Photos were taken during submarine explorations of the site and the release of some of those photos suggest that corpses were indeed dragged to the ocean floor.
Titanic in ocean floor.
1985 the prow of the hms titanic as she lies on the atlantic ocean floor south of newfoundland.
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Seventy three years after it sank to the north atlantic ocean floor a joint u s french expedition locates the wreck of the rms titanic the sunken liner was about 400 miles east of newfoundland.
The bow of the titanic wreck as it looked in 1996.
March 22 2012 9 08am.
It has been there since it struck that iceberg over a hundred years ago.
On september 1 1985 a joint u s french expedition located the wreck of the titanic lying on the ocean floor at a depth of about 13 000 feet.
Deep sea currents salt corrosion and metal eating bacteria are whittling away the wreckage which lies more than 2 miles under the ocean surface.
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The ship was explored by manned and unmanned.
What is left of the titanic is sitting on the floor of the atlantic ocean just off the coast of newfoundland canada.
Sadly it won t be there for much longer as the ocean claims it for its own.
The rms titanic was visited by divers for the first time in 14 years and the ship that was once a picture of luxury was found in the process of being swallowed up by the ocean floor and ravaged.