Titanic Wreck Exact Location on Google Earth Map of North Atlantic (KMZ)
April 15 is the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage in 1912. The wreck of the ship was found in two pieces, the bow and the stern, by Ballard in 1985, who released the precise coordinates of the wreck:  41.726931° N and -49.948253° W. The wreck was found at a depth of 12,000 feet.
The Titanic took with it 810 passengers and 685 crew, for a total toll of 1495 human lives. A fascinating demographic breakdown shows that the most likely to survive were women in first class (90%) followed by children in first class (86%). Overall, the survival rate on the Titanic for women was 72% and for men 19%.
The exact location of the Titanic can be seen on this map, in a KMZ (3d) format. The YouTube clip shows what the Titanic looks like in Google Earth (Google Maps Embeds for WordPress do not support the Earth plugin anymore)…
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See the same map of the Titanic sinking location and wreck in Google Earth.
Video images of the wreck, as found at the bottom of the sea…
How do I find an image of the coordinates?
Image? What kind of image?
Titanic is in two main pieces 370 miles (600 km) south-east of Mistaken Point, Newfoundland. The bow is located at 41°43′57″N 49°56′49″WCoordinates: 41°43′57″N 49°56′49″W and the stern is about 1,970 feet (600 m) to the south at 41°43′35″N 49°56′54″W. The boilers found by Argo, which mark the point at which the ship went down,[63] are about 600 feet (180 m) east of the stern at 41°43′32″N 49°56′49″W.
Here is an image of the ocean floor where the titanic is resting.
( http://www.elevationearth.com/FeaturedLocations/TitanicWreck/TitanicWreck.html )
Professor-Matei, the wreckage of Titanic, was attributed to “Ice-bergs” according to the popular version, distributed by TV documentaries and movies. Was it the true cause of the sinking of that huge ship?
gratefully
Hakim
NY USA
The ship travelled too fast during the night to be able to avoid a gigantic iceberg. It ended up scrapping one of its sides against a huge piece of floating ice. The gash was produced by the mass and speed of the ship, which was steaming at full blast… While the plating steel was OK, the rivets seemed to simply pop out of place… http://www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2008/09/25/the-secret-of-how-the-titanic-sunk?page=2
going too fast was one of the factors, the Titanic was very maneuverable for its big size and Captian Smith stated that if the Titanic was split evenly into 3 parts, it would still float. another thing is that if the Titanic had run into the iceberg head on, it would have stayed afloat. another factor of the sinking of the Titanic is that there was a “soft horizon” as the captain of California described it, “it was hard to tell where the sea ended and where the horizon started, it was what you call a soft horizon.” California’s Captian thought that the Titanic was an old steamer with no radio due to their being a “mirage” from the “soft horizon.” so they didn’t think it was the Titanic until morning when the captain found out that the Titanic had sunk. Because of the Titanic is in the way of the Labrador current, it sank close to where the hot and cold air and sea meet. the moon was also not out, so it made it harder for the lookouts to find the iceberg even with the binoculars. Because of the “soft horizon” and how many stars, there were out that night, it gave the iceberg invisibility and instead of the ship having a 30-minute warning it only had 37 seconds to move. while the Titanic was sinking one of the survivors said that “as the Titanic went down, there was a steamy haze coming up from the Titanic and just hovered there like a pall.” he also said that there was a change of the degree of light from the stars. the Titanic only had 2 hours to live and started sinking (officially) after 30 minutes of the first impact, due to the watertight compartments. In the end, the Carpathia picked up the rest of the survivors, which was 730 people of the 2,000-3,000 people on board. from the link, someone sent from in the chat section said that the Titanic had a fire accident in the boiler room and if it didn’t happen, the Titanic would have stayed afloat. wrong, the fire had nothing to do with the sinking of the Titanic since the fire was put out and dealt with. the fire also DID NOT ruin or damage any of the metal platings or outside of the ship, so fire is out of the equation, though rumors have it that the Titanic’s sister ship had her side fixed after running into another ship and (this is true) continued sailing, though what the rumor is is that they took the new plating off of the Titanic and put it on the Olympic (Titanic’s sister ship) and had the damaged plating on the Titanic, though that’s not really true in my opinion. people also think that the Captain of the Titanic had been drinking, which is also NOT true because the Captain never drank on the sea because of the White Star Line considering him to be a “master of the White Star Line.” yeah, that’s just what I know. this is more about the Captain of the Titanic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Smith_(sea_captain)
The titanic struck an iceberg at a speed of 22 knots. Due to the lack of binoculars claimed to have been locked in a closet and the key missing the iceberg was spotted too late. The ship started its turn 30.35 seconds too late. Essentially it gave just enough pressure to break the rivets and open the steel plates. Due to most of the rivets being steel instead of iron they were already brittle from the extreme cold. The titanic not only hit the iceberg but ran over a portion of it. There was water also traveling lateral in the double hull. Due to the fact that the bulkhead only finished just 10 feet above the waterline the water simply spilled from one compartment to the next.
