Has anyone heard about the Titanic slowly disapearing? I watched Good Morning America last week and they had a report about how the captian's lookout has bent. :(

Yahoo has a article:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030828/ap_on_re_us/titanic_disintegration

Sadly the superstructure of Titanic will probably collapse within the next 15 years.

Dissappear!? WTF!?? NOOOO!!!!!!! :shock:

I don't want it to dissappear! >.<

Yes, it will ultimately disappear. A pity. Lucky those who have had the chance to dive down there . . .

omg oh no. that sucks! i dont want it to dissapear! its such a beautiful ship! it cant! nooooooooooo

The rust will eat away at it. It will be gone, but the is to be remebered, never to be forgotten. 8)

[i:5d43934cdd]The Titanic, assailed by rust as well as by hundreds of explorers and moviemakers, salvors and tourists (including a couple who were married in a miniature submarine on its bow), is rapidly falling apart.

The world's most famous shipwreck was found in 1985 resting on the North Atlantic seabed more than two miles down, upright but split in two.

Its discoverers pronounced it in a fair state of preservation after 73 years in icy darkness and estimated that the wreck would change little in their lifetimes.

Divers who have visited the Titanic in the past decade report that its disintegration is accelerating.

The crow's nest, where a lookout warned, "Iceberg right ahead!" has vanished.

The forward mast has crumpled. The captain's cabin, where the captain was resting when the ship struck the iceberg, has collapsed as has the poop deck where passengers gathered as the liner sank.

Gaping holes have opened up in the Titanic's decks, metal walls have slumped and rivers of rust known as rusticles, which look like brownish icicles hanging from the ship's iron plates, have multiplied so fast that in some places they cover the hull.

"I was shocked," said Alfred McLaren, an ocean scientist and retired submariner who dived onto the wreck in 1999 and again last month.

"It's much more heavily deteriorated. I expected her to be in about the same shape as 1999. But, God almighty, there's more rusticles everywhere."

Paul Nargeolet, a French minisub pilot who has explored the wreck more than 30 times, said each dive revealed new damage.

"Things are going quicker and quicker," he said. Between visits, Nargeolet observed, the roof of the gymnasium had collapsed and a big hole had opened up on the boat deck, where some of the Titanic's women and children climbed into lifeboats and were lowered to safety.[/i:5d43934cdd]

I knew it would happen some day but...this is just...upsetting to me. :(

:shock: :shock: :shock: Yes sadly the ship is disinegrating the rust is eating the ships iron. And u cant forget the ocean pressure at titanics depth. It will collapse on itself and finnish off from there noooooooooooo such a butiful lock of memory it means soooooo much to mee :shock: :!:

Just recently the ships gym collapsed :shock: :(