this is the excact spot were the titanic was build in dry dock all those years ago sadly there isnt much busniss keeping the yard open but hopefully if there enough funding the site will be preserved
Ilulissat (Jakobshavn) Icefjord in West Greenland. The greatest icefjord in the world. The iceberg that sunk Titanic propably came from here. North of the fjorg is the city Ilulissat.
Brought to you by the Marine Geoscience Data System (http://www.marine-geo.org/), this shows all the dive sites of the submersible Alvin, which also explored the titanic.
"Seventeen years ago, astronomers spotted the brightest stellar explosion ever seen since the one observed by Johannes Kepler 400 years ago. Called SN 1987A, the titanic supernova explosion blazed with the power of 100,000,000 suns for several months following its discovery on Feb. 23, 1987. Although the supernova itself is a million times fainter than 17 years ago, a new light show in the...
Another remarkable "faux bateau" site is the model of the oil tanker Exxon Valdez, which rests amongst the scrap of the airplane graveyard in Mojave, California. It is left over from a major land-locked boat movie location, used for the all-wet, $120 million-plus epic "Waterworld", released in 1996, which until "Titanic", was the most expensive movie ever made. The...
"Glowing gaseous streamers of red, white, and blue — as well as green and pink — illuminate the heavens like Fourth of July fireworks. The colorful streamers that float across the sky in this photo taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope were created by the universe's biggest firecracker, the titanic supernova explosion of a massive star. The light from the exploding star reached Earth 320 ...
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