Finding the Titanic

Relive the search for the “unsinkable ship" that sank and was lost in the ocean depths.

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On 15 April 1912, a luxury passenger liner called the RMS Titanic - a ship that was thought to be unsinkable - sank to the bottom of the ocean after it crashed into an iceberg a few hundred miles off the coast of Canada. Around 1,500 of the passengers and crew lost their lives in the tragedy and just over 700 people survived.

After the ship sank, lots of people hunted for the wreckage, but - for more than 70 years - all efforts failed. The largest passenger ship of its time seemed to have disappeared forever. Let's find out how the Titanic remained hidden for so long.

Tricky conditions

Many factors made the Titanic tricky to find. It went down in the North Atlantic, around 400 miles southeast of Newfoundland, Canada. The crew radioed SOS messages asking for help but, in the darkness and chaos, it may have been tricky to get an exact location.

The Bermuda Triangle