Where the Titanic rests
3,800 m down in the North Atlantic
14 April 1912
On her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg at 11:40 pm and sank 2 hours and 40 minutes later. About 1,500 of the more than 2,200 people aboard died.
Drain to 3,800 m
Lower the ocean by 3,800 m and the water line reaches the wreck, about 350 nautical miles off Newfoundland.
Found in 1985
The wreck was found on 1 September 1985 by an American-French expedition led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel. The ship broke apart as it sank: the bow and the stern lie about 600 m (2,000 ft) apart, facing opposite ways.
What changed
The disaster led to the International Ice Patrol, which still watches for icebergs in these waters, and to the first International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, in 1914.
Pull the plug and watch the sea level fall, explore the seafloor as real terrain, find what lies off your own coast, and follow guided stories, from the Ice Age land bridge between England and France to the wreck of the Titanic. Everything is built from GEBCO's grid of the world's ocean floor and land.
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Stories
- Walk from England to France: Doggerland in the Ice Age
- Asia to America on foot: Beringia, the Ice Age land bridge
- Where the Titanic rests: 3,800 m down in the North Atlantic
- Drop Everest into the Mariana Trench: And watch it disappear
- The longest mountain range on Earth: is underwater: the mid-ocean ridge
Places
- Challenger Deep
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- Hawaiian–Emperor seamounts
- Puerto Rico Trench
- Kerguelen Plateau
- Titanic wreck site
- Monterey Canyon
- East Pacific Rise