Largest Ship On The Ocean Floor

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Largest ship on the ocean floor.

The wreck was located and explored by jacques yves cousteau in 1975. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. Only ship types for which there exist a ship. This thread is archived.

Posted by 1 year ago. Some sank because of war others due to the weather or accidents and still others have been deliberately scuttled. She became the rms majestic. Aug 31 2004 11 just to be specific the britannic has been said to be the largest sunken ocean liner currently in existance with other contenders having been scrapped in situ.

For details 10 frigate 356 cayman brac. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. The ships are listed by type. In addition the ships deadweight tonnage dwt and or gross tonnage gt are presented as they are often used to describe the size of a vessel.

ødeård is particularly interested in these ships. Britannic was the largest ship lost in the first world war. The wreck of hmhs britannica the largest passenger ship on the ocean floor. The vessel is the largest passenger ship on the sea floor.

The loss of the ship was compensated by the award of ss bismarck to the white star line as part of postwar reparations. A particularly enticing ship graveyard lies between svalbard and greenland where there are about 1000 wrecks. I read somewhere that the largest ship on the ocean floor was the brittanic ii michael h. The wreck of hmhs britannica the largest passenger ship on the ocean floor.

The ship one of the largest sailing cruise ships in the world carrying up to 386 passengers with a crew of 214 sails the waters of the mediterranean and adriatic sea in the summertime and the caribbean in the winter finding its way into anchorages larger cruise ships cannot reach. Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet. Somewhere down there on the bottom of the ocean are seventeen shipwrecks all in about the same area. Dec 2 2000 58 656 585 483 easley south carolina.

A 1 1 inch anti aircraft gun. Because of the ocean depth where it was located the entire ship shows little sign of deterioration or buildup from ocean life.