Save the Titanic

How metal-eating bacteria are consuming the famous shipwreck

- HANNAH DAVIES, IAN MACEWAN, TESS LAMACRAFT

NEW FACTUAL

Titanic: Into the Heart of the Wreck Sunday, C4 HD, 7.30 pm

Almost 110 years ago, the so-called ‘unsinkable’ passenger liner RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank into the depths of the Atlantic while on its way from Southampton to New York. More than 1,500 passengers and crew died, and the maritime disaster remains one of the most famous in history.