Titanic wreck site

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1. Story
2. The wreck lies on the abyssal plain roughly 370 nautical miles south-southeast of Newfoundland, in international waters, at about 3,800 m depth. The hull is in two major sections: the bow, which planed away from the surface and drove into the sediment, and the stern, about 600 m south, torn apart by the descent. Between and around them is a debris field of coal, machinery, fittings and personal effects. The site is around 13 nautical miles from the distress position Titanic transmitted, which is why decades of searching along that position failed.
3. Knowledge
4. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
5. Titanic wreck site
6. Connections
7. RMS Titanic
8. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
9. 1985 Franco-American Titanic search
10. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
11. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
12. Wreck located by the Argo camera sled
13. First human visits to the wreck
14. Wreck becomes eligible for UNESCO protection
15. RMS Titanic
16. North Atlantic iceberg drift
17. Titanic wreck site
18. International Ice Patrol
19. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
20. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
21. Iceberg sighted and struck
22. Titanic founders
23. International Ice Patrol established
24. Gulf Stream
25. Southern Ocean
26. Labrador Sea
27. The RAPID array begins continuous AMOC measurement at 26.5°N
28. Evidence
29. The wreck was located on 1 September 1985 by the towed imaging sled Argo; the hull lay in two major sections roughly 600 m apart with an intervening debris field, at approximately 3,800 m depth.
30. Describes the wreck as lying in international waters roughly 370 nautical miles south-southeast of Newfoundland at about 3,800 m, with separated bow and stern sections and an extensive debris field, and as a site warranting treatment as a maritime memorial.