Rare Footage of Titanic Wreckage Shot in 1986 Released

Titanic bow is seen during a dive at the resting place of the Titanic's wreck, in July 1986. WHOI Archives/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Handout via Reuters
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Rare video footage showing the Titanic ocean liner on the floor of the Atlantic is being released on Wednesday, decades after the discovery of the wreckage and more than a century after the ship hit an iceberg and sunk.

The footage from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) was shot about 2 miles (3 kilometers) below the ocean’s surface, just months after explorers found the wreckage in 1985. Most of it has not been previously released to the public.