Guernsey-based firm, Magellan, has produced the first full-sized digital scan of the luxury passenger liner which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg.
In this, the largest underwater scanning project in history, the image of a necklace made from gold and the tooth of a Megalodon, a pre-historic shark, has been discovered. AI technology will now be used to try and find who the piece of jewelry belonged to.
After using two submarines to take 700,00 images of the wreck, the team at Magellan made them into a moving scan.
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Despite the discovery, the Magellan team could not recover the necklace, as An agreement between the UK and the US that prevents members of the public from taking artifacts from the wreckage, means that despite making the discovery, Magellan are not allowed to recover the necklace.
There were 2,200 passengers aboard the Titanic on its fatal voyage, 705 were reported to have been rescued, with then the last remaining survivor, Millvina Dean, passing away in 2009 at the age of 97. At the time of the sinking, Dean was just 2 months old.
