On its maiden voyage, the Titanic left Southampton, England, bound for New York City, but the ship hit an iceberg and sank off the coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean. Nearly 80 years later, in 1985, a team from WHOI and a French oceanographic exploration organization discovered the ship 12,000 feet below the surface, per AP.
Footage from a three-person dive team that explored the ship's wreckage in 1986 is being released Wednesday to the public to mark the 25th anniversary of James Cameron's Academy Award-winning film "Titanic."
"More than a century after the loss of Titanic, the human stories embodied in the great ship continue to resonate," Cameron said in a statement, according to AP.
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He said he was "transfixed" by the discoveries on the Titanic and that the footage helps "tell an important part of a story that spans generations and circles the globe."
One Titanic historian hobbyist told Insider, "The Titanic is such a phenomenon that any new information you can get from it is instantly intriguing. It's one of the mysteries to occur in the ocean, which is already a mystery in itself," she said.
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