This is not correct. Binoculars are great for inspecting but useless for spotting anything, especially in the tricky conditions of that night. As described by sls above there was a “soft horizon”. More correctly the ice cold Labrador current caused the opposite of what you see on a hot day, where the sky is mirrored and looks like water on the road (or in the desert). The opposite causes the dark ocean to mirror upwards which basically lifts the horizon, or so it appears. An ice berg can be spotted from a long distance (without binoculars!) against the horizon, but because the horizon appeared deceivingly higher, the berg was invisible until the last moment. Binoculars would have made no difference at all.
One thing that doesn’t get mentioned much is the iceberg should have been the recue place! That iceberg was huge(there’s pictures of it), by all accts there were still two boilers working for at least an hour, as soon as Smith knew they were taking on water he should have turned around and got close to that berg and ferried the passengers and crew to safely wait on the ice for a rescue, in the late 70’s a ferry from Nova Scotia did this and it saved everyone, smaller scale at about 160 people but the result could have been the same, for Smith to just sit there in disbelief and do nothing for 3 hours is one of the greatest boo-boo’s in maritime history, a Captain of a large fishing vessel once told me it should have been a no-brainer
You state, at the top of this page, that 800 people perished. By every other account (about 2 dozen) I have researched, it was about 1,500; where the hell did you get 800?
810 passengers… I made the correction…
The first sentence of the second paragraph mentions passengers twice, where I think ‘crew’ was intended. (maybe passenger class?) Just FYI for the author/editor.
Crew, indeed, fixed
The numbers still don’t make sense. Every other report of the Titanic sinking says the number of survivors was about 706 or 705 people, and that 1517 souls perished. There were 2208 (estimate) people on board … So your numbers are still wrong.
Not my numbers… See the cited study…
According to my sources and the numerous books I’ve read over the years, 1503 people parished (including crew).
There was also a coal bunker fire that burned for 10 days before the accident. It was put out a day before the collision.
Many experts believe the if there had not been a fire, the ship might have remained afloat a little longer, possibly in time for the Carpathia to reach her and save more people, but in any event. the ship would have sunk. It was too damaged to stay afloat.
It is conjecture that the coal bunker fire caused the steel in one of the main bulkheads to weaken, and when hit with cold water and the impact with the iceberg, it was too much and it collapsed sooner than it should have.
The movies are based on what is/was known at the time.
Nothing in them was ever mentioned about the coal bunker fire, probably for fear of lawsuit or criminal charges, but it is a proven fact that there was a major fire.
This is not the case. Read this – http://wormstedt.com/Titanic/TITANIC-FIRE-AND-ICE-Article.pdf
There was no possible way for the titanic to stay afloat longer. The water filled coal bunker no.5 and after battling with the flow of water with pumps in boiler room 6, the coal bunker burst. Due to the fire. But in about 30 minutes by my estimates the water in boiler room 5 would have risen and flowed over to boiler room 6. The ship still would have been doomed. There was also water seeping through the floors due to the double bottom being pierced by the iceberg. I hope this answered your question.
I have mistated the pumps were being activated in boiler room 5. Boiler room 6 was flooded.
Can I find the titanic’s two pieces on google maps
Yes, but only Google Earth. See video.
There is a graveyard in Nova Scotia where many bodies washed up.
There is a Titanic section in Fairview cemetery in Halifax for (121) named and unknown victims. I highly doubt any bodies washed to shore in Nova Scotia, 750 miles from the sinking.
The article does not infer anything of the sort.
which sea level is the titanic on most importantly
Does anyone know if a map or drawing exists which state where the Titanic was when each of the ice warnings came in and where the ships sending the warning were located? My question is how long it would take for the Titanic to reach that location, and wouldn’t the icebergs mentioned have moved south out of the Titanics path by that time?
They know the exact location of Titanic by its longitude and the latitude of this planet and anyone can easily find its location on Google Map too but funnily, they still cannot easily rescue Titan, the missing mini sub to save the life of 5 missing crews on board. Was this planned? This cannot be real. Unbelievable! They had visited Titanic wreck site for many times but they still cannot go back to it to find this missing submersible! The missing crews now have little amount of oxygen to breath! They must go to this accurate exact location to rescue this mini sub. I feel so embarassed as a human that we still cannot afford to use GPS or beacon on these mini subs and we still failed to easily locate Titanic wreck to save these missing crews. I bet that even the aliens are laughing at us now. This is beyond my comprehension. I know that the oceans are big and deep but the gps location by longitude and latitude is always accurate like mathematics and cannot lie or fool anyone unless if the mini sub was off its course or got pushed by strong water current to new unknown location away from the Titanic wreck. However, I do admit that this mini sub is very poorly designed to begin with and it was dumb for anyone to even wanted to use it and risk their own life.
Wow, realy cool. Thankyou