from a specialist ship spent over 200 hours surveying the wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic, taking over 700,000 images to create the scan.
Magellan’s Gerhard Seiffert, who led the planning for the expedition, told the BBC they were not allowed to touch anything “so as not to damage the wreck”.
“The other challenge is that you have to map every square centimetre – even uninteresting parts, like on the debris field you have to map mud, but you need this to fill in between all these interesting objects,” Seiffert said.
The images show the wreck as if it were lifted from the water, revealing even the smallest details, like the serial number on one of the propellers.
The new scans may shed more light on what exactly happened to the liner with historians and scientists racing against time as the ships is disintegrating.
“Now we are finally getting to see Titanic without human interpretation, derived directly from evidence and data,” Parks Stephenson, who has studied the Titanic for many years, told the BBC.
Stephenson said there is “still much to learn” from the wreck, which is “essentially the last surviving eyewitness to the disaster”.
“And she has stories to tell,” he added.
The luxury passenger liner sank after colliding with an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York in April 1912, leaving more than 1,500 dead.
The shipwreck has been explored extensively since it was first discovered in 1985 around 650 kilometres off the coast of Canada, but cameras were never able to capture the ship in its entirety.
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There should be blocks on allowing people purchase domains with big brand names in them also with the use off words such as access, account etc e.g boi and account , Apple and account etc
@@at: how the flock would they police that
@pkunzip doom2.zip: They couldn’t. Tf the blocked “boi” nobody making or selling boilers could have a domain.
The introduction of the addtional gTLDs is a much bigger issue, as it makes domain names so confusing its almost impossible for the average person to determine whether or not one is genuine.
@pkunzip doom2.zip: It can be done
For example, if you go to google and register your brand name etc with them as a trademark, google will not let used use that trademarked word in their ad copy without permission from the trademark owner
ICANN takes a fee everytime you register a domain name and they should have a filtering system in place to block the use of trademarked words along with certain other words such as login, access, account in the domain
It would be then up to the likes of Bank of Ireland to registered BOI for example with ICANN as a trademarked word and for ICANN to automatically block any suspicious use of it e.g BOILogin, BOIaccess, BOIaccount etc etc
@@at: typo, meant to say ‘google will not let users’
@CrabaRev: see my comment above, meant to reply to you
@pkunzip doom2.zip: at the very least there should be a paper trail for each domain registered like their is with .ie domain names. Proof of address and photo ID is required. I know this is to verify your link to Ireland in this case, but it has got to the stage where its needs to be rolled out on all TLD’s.
This particular bank – for which computer operations are outsourced abroad – seems to have more than its fair share of technology problems. From ATM issues to scams.
@Seb Bowyer: This has nothing to do with BOIs IT operations. It is third parties pretending to be BOI
@CrabaRev: I know – but my post remains valid.
This should be easily spotted. BoI never normally call me “Dear”, even just after they’ve fúcked me.
I have been getting them for the last six months. Different number everytime. Im not even with BOI
@Sue Kelly: there coming from AN post , DHL ,TESCO , Aldi all sms messages recently got some stating I won 250 voucher for TESCO just provide my contact number , Small print you will receive sms costing you 3 euro a message registered company in singapore . Is out communications regulator and data protection asleep, Facebook or another app has to be sharing our private details. another scam here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXcZ0aMR5Tc&t=247s
Fierce smell of phish off it
Just my luck on the day I am selected to share in the Ugandan national Bank fund share and my account gets locked. You couldn’t make it up.
If you click on a link called boifrozenaccess.com, you really shouldn’t be using the internet.
@Nick Caffrey: Unfortunately there are a lot of older people out there who don’t have the same skill set as perhaps you do. They have no choice but to use the technology, but many are not competent or comfortable using it.
Youd want to be pretty dumb to fall for that text. Its badly worded, not even Dear Customer.
@James Wallace: damn man, you fixed their weakness. Now many more will fall in the trap.
@James Wallace: lots of older people could easily fall for this, that doesn’t mean their dumb, naive maybe, but not dumb. Unfortunately not everyone is as smart as you…..
Public warns public about well know scamster Bank of Ireland.
I got one yesterday. They use an Irish mobile phone number 353 87 924 0779. The Dear was a giveaway. I have reported it to BOI but will they be able to do anything about it.
Just checked that site. It looks exactly like the BOI Login site, brilliant…..someone who is even only having a slightly off day could be fooled.
It’s not easy to report these to the bank as their anti spam measures block the reports.
Lazy response answers late and no context. They didn’t even give the numbers
Customers should be warned that it is Bank of ireland that is the biggest scam
@Johnny Conway: seriously can’t believe people are still with AIB and BOI…CRIMINAL BANKS!!
plenty of alternatives now so it’s simply Stockholm, syndrome at this stage .
The text scammers should be warning us about the banks at this stage to be fair
I do not bank with them but my wife has an account with them. Its very odd that only BOI customers are receiving text message and non BOI customer are not. How did they match the number to the customer. It has hallmarks of a data breach.
@Alan Kerrigan:
I gather you not read the Journal article
It clearly says people who don’t have BOI account also received the text message
There is also a twitter post in article from a guy who says he don’t have a BOI account and he got the text message
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