An ambitious digital imaging project has produced what researchers describe as a “digital twin” of the R.M.S. Titanic, showing the wreckage of the doomed ocean liner as if the water has been drained away.

The model was created with data using deep-sea mapping gathered by two submersibles – named Romeo and Juliet – during a six-week expedition to the North Atlantic wreck site in summer 2022, to map “every millimetre” of the wreckage as well as the entire three-mile debris field.

The project, undertaken by Magellan Ltd., a deepwater seabed mapping company, yielded more than 16 terabytes of data, 715,000 still images and a high-resolution video.

Whilst parts of the ship — including the vast bow section — are immediately recognisable, other regions of the ship near the stern have yielded to over a century of decay, appearing now as little more than tangled piles of metallic debris.